Does Santa bring all the presents?

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Does Santa bring all the presents?

Santa brings all the gifts that mummy and daddy pay for. Family gifts are just from them in the same ways gifts bought by us are given to family.

I was brought up with Santa bringing all the gifts by always within our family price range so I alway knew to thank mum for paying as well as santa for choosing/delivering

Santa brings all the presents that are bought by me and DH (including stockings). But presents from other friends and relatives come from them.

He brings everything in our house stocking , under the tree presents, Xmas eve box off the elves they're only small once. Family presents are opened in the afternoon so they know it's not off the big man xx

No just small stocking gifts.

Kids understand if parents don't have much money and so that's the reason they didn't get a bike and an Xbox but their friends did. If you tell them Santa brings all the presents how do you explain why their friends get loads more (or less) than them?

Only ever brought stockings for me, and H so that’s what we do for kids. Makes explaining so much easier and managing expectations of gifts.

No, in our house Father Christmas puts some little bits and bobs and sweets in stockings. The proper presents are set out under the tree and are from the people who bought them.

The lot. Presents from family and friends are kept under the tree and are different though.

I say that but he worked it out a while ago so treats it as just a bit of fun!

What's your definition of all?
Every single present that arrives under the tree at any point during December? No.

We don't get gifts from other relatives. We buy them some things from '' us '' just incase HE can't make it.

On Xmas morning... The tree has yielded its bounty and that and a stocking is all from FC.

Stocking were from Santa

But all the presents appear over night so you still have the lovely oooh look moment.

Why should Santa get the glory

One gift and the stocking. Santa delivers most of the presents though, for the visual impact on Christmas morning.

In my house, all the gifts from DH and I are "delivered" by Father Christmas on Christmas Eve, but gifts from other friends and family are under the tree. I tell the DC that Mummy and Daddy order (and pay for) the gifts that FC delivers though, so they don't have unrealistic expectations.

Definitely only stocking gifts - although our DC are quite lucky in that stocking gifts can be relatively substantial. But main gift always from us. We did originally do Santa but then realised that a) it looked like we weren't getting them a gift and b) how unfair it was that Santa brought dS a bicycle and his friend got a few books. Now I feel quite strongly about it and really wish that people made sure the main "big" presents are from mum and dad and not Santa because I'm conscious that it's very confusing for the children who don't get fancy expensive gifts. As it is, DS doesn't really understand why his cousins get more expensive gifts than him from their mum and dad. I'd hate him to be wondering this about Santa.

Kids understand if parents don't have much money and so that's the reason they didn't get a bike and an Xbox but their friends did. If you tell them Santa brings all the presents how do you explain why their friends get loads more (or less) than them?
In my experience of being the poor child other children spoke about what they had for Christmas rather than who brought it.
It's mostly adults who ask what Father Christmas brought and they're not the ones who rub an Xbox in your face.

@Twobrews I completely agree with you.

Also, we shouldn't put so much emphasis on expensive presents being the best, sometimes an amazing and most wanted gift may not cost that much. I sometimes find myself falling into that trap.

Just the stocking here (that’s how it was in my family, and DH’s didn’t even do stockings).

[quote HappyChristmasTreeRex]@Twobrews I completely agree with you.

Also, we shouldn't put so much emphasis on expensive presents being the best, sometimes an amazing and most wanted gift may not cost that much. I sometimes find myself falling into that trap.[/quote]
DD broke the news to me yesterday that her "most important" present is not, in fact, the Nintendo Switch she's been begging for the whole year but a hatchimals fairy thing that I've organised to come from her grandmother. Sigh!

Also, we shouldn't put so much emphasis on expensive presents being the best, sometimes an amazing and most wanted gift may not cost that much. I sometimes find myself falling into that trap

Yes, I've been guilty of that because I know what it's like to really want something even though you know you have no chance of getting it.
My younger two children's best present last year was one of those horrible massive sweet pizza things that they'd never be allowed normally. This year I suspect it will be a tiny Paddington teddy and a Gumball machine.

No - the stocking and anything unwrapped beside it are from Santa.

Everything else is under the tree and labelled from the giver. All the presents to DH and I are also labelled and under the tree as well.

Opening Santa presents is a first thing in the morning job. Opening anything under the tree happens in the afternoon (normally once we are home after going to mass and visiting extended family living locally, and have got the turkey in the oven - this year, we might do a walk but no mass or visiting, just getting the bird on).

Stocking & sack from Santa here. Everything else from us

'Santa' does the stockings, family do the rest.

Stocking and one present from the list here, it's always wrapped in fancy paper and ribbons.

Just one present from Santa here. The rest, including sticking from family.

Yes. Mine are 2 and 3. Me and dad buy all the presents and Father Christmas wraps them and decides if the kids have been good enough to receive them.
I don't think I'm going to be good at keeping it going though. I think I'll crack under questioning in a few years.

No, he brings the stocking contents and one present which he decides on. It might be from child's list of suggestions if you do a letter or a complete surprise if you don't. This way it doesn't even have to be a big or fancy present- it's just something he thinks child will like.