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When did you stop believing in Father Christmas?

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 09:30

i pretended that i no longer believed in the red suited one a long time before i actually stopped. in fact i believed a good year or two after db's (both younger than me) had stopped.

then i saw my mum filling my stocking one Christmas eve when i was 13 and i really knew that A) i had been vvv bad and mum was trying to spare my feeling (not a real possibility!) or B) he wasnt real and had been made up so that i would behave myself.

sob.

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RustyBear · 13/12/2009 09:49

I stopped the year my brother made a Father Christmas trap and caught my dad.....

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 09:50

lol, wtf's a father Christmas trap?

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RustyBear · 13/12/2009 09:59

He got some long orange threads & tied them between the foot of his bed & a couple of chairs. Spectacular crash and one very cross Santa Dad. Mum wasn't too pleased either when she discovered DB had pulled the threads out of our blankets....

magicofchristmas · 13/12/2009 10:01

I want to know wha a father chistmas trap is too

Have visions of your DB setting a bucket of water on topo of the slightly opened bedroom door

magicofchristmas · 13/12/2009 10:03

Too slow to post. lol

I bed both were. LOL

catinthehat2 · 13/12/2009 10:04
magicofchristmas · 13/12/2009 10:05

bet even

I stopped believing about 12 when the tooth fairy never turned upone morning and my parents told me it was all lies

I think they were lying that day anyway as I saw him on thurs

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 10:30

lol magic.

sorry catinthehat, dont get your meaning.

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magicofchristmas · 13/12/2009 10:36

Think cat is refering to some younger members seeing the thread title when they may still believe anyway.

Cant imagine many youngsters would be on the christmas thread tho.

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 10:46

hmm, its not like i said "when did you find out he didnt exist?" ds watches The Polar Express a lot and the little boy in that no longer believes. he thinks that when you get older you stop believing because you lose your imagination, but FC is STILL real.

do get your point though.

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catinthehat2 · 13/12/2009 11:12
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Prinnie · 13/12/2009 11:26

I was 10 - had started to try and think of loads of theories of how it could actually work. In the end my Mum & Dad told me - I was a bit upset but no harm done really

Certainly didn't see it that Mum and Dad had been lieing - in fact one the main things I was sad about was that they didn't have a lot of money and I couldn't believe they'd spent so much (not really that much but becuase we never got much it always seemed like a lot) over the years and I was really moved and told them they could take all my toys back if they wanted!

merrycompo · 13/12/2009 11:29

some nasty bitch girl told me and my sister at brownies when we were about 7 (me) and 9 (my sis)

tbh I was more gutted when i realised in my teens that my mum bought our presents from my grandad when he sent her the money

I honestly thought he picked them all specially for us and was truly gutted, he always seemed to know just what i wanted

VirginPeachyMotherOfSpod · 13/12/2009 11:36

I beleived until I was about 8 IIRC, heard my aprents asembling my sister's barbie house LOL.

DS1 and ds2 dnow know but I firmly beleive that the fact he may always beleive is an upside of ds3's SN.

magicofchristmas · 13/12/2009 11:39

As my christmas name says, I believe in the
magic of christmas

The magic is all in the mind and the magic is what you make it.

Merry christmas everyone

{grin]

mogs0 · 13/12/2009 11:50

I can't remember how old I was exactly but I know I had an A La Carte kitchen that year and it was before we moved house when I was 9yrs so either 8 or 9. I have 2 sisters - 5 + 7 yrs older and they teased me about it that year . I loved the A La Carte kitchen though!!

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 13/12/2009 11:52

I still beleive and am 34.

Stinkyfeet · 13/12/2009 12:12

I don't think I was ever allowed to believe - 2 older brothers you see! Would have taken all the joy away for them had they had to keep the secret from me!

We also had a Father Christmas trap, similar to Rustybear's, only ours had spoons and forks tied along it for maximum noise. Of course this was purely to piss our mum off - seeing as we knew it was her anyway!

Rindercella · 13/12/2009 12:15

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CherryChristmasEveryone · 13/12/2009 12:30

what do you mean stop beleiving????? father christmas is as real as i am!

LastOfTheMulledWine · 13/12/2009 12:38

I never believed. My Mum reckons aged 2 I had a perfect, withering 'as if' look.

Still, I adore Christmas. More than is probably healthy but I never believed.

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 13/12/2009 12:38

I agree with magic.
DH thinks i'm mad bbecause I eep saying I still believe despite the pile of presents from Santa in the cupboard waiting to be wrapped.

I have 2 young dc's who very much believe and the magic that is binging to christmas is fantastic I was never a christmas person but this year I'm so excited so come on how could I not believe.

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 13:49

i had a thread earlier in the week about twunty SD telling ds that FC wasnt real, i agree that its the magic thats important. a tiny bit of me still desperately wants to believe!

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edam · 13/12/2009 14:12

I worked it out when I was very small - not sure how old I was but definitely under 7. I just thought it was another example of grown-ups being downright weird.

Probably not helped that my parents hadn't warned me that my father was FC at the village hall - apparently they sat me on his lap, he asked 'have you been a good girl' and I said 'don't you know, Daddy?'. Well, how on earth was I to know I wasn't supposed to recognise my own father?!

Then took my little sister, who can have been no more than three, downstairs on Christmas Even to see present-wrapping because she wouldn't believe me that it was our parents. Got into a lot of trouble for that one!

But despite all this I still kind of believed because it was such a lovely story and I did believe in magic. Even if it was Mummy and Daddy who wrapped the presents.

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lissielouskissingsantaclaus · 13/12/2009 14:33

exactly Edam, its what FC and Christmas represents rather than whats real. bet your dad was pleased though

ds knows that we buy and wrap the presents (well, most of them) and thinks that FC is like a magical postman!

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