How many present from santa

[Whatsthesmell]

I know this will have been asked and sort of goes hand in hand with how much do you spend but I'm wondering roughly how many presents does santa bring your children.
As in does he have a pile of under 5 presents, under 10 or more like 20plus?

I have a 2yo and a 1yo and I don't want to go over board but I come from a family who would buy (in my opinion) insane amounts of presents.
As a child I'd wake to a mountain of presents on Christmas morning. My brother who has a child older than mine would get a sickening amount. My mum still will buy the grandkids piles. (i asked her not last year and reminded her she's no long santa but it fell on deaf ears and more stuff arrived).
I'm feeling like I should go along with it, but I cant shake the feeling its too much. My brother would send every Christmas eve an photo to say santa has been to our group chat, last year i didn't do one because I felt a bit down that my kids combined got less than one of his. I felt guilty when he then visited on the day and was like so what did santa bring my dc where then 1yo and 5mth so I didn't think needed alot. Infact I thought I went over board. But he reels a list off what santa brought his the. 4yo & 10mth.

Sorry that turned into a abit of a story.... Basically I'm wondering roughly how many presents santa brings, I don't know whether my family are a but obsessed or I'm a bit miserable.
My oldest now starting to understand christmas and I could afford more but I guess I don't know what is "normal".

Specifically labelled as from Santa should just be 1. There are children living in poverty wee parents cannot afford piles of presents, and that's fine. We all buy whatever our circumstances allow. But those children will usually only get 1 present labelled as "from santa". If your kid gets 10 presents "from santa" and then theg go into school or nursery and tell their friends that Santa brought them 10 presents, then those children who got 1 will think "why did Santa give her more".
You can give as many as you want from mum, dad, gran, grampa etc but just 1 from Santa.

Your brother is totally out of order. Kids should learn that they get presents from family etc and then 1 from Santa, so it's fair and still magical for all children when they start discussing it with nursery friends.

Mine get around 20 from Santa in their stockings and 2 or 3 from us around the tree (plus presents from family, but no one else buys them more than 1 or maybe 2 things to unwrap).

It's also what they get. Ds was asking why Santa gave his friend Xbox or other tech and he didn't get any...
We didn't want him to have Xbox.

In contrast, my nephews get 0 'from' Santa as he just delivers them all. But their parents give them more.

My other niece and nephew get loads from Santa and their parents.

They all seem equally happy!

Such a mixed bag then. I'd love to get just one from Santa and rest from us, but for exactly that reason I feel I can't have mine only get 1 when kids close to them get tons. I have made a point this year to have presents from us too. As that's something as a child I never had, everything came from santa. It didn't occur to me until recently that my parents never gave me anything for Christmas is was all santa. As kids we never really got from grandparents or aunts/uncles where as our kids do, so everything was from Santa. So my brother seems to be copying thst amount and would have a mountain from santa but then also a large pile from my parents, then the kids aunts/uncles, godparents, the parents friends etc etc. He'd be boostful about how one year they had to take a break to get through it all. "it took hours". Between him and his wife they wrap everything up individually to bulk it out so say they buy a couple of books, they get wrapped separately, same with clothing. Things you'd group together get wrapped separately. I actually feel uncomfortable when they hand over a load of presents to my kids of lots of individually wrapped gifts (some of it is tat to make it seem more) and I hand over one/two to theirs. I worry they'll eventually think bad of me.
It makes me not want to see them at Christmas. I don't want i have to keep up with them so our children feel equal. I want to do the "norm"

Mine get stockings from Santa and all regular presents from me. I limit stockings to 10 small things for each DC (e.g. some sweets, a chocolate orange, a book, small toy, socks, tiny teddy, pencil-case type stuff etc).

Do you mean main Christmas present. Or how many presents in stocking? In our house main present is from mum and dad and little bits and bobs are from Santa and are in the stocking

Oh and when I say 'all' regular presents, I'm talking 3-5 things each from me under the tree. It's 100% not worth buying piles of horrid tat just so they have things to open.

At one absoluly nothing.At 2 one presie from Santa and a stocking with simple thing(satsuma,sugar mouse,chocolate coins,stickers).
At 3 onwards 1 main Santa presie and a few small thing of the things to make and do variety.
At 3 relatives went so over board whe shoved most in a cupboard and gave her on every few days.
She had oneDanta presdie because there's only so much with fit on a sleigh and elves don't do tech.!
She's 16 and is still very reasonable with requests
Most memorable was 2 when we put LOTS of balloons on her bedroom.

1 from Santa and a stocking. Then we do the 'something you want, something you need...' so they get another 4 presents each from us. Anymore is madness! Before we implemented the 4 present rule I was getting myself in such a state to make sure everyone had the equal values but with differing age children it just can't be done without spending an entire months wages.

We just do stockings from Santa, anything under the tree is from family and friends and labelled accordingly.
I wouldn't overthink it too much, just do what feels best for you, it doesn't matter what your brother does.

My DC have had their cousins stay overnight on Christmas Eve and never really noticed or compared different numbers of presents at all.

And mine get excited about Santa even though the stocking doesn't have big gifts. Just about 10 things, quite a few of them edible. In fact they get most excited about the gingerbread man, they get one every year and know it's going to be in there, I think they just like the tradition of it.

