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