Main xmas present when to open which one

victory

How do you all work out which is the main present? Is it the biggest one? The most asked for one? The most expensive one?

When do you give it to the kids? The second they wake up? After the stocking? Downstairs? Upstairs in their bedrooms? Later on in the day?

I have got this year what you could call 2 main presents as in they are the same price, about the same size, not actually requested but they were less than half price on amazon so not sure how to give them.....

The nerf gun was repeatedly asked for so that one will be straight away in the morning:D

MummyYummy

If its a really big main present like a bike/other big item then we allow DS to open everything else first and then bring out the one "santa forgot to put under the tree" but this year his main present is Playmobil so that'll be put under the tree - ready made but covered in wrapping paper.

My mum has got him a bike and he won't have that until we go there for Xmas day lunch.

LillythePink

Now, this is when people's ideas of what Santa does/doesn't do, brings etc comes into it.

For us - well, me (as OH comes from up north where things are so different!) Santa brings a stocking etc, but then the main pressies are usually from mum/dad etc - Santa would never bring a bike for example.

These sorts of pressies are under the tree and are opened after stockings have been done.

My OH couldn't get his head around this as when he was growing up, Santa bought everything to you from mum & dad, Gran, aunties etc - so effectively a messenger boy - but to me that is just alien!

freyasmum

LillythePink wrote: »

Now, this is when people's ideas of what Santa does/doesn't do, brings etc comes into it.

Totally agree, it's so different for everyone

Growing up, my sister and I used to fight (:A) over which sofa would be ours, then all our presents would be sat on them, unwrapped and built up, ready to play with.

Then the presents from our mum and dad and everyone else would be wrapped and under the tree.

I can't wait :j

sarah*a

Santa brings the stocking in our house too! The rest? Well - I want credit for my hard work :rotfl:

Main pressie tends to be most wanted which generally works out as most expensive too. Not biggest as many times we've wrapped a box inside a box inside a box ........ and there's a tiny pressie in the middle

DaveLy

Always save the best/biggest presents for last. :-)

If you don't, then they'll have less time/respect for the smaller presents, such as socks etc.

victory

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maisiescamp

It changes each year dependent on what my children want and how much I spend. Last year the thing my DD1 really wanted was a scooter. It was only £20 and not the most expensive but was her main present as it was what she wanted the most and it was from Santa.

This year she is getting a DS to this is most def her main present! My DD2 is too young to tell you what she wants, she has a number of presents similarly priced, the one I think she will like the best is her main present.
In our house Santa brings the main present and then everything in their stockings and a handful of other presents,we buy a selection of other things that they have asked for.

sarah*a

victory wrote: »

Made me laugh:rotfl::rotfl: my brother when I was 12 did that, massive box inside another box etc so excited as a 12 year old only to find a matchbox with no matches inside:rotfl: did not find it funny at the time but now makes me laugh:rotfl:

You should do that back now - see how funny he finds it :rotfl::rotfl:

MummyYummy

Well my DS is 4yrs old and I've told him that his stocking is from Santa, but mum and dad pay for all the other presents and Santa delivers them for us.

lilian1977

LillythePink wrote: »

Now, this is when people's ideas of what Santa does/doesn't do, brings etc comes into it.

I'm just pregnant now but have been thinking about this already. I feel like I'm happy for Santa to bring the stocking, but everything else should be from mum/dad/grandparents etc - that way it means the child may think more about what we can afford. Or maybe not, perhaps that's the rose coloured specs talking!

Anyway, I think the way we will do it is stocking first thing, smaller presents after breakfast and then the main presents after Christmas lunch, then games etc for the rest of the day.