I never had a stocking as a child so haven't really thought about doing a stocking before.
My mum used to refer to small presents as stocking fillers but they never went in a stocking. And they was tons of them.

Whatsthesmell, you sound as though you are in competition with your brother and you don't have to be. You do what you think is right for your children, blow what anyone else does.

Santa doesn't exist anyway, he's a fantasy figure and it's fun to pretend but silly to make so much of it. I've never heard the like of what I read on this thread before.

Your brother sounds very materialistic. Don’t give in to the pressure. Your kids are far too young to even appreciate a mountain of presents, they will just get bored opening them and you’ll end up with a load of crap you need to find places for.
Buy your dcs a few nice quality toys, they’ll have stuff from your other family members too and let your brother do his thing. the fact he posts fb photos of his kids piles of presents and seems so concerned with what your kids get suggests he needs some kind of validation - does he like to outdo you at other times? I have noticed that the buying piles and piles of presents thing is more of a lower class thing to do (sorry but it’s true) and it is generally loads of tat. In the posh area where I live people are more likely to just buy a few nicer items and the kids seem much more appreciative. I hate the conspicuous consumption at Christmas - it’s so cynical and not at all what it should be about.

My dc only get one wrapped present from Santa, usually what they asked "him" or something similar/ cheaper. No main present is from Santa. Everything else is from us.

Last year I had my dc write a list of what they would like, 3 or 4 things they would be happy with, knowing they would only get 1 thing from each category. The categories were something they need (for school or underwear for example), something they want (fun gift), something to read, something to wear (specific item- hoodie for example), something to do (days out that we tried to do either before or after Christmas, like swimming, baking cookies etc).

They were happy with what they got although ds is still hoping for a VR headset that we just cannot afford! Of course my dc are older, 15 and 10, but we started this list a couple of years ago and seem to work for us. Other family members ask what they want and we can tell them, they can make the choice of what to buy.

Father Christmas brings all of the presents here but they are from us, grandparents, aunts and uncles etc. Father Christmas only actually provides the stocking (chocolate, smellies, a few token gifts and an Xbox / iTunes gift card of £10.

My children always knew the Father Christmas delivered all the presents to them from us and relatives. Exactly how my childhood was.
My parents didn’t go overboard with presents and to be honest I’m pleased they didn’t.
Interestingly my husbands parents did all the presents from Santa thing and would go way over the top but yet didn’t have much money.
It was like the less money they had the more over the top showing off they did.

Last Christmas I was looking for something special for my little ones. On Youtube i sow a soft felt book and it was amazing. I've been try to order it but no one gave me the answer. Does someone know what im talking about? It's a book made of felt and has several different games on it. So i'm looking forward to get this book this christmas.

I'm not in competition with my brother, it's more now my oldest is starting to know I don't want the scenerio thst was previously posted, where everyone gets more than them. Because my parents went over board and he does I was questioning what is the norm. I don't want to do masses of presents. My parents did it and it was all quality gifts, as I got old they just have spent well over a grand, maybe several on each of us.

My brother however doesn't have the money my parents did so buys many cheaper gifts.

I want to buy a handful and good gifts and be done. I just feel that my children will compare themselves to their cousins. My dh's sil made a comment after Christmas last year that "santa should bring the most toys" that was in reference to me saying my mum bought too much and it came back to me as my thoughts turn to buy gifts for this year.

I'm feeling more confident after then thread to get a couple of presents from santa(size/item dependent) I'm also going to get a stocking from santa. Then a few presents from us and not have the house like an explosion in symths.

Father Christmas brings a stocking with small presents - not necessarily cheap, in the past they've had Grimms and Holztiger wooden toys for instance, but small. Then we get them a few books and maybe 3 other presents.

I've always done all presents from Santa, but made sure the kids know that we give Santa the money towards their gifts. I've seen people do ALL pressies from Santa, as in sofa-loads and then also buy gifts fro themselves

whatsthesmell I'm also trying to reel my in-laws in from buying too much stuff. We really don't want a bunch of little things taking up room, it's a waste of money honestly. I told them last year just to give one present each and thats it, because that's all we can afford to do.
They still brought a few gifts each, although are much better than they used to be. They just can't help themselves.

Santa shares his list with everyone who loves DD. He chooses 1 item. Usually low or mid priced. I stick with the 4 item rhyme (something want, need, wear and read) plus a few nick nak items incl some satsumas etc for the stocking. We, as parents, buy another item from the list and this goes under the tree. There is no need for loads of presents.

Fwiw santa bought DD a colouring book and a pritt stick last year. Its what she asked for

Santa only fills stockings at my house, the rest is from the giver. I had to take grandparents in hand years ago because the huge bags of presents were ridiculous, and it all got very competitive. They still go OTT in my opinion but they pad it out with things like socks and PJs which are at least useful.

I do a stocking from Santa and a sack from me which may also include some presents received in advance from people we won't see over Christmas. Generally everything that's waiting in the living room on Christmas morning fits in the stocking and the sack (there's been the odd bike etc. over the years). Presents from grandparents will be in addition and arrive later in the day, Aunties and Uncles are usually good at buying vouchers.

Actual numbers of presents depends on the main present, an expensive main present means fewer presents altogether.