How do you do Santa’s gifts in your home?

[KoreanBeauty]

Do you tell DC everything comes from Santa or just 1 gift and the rest is from parents/relatives? Do you use sacks or stockings?
We have always just wrapped the gifts and said everything was from Santa (with different wrapping paper for the few gifts we said were from us or family). How does everyone do it?

All from Santa! My youngest is 12 and I know he’s no longer a believer but we all seem to be going along with it for another year! ☺️

Fc gives a stocking and small pressie

rest comes from me as I selfishly want the credit and for mini blondes to know I had to go to work and earn /save for what she wants esp the bigger pressies like bike /iphone /etc

All presents from the real people whoget the credit for the gifts. Santa brings the stocking. We never made much fuss about Santa. The dc called the grotto Santa's 'dressing up Santa's'

Santa is just a delivery driver here, he brings what people have purchased

As a foster carer, some of my charges have come from no gifts due to poor family circumstances so we don't want them thinking santa ever left them out. We also never link with good or naughty due to them thinking they were naughty at home and that's why they didn't get anything.

It's still magical but much kinder and lovely to allow the children to enjoy the giving of gifts aswell

Saying that, it was also my method when my own children were little

I tell them that mummy sends Santa the money and he sends the gifts (attempting to explain why some of her friends at school don't get anything- we are in a poor area)....

All from Santa except gifts from family and friends. Also one small token gift from us parents, usually a book. Presents opened all together under the tree whenever the kids wake up. We don't wrap Santa presents.

When very small, gifts were from a mix of Santa, Mrs Santa, mum and Dad, Rudolf, Santa Mouse etc etc. Frankly no little kid is looking who the present is from!

All from santa and main gift from us. All other gifts come from the people who sent them.

Stocking only

Father Christmas brings a stocking/sack around 3am.

All the other presents are from us/family and go under the tree.

For us Santa brings the stocking and 2-3 presents only, rest from us. Decided on this when my cousin with older kids, had one very sad year when her boy was really upset that his parents hadn’t gotten him anything, but his friends’ parents had! Plus I felt like pp said, that it helped address the disparities in how much children get.

Love these threads - if it was my field of research, I would have a great time in putting this type of thing into a research project to see exactly how families approach it, and how it leads to different outcomes, (appreciation, thankfulness, knowledge of disparities, age of disbelieving, generosity etc.)

As far as I can see from the threads like this, the most popular general options are:

1, Santa = absolutely everything
2, Santa = all parents presents / Family separate
3, Santa = some family presents (most or half) / Family separate
4, Santa = small stocking / Parents separate / Family separate
5, No Santa

And then within these, the sub-groups of how Santa relates to parents

A, Santa makes/pays for everything
B, Parents pay Santa
C, Parent's buy presents, Santa is delivery man

And further subgroups of how the presents are delivered:

1, Stockings
2, Sacks
3, Pillow cases,
4, On sofa
5, Under tree,

And finally, the obvious separation of whether the "santa" Stuff is:

A, Wrapped
B, Unwrapped

For me, my family would be 3,A,1,A. I'm sure I've missed some more unusual methods, but I think you could categorize most families like this, which would then be an interesting foundation for some comparative research.

There’s no right or wrong. Whatever you do, some kid at school will get a PlayStation from Santa and some kid will just get a stocking or nothing at all from Santa so there will always be inconsistencies.

Santa mainly and my mum told DC Santa also visits her place and leaves a present for DC (who is 3). I don’t mind I still get a present signed Santa from my parents and I’m in my 40s.

Everything that we buy dd is from Father Christmas, except the present we get her from the cats and ducks!

We do a decent stocking and this year about 5 or 6 presents under the tree. Normally, it is just one or 2 main gifts like a Barbie house or a trampoline, but she didnt really ask for anything big or expensive this year.

Most children don't compare who bought what, they sometimes compare actual gifts, but not having FC buy them doesn't make any difference to that. We do make sure that dd knows she's lucky. She always writes a thank you card to FC, as well as to any family or friends who buy her something. She knows that we don't buy her anything from us as she gets plenty from FC already. For me, FC is more magical than parents, but I enjoy reading how people do it so differently.

Stocking only. It's what I grew up with. As a parent, I decided it's better for us to get the credit for most of the presents.

Until they’re old enough to know he isn’t real everything comes from Father Christmas 🎅

All our presents are from Santa - then they get other presents from grandparents/aunties/friends

This is about right!

Although C where the parents buy the presents for Santa to deliver I’ve always been confused with. That sounds absolutely rubbish to me! 😂

We have a personalised sack filled with wrapped stocking fillers from Santa. Main gifts are from us, are labelled and put under the tree. Gifts from relatives come directly from them and put under the tree ready for the day. We have always previously opened our gifts in the morning so we have plenty of time to play with them throughout the day.

If you are a 'all presents from santa' family, do you not get questions like 'why did you buy granny/cousins a gift but not me?

Stocking and one present from Father Christmas. We do big stockings that have a lot in them; lots of sweets and chocolate, pants, socks, couple of other useful things, some fun things, a few small toys for the little ones, a couple of silly things and always a new tree decoration for their tree.

Then they get a couple of presents and some books from us and everything else is from who it is from.

I wouldn’t be able to explain all the parcels of everything was from Father Christmas!

All from Father Christmas in our house! When relatives came it was always ‘look what Father Christmas’ left at our house for you’. My mum made him a huge personalised stocking before he was born (she’d made my sister & I one when we were baby’s too!) and he left that out with his carrot and milk in Christmas Eve in the living room!

No

That really surprises me. DS would be really confused that not only did we not by him a gift but also one else in the family brought him a present but he helped choose things for others.

Does this mean your children also don't get the chance to thank relatives and friends who buy them the gifts?