Who gave you the most presents at christmas?

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I am trying to figure out what is normal here. At least as long as your belief persisted, at Christmas, did you recieve most of your presents from your parents or were they from Santa? Did your parents only give you big presents and Santa gave you small presents? Did you not 'do' Santa? Did your parents give you everything? Do you know why your parents chose the way they did? What about your friends? Did any aspect of this contribute to your stopping believing in Santa? Please feel free to expound upon this.

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    My family does the whole Santa thing. However, believing in Santa didn't last long for me at all. He just didn't make sense and I wasn't having any of it. I don't really understand the point of Santa. People say he makes Christmas more special, but how!? I personally think an actual person who actually cares about you giving you a present is way more special than some random man giving presents to everyone. How is that special? Sorry OP, I'm going off on one, aren't I?:P

    As for the presents. My family used to say that all of the presents were from Santa. I didn't believe though, so I knew they were from family.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    My family weren't exactly rich and didn't like the idea of someone else getting the credit for what they really had to scrimp for. I know there were a couple of years where we went noticeably short on essentials for a few months to make sure we had presents. Because of that, the presents were "delivered" by Santa but they'd been previously given to Santa by my parents who "bought" them.

    Even at the age of four, I thought they should give the guy and break and just give us the presents directly.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      That sounds like my family. The day I told my parents I'd stopped believing in Santa, they were relieved. My dad was pissed that an imaginary being got all the credit he worked hard for. Ha...

      I'm still not sure if that's worth being angry over because you're contributing to something that's supposed to be fun and whimsical, right? If parents don't want to give credit to Santa, they don't have to (although I suppose one parent will want Santa to exist for their kids in a lot of cases so someone has to give.)

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Eeek! I got told off for not pretending Santa was real. Because I'm the eldest kid my little sister and brother still believed. When my mum got them to the window to see if they could see the sleigh and then kept pointing out things in the sky (like aeroplanes), I was rolling on my back laughing.

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  • [email protected]
    11 years ago

    I always get/got all my stuff from the LUCKY CHARMS LEHPRAHCHAN.(or,however you spell that IRISH thing.)

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    My family never bothered with all the Santa stuff to begin with.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Wait..what?? There's no...Santa??

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    • Who_Fan4Life
      11 years ago

      YEAH, you didn't know!?

      The REAL Santa is some fat, old man who lives in a run down apartment in New York City.

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      • 1000yrVampireKing
        11 years ago

        Who are you telling us you are santa?

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    All I know is my presence is the greatest gift of all.

    Bullshit!

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  • Shrunk
    11 years ago

    i dont really remember, but my mom always gave the most in quantity while my dad gave the most in quality

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I always knew the presents were from my parents. They stopped saying they were from "Santa" by the age of 4/5.

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  • howaminotmyself
    11 years ago

    Most of the gifts were from parents and grandparents, and they were often clothes and small trinkets. Santa gave us that special toy or two we begged for and the candy. My parents didn't often buy us candy so it was a treat that Santa did.

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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago

    My mom STILL believes in Santa. Every year at Christmas she gets some kind of bonus (not from work), a random 'gift' of sorts and she attributes it to Santa. Sometimes she'll get undercharged at a store, sometimes it's a residual check she gets that so happens to come in December...I'm 34 and I STILL hear about this 'magical' luck.

    Once I was old enough to know better most of my gifts were from my parents but there was always a good 'Santa' surprise. I don't really recall much before then, sorry! I definitely recall getting gifts from a lot of relatives, but specifically who else(Santa or parents) I'm not 100% sure of the breakdown.

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