A Santa Poll

jf198400

Answer for both what your parents did when you were a kid and what you do now for your kids:

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad?

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them?

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too?

Any other traditions you want to share?

jf198400

1. When I was a kid presents were split half from Santa half from my parents.
Right now my kids are little and all gifts are from Santa. But I may have 1 gift be from us when the kids are older and more observant.

2. Growing up, Santa presents were not wrapped (this differentiated them from parent gifts).
I wrap all gifts for my kids. They are young so we haven't had any questions about wrapping paper/ labels, but I think this year I am going to start a custom of giving each child their own wrapping paper.

3. Growing up Santa only filled kids stockings. Now Santa fills everyone's stockings, parents and dogs included.

ss+el

1. The biggest present is from Santa. Usually the rest are from Mom & Dad.
2. I don't wrap Santa presents. Neither DH nor I grew up that way. When I was a kid, we would write our own nametags and leave them out for Santa. Mom apparently didn't want to try to disguise her handwriting?
3. So far, only for DS, but this is the first year I think he'll notice we got skipped, so now we all have stockings and Santa got us a family gift to share as well.

Leap08

1. When I was growing up our "big" present was always from Santa. Smaller presents were from Mom and Dad. We're doing the same thing for our girls.

2. Santa presents are always wrapped in different paper and set in front of other gifts. The usually just have the child's name on them.

3. Yes - everyone gets a stocking.

jwthoms1

Santa brought most and there would a few from parents. Right now it's all from Santa.

No wrapping from Santa, unwrapped and unpackaged and assembled if its from Santa. That's too much work!

Only the kids get a stocking.

ccam

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad? Growing up, all gifts were from Santa, from what I remember. We will be splitting gifts for DS between Santa and mom and dad.

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them? Yes, they are wrapped and we will do different wrapping paper and labels for Santa gifts.

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too? Growing up, only the kids got stockings in my family. DS never had stockings at all. We will all have stockings from Santa in our house.

Any other traditions you want to share? We give DS an ornament every year so he has a collection of his own when he gets older.

DTNZ4Ever

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad? Right now DS gets all presents from Santa on Xmas morning. When DS is more observant we will give him a couple of gift on Christmas Eve which is our big Christmas celebration.

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? Yes growing up and now the gifts are wrapped.  If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Yes not the paper I wrap the other non Santa presents. I also always make sure that the Santa paper has Santa on the paper.  Do you put labels on them? I haven't had to label them since we only have DS next year I will have to start labeling since we will have two DS

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too? Nope. DH and I normally exchange our gifts Xmas morning. 

thedash

1. Growing up it was about half and half. We've decided that one special gift will be from Santa and the rest from us.

2. I honestly don't remember if my parents used different paper. I will and probably print tags on the computer.

3. My parents always filled my stocking, not Santa. We have no stockings in our house right now but I think I'll start it next year.

DH grew up not believing in Santa and opening all his gifts on Xmas Eve so we're still figuring out how to make the Santa thing work for our family.

SallyJean95

1. Growing up it was about half and half. Mrs Claus would give us socks and underwear. Now all presents are from Santa. His birthday is a few days after so mom and dad get credit for those. 2. It was different paper when growing up and the same now. 3. Santa filled stockings for everyone and still does. Growing up we got to open one present on Christmas Eve and it was dictated which one and it was new church clothes. Kinda sucky but it was fun unwrapping. I want to do the one gift on eve now but dh has forbidden it. Bah! Sorry about the paragraph, my phone won't let me fix it.

VitaLuna

All the wrapped gifts were from my mom. Christmas morning, Santa filled our stocking and brought us one unwrapped (larger) gift that was left by the fireplace.

Our LO is 4 mos, so no gifts this year, but I think we'll do the same thing.

ETA: Santa did not bring gifts or fill a stocking for my mom.

rubber_chicken

jf198400 said:

Answer for both what your parents did when you were a kid and what you do now for your kids: 1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad? 2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them? 3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too? Any other traditions you want to share?

