Does Santa bring all the presents?

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Does Santa bring all the presents?

Not in our house. Only what fits in a stocking.

Only 3 presents each from Santa in our house. The rest from us.

No, of course not.

Otherwise when they get to the age of 'Grandma buys you a present, why doesn't she buy me one?" age, then you will have a lot of explaining to do.

He does here. But they aren’t all from him. He gives the DC a special present, everything else he just delivers for us. So family members pay Santa for presents that he makes and he delivers them

No, of course not. Santa only brings the small stocking gifts. Also, no electronics, the elves can't make them, and no live creatures.

He delivers everything here. But one gift (wrapped fancy with ribbons) is from him and the stocking. Everything else is from us/Grandparents/Aunties etc he delivers them.

Father Christmas brings them Christmas eve boxes full of chocolate etc and the actual presentscare from us.

He brings the stocking and a couple of small gifts, these are under the tree on Christmas morning.
I buy her a few gifts and also her main present.

I think it's best to have Santa bring a stocking only and any large gifts from parents and family. You don't want other children at school wondering why Santa brought their friend an £100 Lego set and not them.

One gift and some little bits and pieces (calendar, chocolates, Lego minifig) rest is from people.

Santa brings the stockings and ONE gift. Everything else is from the actual givers (grandparents, aunts, etc).

(And we're another household where he doesn't bring livestock).

Santa doesn’t come here, its our first time doing christmas, so I’ve kept it small and my son knows who the presents are from.

Stocking and 3 presents, rest from us, relatives presents are from them.

As a child my presents were all from Santa, including those from relatives. Now I'm an adult I find that really weird and have never met or spoken to anyone else who did/does it that way.

Yes in our house Santa brings everything. The stocking and all the presents. Any presents from family are from family though

Stockings only here.
3 year old knows that other presents are from friends and family. It also means she can have a say in what we buy for her friends and enjoy giving as well as receiving.

No.

1 present and stocking from Santa the rest is from family/friends.

Makes it much easier to deal with if they find my hiding space 😁

When dds were wee Santa brought all the presents

Only the stocking is from Father Christmas. Usually a book and something chocolate-y only. Everything else is from the giver. It's nice to thank people for their thoughtfulness, which you can't do if the kids think it's all from Santa.

No. One present from the letter and a stocking.

No tech as it is too cold at the Pole. Only toys that elves can make so no plastic.

All the other gifts come from friends and family who need to be thanked.

DC are 8 and 6.

Father Christmas brings all the presents DH and I buy for the children.
Family and friends presents go under the tree if they're not with us on Christmas Day they get opened on Boxing Day.

We sort of glossed over I when they were little. Now, in what will probably be our last Santa year (9&7) he's just bringing a couple of token joint presents. The big present will say from Mum and Dad. We haven't hidden wrapped presents that have arrived. They e chosen presents for people. They've wrapped presents for each other, DH an me.

Stockings... Im not saying either way. They canmake their own conclusions. But it's our wrapping paper, not Santa's.

We had it that gifts from dh and I were from Santa and other gifts came from that person.

He brings everything that we buy, family gifts are from family and the children thank them. I let Santa take the credit for everything. Although 1 of the dc after believing was over realised it was me all along and was very grateful! The other dc didn’t seem to make the connection 🎅

All the ones from us are from Father Christmas, so stocking of little bits and one main present under the tree. Everything else is from whoever bought it.

When I was growing up, we had stocking plus "parent" presents from Santa, all opened first thing. Presents from other relatives given when we saw them around Christmas from the relevant person (and put under the tree until Chrismas day if we saw them beforehand).
In DH's family, they had a small stocking from Santa and some presents under the tree from Santa and some from parents (and other relatives). Stocking opened first thing and tree presents after lunch.

We ended up doing a bit of a combination, recognising we would spend some Christmases with each side of the family (involved staying over given distance, and sometimes with other family children also staying over so approach needed to be similar).

So we did a large stocking from Santa (including some "proper" presents from the list) opened first thing. Main present (or up to about 3 presents in a year where there was no one big thing) from us under the tree, plus a couple more presents from Santa under the tree (generally things like family games or a book collection). Tree presents to be opened after lunch, but in years when at my parents' house they were also allowed to open the tree presents from Santa first thing if they wanted (in line with their cousins).

We slightly shifted the balance between parent presents and santa presents each year depending on where we were and they never particularly noticed.

They always enjoyed having to wait until after lunch for some of their presents to keep the anticipation going - i was worried they would struggle with this .

The are now teens and we still do a mix of stocking presents first thing (reduced in number but not value!) and main presents after lunch.