Who brings the kids Xmas prezzies - Just Father Christmas, You, or both

[pinkmama]

I just parceled all mine up from Santa until year my dd asked why we the only people who didn't give her a xmas present! My friend gives the main present from her as she says she doesnt want santa getting all the glory, and stocking fillers from santa. What do you do?

good question were also thinking this so will be intersted in the reply's

We give main present - spending about £40 per child max. and then we give stocking with 10-12 little pressies in, including essentials like knickers, toothbrushes, flannels etc.

Mine get presents from both.
A big present from us, then a smaller "main" present from Santa and lots of little bits and bobs.

Ooooooooooooooo I love Christmas!! I want to start wrapping presents but it feels a bit early!!

presents under the tree and from santa, main gift (which they can open earlier with their stockings) are from us. dh family has tradition of leaving the pressies under the tree untill after dinner, but they can open those ones after breakfast here as we're going to dh family for dinner, and they'll have more from santa/grandaparents/uncles there as well.

Main present from me, and an assortment of smaller gifts in a stocking from father Christmas.

When she's old enough to understand what the hell I'm talking about she'll get pressies from both us and Santa. Ohhhh can't wait to do they whole leaving out cake and milk thing with her, jusy thought about that for the first time

shortcake, i was wrapping presnets today. i have stocked up early on cheap wrapping papaer from tescos, i usually leave it too late and half the stuff isnt wrapped on xmas eve and dh makes a mad dash to his mum for spare paper lol.

Cake and milk? Has to be mince pies and carrots!!!

Stocking cronk from Santa and main pressies from us

Thomcat.... I'd HATE the day I'd have to leave that out. Why so soon?

FC delivers all of our presents (but only to children, noit adults) However FC only brings one present from himself for DD. The rest are chosen by us andfriends/family, and sent on to FC for him to sort out and deliver on the night. FC is just too busy to buy and wrap himself you know ;)

Not sure what FC is bring this year - maybe he will do the stocking this year?

DD is just getting into the whole FC idea this year (she's 2.5yo) and is very excited about leaving Rudolph and carrot, and FC juice and a biscuit. Really looking forward to it all myself.

mince pies and whiskey in our house

pinkmama (with 1 m)

We always do a large bag full of small stocking fillers ie bubbles, socks, crayons etc, just small items all individually wrapped and maybe one nice pressie and they are from santa and he delivers them himself! (dh looks loverly in the outfit! he goes for a shower after main pressies opened! sneaks outside and knocks the door!)
The other pressies are given from the family etc!!!

Santa brings the stockings and main presents, we give a large present or various small ones. THis year each will get one large present from us, but usually, they would each get a book, a video, a game, and a toy.

The children decide what to leave Santa, one year it was chocolate milk and maltesers!

all from Santa, personally delivered I believe (never saw him myself but he DOES exist!).
never thought of leaving any treats for him though. The dog would probably eat/drink them before Father Christmas gets to them.

BTW, is there such a tradition in the UK as St Nicholas for 6th of Dec? He also brings (small) presents to all children, but only if they're being good!

Branstar - my mum is german so as kids we always had St Nicholas - had to put our shoes by the door at night, lined with clingfilm, and in the morning they'd be full of biccies and sweets!!!

How lovely!!! That's exactly what we have back home: on the evening of the 5th Dec all kids clean their shoes 9and everyone else's shoes in the house) to absolute perfection, and in the morning they find all these lovely little things: mainly sweets, an orange, some crayons, that sort of stuff. Not expensive but is such a nice tradition. And if it happens to be a school day, all the kids tell each other what St Nicholas brought them!
Do you still do it for your children?

if you leave refreshments for santa a good tip someone gave me is to sprinkle flour/icing sugar around it and then put foot print in it, it sent our dd into raptures, she still talking about capturing santas foot print

Branster - dd is 16 months atm and I wasn't planning to do it this year as she's so tiny but just one look at her tiny little shoes makes me feel like doing it, so I probably will and put a pack of white buttons in or something. But when she's older I'll definitely be doing it every year, I loved it so much as a kid. I used to have to clean my shoes to - have them polished to within an inch of their lives, the only time in the year when I did polish them properly!!! But no-one else in my school seemed to know about it and used to think I was weird anyway so I never said anything about it. But it was nice to have some extra sweets!!!

The most exciting bit was the tradition that if you'd be good you got sweets etc and if you'd be bad you got a wooden stick - for the first few years I used to look at my shoes not knowing which to expect (and always being pleased to find sweets!). IIRC there was supposed to be someone who went round with St Nicholas and gave out the sticks, will have to google that.

Ahah - have found it! It was Krampus or Black Peter. I used to imagine this man dressed all in black going round holding loads of sticks!!

Father Christmas fills the stocking with (small) presents, then presents round tree are from family/friends (and given by DS and DD as well as received). Last year had a house full, DS, DD and cousins put down sherry, mince pie and carrot. Due to sleeping arrangements my Dad slept on camp bed in that room. Next day not only had the sherry gone, the mince pie been half eaten and the carrot half eaten...but there were sleigh marks in the carpet! (from the camp bed - i'd never had thought of doing that but it added to the magic!!)