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.

Santa brings 1 modest sized gift and the stocking.

Everything else - including big presents - comes from us/family /friends.

@Hugsgalore totally agree. What is wrong with Santa getting the credit? It’s only a few years & eventually the kid’s find out the truth anyway. When mine were little, if they ever asked why I didn’t get them anything I told them it was cos I knew Santa was bringing them loads & not to be greedy.

@ivfbeenbusy

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

I really wouldn't be happy with that. He can visit after Christmas not before. We have birthdays just before Christmas and that's bad enough.

Santa delivers everything in my house. But not everything is from Santa. He brings stockings and other small bits.

My kids get stocking and a main Santa present (something big and exciting usually, but only one thing) then I get the smaller presents.

Santa brings most things, but there's always a present under the tree from Mummy and Daddy, as well as other "family" presents - from each other, from grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc.

I bet my parents were relieved once I stopped believing it was all Santa

In 3 generations of our family he’s always brought relatively little things in stockings only. But that never stopped it being massively exciting - a bulging stocking is always a thing of great joy!

Other presents are under the tree, and whoever has given them needs to be thanked.

OK, I love that this thread comes round every year and I post the same thing every year:

Nothing is from FC in my house (dc now grown up, though) and never has been - neither was it in my family growing up nor dh's. Presents are always all labelled from the person who bought them and FC is tfe delivery service.

I literally never knew that other people did differently until I came in MN. Which just goes to show that, as a child, I never discussed this with friends, and as a new Mum, never discussed with Mum friends.

Whatever works for you.

Santa brings the stockings and a couple of tree presents. The tree presents he provides are normally the presents that dd knows mummy and daddy wouldn't normally buy! Ie, the stuff she LOVES but parents aren't wild about... lol dolls and slightly tacky plastic toys mummy says are overpriced etc..

What’s all this about credit? I don’t need my DCs to give me credit for anything, It’s about seeing the joy on their faces and creating happy childhood memories, that’s all the credit I need.

I’m amazed by how many people say they do everything from Santa. I don’t know a single person in real life who does this. We do stockings only from Santa and everything under by tree is from us, extended family and friends.

I’ve never thought of it as ‘taking credit’...what credit? We get a thank you and a hug...is that the ‘credit’ and the ‘glory’ people are referring to?? And you think that’s why we don’t say it’s from Santa...so we don’t miss out on a thank you and a hug???

A big part of Christmas is giving as well as receiving gifts (we’re not religious). My DC have always been involved in choosing presents to give to their siblings, their grandparents and cousins and they love it and they get excited about getting something for someone else. All these kids who think everything is from Santa, do they not get involved in giving presents too?

And I admit I worry about comparing with other children. One of my best friends really struggles to afford Christmas - low salary, single parent of 3 children, ex doesn’t pay a penny - and my kids are good friends with her kids. I would be mortified if my kids bragged about getting some amazing present from Santa when I know damn well hers haven’t. So I’m very mindful of it.

@CoffeeChocolateWine

I’m amazed by how many people say they do everything from Santa. I don’t know a single person in real life who does this. We do stockings only from Santa and everything under by tree is from us, extended family and friends.

I’ve never thought of it as ‘taking credit’...what credit? We get a thank you and a hug...is that the ‘credit’ and the ‘glory’ people are referring to?? And you think that’s why we don’t say it’s from Santa...so we don’t miss out on a thank you and a hug???

A big part of Christmas is giving as well as receiving gifts (we’re not religious). My DC have always been involved in choosing presents to give to their siblings, their grandparents and cousins and they love it and they get excited about getting something for someone else. All these kids who think everything is from Santa, do they not get involved in giving presents too?

And I admit I worry about comparing with other children. One of my best friends really struggles to afford Christmas - low salary, single parent of 3 children, ex doesn’t pay a penny - and my kids are good friends with her kids. I would be mortified if my kids bragged about getting some amazing present from Santa when I know damn well hers haven’t. So I’m very mindful of it.

I grew up with everything was from Santa. I didn’t know others didn’t it a different way either. I don’t remember any friends telling me otherwise either.

No, my kids don’t get involved in the presents I buy for my parents and nan etc. They will help me wrap and give them but they don’t help pick them, I buy as I go. They also don’t buy for each other as they are 9&7 and I don’t see the point. As far as I’m concerned it’s about the kids and them getting presents, not having to buy for each other too as Santa brings it.

When they are older I’m sure they will buy for each other but no not currently. They get each other a gift on birthdays.

I generally don’t worry about the comparing thing if I’m honest. I want to make my kids Christmas magical and for me that involves presents from Santa and not just a stocking, seeing family, games, etc.
I don’t worry what others can and cannot afford.
They are only kids once and I don’t involve money into Xmas at this age. They write the list and I buy pretty much all of it from Santa with some things given from family Members.

Santa brings nothing here.

Father Christmas brings a stocking for small DGS and used to do so for DSs.

Where has this interloper, Santa, appeared from?

When I was a child, Father Christmas was the only gift bringer and remains so here.

Nope Santa used to bring Christmas stockings at end of the bed and one Christmas tree little gift. Now they are older Santa just brings the one little Christmas tree gift still but only if they still believe in Santa 😂

I didn't realise people could be so contentious about this!
It was supposed to be a lighthearted thread. The term 'credit' was lighthearted, something Mumsnet seems to have forgot.

@IceFrost, I guess what you grow up with has a big influence on what you do with your kids. When I was younger we did pretty much the same as I do for my kids now, except we had a pillowcase of gifts by our bed rather than the filled stocking by the fireplace that my kids get (this started because my first child was terrified at the thought of a strange man in red creeping into his room in the middle of the night so we’ve always done stockings downstairs! Santa drops and goes!)

But round the tree it was about family. I had 3 siblings and we all had a present from each other and we gave a gift to DM (organised by DF) and a gift for DF (organised by DM). It was never only for the kids but it was no less magical.

My DC are 12, 8 and 2. In terms of their involvement in choosing presents for their siblings, grandparents and cousins, I give them a shortlist of three suggestions and they choose which one they would like to give. They don’t have complete freedom to get whatever...that would be...errrrrmmm...interesting!

Not here.

It's not to do with credit though. I just feel uncomfortable at the idea of some children wondering why Santa didn't get them 3 new games consoles, a new bike and stacks of clothes like he did another child. There's so much tied up in the 'be good for Santa's thing. Stocking is from santa and everything else is from people.

No because I think parents deserve some credit too.

Santa brings a whole whack of presents, it's meant to be just the stocking but every year he seems to get carried away. We give the main present (s) and they are under the tree and get opened later on throughout the day

Oh and yes I DEFINITELY want the credit for the best present.

Father Christmas brings a stocking and one unwrapped "big" present.

The rest are around the tree wrapped up and from the people who paid for them.

No, Father Christmas brings one "main" present and fills the stockings. All other presents are from us/whoever has gifted them.

All the presents from my parents were from Father Christmas for me and my sister, always in a big sack each outside our bedroom doors.
Friends and relatives gifts had a tag on to say who they were from.
My DS is almost 2 and I've just had the conversation with DH about how we will approach it when he understands, I think we will say that we send the gifts to FC and he delivers them

@TrickyD well I’m 30 and always called him Santa as did my parents growing up. So I don’t think he has been around here for at least 60 years.

Yea, apart from gifts from other people, however he doesn’t wrap what he brings. No one in our village wraps.