How many present from santa

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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".

I agree with the above. I don’t thonk kids compare who got what and from who. They might mention their favourite present, but I’ve never heard a child compare who got what from Father Christmas. Ever. And I work with kids.
By the time they go back to school they’ve mostly forgotten.

Thanks for all the replies. I actually feel excited for Christmas now rather than dreading being judged.

My thoughts always come back to while they'd are so young the toys are cheaper and bigger/bulkier than the gadgets & games etc they'll no doubt want in a few years time. And suddenly the money I've spent has gone up but the size and amount will have gone down.
I'd rather keep it consistent and not go crazy.

My thoughts for now will be santa will bring 2 or 3 toys in a sack and a stocking and I will give some too. Not sure how many i'll give at the mo. But thinking I will give a few toys (not as big as Santa's), books, arty stuff, and clothes, shoes etc.

I will although they are young this year put in activities in place throughout December which can be build on as they get older. Not sure what but I can figure that out

All families do it differently. We do stocking from santa and all other presents from whoever's actually bought them.
It must have been the same when we were kids, that different families did things differently, but we never questioned it!

In our house Santa brings one main electrical gift this year it’s IPads. Last year it was Nintendo switch. He also brings another 10 presents in a sack. Then we get them another 5 presents and family presents are from family. Parents also fill the stocking here with edibles and toiletries.

I go really overboard at Christmas but I buy alot second hand, after all why would the elves bother with packaging 😁 I don't give toys/magazines throughout the year, maybe the odd game or book in a charity shop or car boot.

We do a small sack pillow case sized with little bits - chocolates, top trumps, pants/socks, small toys and a cuddly toy sticking out the top. then a wrapped gift they've asked for from Santa. this could cost £5 or £50 but it's something they really want. (never technology magic and technology doesn't work!) this is opened first thing.

then we all get ready, dinner goes on we listen to Christmas music and hand out gifts under the tree normally a large sack each for the girls from us, we give lots but includes things they need too.

so they get lots but I try and avoid tat/filler type gifts. I'd rather buy something second hand that's better quality for my budget than a cheap toy that isn't quite what they wanted or will fall apart.

1 from Santa. If you visit Santa as a child you just ask for 1 thing so I don’t understand why you would get more. We give the rest of the presents, that way we also get a thank you from the kids.

Santa is named on a couple of presents addressed to me and both the dc - always games we can play together.

Other presents, sometimes a lot other times it's not, depends what they have asked for and how well off I am that year.

My mum is an overboard buyer for the dc. I let her get on with it.

You need to do what's best for your family, not want strangers on here do. Get some ideas of ways to do things & adapt them for your family.

Some people give a pile of presents from Santa, some give one, some give just the stocking. Some parents say they send the money to Santa who just delivers them & some say ALL presents (even ones from family) come from Santa (how do the kids then thank granny/auntie dot?) If the kids are going to talk at nursery/school then there'll always be another kid whose traditions are different to confuse them. Just like elf on the shelf. If you don't follow that tradition expect the "why does Johnny have an elf visits when we don't?". There'll always be something to confuse them.

So my advise would be to do what's comfortable for you - if you don't want Santa to have the credit for the big ticket gifts they might get in future (bikes, games consoles etc) then make sure the bigger gifts are from you from the start I've always wanted Santa to have the credit for the big gifts, just cos it always seemed more magical & I don't need the thanks & gratification from them. They'll realise when they're older that it was mum & dad who got the bigger things & I'm fine with that. But then someone else would be miffed with me for giving something "expensive" from Santa when their child only gets a stocking.

Mine get the stocking from Father Christmas and usually one present. The stocking is fairly big though and has 20-30 things in (most of them consumables). The present is often something they have asked for that I’ve refused to buy them.

I should add that when I was a child my mum would do a fairly decent stocking but then my gran would turn up with huge sackfuls of stuff also from Father Christmas. Must have driven my mum crazy! Especially as most of it was glanced at once then never played with again!

