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[quote=Anonymous]At our house, Santa brings only one gift, unwrapped, and adds a few things to the stockings which we have already filled with small gifts for each other. Santa's gift is not the biggest item, but just something that will occupy the kids while the adults get coffee and get ready. We put small things in each others' stockings to kids can ease into gift giving, but Santa still tops them up so there is a surprise. The "Santa doesn't bring the biggest thing" came from a friend's suggestion because our kids were in a school with widely varying incomes and not everybody was getting big gifts / it wasn't kind to talk about big gifts. But, it has served us well when the big asks started to be things like pets or, one year, a climbing structure: there was no pressure to magic that into existence. (BTW, the rule in our house is that pets can't be gifts, they can only be family decisions at non-holiday times.)[/quote]
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