Does Santa get all the glory in your house?

[Diane♥Disney]

Santa brings all of the presents here. He always has and always will. It's easier to just have everything come from santa, and I love that the kids go to bed Christmas Eve to nothing under the tree, and wake up Christmas morning to a load of presents. Theyre 18 and 23 now, and Christmas morning is still exciting and fun and magical for them.

My kids are 16 and 20 and we do it this way too. I was waiting for the day when the kids were old enough. I could wrap as I bought and put them under the tree. No more hiding presents. Well the first time I tried that my daughter says "What are you doing, are you trying to ruin Christmas?!?!" "The presents have to go under the tree Christmas Eve after we go to bed, I want to wake up and be surprised on Christmas morning.!!" All the presents go under the tree after they go to bed and are still from Santa.

 

[NHdisneylover]

On a related note, since some of the posts talk about this:

It wasn't until the DIS that I learned that anyone considered a list to Santa a demand or a "must get this" item (in movies, maybe but in real life?). It was always a list of ideas of things they liked from which they knew they might get something, or Santa might have his own ideas and get somethign else.

 

[ELSA711]

Santa gets all the glory
But I'm okay with that. We just watched an old Christmas video and my DD looked directly at the camera and said so matter of fact 'I love Santa' LOL
We all enjoyed that moment and cracked up, especially since she now knows the truth

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Santa brings the stockings and whatever I don't want to wrap. Usually 1-2 things. Everything else comes from me. I don't put any gifts under the tree until Xmas eve after they are in bed.

It never occurred to me to make everything from Santa and my kids never thought everything came from Santa. They would always ask Santa for 3 things (that's the rule I made when we visit Santa) and ask us for a few things.

Growing up most people didn't even do Santa. Most of my family doesn't do Santa to this day. Everything is from the parents. I do it because I'm a bit more "Americanized."

 

[smiths02]

My husband read a post of his aunt's on Facebook yesterday that said she and her husband always told the kids that Santa brought the Christmas gifts, but she and their dad paid Santa for them "so the kids knew who to be grateful to." My husband was shocked and appalled (maybe that's a bit too strong of a word, but he was close).

Santa only fills stockings and brings one unwrapped gift (usually the biggest/most wanted/most expensive) to each of our kids. The rest of the presents (wrapped) are from us.

Wondering how you do it in your home and do you share my husband's feelings about what his aunt and uncle did when their kids were younger.

We are very similar. I'm glad I started this tradition because 1) I don't have to worry about handwriting/matching wrapping paper, etc. 2) Parents get some credit and 3) The kids understand why we donate to charity (or why different people get different gifts)

 

[smiths02]

My kids are 16 and 20 and we do it this way too. I was waiting for the day when the kids were old enough. I could wrap as I bought and put them under the tree. No more hiding presents. Well the first time I tried that my daughter says "What are you doing, are you trying to ruin Christmas?!?!" "The presents have to go under the tree Christmas Eve after we go to bed, I want to wake up and be surprised on Christmas morning.!!" All the presents go under the tree after they go to bed and are still from Santa.

I should add that I wrap all but the Santa present and put it on the tree by Christmas Eve. The kids have so much fun trying to guess (Sometimes I wrap toys in clothes or make the boxes way too big).

 

[blana]

Santa brings one big gift & fills the stockings. Everything else comes form Mom & Dad. I always thought it was weird as a kid that my parents didn't give us gifts at Christmas, so that was the agreement we worked out with Santa.

ETA: Santa has his own wrapping paper. It's off a reversible roll, and only the back side is ever used, so if the kids run into it during the year, they don't recognize it as Santa's paper. He also uses different ribbons and tags. (Ours are always the stick on kind. Santa has the nice tie on kind.)

 

[wenrob]

On a related note, since some of the posts talk about this:

It wasn't until the DIS that I learned that anyone considered a list to Santa a demand or a "must get this" item (in movies, maybe but in real life?). It was always a list of ideas of things they liked from which they knew they might get something, or Santa might have his own ideas and get somethign else.

This is how it is in my home. They are suggestions, you may or may not get them and you might get things you didn't even know you wanted. My younger DD puts a hover board on her list every year even though she knows that'll never happen, lol. I'm not ever going to be that parent duking it out or paying a ridiculous price for that one hot item.

