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What does Santa bring in your household?

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mirrormirroronthewall55 · 17/11/2024 19:16

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.

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LifeD1lemma · 19/11/2024 08:49

As a child for me all presents under the tree plus stocking were from Santa and then extended family presents would be exchanged later and obviously come from them.

We have done the same with our kids but kind of unthinkingly and I wish I’d just done stocking or similar from Santa as there are lots of good reasons for doing it that way! Saying that, I was not well off as a child and yet I never actually noticed that Santa was more generous to other kids than me, so hopefully it won’t be an issue for ours.

TeenToTwenties · 19/11/2024 08:50

Stocking with lower value gifts only.
Keeps it simple.
Explains why rich kids get more, without turning Santa into a glorified version of Amazon.

seven201 · 19/11/2024 22:01

He brings one main present to our house. No idea why we went with that and not the stocking! He also randomly puts that present in a sack with some other presents (given from us) in the dc room. My child hasn't ever questioned the logic of this. I might ask her though as maybe she thinks he does the stocking too. I hadn't realised how random we were with this until this thread!

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