I was 18. It was my last Christmas at home before I moved in with my new husband :-)
What age were you when you got your last stocking / present off Santa?
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I was 18. It was my last Christmas at home before I moved in with my new husband :-)
What age were you when you got your last stocking / present off Santa?
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I was 9 when my old man told me hey Pat...just so you know sants is really me and your Ma.
Samta is still coming!
Santa still comes to my house (; My mom labels some of the gifts as "from: Santa" for the fun of the holiday.
Did I misunderstand the question? I stopped believing in Santa at age four; I couldn't get to sleep and the words to the song were on my mind: "He SEES you when you're sleeping. He KNOWS when you're awake. He KNOWS if you've been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake." I was afraid my punishment for being awake would be no presents. Then I saw my parents bringing in the gifts.
Actually, he never came to my house..
Other traditions here, as, another Santa, a holly man, called Agios Vasileios, brings health and a good year to all, every 1st of January..
My husband and I are in our 50's. Santa still comes, stockings still filled, deer still get a bale of hay and a mineral block every Christmas Eve.
No, no... I meant what age did you get your last gift / stocking from 'Santa'. Whether you believed in him or not was another matter. Even though I AM 'father Christmas' for my girls now, I still can't shake the tiny feeling inside me that I still believe on some level http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k1...leys/blush.gif I swear I still hear bells in the night on Christmas Eve! :home:
He's been to see me the last 48 years :presents3:
I was 11 years old when this truth come out... I was very disappointed :D
My niece was 12 years old and her mother was worried that she used still believing in Santa. But one day came to me and said: I know Santa doesn't exists, But if I will say this my parents will not give me the presents for Christmas any more
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He came to my parents' house every year until my sister and I had families of our own. In fact, I had to specifically tell my mother to stop filling stockings because I want OUR kids to believe Santa does that at HOME...not at Grandma's house!!
I never had any gifts from santa all my life, but I did received gifts from my love ones.
Santa still delivers the goods! lol
I don't know what you guys are talking about. Santa has been bringing me and my family presents for as long as I can remember. -- sure -- maybe he brings the lions share of gifts to my nieces and son. Probably when I was about 18 he started getting me one or two 'big' gifts .. he doesn't forget about us old timers. Last Christmas Eve I caught a glance of him in our living room, I waved but he was too busy.
.. can you believe it? Snubbed by Santa (!!) I'll be sure to add my complaint to the letter I write him this year with my kid. :santa:
santa still comes to my house...I BELIEVE!!!!!!!!
Santa is the best!!!
My brother and I are both married but Santa still visits my parents house every year for us!
My mom is 53. But still santa comes to my house. Don't think like that. It is a festival of joy and santa leaves no one alone and sad.
I don't remember. My mother didn't really care that much about Santa. She took credit for the gifts we received. That let Santa off the hook because we were poor and I don't think he should discriminate against poor children. Suppose Santa gave the kid next door a really expensive gift and all you got was a novel and some slippers? After awhile you'd just stop writing letters to Santa, because no matter how good you were, he'd always give other children better gifts.
That is the one thing about Santa that has always bothered me. ...and that is the very reason why it is better for a child to stop believing at a very young age - such as 7. At that point they are too young to really compare the value of their gifts with other children's. Plus, after age 7 they are likely to get picked on by other kids if they still believe. My sister-in-law was 12 when she stopped believing - I don't know how she got away with that! I was 5 when an older kid told me, but I still believed until I was 7. I remember being in 4th grade and a teacher asking the class " Who still believes in Santa". A couple kids raised their hands - but boy were they teased by the rest of the class. That was a horrible question for a teacher to ask!:santa2:
Santa still comes to our house every year, even though our daughters are now 24 and 19. Plus, this year Santa gets to come for our new son-in-law!
I've always loved being the "Santa" who shops for our girls, buying the gift and then watching them open in on Christmas morning. But this year I got to buy for my son-in-law, and it was a new experience. No matter how old "boys" get, they still want some kind of toy. Buying grown-up toys for him was a lot of fun!
My parents always told us that Santa wasn't real, but I don't see the harm in letting my children believe :).
It's all part of the magic that is Christmas :D
Well, according to what my parents have said, we didn't have a lot of money when I was a little kid, but I never noticed it. Wasn't so much the price of a present that mattered to me, even then.
As for Santa? I never stopped believing. Hope I never do! To quote Fred Gailey in Miracle on 34th Street, "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to".
So what if you don't get the most expensive toy? The love that comes with it is priceless. I think most kids know that, no matter the age. :)
And to answer the original question, so far he's been to my house for 56 years. I have no reason to assume he'll skip this one, though I wish he'd get the reindeer to stop stomping on my roof. It's metal, and sounds like ...well, like a bunch of reindeer on a metal roof!
I was 12....I know, too young, wasn't very happy to find out.... :elf2:
My son turns 9 in October. I'm wondering if we shouldn't have "the talk". I've been wrestling with this for a few months now. I kinda feel like we got away with one this past Christmas.