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.

Father Christmas brings the stocking.

Everything else under the tree, and from the giver

Stockings only here would be my ideal but due to cousins doing it differently we also have one under the tree present too.

In our house Santa brings everything and to Nanny and Grandad’s house too but my son knows that we send the main gifts on his list to Santa - Santa checks that he has been good enough and delivers them. Santa also brings him some surprises too.

No, I hate the idea that some kids would think santa brought my child bigger/more presents, so he brings one medium gift and a stocking, and the bigger gifts come from us or whoever they come from. It helps with thank you letters too!

Santa brings all presents apart from 1 from us then obviously grandparents present and other family.

No. Santa brings a chocolate box. Why give Santa all the credit for your main presents and little ones. Always seemed crazy to me.

No. DS gets to choose one present that Santa brings.

No. It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the kids who's parents can't afford expensive presents also get small or no Santa presents. I'd much rather my kids tell their friends that Santa just brought some sweets than have my kids cause hurt to others.

@countdowntime

No. It makes me deeply uncomfortable that the kids who's parents can't afford expensive presents also get small or no Santa presents. I'd much rather my kids tell their friends that Santa just brought some sweets than have my kids cause hurt to others.

Quite. My DDs are adopted. DD1's had worked out a whole scenario in her head about why Santa had ignored her for her first 6 years.

Santa brings everything here (everything that I buy). Presents from grandparents etc come from the grandparents. I don't know anyone who does it any different. I won't want to take credit, I want them to enjoy Santa while they are small like I did.

No. Father Christmas brings the stocking and one gift. No tech as it is too cold to assemble electronics at the Pole. The other gifts all come from friends and family - who need thanked!

No Santa brings one present the rest are from us. I wanted my children to enjoy the magic but also understand the value of money.

No, not when I was a child either.

I don’t like all the posts from people saying it’s not fair to tell your children that Santa brings everything because other kids will be upset because they don’t get as much or nothing. I want to keep the magic alive for my kids. And I won’t be dictated to on what I do with my DCs. But, I do limit what Santa brings. Usually he brings 4 things from their lists, this year 2, and mum and dad bring the rest or other family members. My DCs use to think it was amazing that their GPs always knew what was on their lists. My 6 & 8 years olds now know Santa brings some things, but he works with Mummy and Daddy and their GPs and that we get what Santa isn’t bringing.

Are you in Ireland OP? I'm from Ireland and Santa (or Santie)always brought everything. Im now in the UK and that doesnt seem to be the done thing. I was thinking of giving a few bits in a christmas eve box from us and then the big presents from Santa, but like a pp suggested saying we have to give Santa the money for them.

No I'm in uk.
Interesting as the done thing where I am is for Santa to bring everything!

Father Christmas brings the stocking presents, and all the presents under the tree are from family. I do it this way because that's how my parents did it. Until I joined Mumsnet it had never even occurred to me that anyone did it differently.

Father christmas brings everything here but we don't have any family or friends so literally no presents from anyone else. I spoil mine completely our whole living room is full of presents. I had a shit childhood and because of that I over compensate for myself. We do a present exchange on christmas eve, everyone in the house buys a gift for each other (we help them) which gets put under the tree then we exchange these on christmas eve night. We also do our stockings on christmas day evening. They have a stocking and a sack full of gifts left outside their rooms (our favourite bit) and they do this around 6pm. They also have a surprise special gift each which appears around dinner time. Usually something they really want. We don't even have christmas dinner! Our christmas is very crazy but it works for us.

When I was a kid, Santa's role was like the postman, he delivered the gifts, but we knew who they were all from as they had gift tags on.

We never had a gift from Santa himself, but we still put out a mince pie and some sherry for him and a carrot for Rudolph.

Part of Boxing Day was spent writing thank-you letters or notelets.

No. All presents from relatives outside the household were from them. There was always a present under the tree from DM and DF as well.

Our stockings had fruit, sweets, a book and something fun, and there were some bigger presents from Santa alongside each DCs pair of socks (which were our stockings - everyone always looking for the biggest pair with no holes on 24th!).

For DD it has also been the same. Except that Santa (although formally still believed in because “if you don’t believe, you won’t receive” - but we’ve known that dd knows it’s us for a few years now, and she knows we know that!, but teens can still manipulate the system!!🤣🤣) filled a proper stocking with presents beside, but now only leaves the stocking and maybe something very small. Unless DH has been wrapped around her little finger again and spoils her (really not unusual!! ).

But there has always been something under the tree from DH and I as well - this used to be quite practical and is now the big present.

And then her birthday next day as well....🎉🎁🎂

Only the stockings, think children need to understand that real people give most of the presents and to thank them properly. Partly so the children with less don’t feel naughty but mostly because I don’t want Christmas to be all about Santa and not about what really matters.

Really surprised parents say it's all from Santa, it shows the amount of privilege on mumsnet. Stocking and one present from Santa, the rest from us. Not because I want the credit but because I know not all DCs friends can afford big gifts and I don't want the to feel Iike Santa loves them less.
As a child I never understood why I didn't get the same pricey gifts as my friends, I blamed myself for not being good enough.

Wrapped gifts under the tree are from family and are there throughout december (pile getting bigger and bigger as we add to it)

Everything else is unwrapped and brought by Santa, our kids never questioned it but when I was in a bind (had to shop with DS with me) I told him 'mummy sends some things to the north pole'.

to be honest I dont think kids know or care unless you make a fuss of exactly whats from who and that seems selfish of parent to try and get credit.

I cant imagine stopping them in the excitement to matter of factly explain:

'mummy saved for a long time to buy you the main present of a bike, the blue presents are from mummy and daddy but the stocking full of pants and toiletries and the 1 present in penguin paper is from Santa, the red wrapped presents are from Granny Edith and the stripey ones from Aunt Louise and the silver one from Uncle John and the gift bag is from Gamma and Papa Jones etc...'

It would be such a kill joy, for wrapped tree present kids look at the lable tag to see whose it is and who from but otherwise who 'explains' this stuff to kids?

Honestly us parents make up these wierd rules but kids dont really understand them or care and definately dont compare with friends (hense how many mumsnetters are mind blown every year that people do things differently).

He brings most of it but the big expensive gifts are off us.

Dd (7) has seen a lot of Amazon deliveries and I thought she’d twigged - then I asked her if she wanted a stocking put on her bed and she said ‘no as I dont want Santa in my room whilst I’m a sleep’ 😁

In our house Santa brings a stocking and one, maybe two, main gifts. My reasoning isn’t for credit (surely the look on your children’s faces is more than enough? I mean, when you know who ‘Santa’ is...) but because I was the kid questioning why the kid who was mean to everyone in my class got many expensive gifts and I didn’t get much (usually different things to what I’d asked for as well).

We do open gifts early with my nana on Christmas Eve (to and from my Nana, others are the next day), but that’s because for various reasons that’s our ‘Christmas Day’ with her. DS understands this, and doesn’t question it as it’s what we’ve done since he was a baby.

@AiryFairyMum

No, I hate the idea that some kids would think santa brought my child bigger/more presents, so he brings one medium gift and a stocking, and the bigger gifts come from us or whoever they come from. It helps with thank you letters too!

This - I think the idea of Santa bringing everything makes some look at what others have gotten and question why have they gotten more than me/less than me.

For me (and explaining to my children) is that Santa is there to make sure that all children get at least one present at Christmas that they want so everyone can have something and enjoy Christmas

Its not about taking the credit its about my children understanding that not everyone is as fortunate as them and that Christmas is as much about giving gifts and spending time with family as it is everything else.