Santa Claus!!!
 

Well being Christmas time, why not start a Christmas thread.

When I was young I use to believe that a Big Fat Jolly Man would sneak into my house and give me presents. In return I would leave him some Milk and Cookies and a Carrot for his Reindeer. No wonder Santa is Overweight. And when I woke up I got presents from him.

But what about the rest of you? What did you do each Christmas? What did you give Santa as a bribe? And how old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus?

I think my parents told me sometime when I was in Year 3 or 4. I don't remember how many hours I cried for.

Alcar...

Honestly, I'm not sure if I ever deeply believed in Santa. I probably did when I was a wee little Ambi toddler thing, but once I started school, I'm quite sure I was just playing along with my mom, pretending to still believe up until around 10 years of age.

When I was... probably 7, I guess, 3rd grade. I read this editorial in the newspaper while on a field trip to the Dallas Morning News publication center. Something about a mom not wanting to start her children on the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus myths.

And since then, it's sort of been blown for me.

Oh yeah...Santa was the coolest. I'd set out cookies and milk, and a letter. Usually, I'd include a "sign here" line for Santa to leave an autograph for me. I tried every year, but never got one. :(

Finally, it was 10 or 11 I think, Mom and Dad told me. The funny thing was...I expected it, because the previous Christmas, Santa left a note with the same Christmas paper that our family had. Yup...I was smarter than Mum and Dad thought.

Anyway, I think the coolest thing my Mom and Dad did was tell me that the Tooth fairy had a toll free number. Whenever I had a loose tooth, Mom or Dad would dial the number and I'd get my money that night. How efficient! :p

-oddguy

I'm jewish, so Hanukah (or Chanukah) Harry is the guy for me

not really

made him up last year

Dropped faster that a lead weight

i still believe in him (yes, im thirteen and i believe in santa). and it was all because of an incedidant long looooong ago that im sure you all want to hear, *takes deeeeeep breath* so im not going to tell you. now if you dont mind me, im gonna curl up infront of the TV with a cup of hot coco :)

WHAT?! Santa's... not... real? OH EM GEE! You all lied to me! Damn it.
Yeah, I knew he wasn't real. It took me until about age 6 to find out, because that's when I developed a thing called "Deductive reasoning."

On a completely irrelivent note:
1. Santa watches kids while they sleep.
2. Santa and Satan have the same number of letters in their names.

Coincidence? QUITE POSSIBLY NOT AT ALL.

Um.. I still believe. Of course I know that the guy who stands in front of super-market isn't real santa. There is only one :fuzsmile: Santa, who lives far far away... Propably he's wathing Tv now, or playing Quake after his work. :D Santa still alive!

Untill I was 10, I saw mum making the "From Santa" labels on the computer. Every year we would leave a mince pie for Santa and a carrot for Rudolph.

My Mum ate the cookies...

5-7, I just asked my parents:

"Does Father Christmas exist?"
"No, just dont tell your sister"

Harsh :P lmfao

My parents still think I believe in Santa. But I was 10/11... Year 6 anyway... And all the kids were going "Santa don't exist!" and I cryed at home but at school everyone was like "Yeah I know. God... When did your parents tell you?"

Heh. I still wanna believe...

I never really believed anyway... Especially when I heard...

"Shhh B... I think she's asleep!"
"Okay Will! Let's put the presents in her room!"
*open door

I don't see how you can still believe, if you have posted on this thread, when everyone has just said that he's not real.
But whatever floats your boat.
I was crushed when I found out. What kind of evil thing is that for parents to do to kids? I'm seriously considering never raising my kids to believe in him, or any of those Easter Bunny, etc. things.

The tooth fairy, santa, the easter bunny, pfft. Your parents must've sucked. My parents told me right from day 1 that santa was a load of bullshit, and they said that all the other stupid kiddies at the school thought these things existed. I used to get into arguments with the kids over it because I laughed at their blatant stupidity, and the teachers had meetings with my parents about it and they said that they should encourage me to believe in those things because it was upsetting the other kids. My parents just found it funny and told the teachers to go blow themselves.

I love my parents.

Parents not telling their kids to believe in it I can understand, but your parents sound like real dicks.

Nah they're cool, they just hate idiots.

... and of course the guy, who give me presents on 6th Dcember isn't the real Santa. Santa is a tradition, old, good tradition, and I still belive in this.. There is no Santa now. I don't belive there is a man, who gave presents to thousansd of kids in one night. I belive in a Santa tradition.

Amen to that.

Awesome. They must be sensible people. I guess I always doubted that such a fantastical thing could exist. But I knew for sure when I was about 7.

If you don't tell your kids about Santa, they become the party poopers that go around ruining it for other kids...like on those TV Christmas Specials. ;)

-oddguy

I worked it out when i was like 7 by comparing signatures with father christmas and my bastard father.

I'm feeling rather uneasy about this thread. It reminds me of last years thread were PA and co. were trying to convince Lindsay and Corey that Santa doesn't exist.

I had a go at them for trying to steal a childs dream away.

And thus posting a thread that has a blatant disregard for younger readers of the forums makes me feel awkward. I don't mind if we're telling kids their Dads really a Nigger living in the Indies, but when it comes to saying to them Santa doesn't exist, i just find it too harsh.

But i was quite old, 10, i think.

But SANTA DOES EXIST. Yes'm.

I stopped believing in santa about 8. Once I looked at the full moon to see santa saly flying acroos the moon with his raindeers, but I waited for ages, and didn't get to see him. I don't remember how I stopped believeing him, so it wasn't that upseting.

Aah, that's sweet. :p But they say Santa doesn't come if you wait up for him ;)

What's scary is I stopped believing him this week... :fuzconf:
I believe back in Germany many years ago there was a child stalker who left children gifts in there shoes...

Tis Santa:
Hallo, Kinder! Ich Bin Heiliger Nicholas! Lassen Sie Ihre Schuhe heraus auf Weihnachtsabend und Sie erhalten GESCHENKE!

He died many years ago...

His last words:
Erklären Sie den Kindern... I... Lieben Sie...

and he died...

When I was 7 I got a present from Santa, and showed it to my aunt.
She said she was there when mum bought it. WHOOPS!

Santa is a pagan god. A modern one. Giving him food and drink of Christmas Eve is just giving an offering to this God. Don't do it, he is a false idol. Don't teach your children to, either, because God will not like their worship of a false idol. Make sure they know he is fantasy.

Your parents are cool.

I found out he was not real when i was around 8. I would always leave santa the nasty cookies that no one eat, then on Christmas i would open all my gifts from family then throw all the rapping paper in the garbage only to find the cookies laying there next to the old milk bottles. I soon found out that my Dad was the one throwing them away.

From then on i turned into a full blooded atheist.

A discussion of Santa Clause, eh?

It's all a conspiracy...I have an article about it located on my site.

You do realize that atheism is the disbelief in God/gods and not the disbelief in Santa, right? :p

But hee, my mom did the same thing. She also pre-made the "from: Santa" gift tags, which I found several times, but I still wanted to believe. Heh, parents aren't good at things.