Do people give you all the Christmas presents before christmas day?

Our family do it the same way as your partner. That's how i grew up. It doesn't ruin any magic at all. Santa just brings you a set of presents and then the rest of the family also join in and buy you presents. I grew up absolutely adoring christmas. The magic was always there.

@Rachel see I believed that santa delivered me all my presents. So maybe we'll just have to say to our son santa only delivers some? We havent got much money so we can't afford to get him a lot and I thought it would be better for him on Christmas morning to open more than 3 things :/

We got stockings which is mostly sweets, bath stuff, socks and silly bits plus an orange and that’s how we both did it. Presents came from my parents and everyone else. Personally I’d be annoyed if I gifted a present to my nephew for example and they said it was from Santa. No magic ruined as far as I’m aware!

@Karen for me my presents would be from family but my parents told me santa was the one who wrapped and delivered all the presents. So they weren't actually chosen by santa but he was the one who made them/ wrapped

For me Santa delivers to child’s house, presents from family are a separate thing as we give them gifts too when we go round

I thought the whole idea was that Santa delivered all the presents, so the magic is that they never see any and then bam, Christmas morning they are all there. But since being on peanut I’ve started to see that that’s not what others do so I have no idea!

Christmas presents from grandparents for us would never come from Santa. We used to see grandparents on Xmas eve or Boxing Day. It would be a big deal and we’d have a second and even 3rd Christmas.

In our house, Santa delivers one present wrapped in special paper (the gift he writes to Santa to ask for), and a stocking. The rest of his gifts he knows are from us and other family and friends, so he gets those whenever he gets them- sometimes we exchange before and put them under the tree straight away for Christmas Day, other times he only gets those gifts when those people visit/we visit them after Christmas and he’ll open them then. It doesn’t make any sense to me that he knows we buy him things, or grandparents, aunties etc then what, we send them all to Santa so that he wraps and delivers them back to us? That feels more confusing that what we’ve decided to go for!

For us it’s separate, gifts from Santa and family (so Santa don’t deliver gifts that are from grandparents etc they do) however as a kid we did grandparents on Christmas Eve to collect presents and stay home at Christmas. Now as an adult we go to my parents for dinner so my lo will get her presents from her uncles and grandparents then.

We had a thing growing up that we would all get one present that was from Santa because he couldn’t make every toy we wanted and for the rest of the world and the rest was from my mum and everyone else in my family.

Growing up all my presents magically appeared Christmas morning, presents from grandparents/aunts/uncles were all labelled as such and then my parents would label some that they had bought as from Santa. I never questioned why santa was delivering presents from himself and from family members, it was just exciting to wake up Christmas morning and see all the presents together!

We have separate gifts from parents/family and Santa. If we’re getting a big present or something more expensive it always comes from us, while Santa brings one or 2 or the things they’ve asked for and some small stocking presents. We wanted our children to understand that mummy and daddy payed for and chose the big presents not the magical pretend man. Or that family and friends put thought and care into choosing something they would like.

Growing up I believed Santa delivered stocking ONLY plus one extra present with special wrapping left by the plate of biscuit and carrot! All the other presents accumulated under the tree in the run up to Xmas and this was part of the excitement for me! I knew which present was from which person and thanked them accordingly. Now, as an adult, I think that's much nicer for the person who bought the present and put the thought in. I don't think it matters too much exactly how you do it. Clearly there's a mixture of opinions and experiences here, but agree on something and stick to it!!

When we were little all the presents were at our house but by the time we fully believed (3 or 4) we used to go to family either Christmas afternoon or on boxing day and get our presents then, it was nice for our family members to see us open their gifts too so it was a bit of both really xxx

I feel like this whole thread is just showing that christmas is just whatever you personally want it to be. No hard and fast rule and every version has magic still. Choose to do whatever you and your partner agree to do. Make your own rules.

I’ve grown up with Santa delivering one or a few presents on Christmas Eve that had a different wrapping paper and special labels, the rest from my mum and dad and we would see family and get gifts from them. It’s nice for families to see the children open the presents and the children to be grateful and thank the family member that gave it to them. The same with presents on Christmas morning, my parents worked bloody hard to get all them presents just for Santa to take the credit!

