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which presnets come form santa

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CodRestYeMerryGentelmen · 09/12/2007 16:50

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Marne · 09/12/2007 16:56

Stocking and main presant from santa and a few little things from mummy and daddy.

Mine are a bit young to understand but i don't want the dd's thinking santa brings them evrything and mummy and daddy are tight and bring nothing

jura · 09/12/2007 16:57

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Desiderata · 09/12/2007 17:00

Ah, in our house, what we buy is all from Santa. Everything else comes from the individuals responsible.

Kids grow up so quickly. They'll soon work out that it was Mum and Dad after all.

ggirlsbells · 09/12/2007 17:00

stocking presents (the stocking by the fireplace) we don't do big fekker on the bed one.
and one present from santa

ggirlsbells · 09/12/2007 17:00

did a thread about this the other day

MrsCellophaneWrappedGift · 09/12/2007 17:13

We have a grandparent who gives a present (via the sack) to our DSs, puts "Love Father Christmas" on the label and then says, "I asked Father Christmas to get you that. so what do you say to me?" pause. "Ahem, say thank you - I asked FC to get that".

For crying out loud, why not just put "Love from me?"

themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 09/12/2007 17:15

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Desiderata · 09/12/2007 17:26

Way to go, Janitor. I wholeheartedly agree with that approach, and I honestly think it's very mean of parents to want their very small children to know that they bought the presents.

Come on! It's not like they won't find out soon enough.

themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 09/12/2007 17:37

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tassisssss · 09/12/2007 17:39

we do stocking and big present from santa

nothing from us!

trillions from my parents by the looks of the parcels they've delivered

slayerette · 09/12/2007 17:53

Stocking from Santa, tree presents from family. Lots of things on his list will be under the tree but we just say that Santa asked us to help out. The tree presents get put under there when we decorate it (next weekend) so if we say they're from Santa, it rather destroys the magic of his Christmas Eve visit when presents appear overnight!

BahHunkerBug · 09/12/2007 17:53

Mine all come from the big fish in the sky.

Anna8888 · 09/12/2007 17:55

Little presents (animals, doll's house furniture, yoyo, new pants etc) come from Father Christmas in a stocking.

Big present from Mummy and Papa.

cazzybabs · 09/12/2007 17:59

We do stockings from FC and we give a big pressie from us...simply because that was how it was when I was growing up!

Indith · 09/12/2007 18:17

Stockings from santa, the rest from whoever got it.

Can't say what ds will think of it this being his first Christmas and all but growing up I loved the magic of the stockings (my mum and aunt used ot go all out blowing up millions of balloons and filling our room with them overnight) while really apreciating the idea of giving as well as receiving for family and friends and have always loved buying presents. I even contributed to stockings from a pretty early age as even though we are all grown up we still all sneak around in the night to fill up stockings

Alambil · 09/12/2007 18:20

Nothing from santa - all comes from the people who gave it - FC is the postman

PortAndLemonaid · 09/12/2007 18:33

I honestly think it's very mean of parents to want their very small children to know that they bought the presents.

Far better that the child thinks "Father Christmas brought little Billy in my class a £200 super-duper games console and brought me a small Lego set. This must be because Billy has been better than me this year, or because Father Christmas prefers Billy to me, or something."?

DS's stocking contents appear mysteriously and I imagine he assumes that they come from Father Christmas. Everything else is from whoever bought it.

themulledsnowmanneredjanitor · 09/12/2007 18:34

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CodRestYeMerryGentelmen · 09/12/2007 19:29

ggi know

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Desiderata · 09/12/2007 23:27

PortandLemonaid ... children really don't think like that. If you want to take away the magic in order to scratch an itch, that's up to you.

What little Billy gets is up to little Billy.

foofi · 09/12/2007 23:34

All presents come from Father Christmas in our house, except one measly present from mum and dad.

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 09/12/2007 23:40

Only stocking presents from Santa. I like to take all the credit for the endless faffing about it takes to get their proper presents.

ISawSantaKissingKerrysNorks · 09/12/2007 23:51

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QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide · 09/12/2007 23:55

stocking from santa.

But I remember as as child I wanted to test that theory, so I went to the attic, and found my stocking, and I hung it up next to my bed. I wanted to find out if Santa would be prompted to come fill my stocking ANY time I put it out, even in July (I was an inquisitive child, I even persuaded my dad to let me try skiing on the lawn in July, there was a small slope of grass).

The next morning I could see the stocking BULGE.

There was a Potato in there.

Courtesy of mum, I think.

lojomamma · 09/12/2007 23:56

All of them.