Who brings the presents at your house?

Dear users, dear authors,
does Christmas presents come to you from St. Nicholas, Santa Claus / Father Christmas or the Christ Child, or do you secretly do it yourselves? ;)

We’re still a bit divided on this.
Technically, it’s the Christ Child at our house, but I’m slowly getting influenced by the media, and “Santa Claus” keeps slipping out of my mouth.
Now that Leo is 3 and starting to understand, I really should make up my mind 🙈

I already explained to him last week that the two of them share the work because there are sooo many kids and it’s impossible for just one person to do it all. That the Christ Child comes to some children and Santa Claus to others. 

By the way, the fact that both of them exist is brilliant! It means less begging while we’re shopping. When he wants something, I pull out my phone and just say I’m taking a photo to send to Santa Claus/the Christ Child. That way, we can keep going without any begging 🤭

St. Nicholas is a different story—he comes on December 6 😊 and only brings little treats. (Unfortunately, at the grandparents’ he sometimes brings things for the kids that are a bit too big... 🙈)

We’ve stopped giving gifts—only our youngest granddaughter (12) still gets something for Christmas, and she knows that neither of them exists :-)

Love, Inge

Well, without little kids, it’s not really an issue anymore anyway.
In our family, the Christ Child used to bring them. Our parents had it all figured out quite cleverly: Dad would take us for a walk to look at the Christmas lights at other people’s houses, and Mom could never come along because she wanted to take a bath right then. 🤣🤣
And strangely enough, the Christ Child always came during that exact narrow window of time. My brother (who’s older than me) figured out the ruse long before I did, of course, and once refused to go on the walk, so we stayed in our room and noticed that doors that were usually left open were suddenly closed.
So we decided to peek through the keyhole to see if we could catch the Christ Child.
Apparently, we were easy to figure out as kids—Dad was standing behind the door with a flashlight, shining it through the keyhole! 🤣🤣
So after the holidays, I was able to tell everyone at school that I’d seen the Christ Child in person, and that it shone incredibly brightly!

In our family, the Christ Child brings the presents and decorates the tree.

But the wish list is addressed to Santa Claus. As a grandma, though, I’m in close contact with both of them, so nothing ever goes wrong 🤣

Here in Basel (Switzerland), it’s the Christ Child. We don’t (really) have a Santa Claus—we have St. Nicholas; but he only brings apples, nuts, pears, tangerines, and peanuts, and he drags disobedient children off to the Black Forest... 😮. Unfortunately, even we’re feeling the influence of that dreadful Santa Claus, who climbs up the facades or haunts us with his reindeer-drawn sleigh.
Christiane

For us, it’s always been and will always be Santa Claus. But my kids are grown up now. Back then, though, I had a really cute experience with my kids.
One parent would stay home while the other would take the kids out for a walk, and when we came back, Santa Claus was there. We had a really lovely Christmas back then with snow, and my son pulled his little sister on a sled while we went for a walk. At a street corner, a car suddenly stopped; the window rolled down, and Santa Claus looked at us through the car window and spoke to my kids. He asked if they’d been good and told them to look forward to their presents. My son was already a bit older; he already knew where the actual presents came from. Then my daughter, who was little at the time, dropped the bombshell: “Why do you have a car? Do you even have a driver’s license?” The man got flustered and said that he was helping Santa out with the car. It’s a story that will stay with us forever :)

If any of you actually see the Christ Child or Santa Claus, please leave a comment. :-)


We saw him 😀, although Anton said to me, "Mom, that wasn't the real one. That was just a costume, the beard looked so funny" ... 😃 I then explained to him that the real Santa Claus has lots of helpers, and they have to dress up.

He accepted that and was happy 😃 ...

But Santa Claus was really great. You could tell that he loves children and has fun

Nothing is given as a gift here anymore.
The only exceptions were a Secret Santa exchange I took part in and the unexpected tripod.