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Offline Miles Christi

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Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2022, 06:19:50 PM »
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    • I put two and two together early on because we didn't have a chimney.
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    Offline MariasAnawim

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    Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
    « Reply #16 on: November 23, 2022, 06:34:14 PM »
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    • I have told the children the truth since the beginning.
    Santa is not real and that the world has used him to make Christmas about gifts ant about the birth of Jesus.
    We do St.Nicholas day with small gifts in the shoes, reading of his story/watching the cartoon st.nicholas movie and a special dinner and dessert.
    Also we do a birthday cake on Christmas and give only one gift, but 3 gifts on the Epiphany.

    One thing I would like to get better at is for my children to give somehow rather than expecting to receive.

    We do have them use their own money to buy one another gifts, including for mama and papi (me and my husband), but even for them to find more opportunities to give in order to show the love/light of Christ.
















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    Offline Nadir

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    Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
    « Reply #17 on: November 23, 2022, 06:45:58 PM »
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    • We had a chimney but the fireplace was blocked by a Kosi heater. That didn’t prevent the arrival of Santa. 

    We children saved our pennies and went shpping for small gifts for each other and our parents. Today it seems more like Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, whereas ours was more for sharing.

    I have a photo of myself taken 73 years ago. I was sitting on this old bloke’s knee, a terrified look on my face.

    My own children did not have Santa at all. One Christmas morning a lady at church asked my eldest Did Santa bring you something nice, or words to that effect. He just looked at her blankly.

    I have always had a horror of consumerism. Besides my husband had very little tradition of gift giving, and none at all of Santa. His Christmas stocking was stocked with fruit and sweets for good boys :popcorn:  And coal for bad boys. :fryingpan:

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    Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
    « Reply #18 on: November 24, 2022, 12:37:43 AM »
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    • Quote from: Miles Christi on November 23, 2022, 06:19:50 PM
    I put two and two together early on because we didn't have a chimney.
    :laugh1:

    I've never understood how parents have the time and energy to keep up with make-believe stories. Just for starters, I wouldn't be able to wrap presents in reused boxes and still keep my story straight. We've rarely opened presents first thing on Christmas morning. Whether it's sleeping in after midnight Mass or getting up for morning Mass, squeezing in time for the usual Santa nonsense just doesn't make much sense to me.

    We do celebrate St. Nicholas day by giving the kids small treats and often some new books, but those gifts are to commemorate the feast day and are not actually "from" St. Nicholas.
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    Offline Kazimierz

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    Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
    « Reply #19 on: November 24, 2022, 02:56:39 PM »
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    • Quote from: Cera on November 23, 2022, 06:10:23 PM
    I had the same experience of finding out I'd been lied to by the same people who sent me to Catholic school. Another thing about Santa that freaked me out was the song:

    He sees you when you're sleeping,
    he knows when you're awake.
    He knows if you've been good or bad
    so be good for goodness sake.

    Sort of like the NSA.
    Creepy.

    Santa is banned in our home.
    Just nativity sets, lights, boughs and bows.
    And Christmas cookies include stars and angels.
    He sees you when you're sleeping,
    He KNOWS when you're awake,
    Santa is the KGB,Run Comrade!
    Your life tis at stake!

    So better watch out,
    you better not cry (Facecrime!)
    Keep your trap shut,
    I am telling you why,
    cuz the Gulag sleigh is coming to town!
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    Re: how do y'all handle Santa in your homes?
    « Reply #20 on: November 24, 2022, 03:05:16 PM »
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    • And there is more......

    For those who remember the Rankin/Bass stop motion "holiday" classic Rudolf the Red Nosed Venison ...ahem...reindeer.....

    See how Santa is portrayed therein, and you find he is a real schmuck. :trollface:

    Santa is the bad goyim-ski and Rudolf is the heroic Judenhoofer - since this story was written by a perfidiously fake Red Sea Pedestrian!
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