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

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KoreanBeauty · 10/12/2025 19:52

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?

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KoreanBeauty · 12/12/2025 12:28

BobblyBobbleHat · 11/12/2025 16:35

Easily, she writes cards to whoever bought her gifts. I keep track because as she opens her gifts we look at the labels together and I write down who bought what. Then she writes one to Father Christmas, which is for the things from us. She is very grateful for what she gets, I don't need any of this nonsense credit people seem keen on.

DC only gets gifts from close family like grandparents and auntie and they know the narrative we’d give so there are no issues there as everyone is on same page

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SophiaSW1 · 12/12/2025 12:52

Only the stocking is from Santa.

Ponderingwindow · 12/12/2025 13:16

Stocking on the mantle and one gift by the fireplace. We never actually said it was from Santa, but she picked that up from school and we did not contradict.

everything else was under the tree in advance and has a tag to indicate who gave it.

Youhavemade · 12/12/2025 19:45

youarebeingsoextrarightnow · 11/12/2025 14:05

Only 1 gift from santa and he drops all the presents from eveyone else off with it, thats why we leave him out a mince pie and shot of whiskey glass of milk, to say thanks for delivering everything

Nothing worse than a kid going to school at christmas who got 298 presents off Santa and their pal only getting 1, who does santa love more

With many years in education and my own children too, I can't say that children talking about their Santa presents has been ‘a thing’.

By the time term starts it all seems forgotten.

pimplebum · 12/12/2025 19:52

It’s very very important that all Santa’s just give low value bits n bobs in stocking ( we don’t wrap in the stocking as that’s one less faff and bother ) because why is Santa bringing their best friend an iPad etc and they’ve been v good ?

rest of presents are from us or whoever gave them

my brother passed off my gifts as from Santa really pissed me off as I expected a thank you and wanted to ask them about them

Anon501178 · 12/12/2025 19:57

I really wish people would just do the traditional stocking from Santa, because it's really hard to explain when other kids say that santa brought them some big fancy present and there's me telling my kids he can only give small ones 🙈

BobblyBobbleHat · 12/12/2025 20:02

Youhavemade · 12/12/2025 19:45

With many years in education and my own children too, I can't say that children talking about their Santa presents has been ‘a thing’.

By the time term starts it all seems forgotten.

I agree, and if they do ever compare they usually do so about what they get rather than who different gifts were from.

Youhavemade · 12/12/2025 21:27

pimplebum · 12/12/2025 19:52

It’s very very important that all Santa’s just give low value bits n bobs in stocking ( we don’t wrap in the stocking as that’s one less faff and bother ) because why is Santa bringing their best friend an iPad etc and they’ve been v good ?

rest of presents are from us or whoever gave them

my brother passed off my gifts as from Santa really pissed me off as I expected a thank you and wanted to ask them about them

It really isn't that important.

See my post above yours and another PP saying the same.

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