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How do you do presents from Santa?

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Whattodowithaminute · 12/12/2016 06:03

When I was growing up I think my DM told me she sent all of the presents to santa and he delivered them. What do you do? Are all presents from santa? Are just stocking presents from Santa?

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AndNowItsSeven · 13/12/2016 01:09

Santa brings the stocking gifts wrapped and a sack of presents also wrapped.
Dc also get a present from me and one from their dad. ( one each, as I pick all Santa gifts)

AndNowItsSeven · 13/12/2016 01:11

Family gifts are from whoever gives them.

Bubbinsmakesthree · 13/12/2016 02:26

Growing up we didn't have stockings, and all presents were delivered by FC but from friends/family etc. I think the explanation was that my parents would let FC know what I wanted and he would get them from his giant toy warehouse. Basically he was Amazon with reindeer!

i think for our DC (eldest 2.5 so just starting to understand things) we'll go with FC gives stockings and 1 other present. For people who do this, do all presents appear overnight on Christmas Eve, or do you put other presents out under the tree early?

bumblingmum · 13/12/2016 02:55

FC brings stocking only in our house. Everything else from whoever.
A friend did everything from FC and now he is asking why mummy, daddy, grandma etc don't want to buy presents. Bit awkward to backtrack on.

Mrscog · 13/12/2016 03:04

We do most presents from us are FC but hold 1-2 back as being from us to be opened with the after lunch gifts.

They don't have stockings - just a pillowcase each - going to the airing cupboard on Xmas eve to chose a pillow case is quite a ritual!

There are some stockingy type things in the pillow case though.

Redglitter · 13/12/2016 03:26

Our main present and a small stocking was from Santa. The rest from who ever had bought it. My brother has carried that tradition on with his children

4forksake · 13/12/2016 07:12

All the presents we (mam & dad) buy are from FC (with the exception of a couple of presents each which are from mam & dad!). All presents from grandparents, aunts & uncles etc are from them & they're given by them & thanked accordingly.

I'm if the opinion that they believe for such little time that is rather continue the magic of them thinking things are from FC for as long as possible, they'll soon realise when they stop believing who really brought the presents.

I can't get my head round the idea of ALL presents (ie from relatives etc) coming from FC. Surely this takes away the joy of other people giving gifts?! I had a friend whose children we used to buy for (& vice versa) & she once told them our kids presents were from FC & that FC had sent our kids presents to them to pass on to us!!!! Totally confusing!

toptomatoes · 13/12/2016 07:16

Stocking and 1 present from Santa - usually something rubbish that they really want but think we wouldn't get so they write it on their Santa letter.

My parents had Santa as a delivery person. Presents came from whoever bought them.

Yesitsmeagain · 13/12/2016 07:25

bubbins we put the other presents under the tree on Christmas Eve. Because it's difficult for small children to see presents and not be able to open them!

For the DC it's no different to their birthdays when their presents are all out on the kitchen table when they get up. They know other people have delivered them and that I've snuffled them away.

TowerOfJoyless · 13/12/2016 08:06

We do Stocking and a few other presents from santa. A few from us and relatives presents are from them.

Growing up, my parents would collect all presents from relatives etc then pass them off as all being from santa. I never questioned why there were no gifts from my parents or other people. Not sure even if relatives were aware my parents even were doing this tbh

Bumbumtaloo · 13/12/2016 08:35

In our house Father Christmas brings all presents but mums and dads send him the money or a particular present if he's having trouble finding it - well his elves in his warehouse. Other presents are from whoever has bought them.

We do have a strict rule of a bedroom clearout before Christmas. All toys in good usable condition go to the charity shop so that mums and dads who do not have a lot of money can buy them for Father Christmas.

Written down it doesn't make much sense but in our house it kind of does

BiddyPop · 13/12/2016 09:17

Growing up, Santa filled our socks (literally, a pair of socks) with fruit, left a box of sweets and a book alongside those, and presents beside that or in the centre of the room if they were large sharing ones (like a table and chairs, kids sized, one year, and a matching blackboard another - all handmade in Santa's own workshop aka garage - table and chairs were even disassembled, put under all the luggage in the boot, reassembled in DGran's house, disassembled again and transported home again under the luggage but visibly, and then reassembled yet again! THat was the year it was declared Santa was no longer travelling for Christmas with small children involved!).

