When do you put presents under the tree abdvwhi are they from?

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Just asking this cos I only found out after moving in with my husband that everyone is different.
In my childhood home presents went under the tree as soon as they were wrapped and that is what I do. Tree presents were from friends and family, Father Christmas only did stockings and they were always not wrapped, small, cheap, token gifts like a novelty bubble bath, sweets, chocolate coins, a small toy and a Christmas decoration.
According to my husband presents should not go under the tree til Christmas Eve, all of them are delivered by Father Christmas even if the label says from Mum and Dad etc. and there was always one labeled from Santa (I was always taught to call him Father Christmas).
What did/do you do? Has it changed from what you did as a child? If so why?

Santa always did the sack/stocking - presents from family etc under the tree. That we or the kids could show their appreciation for their gift from the person who gave it!

Father Christmas gives the stockings (opened in parents’ bed first thing in the morning). Friends and family give presents under the tree - these are stored safely before being put under the tree on Christmas Eve. These presents are opened one by one after breakfast.

If it’s from friends or neighbours then it goes under the tree once it’s received but I wouldn’t put my DCs presents under there for them to look at for a week or so before Christmas. Those get put under the tree once kids are in bed Christmas Eve. Santa brings one gift the rest are from us.

Presents from friends and family go under the tree when we receive them (before Christmas Eve). My dc are older now so presents from me go under the tree Christmas Eve and then they have a stocking.

When they believed they would get a few presents (main gift) from Father Christmas as well as a stocking which would appear Christmas Eve/Christmas Day. Again family and friends presents under the tree. Father Christmas doesn’t get credit for gifts others have given them.

Any presents not from us or my parents go under the tree when received. My dad brings over the presents from them Christmas Eve night once the kids are in bed and we put ours out then too - the children get excited to go downstairs Christmas morning to see what’s under the tree.

Santa only gives stockings (presents in them are small things and wrapped and opened on our bed when they wake up) and one or two things under the tree, they know who the rest are from.

since my dd was about 7 I’ve put home Christmas presents under the tree, didn’t trust her to not open them before that. She’s 13 now. Santa presents went out on the sofa or in neat piles close to the tree, set up depending.
dp as far as I know had the same at home too. When I was younger Santa presents were on the sofa but we lived in a flat so didn’t have too much space. Also saved the arguments 😂

Now we're all adults and we can't be seen from the road they go under as they're wrapped, or brought back from pre Christmas visits.

Love these threads, because if fascinates me how many different ways there are to do a similar thing.

For me, it has always been that all "family presents" giving/receiving go under the tree as soon as they are wrapped. And then santa comes with stockings/gifts on Christmas eve.

I dispute the idea that most kids can't control themselves. Multiple generations of my family, including excitable and crazy boys, have managed to not open or damage the tree presents.

For me, it is two different types of excitement. The tree present slowly building through December is great - Most of them wouldn't be for you as a kid, so I found that you really got excited and focused on the one that did actually have your name on it. Give it a little shake, guess what it is.. all builds the excitement.

Santa presents give the other type, the quick amazing wow moment.

I'm with DH, Santa delivers everything on Christmas Eve.

If you asked my Mum she'll tell you it was to keep stuff out the way so she could hoover. Shes a clutter free sort of woman.

Something magical about getting up on Christmas morning to a bundle of gifts that have appeared over night. I have a 14yo who knows its us but can't work out 'how' we actually do it.

When my kids were younger gifts from family/friends were put under the tree and santa gifts were put out beside it on xmas eve night.

Stockings with small bits unwrapped from Father Christmas. On end of bed overnight. Presents under the tree appear Christmas morning, any earlier and they are a magnet for burglars. Yes I do know people who have been broken into on Christmas Eve and had their presents stolen. Tree presents from family and friends. 🎄

This, because I do a poncetastic Christmas and have empty wrapped boxes under my tree to match the colour theme of the tree.

Any gift coming to my child usually gets handed directly to the child, no sitting under the tree, they open it in front of whoever gives it to them so they get to see it and my child knows who gave them that gift.

All our presents are put into their sacks, hidden in the spare bedroom and taken down Christmas morning whilst Dh "checks Father Christmas has been" and sets up the camera. Stockings are magically filled sometime between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with small token gifts. My children are young adults and they still hang up a stocking.

Presents from friends and family under the tree as they arrive, though usually that’s just a few days before.

Presents from us go under the tree usually Xmas morning - not magically appearing, literally us putting them there, though we usually do it when kids are getting dressed as they like to come in and see it all there. Never any suggestion that FC gets involved in these presents. They are all from the actual giver, apart from one or two random extras that are labelled “from FC” as a laugh. We usually open a few in the morning and more after Xmas dinner.

Stockings magically appear on their beds overnight, these are from FC. All little presents, chocolate, sweets, fun little gadgets, bath bombs, cake mix packets etc. We try to have one or two “higher value” items mixed in eg £15-20 wireless headphones, or fun colour battery pack, or something similar - something we might have given as a present but it’s small enough to go in the stocking.

When they were little we used to do a “main” present from FC with the stocking as well - the thing they’d write a letter to FC about. That would be wrapped and next to the stocking on the bed when they woke.

Presents we are going to give out go under the tree as soon as they are wrapped, and are gradually swapped to incoming gifts as we see people we won't see on the day.

