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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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Jorgezaunders · 01/12/2018 21:07

All their presents are from people who actually exist. None are from Santa. It's more magical that way.

Winterishere2018 · 01/12/2018 21:12

Everything off santa but we pay him to deliver them and he gets a few special presents

Screaminginsidemeagain · 01/12/2018 21:24

Stocking only

Angelinthenight · 01/12/2018 23:16

We do big gifts from us ,this year ps4 and new tv and all the rest santa which is 20 gifts so most are santa.when they were baby to toddler i just did them all from santa x

SunnyintheSun · 01/12/2018 23:20

For those people who pass off gifts from relatives as being from Santa, do you actually take the gift tags off?? .

noodlenosefraggle · 01/12/2018 23:20

We do stocking with one thing from their list and random small surprise presents. Rest from family.

TheBigBangRocks · 01/12/2018 23:34

Santa is just a delivery agent for us, the children thank the actual gift giver.

I never wanted them to think Christmas was based on their behaviour re number of gifts or to not thank people who had taken time and effort to buy a gift.

If children think everything comes from Santa don't they wonder why they have got more or less than their friends or they didn't get x, y and z like such and so did?

Raisinbrain · 02/12/2018 05:10

Santa only brings stocking gifts which are the smaller gifts.

littlecabbage · 02/12/2018 05:27

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

We do this too.

blackteaplease · 02/12/2018 05:31

Santa delivers everything on Christmas eve but only the stockings and one gift are from him, everything else is credited to the right person.

When I was little my parents did the Santa gives everything version and one year I asked why they hadn't bought me anything.

Alanamackree · 02/12/2018 08:06

Santa brings whatever the one thing they’ve asked for (within reason), a stocking and a few surprises. DH and I give a small token, usually a book. Relatives give whatever they want. DC bake treats for everyone, decorate boxes and make cards.
When they were little I encouraged awareness of less fortunate people in ways that didn’t undermine the Santa myth. We gave money to the homeless guy at the shopping centre, gave art materials to children in hospital, they picked out things for the food drive, we packed shoeboxes for the homeless.
Only once they stopped believing did they become someone else’s Santa by buying gifts for the toy drive, or filling shoe boxes.

Orlande · 02/12/2018 08:12

Stockings and 1 thing from their list from Santa. Delivered to their beds.
The rest is from us/relatives and is under the tree.

StephenQueenBooks · 02/12/2018 08:39

When I was a kind everything was from father Christmas. My mum has confided in me she got herself in so much debt and felt sad she never got the "credit" for being the one who got us anything as our dad (divorced) would get us one big present from him and we'd love him for it.

I don't want kids but I'd do one little present from father Christmas and the rest from me to avoid that situation.

StephenQueenBooks · 02/12/2018 08:41

Oh and we had a CF family member who would invite a member of the family over before Christmas (so we ended up all going on different nights) because people would drop off the presents they had bought from those kids. They'd never buy presents for their own kids.

They would put all the presents under the tree and say they were from father Christmas! My mum stopped going before Christmas to avoid it happening as she thought it was so rude! The kids never thanked anyone because they thought it was all from the big man.

Oblomov18 · 02/12/2018 15:35

Vitalogy
I disagree. I expect children to be grateful and appreciative of the money we have spent.

"If it's truly a gift then nothing should be expected in return. "

No. I disagree. I expect thanks, appreciation, gratitude. Generally.

I think children should know that their parents have thought about it, gone to the effort and saved the money, and spent the money.

I do want ds's to know it was Dh and I, rather than an imaginary figure.

topcat2014 · 02/12/2018 15:39

Do people really remove gift tags from other people, and then claim them to be from Santa?

That is truly shocking :)

theworldistoosmall · 02/12/2018 16:21

I have noticed that no one really wants to answer the tag thing, or how they feel when their dc’s aren’t thanking Aunt Sally for the gift.

but oh well. January will be filled again with posts from relative talking about the ungrateful niece/nephew who didn’t say thanks.

StephenQueenBooks · 02/12/2018 16:22

Topcat they did, and if people couldn't come to them before Christmas they would go to them before to make sure they got it.

My mum always kept the tags and wrote a list of what was from who and we would have to call and thank them for the specific present. It was because she never wanted people to think she did the same.

stayathomer · 02/12/2018 16:23

Nothing from us-I told the kids since we have to buy relatives presents, decorations, food, going to christmas fairs etc we can't afford it. It sounds awful when I write it down:(

bakebakebake · 02/12/2018 16:30

One from Santa

wonkylegs · 02/12/2018 16:44

Stocking of minor stuff, a book, chocolate, socks etc - everyone in the house gets one not just the kids
All other presents from us

LassWiADelicateAir · 02/12/2018 17:06

Santa never brought anything beyond small , low value gifts which could fit into a not terribly large stocking. Main present was from us and other presents properly acknowledged as from the donor.

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