Does Santa bring all the presents?

[Christmastime4]

Does Santa bring all the presents?

And gifts being from Santa makes it more magical.

Surely Father Christmas is inherently magical, whatever proportion of presents he brings? Most people I know do the 'stocking is from FC and the other presents are from the giver' thing - I'm amazed you weren't aware of it!

Most people I know do the 'stocking is from FC and the other presents are from the giver' thing - I'm amazed you weren't aware of it!
I've only known two RL families who do 'just' a stocking from FC. I know a few others who have a stocking and other presents.
Stockings certainly seem to be the norm on MN but I thought they were historical things like penny farthings or quills until I was in my twenties and DC1 started school!

Wonder if stockings are a regional thing?

I'm from Scotland and had never met anyone who didn't have a stocking until recently, she was from Yorkshire.

Wonder if stockings are a regional thing?

My Mum is from Yorkshire and had a stocking but also had everything else under the tree from FC. My Dad also Yorkshire had a pillowcase from FC and family tree presents which is what I had growing up.
Welsh DH had the same as me though most of DC's friends also Welsh get a stocking and a sack from FC.

My parents never got up with us on Christmas morning either, which usually blows peoples minds. DSIS and I would open our presents and then play quietly or go back to sleep. Then show our parents what we'd had when they got up.

No he brings stockings and one present to the value of around 20-30 , then everything else is from us / family/ friends ... it’s so wrong to get everything from Father Christmas as there are families out there with nothing and children in care , so why should one child get a art set from the Salvation Army and another get a ps5 from Father Christmas just because of there parents /caregivers financial situation ? If it’s expensive it’s from mum & dad !

I made a post a while ago about what everyone does as I always find it interesting how different it is!

No judgement but out of interest - what's the reason behind santa delivering family presents too?

Growing up all my presents were from Santa then family presents (e.g. Grandparents, aunties etc) were given by themselves either in advance and we'd put them under the tree or on the day. Then we'd write thank you cards to family over the holidays. I've still not decided what to do now I've got children but think this year the sticking and presents are from Santa too as my toddler is young and won't know the difference and my other child is 2 months old haha.

Just one.

And none of the big things, just a little toy. I don't think my 8yo believes anymore anyway.

I'll also add growing up I didn't always get what I wanted from Santa but never questioned it or wondered why my parents never got me anything. Nor do I remember speaking about it with friends comparing gifts. Obviously I'm not saying this doesn't happen just I was not aware of it.

No, our children have a stocking and a personalised sack each, which are filled by Santa. We tend to put the cheaper presents in their stockings and sacks, so they don’t then go into school and maybe unintentionally upset another less fortunate child telling them of all the expensive gifts Santa got for them.

Their ‘main’ usually most expensive present is from me and DH and is placed under the tree, along with a couple of boring bits like clothes and books.

They usually prefer the cheaper toys that Santa got them to their main gift tbh

We also like to do things this way as it covers our backs if the kids catch us bringing their pressies down from the loft on Christmas Eve as they know mummy and daddy buy them a few things in addition to what Santa gets them.

Same here StepIntoXmas.
My children's cousins get a stocking of Poundland toys and pants from FC and all the other presents from their parents. Mine get big and small presents from FC and nothing from DH and me.
They all just talk about what they've had and not who brought it.

Santa always brought all the presents from me and dh here. All unwrapped and arranged in a display in front of the fireplace plus a stocking.

All other presents (in fairness, actually very very few) from friends ad family go under the tree and are labelled from the giver. We also put one present under the tree to dd from us.

She's a teen now and we keep the exact same traditions! It's a lot of fun still...

The only change we made about 4 or 5 years ago is that dh does a stocking for me and I do one for him and they hang on the fireplace on the opposite side to dd's

We also get presents for each other for under the tree - no one else bothers much these days so we like to make sure we each get something nice to open. We're both very good at picking presents for each other so we never have disasters

He brings everything we buy, gifts from other people are tagged so they can be thanked properly.

I grew up with this arrangement too and dh's family never really bothered with santa and made minimal effort and he was always a bit envious of those whose families made a thing of it so he was happy to adopt my traditions in this instance.

I don't ever remember asking for a detailed list of what santa brought my friends and if it did ever come up it was only ever in relation to the main things we'd been longing for which absolutely did not equate to the most expensive for me or my friends.

I may have been given a bike but the thing I really wanted was a walking, barking toy dog and if anyone asked what did santa bring I would tell them the dog as it was my wish come true and my mother would get cranky and remind me about the bike!!

@Twobrews

There is an open letter on FB from a social worker at the moment begging people to please just say that stockings are from Santa and all other presents are from you. It is really upsetting for children of poorer families who don't receive the gifts they have asked for despite being really good and doing their best all year, when they can see their friends receiving iPads and phones from Santa. As I said further up thread, in my experience of being the poor child other children tend to just talk about the bike, the console etc they rarely talk about who brought it. No children young enough to believe in Father Christmas would be getting an iPad or iPhone in my house anyway.

Anyway why should Santa get the credit for all the decent gifts?!
I don't need the credit, I know the gifts are from me. I get the excited smiling faces on Christmas morning, and now I have two older children I get the thanks for being Father Christmas all those years.
Giving can be just about giving rather than getting something out of it.

I couldn’t say it better myself @Twobrews, I agree completely

No, stocking and one present.

DM told me about the year that she labelled all my gifts from Santa and after everything was opened I asked her what she’d got me . So don’t let Santa take all the credit!

StepintoXmas do you mean my post when I talked about my parents passing all presents off as being from Santa? Not sure tbh - i only found out when I was about 30 when I said to my aunt about a certain present 'Santa' brought me - she then said this present was actually from her! Unfortunately my parents are no longer with me so can't ask them why it was done that way, my aunt might know though if I ask her.

Twobrews my parents never got up either, they always had a lie in on Xmas day. Thought nothing of it at the time but now I'm a parent myself I can't imagine doing that!

@InTheCludgie thanks for replying and so sorry about your parents. Sorry I didn't intend to aim it at just you I've just seen so many people seeing the same this year in different threads and it made me wonder

In our house santa doesn't buy them he just delivers them. The presents are still from mum and dad, grandma, uncle Pete and who ever. If DC are lucky there may be one small gift made by santa and his elves in amongst it.

No problem StepIntoXmas and thank you

'My parents never got up with us on Christmas morning either, which usually blows peoples minds. DSIS and I would open our presents and then play quietly or go back to sleep. Then show our parents what we'd had when they got up.'

That's is so sad @twobrews imo. How did you feel about that? I'd not miss my DC's christmas morning for the world and i love watching the presents being opened .

I'm 35 and to this day my parents have never bought me a present; they still come from Santa according to my mum!

Presents from relatives were just that; presents from relatives. Nothing confusing about it.

@InTheCludgie gosh I just couldn't imagine that ! Watching my dc open their gifts is precious and so exciting!

Everything from us is from Santa. I have never heard of any parents in real life needing to have the credit for buying young children, who believe in Santa, Christmas gifts.

Everything from relatives is obviously from those relatives. We always made sure as much as possible that the relatives got to hand the presents to ds directly so he could thank them personally at the time, even it it was a few days after Christmas day as it is being with those people that they will remember about Christmas more than the presents. Obviously this isn't possible with covid restrictions this year.

No not all, he brings a fair amount but we give some too 😊