On Christmas eve, any remaining gifts to hand out get bagged up to take the next day, so on Christmas morning everything under the tree is family gifts to be opened. Santa brings a stocking and the DC each get a pile of presents that appear overnight from me.

Presents from friends/relatives go straight under the tree. Santa Stockings are hung up waiting to be filled by the man himself on Christmas Eve. Presents from parents/grandparents are ‘delivered’ by Santa on Christmas Eve (but children know they are from us - we ‘order’ them off Santa, who acts like the Amazon driver and simply delivers them 😂).

When I was a child in the 60s, everything was from Santa…which I now feel is the wrong thing to do, as we didn’t really appreciate how much our parents sacrificed to make this happen! They had so little in terms of money…I now know that my mum bought everything from a catalogue and paid weekly all year round to ensure we had a magical day. I could weep! 😢

Exactly this!

My favourite part of Christmas is the kids coming in your bedroom first thing, excitedly dragging their stocking and climbing on to your bed to show you what FC has got them.

We do everything from Santa and yes I know its controversial but for our family this works my son (he has couple neurological disorders and medical conditions and he is 16 so quiet delayed to) so woth everything that going on he loves Santa so much and it's so magical to him we just think while we can and while he is here we put as much magic into Christmas as we can.

Stockings only from santa here, then all other gifts from us or whoever gave them. All presents put under the tree on Christmas eve bar stockings! Dc knew that santa only gave small gifts so would ask for those from him and anything big came from us.

We always put them out on Christmas Eve from when DD was little and when I was young my parents would do the same. Like me, DD would get her stocking sneaked on to her bed so she could open it when she woke up. She usually brought it in to our room so she could open with us. Then breakfast followed by presents under the tree. If a present arrived in the post already wrapped then we’d maybe put it under the tree before Christmas Eve. Last year or the one before (can’t remember!) we wrapped as we went along and put under the tree. We stopped the stockings several years ago. All presents except from friends and relatives were from Santa until DD was about 8 and then the big ticket items were from us. Why should Santa get ALL the kudos? 😂

Main presents (from us) and from friends and relatives go under the tree as they are wrapped/as they arrive so they aren't from or "delivered by santa". The kids love seeing the pile gradually growing in the days before. Stocking presents are from santa and never seen "in public" until they appear in the stockings on the big day. This is how things were in my childhood so I've stuck to the same.

Husband was similar except the tree itself and the presents didn't appear until Christmas Eve. They (he is one of 4 siblings) found it very exciting but his mum admitted later it was hugely stressful to keep presents for 4 kids hidden and sometimes they got found early! So he conceded to my way. He also thinks the tree shouldn't go up until Christmas week whereas I would do it on 1st December. We compromise on around the 10th depending when the weekend falls.

When I was little stocking presents were small low cost items and not wrapped. I do that differently and put some of the most desired but small in size items in the stockings (along with chocolate coins and other small bits) and they are wrapped. Bigger in size presents have to go under the tree. We have stocking presents before/during breakfast (adults get a stocking too) and tree presents after lunch which is also from my childhood. Some people are horrified at "making the kids wait" but we've had a family vote every couple of years and it was surprisingly unanimous. They like having the best bit to look forward to in the afternoon. I'm not averse to changing that in future but it will probably be the same this year.

When I was a child in the 80’s Santa left the presents unwrapped in the sitting room while we were asleep on Christmas Eve.
Presents wrapped under the tree in the days leading up were from granny/auntie etc. I never questioned that we got nothing from our parents!!!😁
So I do the same here for mine although I think I now have no believers which is sad.
So presents from family etc will be under the tree whenever they are given and we put out the Santa stuff once the coast is clear on Christmas Eve. I do wrap Santa stuff because my kids always loved opening stuff. Stockings have small bits usually sweets and stuff. Because my youngest is only 12 the older ones have done really well as Santa has still been coming to everyone. I think ds21 was up first last year!
Every house has their own way I suppose, no right or wrong.

Presents under the tree are from family/friends and one from mum and dad. Went under the tree as we received them/they were wrapped.
Santa presents were in a pile each with our stocking, main presents were from him, more of a token gesture under the tree from "mum and dad" santa stuff wasn't wrapped. Santa stuff opened/looked at first usually about 5am because my brother wouldn't wait any longer and was honestly a bit of a wild rammy then tree presents were done after breakfast, more civilised with mum handing out 1 present at a time and we said who it was from and opened so mum could write down who we got what from for thanking them.
Have continued the same with my dc

I'm same as you Op. Presents under the tree as and when wrapped, though the majority won't be wrapped until the days leading up to Xmas. But little things from other people go under the tree when we receive them.

Father Christmas only brings the stocking, but the contents of the stocking is pretty darn good if I say so myself.

On Christmas Eve night, after the children are in bed.

But only the stockings are from Santa. Everything else is just from who it’s from. But I just like the moment of them coming down to see all the presents on Christmas morning, rather than them just being added as they arrive (eg as my wider family posts them to us).

presents that arrive by post go straight under the tree. The rest get wrapped and added on Christmas Eve. When I was a child we were allowed stockings before church, and maybe one present, but present opening was before Christmas dinner. We don’t do Christmas morning church as well as midnight mass, so we don’t have that juggle.