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 does stockings here which are just fun bits and pieces and then main presents are from the people that gave them. Main reason is I want them to know who gave them the gifts and as a pp said then it levels the playing field a bit between families with different incomes.

Santa here delivers one main gift and fills the stockings.

An outfit and special book from us, something crafty from one sibling, and a fun educational game from another sibling.

Should’ve said earlier that hand written thank you letters absolutely compulsory for gifts posted, personal thanks if the kids saw the people.
They are in their 20s now and still send notes as do I.
I think the everything from Santa route is uncomfortable on lots of levels. If you don’t start it you don’t have it to stop and all that !

What's the point of FC if he doesn't bring the gifts? It makes sense that the main present comes from. Our DC write letters to Father Christmas. (They could ask for about 3 items and were aware that he could only bring 1, so it is a surprise which gift they got). We don't do stockings, just sacks with the main gift and stocking filler type extras to bulk it out. Then all friends and family gifts are under the tree and are placed there as they arrive, so might be there from any time in December. I like having presents under the tree but also don't understand the letter writing if FC doesn't bring what they've asked for. My DC's are old enough to know who buys it all now but that isn't important when they are young and want the magic.

Santa was just the delivery guy in my house as a kid, huge pile of presents under the tree but no stocking.

At our house now Santa fills a stocking for everyone and brings the kids one large gift each. We give another large gift and then they have small gifts from relatives. Small pile under the tree.

We buy a small present from mummy and daddy and put it under the tree with those from family/friends. Santa brings other stuff, fills a stocking and a sack usually.

What's the point of FC if he doesn't bring the gifts?
He fills the Christmas stockings with small, surprise gifts. How is that difficult to understand @Othersideofthemoon ?
Doing things differently from your way of doing things doesn't make it pointless 🙄

FC does bring presents - the little ones in the stocking. We never did writing letters to FC. Having done it that way as a child,I can assure you that it didn't make it any less magical! Putting out the brandy & mince pies, carrots for the reindeer, hanging up your stocking at the end of the bed and waking super early to find it bulging with stuff! Then presents under the tree after breakfast.

My children (now 25 & 23) never wrote letters to Santa, never had any gifts from Santa, never visited Santa in a grotto and never left out mince pies, cookies, glasses of milk, sherry, carrots etc. They have turned out just fine, they’re not scarred by this, their Christmases were still magical. They love Christmas.

To the people who don't do all Santa gifts. What's the thought process behind this?

Santa brings presents for children. We leave out a stocking on Christmas Eve , he magically visits and puts gifts in the stocking. My house has a chimney so the traditional story of him coming down the chimney applies. Santa chooses the gifts. In my family it's little, fun gifts.
People also buy presents for each other which we exchange on Christmas day.

Santa brings the stocking here. I don't want santa to bring all the presents as I think it could be horrible and heartbreaking for children to here little Johnny got a PlayStation, a new bike, a new football kit snd various other stuff and little Anne got one craft set worth about £5 and the questions that it can bring to children like Anne. Why isn't she deserving of santa, why do other children get loads more stuff from santa and I don't. Is it cos I am naughty and santa had me on the naughty list.

It breaks my heart that there are children who think like this every year. And I know they do as I have worked in education for years and years.

@LuckysDadsHat fair enough but then surely everyone in the class would have to adopt the same principle otherwise it's your child that's saying why did I only get a stocking from Santa?

Santa brings a huge sack of presents for each of my children then presents under the tree from me, dad abd our family and friends

Mine get 3 presents each from Santa, wrapped in a totally different paper to their other gifts, then the rest from us and family. Santa gifts are always smaller value items from the list.

I also wonder if children actually list off who got each present? Usually it’s just I got a PS5, a bike and a football kit. Is a child really going to say I got a football kit from Santa and a PS5 and a bike from my mum and dad?

Santa brought all gifts that magically appeared on Christmas morning. The gifts under the tree were from family/friends. At the end of the day everyone does things differently, there’s no right or wrong way to do things.

Stocking, this includes little toys, sweets and one or two smaller gifts off the Christmas list.

Stuff under the tree is from parents and family members.

I wouldn't want Father Christmas getting the credit for everything 😉

I also want to give my dd a few gifts 🤷‍♀️

From a young age I encouraged dd to buy me (I'm a single parent) a few gifts at Christmas, it would be a bit weird if I didn't reciprocate.

When DS was younger it was all presents bought by us were from santa (Father Christmas actually but still) except one present under the tree which was from us.

Presents from family were labelled as such.

Now he is older we still do the stocking and presents placed around it all from Father Christmas but obviously he knows they are from us.

Santa brings most of the stuff from us but we give a gift too, for lots of reasons. Why would they get a gift from everyone bar us. Why would they give us gifts but we wouldn't give them anything. That sort of thinking.

I do stocking and one or two gifts from Santa. This came from my cousins experience where she gave all from Santa and her son got really upset one yr because mum and dad didn’t get him anything, while his friend’s parents did. Also stopped the idea when they asked for something v expensive and unrealistic that Santa will just bring it.

Stockings. Great stockings. (Not huge, can’t fit anything bigger than a naval orange in it, but fun and careful)

Just the stocking here, everything else is from mum n dad, we did a main gift under the tree once during the pandemic as Father Christmas wanted to tell them they had coped very well that year with all the changes and difficulties of not seeing family n friends xx

You can't lump the whole of Scotland in together, a lot of people I know (including me) he brings stockings and a couple of presents. People in Scotland do it differently as much as they do anywhere