snyder
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Post by snyder on Dec 8, 2023 4:06:13 GMT
Another that does Santa gifts with adult kid and grandkid.
We wrap gifts to each other and those are opened on Christmas Eve. Santa comes Christmas morning and fills the stockings and leaves a few unwrapped gifts from him.
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Dec 8, 2023 4:16:48 GMT
My kids are in their 30s and still get Santa gifts, usually a game and a pair of jammies and their stockings. Santa never brought the big presents in our house - first, I am a selfish wench and I wanted some credit and second, I didn't want them disappointed once they stopped believing in Santa, that they wouldn't get something cool. Mine are 12 and 7. 12 doesn’t believe but hasn’t outright said so. I’m also a selfish wench. 😂. No way is the jolly fat man getting credit for the big stuff! He brings small stuff and it all goes into the kids Santa sacks unwrapped. We also don’t go overboard with gifts from us because my kids have way too much already and they get stuff all year. |
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Post by justkat on Dec 8, 2023 4:26:37 GMT
In my family gifts are wrapped and placed under the tree as they're purchased. We use a variety of wrapping paper and gift bags. Then on Christmas morning there are gifts wrapped in special paper, Santa's paper. Sometimes Santa's gifts are the big ticket items and sometimes not. But they're always in a special paper and labelled from Santa. It's been this way my whole life and it's a tradition I've carried on as an adult. Everyone gets Santa gifts.😊🎅
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Post by candygurl on Dec 8, 2023 13:11:06 GMT
Mine stopped after high school and by high school it was mostly necessities like hair and makeup products and food/drinks.
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Post by smalltowngirlie on Dec 8, 2023 13:48:23 GMT
We just put names on who they go to, have for many years. You can choose to believe who they are from. I believe there is a little bit of Santa in each of us.
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 8, 2023 14:07:38 GMT
Basically when they were hitting the teen years.. 14 or 15. Still do stockings. I threaten my two oldest no more stocking but they sulk.. so I give in.. lol
We never wrapped Santa's gifts though.. they were unwrapped and put on xmas eve.. Usually it was a bigger item and harder to wrap.. but whatever it was Santa gift was always unwrapped. One Santa gift per kid.
I don't do Santa gifts for my grandson.. first because we go to their house on Christmas and Santa doesn't leave any gifts at my house and plus the tradition is passed onto his parents.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Dec 8, 2023 14:34:45 GMT
Our Santa doesn't wrap gifts - I always liked the magic of the children running in to a pile of new toys and things. Santa put on a show - usually physically large gifts that were eye catching like a pop-up play tent or one of those big coloring "houses," but not necessarily expensive. The "big" present came from me.
Anyone in my house on Christmas morning gets a stocking from Santa, but we stopped gifts one year when I didn't want to travel with the unwrapped gifts.
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iowgirl
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Post by iowgirl on Dec 8, 2023 14:47:42 GMT
Santa always brought gifts late on Christmas Eve, so when they got up they were there.
We celebrate with our extended family here and open gifts on Christmas Eve, so there was a gap between opening presents and Santa's presents the next morning.
I don't remember when I stopped Santa gifts, it just kind of tapered off.
I am not doing stockings this year. I will have some lottery tickets and that's it. No one wants more "Stuff", even though I have tried to get useful things like pens, Bombas socks and other consumables. But it's just too much anymore. I don't have the time or the will to go shop for it, it's getting to be SO expensive to get all that, and I was stuck with wrapping all that crap. They enjoyed it, but they all said it was ok to stop. "Less stress - more fun" is my motto this year.
My kids scatter on Christmas day now, to go to their spouse/significant others Christmas celebrations. So it's pretty quite, and I am good with that! Christmas Eve is our big day.
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Post by Linda on Dec 8, 2023 15:45:26 GMT
I don't do Santa gifts for my grandson.. first because we go to their house on Christmas and Santa doesn't leave any gifts at my house and plus the tradition is passed onto his parents. I love this! As a parent it was hard when my mum insisted on doing things I wanted to do - I mean, I appreciated that she wanted to get stuff for my kids and that she was more financially able to do so...but I never got the joy of choosing their Easter and Christmas outfits for instance because my mum always sent them one - they were always lovely but not necessarily what I would have picked (or as they got older, what they would have preferred). |
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Post by janamke on Dec 8, 2023 22:53:05 GMT
Never. My kids are 19, 16, 16 and they receive Santa gifts and stockings from St. Nick. It's smaller things or practical things.
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Post by NanaKate on Dec 9, 2023 3:27:41 GMT
Never
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Post by peasapie on Dec 9, 2023 10:53:30 GMT
I just do stockings now for my adult kids but they still get things from Santa, Rudolph, And Yukon Cornelius.
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Post by kachilyn on Dec 10, 2023 15:28:24 GMT
Never - all adults here, no little grandkids yet. We reuse tags from allllll the previous years so the 30yo kids still tag gifts to parents with "Daddy" in 8yo handwriting and there are Santa tags mixed in. Santa is very smart, sometimes he brings family gifts that are needed like a new toaster! Other times he brings slippers or socks. Big gifts have been from parents since about age 8-10. It's all about the fun and magic of the season! Stockings are holiday candy plus one gift from each person (there are 6 of us so 5 fun little novelty items) and it's fun to shop for and open the stocking gifts - and doesn't all fall to me!
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