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Does Santa bring all the presents or are some from you?

122 replies

whyareweallhere · 01/12/2018 00:00

Just wondering how everyone else does it really.

Are all the presents from Santa or are some from you to?

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00100001 · 01/12/2018 07:31

None of it was ever from Father Christmas. Certainly not the tree presents. We never told DS that it was FC, he asked a couple of times and we asked him what he thought. Sometimes he’d think it was FC and another time he wasn’t too sure. We would reply with something along the lines of “that’s interesting, some people believe x or y”

mnahmnah · 01/12/2018 07:34

Santa sack full of medium/small presents, main ‘big’ gift from us. It took us a couple of years to get to this. Mainly for the same reasons as above, that other children that don’t get as much, so the Santa sack isn’t the major present to compare

AnxiousMcAnxiousFace · 01/12/2018 07:40

Santa just stores and delivers presents here. The children know that we buy them and wrap them.

Boohissmiss · 01/12/2018 07:41

Santa brings everything and it’s all from him . Except family and friends presents those are from the givers so they get a thank you.

recently · 01/12/2018 07:42

FC only brings small stocking fillers- makes it easier to veto e.g no, you can't have a PlayStation, not because you've been naughty but because we can't afford it/you're too little this year etc

Boxerbinky · 01/12/2018 07:43

Santa brings 1 present in our house. Smile

ChipsAreLife · 01/12/2018 07:44

One from Santa. Not letting him take the credit for our hard work 😂

Also we don't do stockings my family never did them and i just carried on putting it all under the tree

needtoshutupandlisten · 01/12/2018 07:47

We have a 'Santa' present from him and the rest are from us, our family and friends. Makes everything simpler, and it's important to me that the right people are thanked for their presents.

whiskeysourpuss · 01/12/2018 07:48

Mine are all non-believers now but when they were little everything I bought & one gift from my parents (referred to as a Santa gift) were from
Santa & laid out in the piles. Other gifts from my parents, aunts, uncles, friends etc went under the tree & were from the gift giver.

The kids opened all Santa gifts first thing & then under the tree presents after breakfast when they'd calmed down a bit.

DD2(17) is the only child I have on Christmas Eve this year & has insisted that her "Santa" presents are still put in a pile on her space on the sofa.

MissSueFlay · 01/12/2018 07:49

Sack of bits and pieces (books, play make-up, pjs etc.) comes from Father Christmas.
All other presents go under the tree before Christmas Eve and are labelled who they are for & from. DD gets one big-ish present from us.

BettyOBarley · 01/12/2018 07:49

Everything that we've bought comes from santa here, including the stocking. That's the way my parents did it too.

We don't include gifts from extended family and friends in that though apart from grandparents who tell DD santa stopped at their house too (she's only 4).

SilverDoe · 01/12/2018 07:51

Glad to hear everyone else’s opinions as my oldest is 3 now so this is the first year they are properly anticipating Christmas Halo

I was planning on doing - Santa fills up the stocking you hang up on Christmas Eve and leaves a present at the end of the bed. Everything under the tree is from family.

Dinosharks · 01/12/2018 07:52

Stockings from Santa and possibly one or two things that don't fit but are small money wise. Everything else is from the people that have bought it.

Have had to have this conversation many times with DH's family as they keep trying to enforce Santa bringing everything from them, and that doesn't sit well with me and luckily my DH agrees. I don't understand how you teach children about buying gifts for loved ones at Christmas if they supposedly never get bought anything from the people who are supposed to love them.

parrotonmyshoulder · 01/12/2018 07:54

I have always said that people send presents to Santa and he delivers them. That way, they know who to thank!
Only if they ask though - I don’t make much of a deal over it.
I’m vague over the stockings.

Catquest1 · 01/12/2018 07:59

FC brings 1 gift off their lists and a stocking of littler gifts. I tend to chose 1 other bigger gift off the list that comes from us. Other presents are all from family/friends.

Ive always explained it that Father christmas brings a stcoking and a gift but everyone thought it was such a lobely thing to do that people choose to give each other gifts at Christmas

Zoflorabore · 01/12/2018 08:05

I have 2 dc. Ds is nearly 16 and dd is nearly 8. Obviously ds knows the truth! But I think this will be the last year that dd believes.

We've always done it where Santa brings everything, presents/stocking/chocolates, everything but this year dd has asked if we can buy her some stuff too as she's not sure she would get them from santa. It's also the first year she hasn't done a proper list but has told us exactly what she wants.

She's year 3 so I'm not sure if she has heard things being in the juniors yard now but like a pp, i sadly think she's ready to know the truth.
It's just another piece of innocence that I like, they grow up so fast as it is.

FoofFighter · 01/12/2018 08:05

Sticking from Father Christmas, the rest fromwho it is from

ShowOfHands · 01/12/2018 08:06

Stockings are from Father Christmas and have little things like sweets and a flannel and a satsuma in them. He also brings one small gift under the tree (like a pencil case for example).

DS told me that his friend's parents send all their stuff to FC and he then delivers it. DS thinks this is extremely odd and a bit unfair on poor old FC who is not a glorified postman Grin

theSnuffster · 01/12/2018 08:23

We buy the gifts. Father Christmas delivers them along with a few stocking gifts.

I think it's important that he doesn't get all the credit! Children should know that they can only have what parents can afford.

Flutternotsoshy · 01/12/2018 08:27

Santa buys gets one thing from the list. But he passed the list on to other family adults.
Santa has to buy for everyone so he can't afford masses of expensive presents.
Also when I need to go shopping for something and my (shadow) DD can't come with me I'm on a secret mission for santa. Cos all parents work for Santa!

She knows not to ask for a switch for example. Santa and mummy both can't afford it on short notice. However if she keeps her room tidy then she may get it for her birthday in 6 months.

bluetit101 · 01/12/2018 08:35

Santa leaves his presents in their room, which are typical stocking fillers. (Chocolate, pens, novelty bits, smellies, always a new toothbrush and a new flannel- not sure why just always have done this!)
Then the big presents under the tree are from us.

BarbedBloom · 01/12/2018 08:48

Stockings from Santa and everything else from the person that bought it

sheepwithoneear · 01/12/2018 08:57

We are also stockings from Santa
Something you want - from the wish list usually small
Something you need
Something to eat
Something to read

Everything else from us.
It saves the why do some children get more talk and when they heard the local radio station advert for their toy appeal saying some children will not get anything this Christmas I heard them saying that’s because they might have asked Santa for something more important than a toy as their want like a new coat. We now make it s thing for them to pick s toy each for the appeal.

smiler0206 · 01/12/2018 09:37

We don't label ours but DC are told that we send Santa lots of pennies to help him pay for everything he needs. Presents are labelled from other family members though

WhenTheDragonsCame · 01/12/2018 09:57

This year I'm doing one present each around £20-£30, a stocking and a joint present (Big Bang theory cluedo) from Santa

A joint present from me (Xbox one s)

A couple of other small gifts from me about £40 each.

That's for three DDs