WHEN I WAS A KID:
1. all presents from Santa
2. no presents wrapped - I'm from a big family so there wasn't enough time/energy to wrap them all.  Santa left our presents on our dining room chairs, with the stocking hanging from the chair.
3. Santa only brought kids gifts

NOW:
1. we exchange gifts on Christmas Eve - DD will get gifts from me and DH. gifts are wrapped and under the tree.
2. santa gifts will arrive on Christmas day.  I've wrapped them in special "santa" paper - they have santas on them.  I'm going to leave them on and around her high chair
3. DH and I have taken to filling each others stockings in the last few years - so the stockings are already full.  DD will get her stocking from santa.

jess9802

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad? When I was a kid, all of the presents under the tree were from Mom and Dad. Santa filled the stockings. I have no idea what we're going to do with DS. I think DH wants most, if not all, of the presents to be from Santa, and he doesn't want them under the tree before Christmas. Since I'm the one that wraps the presents, they are all marked "from Mom and Dad" and they go under the tree ASAP.

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them? Growing up the presents in our stockings were wrapped. I didn't pay attention to the wrapping paper. Yes, labeled. When I was about 16 my mom asked my dad to handle stocking stuffers and he labeled the presents "To: Jessie From: Santa." Which was especially awesome since one was package was a tin of about 500 paperclips. I still have them! I plan to wrap and label Santa presents. Have not thought about different wrapping paper.

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too? My parents didn't have stockings when I was a kid. DH and I do, and I'm sure Santa will slip us a few goodies.

dglvrk2

1. My parents did several presents from Santa and a few from mom and dad. DJ and I plan to do one or two big gifts from Santa and smaller gifts from us.
2. I'm big on the wrapping ;-)DD is only 2, so we don't do different wrapping paper yet. We will when she and her little sister (due in 5 weeks) are older. That's what my parents did
3. We all get stockings. DH's family didn't do stockings. Mine did for everyone.

kristennd

1. In both my family and DH's, Santa only filled the stocking. No other gifts. And we're continuing with that.

2. Our stocking stuffers were unwrapped. DH's were wrapped. We were going to go unwrapped for LO mainly because it's greener, but many of the stocking scenes in his books show wrapped presents and he keeps asking for 'presents with bows' instead of actual specific toys, so we'll wrap this year.

3. I lost this battle. In my family, stockings are only for children but DH won't give it up.

Stephorse

Santa fills stockings and does bring a present. We wrapped it last year, but this year it was pretty big, so it was not wrapped. Because the aunts and grandparents are getting him so much, we did not do any presents from us just from Santa.

MNgirl326

 

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad?

Big gifts are from us.  Santa brings a mix of things.  This year he is bringing a duplo set, a book, a baseball mitt, a couple hot wheels cars and a new pack of underwear and socks.

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper?  If it fits in the stocking it goes unwrapped, if it doesn't fit it gets wrapped.   Special Santa paper

  Do you put labels on them? no labels

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too? Santa only does kids stockings.    Any other traditions you want to share?   LO gets new Christmas pj's from us to wear on Chirstmas Eve and he gets a Christmas ornament for the tree every year.

smellychelly25

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad?

There was a mix of both.

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them?

Santa presents are not wrapped.

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too?

I don't remember stockings when I was little. I will be putting the presents in the stocking for my son.

Any other traditions you want to share?

This will be our first Christmas. I want to start the tradition of giving Christmas PJs.

diamondduck13

1. Are all the presents from Santa or are some from mom and dad?

The most exciting always came from Santa, less exciting from mom & dad. We're doing the same

2. Are Santa presents wrapped? If yes, do you use different wrapping paper? Do you put labels on them?

That's just silly, Santa doesn't use wrapping paper!

3. Does Santa fill stockings for mom and dad too?

Not for my mom & dad, but he does for DH and I. I guess we behave better than my parents did

Eta formatting

jlaOK

1. Big present is from Santa and smaller presents are from mom and dad.

2. Santa gifts are wrapped unless they are too big. I've actually never heard of them not being wrapped until this year. I haven't used different paper but will starting next year (DS will be 4.5). Santa uses tags and has different "Santa" handwriting.

3. Santa does fill mom and dad's stocking. Quite frankly, "Santa" sucks at filling mom's although dad's is awesome every year.