What does your family leave for Santa?

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Just a bit of light-heartedness

Do you leave the usual milk and cookies? Or do you opt for something a little more interesting different for the big man and his reindeers?

Diet Coke, a carrot, mince pie and a baked by the children offering.

A glass of sherry, a mince pie and some chocolate coins for Father Christmas, and carrots for the reindeer. I'm a bit shocked that some put out a glass of milk.

A mince pie (generally homemade), a bottle of ale, with glass and bottle opener carefully placed alongside, and a carrot for the reindeer.

The mince pie and beer are polished off, but the carrot just has a bite taken out of it.

A cold beer and one of my mom’s brilliant mince pies of course. Because I’m not an animal. 😬

Carrot, cookie, and Irn Bru.

I have no kids, but when I was small half a century ago it was always a mince pie and glass of sherry. I think that small drop of Bristol Cream was what got my mum through the stress of trying to make stockings magically appear in our rooms as we slept!

Homemade mince pie, glass of Baileys and a carrot for Rudolph 😀

We used to leave a sherry and a mince pie until one year we got a note saying that Santa preferred Scotch.

Dad like Scotch Unrelated, probably.

That's exactly what we put out when I was kid! We also put out a bowl of water for the reindeer's in case they were thirsty from all that flying.

Bowl of water is cute. Love it.

It’s just DH and I at the minute but I leave out milk, a mince pie, a carrot and a bowl of water. I know we don’t have any children but I’d feel really odd going to bed on Christmas Eve and not leaving something out, DH always makes sure it’s been eaten by the morning.

Milk, mince pie and carrot for reindeer (guinea pig usually gets to enjoy it though).

Sherry and a mince pie for father Christmas, and a carrot for Rudolph.

He's got quite the taste for my Baileys, apparently.

It's only really for my 6 year old now that the rest of my children are older 😣We do the basic cookies on a plate with a glass of milk and then a bowl of carrots in our reindeer bowl that isn't allowed to be used all year until Christmas Eve apparently 😁

Since she's been 3, DD has also started insisting that a whole pitcher jug of water needs to be left out with 8 bowls for each of the reindeers to drink from. I don't know where she gets the ideas but it is a struggle making it look believable!!

@Thecomfortador That's adorable and made me smile

Whiskey and mince pie for santa. Carrots for reindeer.

Now mine are older and they are just humouring me we leave a nice glass of wine with a mince pie but Santa doesn’t seem to complain 😊

Sherry, mince pie and a carrot

A bottle of Prosecco because Santa gets fed up of milk. Some chocolates and a carrot for Rudolph.

Single malt whisky and a mince pie. When I was a child Santa used to have a Bacardi and coke

always a coke, he must get so bored with just milk all the time… used to put a can out, then replace it with the empty can I’d drunk earlier, either a mince pie or cookies depending on what the kids wanted…
and rabbit mix for the reindeer 😂

We leave a Curly Wurly for Rudolph because it’s his favourite. A carrot for the other reindeers & a bowl of water

And a glass of whatever one of us is drinking for FC and a Lidl stollen bite if I haven't eaten them all

eta DC range from 23 to 15 but we have to it apparently ‘just in case’ 🤣

Mince pie and glass of sherry for Santa. A carrot and a dog biscuit for the reindeer (yep my Mum’s labrador counts as a child and he joins in with the Santa story too).

Mummy Santa has a mince pie and a glass of milk. A carrot for the reindeer is essential too, if course. However, with my LO becoming more aware of the Christmas concept, I think he’ll leave Santa whatever his favourite snack is at the time. Could be Jaffa Cakes, could be ice cream. There’ll be a Fruit Shoot in there too, I bet.

Glass of wine and cheesy biscuits, Santa doesn't like mince pies in our house. Normally a carrot, but pretty certain we've improvised with other fruit and veg when no carrots around!