My kids believed that everything was from Santa. They never questioned it.
We didnt have a lot of money so never went crazy. My kids were always excited to get packs of new undies, packs of socks, sleepwear, clothing, etc. Lots of stocking fillers like crayons, chalk, bubble bath and things like that

We never seperated much about gifts coming from Santa and gifts coming from us

a board game to share (amongst some other individual things) every year as it brings us together as a family.

There is no Santa in our house. The little humans have worked out Santa is not real, so they know they will receive gifts that we can afford.

My children knew quite early that Santa wasn’t real and all gifts had the giver’s name on them, so I never had anything to explain. They also had quite a few school friends whose family didn’t celebrate Christmas.

We always had the bigger, expensive gifts from us, smaller ones from Santa

We did most things from Santa and one or two things from us.

A very small stocking full of little things like pencils and hair clips, and a couple of bigger presents (as in, two books, a dvd, a soft toy). Everything else is a gift from a sibling or parent.

The smaller items, usually the items that go into our children’s “Santa sacks”. I would hate for my child to go to school raving that they got an inad from Santa and their friend only get something small like a notepad. It has been a very hard time for many families..so we now give the bigger gift so if they go to school their friends don’t feel like Santa loves them less..because they got a smaller gift.

I hope that makes sense ????

We are not going overboard with presents. Also we are only buying presents for the kids. I like to gift something fun like a toy but also something they need like clothes etc.

When I was younger, ‘Santa’ would fill our sacks that were on our bed. Usually cheap stuff including chocolates, drinks, smaller items etc

My kids were told when they were younger, those that believe Santa will give them a gift. Otherwise mum and dad will give them a gift. We never did a seperate Santa gift saying “this is from Santa” so Santa didn’t get the credit for any amazing gifts etc.

Father Christmas brings about half of the presents in our house.

We focus on having fun rather than expensive gifts.

We never go over board with presents and the most fun is filling up a stocking with goodies. It is a tradition that just keeps going on and on.

I have always told my kids from a young age that mum and dad buy the presents and santa just delivers them for us

I just buy what I would normally for presents and then just mark some as being from Santa.

When my daughter was little, I told her that we sent some money to Santa every couple of weeks to help pay for the presents he brings her. I told her Santa has a lot of children he has to supply presents for and that he needed some help to pay for them. My daughter thought it was a good idea, because some children wouldn’t get presents otherwise. We also used to grab a tag off the trees in Kmart & Target and she would choose the tag (boy/girl, age) then choose the gift to get for the child. One year she chose a grandma’s tag, because she said grandmas should also get a gift at Christmas. I never gave her any individual gifts from me but told her I sent Santa a list of what she wanted when I sent the money. My daughter grew up appreciating that all things need to be paid for – nothing is free!

It’s always challenging as kids talk. We had an only child and I was very keen on creating the magic of Christmas. Santa brought presents (wrapped in the same wrapping paper) and we gave presents that sat under the tree prior (wrapped in different wrapping paper). We always had to combat other families whose kids only got Santa presents; or the annoying Grandparents who bought presents and said Santa left them at their house instead of acknowledging the gifts were from them???!! You can only do what’s best for your family.

this is our first year and we havent actually thought about giving anything from santa, I found my santa sack from when i was a kid, and we always got things like new socks, undies, a bag of lollies and mostly practical boring things, but always appreciated.