Who are the presents from?

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Do you give dc all presents from Santa or some from you as well?

Stockings from Father Christmas, everything else from whoever bought it.

Another glorified postman here, he takes requests from people and also we 'send' the ones we buy that they see if they're with us, I say I send him some money but if it's in the sale I buy it to send to him to help him out

Santa brings all the presents here. I think it adds to the excitement!

Family gifts are usually under the tree or people bring them round throughout the day.

I would do but DD spotted a certain brand and I have to give that from us, christmas so its 80% FC and 20% us.

I also say I give a few in case sleigh has a problem, just to add that little air of un certainty...

As an adult I could have lived without credit for a few years, but DD is too sharp!

My friend told her children that all presents were from FC. One year, the children approached her and said that since they had saved all their pocket money to buy her gifts, they thought it was a bit unfair that she never bought them anything!

As a result, we've always said stocking stuff from FC (and maybe a couple of other things under tree, depending on how many we have to give) but everything else from us. Or the cat, fish etc.

All presents and stocking are from Father Christmas. The stocking is in the bedrooms and gets opened first then its downstairs to see what else he has left. They are very spoilt at Christmas and the day is just about the children adults don't have presents (we get clothes in the sales). Its just us and the children and it's very much a day of eating whatever we like and playing with toys . Apart from us only my mother buys for them and she happily writes from Father Christmas on the presents. Plenty of time in the future for thanks but right now I want the big man to have all the credit.

Everything in our house comes from Santa, apart from presents from grandparents, aunts etc.

Thanks more food for thought

When I was little, and now for my children too the presents off list + stocking filllers are from santa (i.e: parents), and anything anyone else gets them is placed under the tree or handed over. So Grandmas/aunts etc buy them pressies, which they are allowed to know about, and the only ones who don't get them anythng are me and DH.

When I questioned my Mom as a child, she said that her and Dad bought our birthday presents and bought everything else throughout the year, and bought everyone else's gifts so Santa bought ours.

Santa brings a stocking full of toys to share, and 1 big present per child. We give another big present per child, and some smaller bits eg books and clothes. Other people who buy presents give them from themselves.

Stockings and one big gift from Santa, family gifts are from family and then they get gifts from us.

Stockings and presents from Santa
Others presents are done on the day so they know they're ftom granny, aunts uncle etc

Santa when they still believe but we pay him for the presents, us naturally when they no longer believe.

anyone else that buys is given from them.

Dc brings stockings and one main present.
Absolutely nothing to do with credit and glory, but more about encouraging them to place a value on their possessions.
If something isn't being looked after, I can say to be careful with it or whatever without them saying "well fc bought it, he will just bring another" or any of that greedy lippy business.
Thankfully dc haven't given me any attitude about anything before, but I still like them to know that toys and gadgets don't just appear as if by magic year after year, and that things aren't disposable.