 

[Tasha228]

My husband read a post of his aunt's on Facebook yesterday that said she and her husband always told the kids that Santa brought the Christmas gifts, but she and their dad paid Santa for them "so the kids knew who to be grateful to." My husband was shocked and appalled (maybe that's a bit too strong of a word, but he was close).

Santa only fills stockings and brings one unwrapped gift (usually the biggest/most wanted/most expensive) to each of our kids. The rest of the presents (wrapped) are from us.

Wondering how you do it in your home and do you share my husband's feelings about what his aunt and uncle did when their kids were younger.

We basically do it the same way at our house. If it was up to dh we wouldn't do Santa at all. But this will only be our 2nd Christmas together and, since he was late to the party, he goes along with the traditions the kids have been doing since birth.

 

[BLAZEY]

Santa brings one really special highly desired gift, not necessarily the most $$$$ one. A tradition in our family is to draw names to fill stockings and we do stocking in the late afternoon before dinner. the story we gave was that my mum (aka Granny wrote a letter to Santa when I, the oldest child was a baby, saying that she had so much fun picking out and buying things for my stocking that she would like to do it instead of Santa. Instead could he give the gifts intended for my and later my sisters stocking as well to other children who would not receive as much during the holidays.) This was the story we told my DD7 and my sister has told her kids as we fill their stockings along with the one we draw for. We even told it to friends of the family who were much younger if the secret ever slipped out and the parents still played Santa. Santa always brought one special gift, the rest was from mum, dad and the family. We carried the tradition with the next generation of kids.

 

[mickeyfan9194]

Santa filled the stockings and brought one gift (usually mid-range) to each of the kids. All of the other presents were from us/extended family. Santa just wasn't that big of a thing in our house. I don't really recall how old they were when they found out the truth because it wasn't a big deal. Now that they are all adults, Santa just fills the stockings for them. Christmas always was/is magical for us, regardless of who the presents are from.

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

Santa filled the stocking and left 3 presents.

Everything else was from Mom and Dad.

It didn't have anything to do with the credit. It really just worked out that way in the beginning and we liked the religious connection.

 

[Liberty Belle]

On a related note, since some of the posts talk about this:

It wasn't until the DIS that I learned that anyone considered a list to Santa a demand or a "must get this" item (in movies, maybe but in real life?). It was always a list of ideas of things they liked from which they knew they might get something, or Santa might have his own ideas and get somethign else.

I always grew up giving my parents a list and knowing from that list I may get one or two or three things, but they'd get me other stuff, too, or not. After I married my husband, my mother in law asked me for a Christmas list, so I made a list and made sure to put a variety of things on it, so something on it would be easy to find. Well, she looked at it and said, "I can't get you everything on this list!" I was so embarrassed!

 

[Liberty Belle]

I wanted to add, just so there's no misunderstanding:

While Santa is an important guy in our house, my kids always knew "the reason for the season" and certainly many things besides Santa makes Christmas magical/a special time.

 

[DawnM]

Santa brings underwear and toothbrushes.

We just haven't done the whole Santa thing very much.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I always grew up giving my parents a list and knowing from that list I may get one or two or three things, but they'd get me other stuff, too, or not. After I married my husband, my mother in law asked me for a Christmas list, so I made a list and made sure to put a variety of things on it, so something on it would be easy to find. Well, she looked at it and said, "I can't get you everything on this list!" I was so embarrassed!

eek! I would have done what you did---variety of prices, different kinds of items, trying to give plenty of options or ideas. I bet you felt just awful

 

[Canooknic]

Santa fills the stocking (we actually have decorated pillowcases because there's board games every year!) and everything else is from the people that bought it.
It isn't about the giver getting credit IMO but about my kids appreciating our family/friends for giving them a gift

 

[DaisyD]

When the kids were little Santa brought the toys and we bought thr clothes. Santa did the stockings too.

 

[mummabear]

When I grew up Santa got all the glory, the major gift was always from him.
My husband doesn't like that though so in our house Santa fills the stocking and gets them one gift from their list (they write to Santa and have to tell them 3 reasons they should be on the nice list and three ideas of things they would like)
Then we get them the bike or puppy or whatever is the A ticket gift

 

[MinnieMouse84]

It's been so long since I've gotten Christmas presents, but if I recall correctly, most of the presents would be from Santa and one or two would be from my parents.