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

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Just wondering how everyone else does it really.

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

Santa only brings something to play with, something to read, something to wear and something you need.
Everything else is labelled from who bought it.
My SIL used to take all labels off gifts from other people as Santa gave all the presents. I thought it was a bit rude as the children never would thank Auntie Susie or Uncle Jeff as they were under the impression everything was from Santa.

Stockings are from FC, everything else is from who ever paid for it, but FC delivers everything!

So mostly not all from Father Christmas then?

I was brought up with Father Christmas bringing everything.

A lot of people are saying only the stocking from Santa and all other presents are from friends and family. Genuine question I’m not intending to be goady- do you as parents only buy the small bits for the stocking then? No other presents for the child to open,smaller presents like a jigsaw, game, Lego set etc? These presents are what make up a little pile that I buy that is from Santa ( as well as the stocking and a main gift)
So we have all presents bought by me are from Santa (main, stocking and a little pile of smaller value presents) and then all other presents are handed over personally by family. I’ve never heard of family handing over the presents before Christmas Day to go under the tree that morning.

For us Father Christmas brings all the presents in stocking/under tree from himself.

Then the family give presents seperatlely from Santa’s presents.

But there are no presents from us, the parents. Maybe we’ve been doing it wrong?

As I mentioned we do Santa brings the stockings and we the parents do the big expensive things as well assorted smaller bits and bobs

Father Christmas just brings stockings and the main gift here. Rest are from us and other people

I don't let the fictional man in red take credit for anything over £15. He gets to give small stocking fillers of something you want - needs - read - eat - novelty

Small gifts start piling under the tree as they are handed over in the week before Christmas. Never saw the point of Aunt Sally bringing over a bunch of presents which the dc's clearly seen, and then come out with some story about how they are sent to Santa.

I had to explain to eldest that everyone does things differently as he was convinced that some parents didn't care about their kids. If they did then they would buy presents themselves. And why wasn't there the equivalent of a Santa for birthdays? And why if all the children did lists to Santa why didn't some get everything on their list? But the best one was as a teen - mum if the presents get made by the elves why don't they bring out their own brand of games console? They are clearly rich so could sell them really cheap. (He's autistic and has a tendency to say these things in very busy places)

I never realised that when people said everything was from Santa they literally meant everything! I assumed they just meant everything they (the parents) chose. If someone else chooses to give my child a gift, that’s a gift they’ve given, not Santa! We do stocking and most gifts from Santa, with a smaller gift from us (so they don’t think we’ve bought for one another and left them out!) The dc also buy one another a gift each.

I was brought up with everything being from Father Christmas too. I think I just overthought it with my dc though and worried they’d notice that “I” hadn’t bought them anything so give a board game or similar just from me and dh.

Was brought up with small/medium sized stocking gifts from Father Christmas only and all other gifts from named people.

My DM told me later it turned out v helpful as some years Father Christmas was brassic and it would have been hard to explain why last year he had brought loads and this year was only bringing a tiny amount.

I also went to school with some mega-loaded children. Would have been v awkward to explain why FC had brought them a pony (yes, really) and me some books.

Yep stocking from Santa
Gifts from us
Presents from friends and family under the tree

Father Christmas brings one gift in our house. It's wrapped differently from my gifts and usually doesn't cost massive amounts. My mum did the same thing. It also means that my children understand that Father Christmas gives a small gift to everyone and not that he favours those who have more money to spend.

All from santa including stocking, they are only young once I enjoy the magic of it all personally and let him take credit. They will find out one day it was me anyway so there’s nothing wrong with them believing in santa it made my childhood Christmas’ Magical and I hope they look back with happy memories from it too. I do give them a few small things from me which they’re allowed on Christmas Eve, usually bath bomb pjs Christmas book and a small toy. Any other presents they get are from the person who bought them not ‘santa’. You just have to go with what you think is best, everyone does it differently and it doesn’t make it wrong.

Father Christmas delivers all the presents at the house where child lives. None of mine ever compared what they got to anyone else. Obviously presents from other family and friends are separate

Stockings from Father Christmas 🎄

Stockings with small things from Father Christmas. All other gifts, including from us, labelled and under the tree. That's how it was when I grew up, too, and it was always magical and exciting.

I don't remember comparing how we did it with my friends and I don't think my children did either. Children are used to other families doing all kinds of things differently and Christmas is no different.

Stocking from Santa.

Everything else from whoever bought it.

Santa is just the stocking here. But our kids don't write lists so the stocking is just a few small things and a bit of chocolate.

Santa brings one big present and the stocking (pillowcase) here.

Santa brings most presents and a couple of good ones are from us. Any from other people are from them, so we can enjoy battles over thank you letters

I go to a lot of effort to use different wrapping paper and so far they've never noticed in their unwrapping frenzy

Stocking from Father Christmas, all other presents from whoever bought them.

If you do parent presents from FC but presents from other relatives from the actual people who bought them, don't your dc think it's weird that their uncles, aunties and grandparents buy them presents but their parents don't?

Just the little bits in the stocking from Father Christmas. I never realised until several years after I had my children than anyone did it any other way.

Santa brings everything in this house, as he did when I was growing up..

We get them one present and that's usually pjs for Xmas night..

Santa only brings the sticking stuff here.

It seems so silly to hide all the presents people have brought round and make out someone else left them when DD kniws who brought them.