However, This is a chance to start your own family traditions, so do what you wish to and it will still be magical! X

To be fair I've never heard of this🤣 our presents from Santa were what our mum and dad gave him the money for. All other gifts were literally gifts from family they didn't get delivered by Santa it was just like here's a gift from auntie such and such. My Christmases weren't any less magical lol But it's upto you on what traditions you want to have for your little one If there are other young children in the family on your husbands side though, I probably wouldn't suggest starting that tradition now because they haven't been brought up with it. Plus in this situation I would say its upto whoever is gifting the item on which way they want to play it lol If it's something you've always done on your families side though then you can still keep the tradition there😊

@Sophie we don't put presents under the tree til christmas morning but that's mainly cause we've got an animal in the house who likes to shred them open😆

Growing up (in Italy), I would find my presents under each relative's tree - for us, all the presents were from Father Christmas. If somethings, it makes it better, as you do the family rounds to go and see what's under their tree 😂🎉

I went to grandparents or they bring it if they’re visiting. Although I will say I never believed in Santa and it never ruined anything for me. As an adult now I don’t really care about Christmas but do it for my kids because it was fun growing up so

People all have different variations of traditions, decide on your own family traditions together

Presents at our house are from Santa, all other gifts are from whoever gives them

We always had my grandma come round and bring presents from them, and we do same now for our daughter. I wouldn’t be going to others houses though unless going for lunch, don’t wonna trapes my daughter round when it’s unnecessary xx

For us Santa brings a book of her choice. Rest of the presents come from family/friends. I don't like the idea of Santa bringing everything cos children whose families can't afford as much have children believing they are "naughty" cos Santa didn't bring them as much as their friends at school or nursery.

I was having this conversation with my nail tech 👀👀👀😂 Santa presents are from Santa, presents from family/ friends are wrapped up differently and are from them - whether that be already be at our house for Christmas morning as get given when we see them. They need to show some appreciation for presents instead of just thinking everything comes from Santa 🤷🏽‍♀️

We have been debating how we are going to do Christmas and chrismas presents I’m Polish and partner is English in Poland we have Santa come on the 6th with a present under the pillow on the 24th under the tree and England of course Christmas day we just saying there are different santas 6th is Polish Santa 24th Lapland Santa and 25 English Santa 😂 so presents from grandparents will be opened there but we will say English Santa gave them untill she is old enough to know it’s not us 😂 however I think it’s also fine to do presents from Santa and presents from family

In our house Santa delivers one present. The rest of the presents are from mommy, daddy and family. He gets presents not just at Christmas as we have various family visiting just after Christmas too and I think there's an element of magic of just family getting together, and exchanging gifts etc, I wouldn't expect his aunties to post me his presents beforehand.

We would always go to my nans on Christmas eve and get our gifts! I spend Christmas with my family anyway so they bring the presents with them, if we didn’t they would give it to us on Christmas Eve ( im a single mum and no dads in picture) Santa brings one present , rest from me and other members of family x

Growing up we always had our presents from santa at home in the morning then went to my grandparents and had presents from them and any aunties/uncles that were there. It was never confusing and I never questioned why some were from Santa and some from family, I guess I just enjoyed getting presents 🤣 it definitely didn't spoil any magic for me (if anything made the day more exciting)

I've always told my kids that santa doesn't deliver ALL your presents, he simply brings 1 gift per child, and the rest are from family and friends. Its also not a hugely expense thing either, as what if santa brings a bike for one child and a colouring book for their classmate? How do u explain that? Or 10 presents for one and 3 for another?

It just depends on the family.. we have always done what your partner says when we were kids and we do now. No harm in it either way

We have a stocking that we leave outside the door with cookies and carrots that Santa ‘fills’ with bits and bobs then we have under the tree presents given from family / grandparents / parents ext with bigger more expensive gifts that we all open together kids usually open the stockings from Santa first thing then we have breakfast tea coffee then we all sit as a family in the living room and do main presents all together all gifts from Santa are small so other children don’t think Santa cares less if they have less expensive gifts as big presents are from family it’s how we did it as children and how I’m going to be doing it for my son

I guess everyone does it differently, Father Christmas has to deliver the presents to each child's house on Christmas Eve, otherwise it wouldn't make sense. As a child we used to open our presents from Father Christmas in the morning and open presents from friends and family in the afternoon after the Queens speech. It's a tradition that I will pass on to our little boy after my husband agreed and now it will be the Kings speech.