I agree with a previous poster you do what you want for your family. Some people call him Santa some FC. Some give one present some give all presents. Just do what feels right Santa doesn’t come with a rule book everyone makes up their own way of doing it. I don’t think kids bother asking too much questions by the time they go back to school they forgot who gave them what etc .

Yeah, I agree with doing Christmas our way I guess I just worried about my kids getting less than most others from santa/us. Just trying to find out what the 'norm' is so I can use it as a guideline. Thanks everyone

Santa only brings a small stocking here...

Santa brings the main present and a stocking everything else is from us or family.

Santa brings all the toys that we buy. For us it is about the magic of santa for as long as possible. Gifts that family and friends buy are from them as we feel it is important that our dc thank the people who bought them presents. Love christmas🎅🤶

My dc only have us buying for them.
So we don't have huge pikes. If we did... I would just slide some away to children's charity's, hospital wards, etc.

Otherwise from us about 7, 10 each and all from fc.

We get maybe 2 gifts... In case he didn't make it

Oh yes and if a friend turns up with one or gp send one then that's frome them. It's such a small window.

Starting to wish I ask the question of how many presents do you give. Think I know what I'm doing santa wise but not sure how many we should give. It's hard to get this right! I just don't want my kids to have less than others but have no intention of going overboard. But don't want to go underboard either. Think I'm over thinking this now!

For us it depends on what they actually want. I don’t tend to have a set amount of presents in mind - it could be 5, it could be 20 but never a huge, huge pile.

I am guilty of panic buying because I don’t think they have enough, when in truth they have more than enough.

We do always get them a joint thank you/bonus present, again it depends what they both really, really want - one year was a switch, another colouring books and pencils/pens/paints - we do this because I’m disabled and both DD’s go above and beyond what most children their age do. It’s also, although never said in that way, a sorry for me not always being around/the mum I wanted to be.

Sorry, I guess I’m not much help OP

Our DD gets nothing from us, except her Christmas Eve box. Everything else is from Santa, unwrapped and not under the tree. Only the presents from family are wrapped under the tree.

Ok actual number of gifts is approximately 10 presents each under the tree. This usually includes several books, something for their room like a lamp or bed sheets. Something educational like a maths board game or Atlas. Something practical but fun like a bag, lunch box, blanket. Some kind of fun footwear like wellies, slippers, Doc Martens. Something crafty like Fimo, playdough, paints, art equipment, which leaves 2 or 3 wants, which could be anything from a doll to a bike, toy or tech. So it's not all toys toys toys, plastic trash. The toys I do buy tend to be good quality like Lego or Playmobil. We also do a stocking each of about 10 smaller things. It might sound like a lot of presents to some but I am happy with it and don't think it is obscene.

Mine get a stocking (not huge - fits some chocolates, an orange, a Lego blind bag and one or two small things like that) and one present. It’s good fun but it’s also important to me that the children understand that, for the rest of the presents, real people in their lives put time and money into buying them.

Father Christmas brings the stocking (oversized, roughly pillowcase) which is crammed full of little inexpensive novelties, plus pants, toiletries, stationery and sweeties)

Tree presents are given by actual named people.

Mine are older but they get to write a list of 3 presents or thereabouts.

Santa brings:

• A stocking of small things - edibles, books, pjs, small lego etc
• 1 present off the list

We buy as a present from us either 1 present off the list and/or 2-3 other presents that they might not have thought of. This depends a bit what is on the lists, costs etc we tend to keep spend as even as possible.

Both know Santa cant bring everything on the list. Sometimes Santa upgrades from the request on the list (one year ds asked for a 2ds nintendo and Santa brought a 3ds for example)

In the early years i went way way over the top. Ridiculously over the top. And actually they didnt enjoy it more - there was just too much to take in. This does remedy itself though as they get older and the things they would like get more expensive!!

Santa fills everyone's stockings with nice gifts, sweets / normally alcohol for adults.
He then leaves one gift for each child. Not always the biggest gift but something they love.