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When the kids were small, they'd each get 10 or so presents, and only one or two were from us. The rest were from Santa!
Now that they're teenagers, it's all from "Santa." He comes after everyone goes to bed and they open the gifts in the morning. Santa also fills everyone's stocking, including those belonging to mom and dad. Each person gets his or her own different colored shiny wrapping paper, so the tree looks pretty impressive on Christmas Eve/Christmas morning. We will do this until they move out of the area!
We do only one "Santa"gift per child. It's usually the item they wanted the most. Then again we do a pretty minimal Christmas by choice. Only 3 gifts per child including the Santa one. It's the "Jesus rule". He got 3 gifts from the wise men. It forces them to really prioritize, keeps the economic impact down & tones down the commercial focus. Don't worry though- they get a ton of stuff from extended family as well.
We used to give all the gifts from Santa, and boy I wish we didn't! As the kids got older, the gifts were more expensive. Then it came to "I am asking Santa not you"
The worst was one year my son wanted a new Nintendo DS. He didn't get one, however when we went to my SIL house, every child had one. He was very sad and said "mom I was so good this year, why didn't Santa get me a DS?" Tore my heart out.
Usually one or two gifts from Santa, unwrapped. The rest from me, wrapped.
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