What does Santa bring in your household?

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I know it's different for everyone but when I was a kid, all of the gifts (other than those already under the tree from family and friends etc) were from Santa, my parents didn't actually buy us any gift from themselves.
I want to do things differently with my kids where Santa brings one gift that they have asked for on their list, and fills the stocking. Anything other presents are from Mum & Dad. Just wondering what is the norm.

Santa brings two items from their list…the rest is from me/their dad.

Santa brings little stocking fillers and lets parents know which list you're on, parents/family members bring proper presents - otherwise they grow up not connecting the things they're asking for with their value or understanding what they're asking for.

Thinking back I don't know anyone who I grew up with thinking santa brought everything.

Same

They write to Santa for one gift and he brings that, along with a sack which has stocking filler type stuff and a few small toys like jigsaws.

Then we buy them a surprise, sometimes something they've been talking about, sometimes something else.

Everyone else's presents come from them when we see them.

Stocking and 1 or 2 main presents

TBH we never really did the letter to Santa thing (dd is now 20)
She wrote a Christmas list like she did a birthday list knowing it was for people to select from and buy for her. No guarantee she'd get them.
Santa was a bit of magic bringing surprises.

In our house Santa brings stocking gifts plus 1 other gift. Not necessarily the biggest or most expensive, but something they asked him for (well, for the 4 year old at least!)

So far we've done the stocking, and one gift which isn't wrapped but ready to play with under the tree. For example a scaletrix track all set up ready to go. Mainly because I buy things secondhand and this gets me out of the 'no box' issue!!

Everything. That's typical in Scotland.

Stockings. Then a couple of board games/craft sets , sweets, stuff to share left on the hearth. When the kids wrote letters they thanked him for last year’s gift and asked for one thing and a spare in case the first one was hard to find. Worked for us.

Totally forgot about thanking for last year!! Timely reminder, thanks.

When people say 'everything' do they mean including items from aunts and uncles and grandparents?

In our house it's as when we were small and is the same in my sibling's family -- Santa brings main toy, a surprise (substantial, usually better than what was asked for) and the stockings. Parents don't buy children Christmas presents, though occasionally we do something special.

But Santa definitely doesn't give gifts other people have bought!

We have always just had two different types of wrapping paper so that we can vary it up each year depending on what they have asked Santa/us for.

No, not grandparents/aunts etc.

Stocking (which is padded out with new PJs, socks etc and things people need) and then a single gift. Everything else is from named relations.

Absolutely everything here.

One present left on the end of their bed in a stocking, value about £10.
Everything else is from us. Presents from family members etc they always know are from them so they can be thankful to them.

@SouthLondonMum22 oh ok I've never heard of it being done this way! So the kids don't know that the presents are from aunts/grandparents etc?

None from Santa. I’ve always told my boys that I buy and wrap them, then Santa collects them and brings them back on Christmas Eve if they are on the good list. They’ve never really written letters to Santa and never questioned it thankfully.

To be fair, they are still really little so don’t fully understand yet but yeah, that’s how it will be when they can understand.

Though if someone changes their mind and wants to give them a present and say it’s from them, that’s fine too.

Only the presents we buy. Everything else is from the people that gift them.

My parents did the same and so did my DHs.

Stockings and a couple of small presents from their wish list. Wasn’t having my kids going to school saying that Santa brought them the world when some kids barely get anything. Plus, they learned to say thank you to people who gave gifts in person, and write letters to those who posted presents to them. Manners.

Stocking are given by santa and he delivers the rest of the presents but they are from whoever bought them.

In our house Father Christmas fills the stocking. All main presents are from whoever bought them. That's how it worked when I was a child, so that's how we do it.

Everything that we buy is from Santa. That is stocking, sack of medium presents like board games, craft sets etc plus a main present that was on the list. That is pretty much everything that appears under the tree on Xmas morning. Everyone else like grandparents we tend to see and exchange gifts either later Xmas day or in the days that follow so those presents are obviously from those people.