Relatives' presents - do you say they're from Father Christmas?

[ImperialBlether]

My children are adult now (waaah) but whey they were young, we'd say Father Christmas bought all the presents. Then we realised we didn't seem very generous so we said he'd brought everything except the main present. Then we got confused and said he'd brought the main present.

My children's relatives who'd bought presents would give them their presents when they saw them over the Christmas period.

My friend tells her children all presents from her, grandparents etc, are all under the tree and have come from Father Christmas.

Another friend gets very confused and says she gives Father Christmas the presents to bring to us.

Another one says that everyone sends him the money and he buys and wraps the presents.

What do you do?

Of course not, how very odd . What happens with birthday presents, are they allowed to take the credit for those? Pretty much the same principle, imo.

Need to catch up on the thread but just came back to mention what I forgot to say before - as well as the DCs' stockings, FC also gets us (as in DH and I) a present or two :o a couple of years ago we decided that we'd spend less money on each other, because we like so much of the same stuff anyway - now we buy a joint present (this year it's a board game we've been looking for for years) and say it's from FC. After all, we've been good too :o

No - that would be odd - people expect to be thanked for their pressies, not told that FC has brought them!!

We do little unwrapped gifts from FC - toys,. books, smellies, practical things like undies and PJs - but the BIG ones come from us!! And other people's pressies are wrapped and under the tree as normal...

I never get it when people say that santa collects the presents from your house only to re-deliver them. My eldest would ask why if they are already at your house.

We do stocking from santa and rest from us. That way santa does not get credit for the best presents and he isn't an endless money pit

My sister says ALL presents bought by them are from santa. So then there are awkward moments on Christmas day when my niece and nephew ask my children "what did santa bring you?" and they are told the contents of the stocking.

I covered this by saying it just means what presents did you get as a whole.

As we see all my family on Christmas day, my sister gives presents to my children who ask why doesn't Aunty buy any presents for her own children

We label everything we buy from father christmas. Gifts from relatives are either brought by the relative or by father christmas at the request of said relative. It depends on the relative to be honest. My family very much enjoy the father christmas part and say they asked him to bring the present. DC then thank them. Other relatives say they brought gift. The children dont seem to question too much to be honest. I have told them that grown ups buy each other presents and sometimes liketo buy extra presents for the children if they havent had a chance to write to father christmas.

As i said last year, the magic only lasts a short few years. Christmas is different from birthdays and other gifts. I think we get too het up over who bought what. I always have thanked gift givers on behalf of my children as well as the children thanking. At the end of the day i gift gifts because i enjoy it not to be thanked, especially at christmas. Once they are older and the magic has gone then they will know exactly who bought what. Just let them enjoy it i say.

Fizzylemonade - don't give the gifts to your sis, hand them to the dc so they know you bought them something and say they're to be kept for xmas day and to pop them under the tree.

In our house all presents from family/friends get put under the tree as they arrive (and are clearly labeled as to who gave and where the thank you letter is to go ). I also put our wrapped presents to friends/family under our tree and then as we see or visit them we take them out from under the tree and pass them over. I make sure ds reads the label so he knows who it is from when he opens it and I make a note for thank you letters later

Xmas stocking is from Santa and will contain a couple of medium priced gifts such as a dvd or game but is mostly fun cheap stuff including stationary, gloves & socks,small book etc. This is put on ds's bed and is allowed to be opened when he wakes up but he has to come into my room to do so.

His main present is from me. The rest is from Santa. I also get some presents from Santa as I wouldn't get anything otherwise I am a good girl

not in this house Heavymetal it all happens on the same day for DS - the only difference is that I insist that relatives and ourselves, of course, wrap the birthday presents in birthday wrap and absolutely no joint Christmas/birthday presents.