Does Santa bring 1 gift or all of them?

[Andrea Gourley]

Santa Claus always brought everything (apart from gifts from other family members) when I was little and this is what I will do if I have a child.

 

[kelley]

He does stockings and one gift. I am greedy though........I don't let Santa take credit for the big stuff. LOL

I'm like Tara - I don't want him getting credit for the stuff I get the kids LOL! I'd rather not do santa at all, but Chris insists on it. So I fill the stocking and set out a couple things from him.

 

[pewtertm]

None of the above...he brings her one gift. The rest is from mommy and daddy.

 

[pewtertm]

I remember one of my brothers crying one year because he didn't get very much from Santa and had gotten quite a bit the year before. He asked if he was bad this year. It broke my heart. I was old enough at that point to understand what was going on and I swore my kids would NEVER feel that way. From early on we wanted to start a tradition we can, for sure, stick with every year regardless of the economy and our financial constraints.

That's one of my big issues with the Santa thing...we try to help others at Christmas, and at church and dance we have adopt-a-child programs. When she hears that if someone doesn't help the families, the children will have no gifts...then does that mean that those poor kids have been bad? I hate that the Santa thing ties a child's behavior with what they get, because I would NEVER want my kid to come to the conclusion that we are helping kids get gifts because Santa won't bring them anything.

 

[LJSDesigns]

In our house, Santa always brought just one gift.

Now that my son is grown, I want to go to the four gifts a piece idea; something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read. I hate to say it, but it seems silly for me to be buying a lot of presents for the adults that make up my family. They can all buy anything they want at any given time, just like me. I didn't ask for a thing for Christmas because I really can't think of one thing I want.

I wanted to exchange names this year, but my brother balked at only buying one gift for one person. He always goes all out at Christmas time, bless his heart.

 

[maryinaz]

We never had a rule on how many gifts Santa brought, it was just certain things that the boys asked Santa to bring. And stockings were definitely always Santa. I didn't mind sharing the credit with Santa...we get all of it now, like it or not. :/

 

[jaylensmom]

Santa always brought everything at our house except for the gifts from other relatives, so thats how we do it with our kids. We buy them pj's and give them those on Christmas eve.

This is sort of how we do it...We do buy some gifts but Santa brings most of them and he brings all the big gifts...I figure eventually we'll get all the credit

 

[chastml]

Santa brings 1 gift for each of the children. It doesn't even have to be a big gift, just something they asked him for. We've never discussed who the stockings were from, but the children insist it's Santa who fills all of them.

Their Daddy got nothing in his stocking last year, so they were convinced he was bad! This year, my 6yo bought something to put in her Daddy's stocking because she doesn't think he's been bad and wants to make sure he gets something.

 

[Sarah8914]

Santa only fills the stockings... and not with anything super expensive or anything. I actually have a hard time with Santa so this is a really good way for me to help him exist but not too much. We don't talk up Santa much at all (but they know from school, friends, etc). Santa was huge in our house and brought tons and we loved it, but it doesn't come as naturally for me.

 

[clearskies]

He fills the stockings and brings one gift the kids have requested.

 

[lovely1m]

He brings whatever big gift nick asks for and stocking stuffers.

ETA, I didn't mean big as in expensive, but big as in what he asked Santa to give him. This year it was a Dino Lego set and a toy Santa, elf and reindeer.

 

[Amber1279]

We do the 4 gifts from us (want/need/wear/read) usually the most expensive is the want. Santa brings one unwrapped gift that is always something hard to wrap - a bike, a couch, a kitchen set, ect. He also fills the kids stockings.