Who are your dc's presents from? Father Christmas or you?

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Right, so had sil and bil round yesterday and dd brought her old laptop down (vetch type child one!) to show her cousins. I said something along the lines of, "oh, sil and bil got that for you last christmas didn't they?".

Cue daggers from dh...

Asked him after what problem was and he said that presents are from Father Christmas. What was I doing saying that in front if children?!

Well in my family (as in when I was growing up), we had presents from Father Christmas AND presents from family members. Isn't that how you all do it too?!

But then it got me thinking, how do you do it in your family? My thoughts would be presents from family members, big presents from us are labelled from Father Christmas, and stockings from Father Christmas too I suppose... So do you have presents labelled from you to your dc too?!

Ah!!! Confused! -and definitely overthinking this-

Not sure if that makes any sense. Bfing 5 week old and typing in iPhone at same time...

We always do one main present from Father Christmas and also the stockings. Everything else is from us or whichever family member has given it.

We have stockings from FC and something they've asked FC for.
Everything else is from us or whoever buys the gift!

Stocking from Santa. Small stuff. Main present from us. Everyone else's presents from them.

Same as Theone. Santa is a bit of a tight bastard in our house but mummy and daddy buy the big/cool presents.
Saying that, we don't give our kids 'big' presents. Those are reserved for birthdays.

Theres a thread on this further down which might help you

All presents from parents is actually fc and the dc know that other presents are off relatives and friends so they can thank them we dont need thanking as we will get that when the magic of fc disappears so we just sit back and enjoy

I do it as my parents did:
Stockings from Father Christmas: colouring pencils, yoyos, chocolate coins. Everything else from us. We deserve the credit!

Of course, that leads to the scenario my own Mum described as making her a bit mortified many a January, when well-meaning people asked us "What did Santa bring you then?"
"Pencils. And soap!"
And the stranger looking at my (perfectly comfortably off) parents with a face

Normally one medium present from FC (hopefully one from the list...), one big one and smaller ones from us. Stocking stuff could be from FC (more scope for matching the list) and I might not label them this year, but we tend to use 'special' paper for FC pressies. This year he's also bringing a couple of all-family presents (yes I got a bit carried away )

Re: lists: my kids (8 & 5), only the younger one still 'believes', handed me their Christmas lists yesterday. But I finished shopping a week ago... however they are helpful by putting things like 'books' and 'art & crafty things' so FC usually achieves a fair degree of matching....

In my family Father Christmas brings stocking presents (small, not too expensive things that would all fit in a stocking), and other presents are from parents or whichever relative bought them.
Like blackcurrants, as children we were asked what Father Christmas brought us and answered with our list of small toys, socks, soap etc while other children replied game boys, bikes, furby, whatever big and expensive thing. I now wonder why I never thought I must have been a very naughty child as Father Christmas didn't bring me big presents.