There was always something under the tree from Mum and Dad.

We do similar - stocking and presents are in the middle of the floor. Anything from anyone else is under the tree, wrapped and labelled (or we get it when visiting their house). There is also something small from us under the tree.

WingsClipped · 13/12/2016 09:46

Santa does stockings and leaves one present for each child. Everything else comes from us/relatives/friends and the kids know about it and know who to thank. Stockings are left hanging by fireplace and then Father Christmas magics them up to bedrooms so we get 30mins extra in bed while our girls pile in and leave chocolate wrappers and fruit peel all over the bed.

WingsClipped · 13/12/2016 09:48

Oh and for anyone who does seperate wrapping paper from FC M&S have a lovely traditional looking one saying "with love from Santa"

LooksBetterWithAFilter · 13/12/2016 10:05

All the presents I buy apart from a couple are from Santa and a stocking. The dc make a list which is a wish list not a shopping list. Christmas is the time they get to ask for big things like ds1 is getting an xbox 1 this year. They see these as expensive items that we can't afford to buy just because so they are the things they ask santa for. They can save up their own birthday and Christmas money for things like that if they wish but if not they wait until Christmas. They think very carefully what to put on their lists because they know it's a biggy.

Paddingtonthebear · 13/12/2016 10:12

Presents from grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and neighbours etc were always from those people. Never from Father Christmas. That would be odd.

Presents from my parents (stocking and or any main presents) were all from "Father Christmas" until we stopped believing. Which for me was age 5 . Then they were from my parents but we carried the FC pretence along for my younger sister for years. Husbands parents did things the same way so we will do it this way with our DD too.

I thought about giving one present to DD from "us" this year and all the rest we've got her from FC. But I think I'll just let it all be from him while she's still young.

Plenty of time to take the glory for presents in future years I reckon.

Oblomov16 · 13/12/2016 10:42

One small present/chocolates from santa. Put in or next to stocking.
All other presents from us.

Yesitsmeagain · 13/12/2016 10:54

Wings I got that one!!!

FC presents always have to feature the big man on the wrapping paper!

Violetcharlotte · 13/12/2016 11:00

At our house Santa brings the stocking presents, everything else is labelled to say who it's from (FC isn't getting all the credit!!)

SpringerS · 13/12/2016 11:02

Everything that DS wakes up to on Christmas morning is from Santa. And those are all gifts that I have either bought or made for him. Everything he gets from relatives is given to him either in person later in the day/following days. Or if they are abroad and have sent the gift, I hide the gift somewhere in the house and during a Skype call they tell DS where to find it and he opens it in front of them.

oompaloompaland · 13/12/2016 12:29

FC brings DD one big present and 2/3 smaller presents off her letter to him (witness carefully opening letter to FC after she had gone to school to see what she had asked him for). Everything else, stocking, other presents, are from mummy and daddy, family etc.

Notso · 13/12/2016 12:56

I have never had a stocking, as a child we would choose a pillowcase and it would be filled with presents. Big ones and smaller stocking filler type ones. It was the same for DH although he had a fancy pants personalised Christmas sack. Everything from our parents was from FC.
We do the same for our children, I didn't realise anyone did the stocking from FC and bigger gifts from parents until I spoke to the parents of DC's friends.
Presents from friends and family in our house get put under the tree on Christmas Eve. (It used to be as and when they arrived but I am worried about burglars after GP's were broken into and all tree presents taken just before Christmas.) We open tree presents on Boxing Day.

If we have guests for dinner we exchange presents with them after dinner. Unless it's my in-laws in which case they like them opened the second they set foot through the bloody door when they arrive.

Logansmam · 13/12/2016 13:38

We're the same as yesitsmeagain FC brings everything and other gifts are from whoever bought them

Paddingtonthebear · 13/12/2016 20:10

Someone I know doesn't open any presents until late afternoon/early evening on Christmas Day. They have very small children too. Who have to wait all day to open anything

Ylvamoon · 13/12/2016 20:19

Santa usually leaves one or two presents by the fire place. Under the tree are the ones from friends and family.
In all honestly, I don't think Santa likes his gifts mixed up with other stuff... he has a bit of a big ego and wants children to know it was him... not some pesky parent spoiling the kids (again)!

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