Does Santa bring everything in your house?

[MsMiaWallace]

Santa does bring all the presents in our house apart from those from grandparents etc.

When I was a kid it was the same until we didn't believe anymore.

I figured that the kids don't believe for long & it is magical but it's bloody hard work when Santa gets all the credit for everything.

No, he used to then I realised he was getting the credit for all my work! So then I changed it to he does the bits and bobs and the big presents are from us. It also helps to manage the expectations a bit around what they can/can't get from Father Christmas.

I always find it so odd that parents want the credit for buying their children Xmas presents.

Santa brings everything here and we buy something really small from us.
My parents did the same and when we stopped believing it was wonderful to find out the things your parents did to make it magical... and that they weren't glory hunters.

God no.

DS writes a letter to FC and will get a few things on that letter from the man. The rest on the letter he doesn't get, and DH and I buy other presents that we know he will like.

No far easier to believe and explain when hey ask for inappropriate or expensive gifts if he doesn’t bring everything. He only brings stockings here. Same as when I was growing up.

We buy it and Santa brings it! Like DHL but on a sleigh! Works for us, the kids have never questioned it!

He fills a stocking here. Still does even though the children are now teenagers.

When my son was little he said why does Auntie Susan buy me a Christmas present but doesn't buy her own children one? Because everything in their house came from FC. Nothing from the parents.

No, just the stuff in the stocking

Santa brings a main present, a sack of medium presents and some small bits as well. We do a main gift just from us as well plus a couple of medium presents. It's never bothered me about Santa getting 'credit'. I've never understood why it bothers people. I just love seeing my kid's face, whoever the presents come from.

Santa just brings presents from himself. DS gets presents from us and from family/friends. I don't really get the whole thing of Santa bringing everything including the gifts from family/friends.

But that's just how we do it.

I've been thinking a lot about this. My DS is very young so what I do now will set the traditions for the "santa years".

When I was young Santa brought everything. Apparently one year I asked why my parents hadn't got me a present.

So my plan is that Santa will bring most things, but there will be something under the tree from us. This means that if they ever want something really expensive, like tech, we will bring it rather than Santa. Hopefully this will stop questions about why some children get more than others. Santa doesn't bring tech, live animals, anything that doesn't exist/won't fit on the sleigh.

DS's cousins get everything from santa so it would be weird if he only got a stocking.

Santa brings the pile of presents plus stocking. One decent present from us. Most of the presents from family are given as and when we see that family member, could be Christmas Day or any day until New Year. Very little in the way of presents from family members are passed to us in advance, only if we knew we wouldn’t see them over the holidays.

No. Santa brings a couple of the gifts and the stocking. My reasons are not to get credit for the gifts but because not all children get stacks and stacks of presents and I think it is truly mean to make some children question why Santa brought them one tiny thing (if they are lucky) and other children gets heaps of presents from him.

We also don't do Santa will only come if you are good (same reasoning as the above paragraph).

Santa brings one or maximum two gifts (and the most expensive from the pile) and the stocking which is only filled with cheap pound shop stuff and chocolate (and is a stocking not a giant pillow case or sack!)

I has this argument with DH last year. Father xmas bought everything in my house. But now we have a DD he insists on going to PIL a few days before Xmas day where she can open all her presents from them. I don't like it. I think it detracts from the whole thing

that should say NOT the most expensive! should really proof read!

Santa delivers everything. But only the stockings are from him.

Father Christmas delivers them all, but they're not all from him.

He gives the stockings and one present each (when we were little we'd all get a dressing up outfit, or a craft kit, or similar type of toy. Now, he still delivers one present each, but it's usually alcohol for us!).

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I has this argument with DH last year. Father xmas bought everything in my house. But now we have a DD he insists on going to PIL a few days before Xmas day where she can open all her presents from them. I don't like it. I think it detracts from the whole thing

Ideally no presents are opened before the 'big day'. Can't you visit in person after Christmas Day rather than before and she gets her presents from them then?

No, Santa brings the stocking and 3 other presents.
We buy the rest. We have family and friends who have very different financial circumstances and I didn’t want this to become an issue if one child had more than the other from Santa.

To be honest it’s never been an issue. When asked what their favourite present is, it’s usually the thing that cost £3 rather than the expensive ones so maybe I overthought it
(one year the favourite was a fabric swim hat rather than the dolls house!)

No chance. He brings the stockings and Christmas Day outfit. He's not getting the credit for all the good stuff!!

The stockings are off Santa but the presents are off whoever bought them. However, Santa does bring everything so there are no presents under the tree until Christmas morning except maybe the odd gift a neighbour has dropped off.

No Santa brought stocking gifts, we bought the big ticket items. I thought it was wrong for Santa to bring lots of gifts for one family and hardly anything for another, think about it??? My kids always were wanting to help others so would ask why Santa didn't visit everyone.

No he brings the best present though which we have since decided was the wrong thing to do as like pp we wanted to get the credit for the great presents

Yes.

It's too convoluted otherwise.

Same when we were kids.

It's short enough so let them enjoy the magic without having to get the "credit" instead of Santa.

For me it isnt about credit, it just doesnt make sense - in your kids minds the only people to give them presents are santa and grandparents?? Or you all buy stuff and santa is just a delivery service?

Santa does stockings and one present here, the rest comes from who has put the thought and effort in to buying it. The small present and stocking is just for magic

Santa fills the stockings that are hung on the fireplace and he leaves a sack for each child. They contain the three things they mentioned to him in their letters (we try to encourage one thing they should ask for is a surprise). Then he may also include some sweets and chocolate.
They aren't allowed to ask him for anything too big (consoles etc) as we told them we were very lucky so if they wanted those things they should ask us so Santa has more to give to others who really need it.

Stockings only. I used to work with homeless families and a little girl broke my heart asking me in January if I thought she'd been on the naughty list because it was her fault they were homeless (she'd gone for help when her dad was using mum as a punchbag again). The only gifts she got were charity donations we organised because of how close to Christmas they fled/her mum's injuries. That was before I had children but I vowed then that I'd give generously to the SW presents appeal and that big presents would always be from family.

My children still have magical Christmases accepting that Santa brings token gifts and that they are lucky to get so much from family and friends.