lol that sounds wrong !


ok we have prezzies from family and friends under the tree and santa comes xmas eve and leaves all prezzies in piles for all the kids

OH tried having them all under tree prior to xmas and couldnt understand why i said NO ,, santa does not come till xmas eve once kids in bed ! ,,, if they are all under tree there is no wow factor xmas morning

so how do you do santa ?

Only the stockings which are put out xmas eve are from Santa in our house. Everything else is from us and other family members. xxx

i have the tree presents. the small things, fo other peoples not the kids. theirs come out after santas been,kids wake up and come down to a bundle each corners of the room to them selfs things like the bikes, they are built and get rolled out when they think its all said and done and the extra wow factor

Yup we do it just like Laura. Santa takes the credit for the lot

we do the seperate bundles too , last year oh suggested putting everything in front of the xmas tree and the morning was madness trying to sort out whos is whos and what was what as i like them to keep the better prezzies till last

we are gonna be a little mean with taylors x box this year. he has to "find it" the problem i have is remembering not to give certain gifts out till last too cause then they guess what the main nis. annoyed me as a kid. eg - megans got a new stereo this year and some cds... soif she un wraps them and gets her biger box, shes gonna know, takes the supris away

lol we have the same prob ,,,, i pu little stars on certain prezzies that aint to be opened yet ,,, we have got the kids the rockband set for xbaox as they prev had it on ps2 ,,,,, but so they didnt open the games for it we got my sister to buy them the games so now they will open the drums,guitar etc and think they have no games to play as the tree prezzies get opened later x

mara santa takes the credit in our house too. i name everythin from santa. i lso done that with the in laws presents this year!

hahahahah ,,,, mine are all signed from santa to ,,,,,, my older who now knows the truth did notice a couple years back that it was my handwriting !

I do Santa the same way my mum did for me. All presents are unwrapped and left in pile on sofa. Stocking is also filled & left on sofa.

I dont buy Caitlin anything from us. A few of my friends think thats odd as they always got santa presents and then a wrapped gift from parents seperate. They wondered why I never asked why my mum never bought me anything for xmas when rest of family did. I cant remember questioning it as a child but whenever I asked why some kids at school got shed loads my mum told me that she had to pay Santa for some of the gifts to cover his expenses/say thank you... suppose that explained it.

I dont mind Santa taking all the credit, she will know when she's older it was us.

i think im being dim... so, u dont wrap the presents? and ur parents didnt get u christmas presents? only family?

yeah im deffo being dim lol!

Nope. Santa doesnt wrap presents. You walk in as a child and they all hit you straight in the face I think once when I was younger a bike was wheeled out of kitchen at the end but generally everything is sitting out bar the things hidden in stocking (which aint that big). They can be stacked so as things are hidden eg a jumper may have hidden a cd player, or you moved a big box and saw 3 dvds hidden behind....

Alot of my friends do the same. Again iv always saw it as tradition and dont find it odd. How would Santa have time to wrap every single present? My mum was either very lazy or very clever

wow ,, i found as a child all the fun was in the anticipation of unwrapping ! ,,,,, we never got gifts from parents either lol !

Oh and yeah mum never bought me anything... well she did obviously, I just thought it was Santa!

thats how we thought it too never crossed minds about prezzies from parents lol !

but i think i would have been gutted if i came down to non wrapped ones ,,,, i love seeing the kids faces whilst they unwrap and get excited cos its " what they always wanted " lol

Izzys are all wrapped and under the tree now, but she is too young to realise what they are and that they are goodies for her!

Next year though I think we'll put them in her room in the night as I think by the time they are 3 they will no whats going on more.

I suppose its whatever you're used to. I loved walking in and being like 'WOW'. As a kid aswell it may have taken 5-10 minutes to notice everything eg you got carried away looking at a doll and then noticed something else. Everyone's traditions are dif! I certainly wasnt disappointed that they werent wrapped, was normal. Guessing Caitlin will find it the same.

This was Caitlin's last xmas . The wrapped one's & teddy where from her granda...

ah deffo snoopy ,, its what you know ,,,, what you find special her pile last year looks fab !!! x x x

Up until I split with my husband Christmas was all the presents put into "your" pile in opposite corners from Santa!
When we split in the Sept I kinda realised I'll look bad as Santa buys the mountain of presents, then dad buys a present and mum buys ferk all!!!
I now do the main present I buy from James and I, all the other presents are Santa..
snoop, santas Hellers wrap everything up

Hellers wtf!!
HELPERS

I have a few smaller bits from Santa and the set is from me and oh, I don't like Santa getting all the credit lol.
My family do a separate unwrapping with all the presents from them, the kids think that Santa delivers them all but that they are sent to him so he has them all.

Well when i was a child, my mam and dad (aka santa) would put presents (wrapped) under the tree after i went to bed, so when i got up it looked like santa had been. They also took a bite out of the carrot, drank the milk and left some biscuit crumbs All presents were signed from santa. Will be doing the same for Cerys when she's a little bit older. This year, me and OH will just chuck everything under the tree on xmas eve

We use to as kids have our big sacks which we'd put out the night before. But presents from other people under the tree. Game of find your present lol we'd have 1 person every year to wear Santas hat & hand them out. Wed have 1big present from parents.

Now oh is the same as you, (which I thought was weird but seems quite common) that Santa brings them all. & we send them off for Santa to bring. Then no present from parents. But I like the thought they think we got something! As a kid I could never understand why everyone bought us presents but mum & dad xx

ah snoppy i get it now here thats not too bad an idea! less mess lol!! !!

Il just be wrapping and putting them under the tree this year as callum doesnt understand but when he does get abit older il not put them under untill christmas eve after hes gone bed frm santa xx

As kids we all thought our pressies were frm santa left out the carrots milk and mince pie xx