No such thing as Santa Claus???!!!

[beastie]

www.portablenorthpole.com

It's great for all ages.

 

[Kai]

My two are starting to wind themselves up for Christmas , at the moment it watching the contents on my wife's Chrimbo DVD collection.She is even worse the kids added together

Arthur Christmas is the current favorite

They both still believe (9 and 5) and I think that they may be going on the Polar Express just before Christmas this year ( it's running from Okehampton train station ) as a treat

As others have said its the innocence that is priceless to me

 

[Fnaar]

 

[tyred]

Oh well, he had a good innings.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

From a young age, I was embarrassed for my parents with the whole Santa thing. I mean come on: same paper, same handwriting, not to mention the physical impossibility of the whole thing...

Next you will be saying cake doesnt exist

 

[Globalti]

I once got volunteered to play Santa at my neighbour's kids' school. I must have been a natural because even the kids didn't recognise me.

 

[coffeejo]

Next you will be saying cake doent exist

Now you see it............

 

[biggs682]

although having told my daughter that neither santa or tooth fairy exsist can we still leave out a mince pie and some milk for Rudolph the reindeer !

 

[vernon]

This is the first year that we will not have bought advent calendars and stuff for Xmas stockings for our offspring. All three of them live away from the family house, the youngest comes home for the holidays from Bangor university.

The middle child's advent calendar last year lasted all of one night when he came home stoned, had the munchies, and ate all of the chocolates before demolishing half the fridge contents.

 

[phil_hg_uk]

The middle child's advent calendar last year lasted all of one night when he came home stoned, had the munchies, and ate all of the chocolates before demolishing half the fridge contents.

........................... ah memories

 

[Risex4]

The middle child's advent calendar last year lasted all of one night when he came home stoned, had the munchies, and ate all of the chocolates before demolishing half the fridge contents.

Win!

Off topic, but this oldie-but-goodie still makes me geek-chuckle http://www.engineeringedu.com/Santa.html

 

[Arch]

We'll be at my Mum's with my sister and her boys, who are 5 and 2, so still young enough to believe. We'll make sure we leave a plate of mince pies and stuff out downstairs.

Coincidentally, NT and I will probably be using the sofa bed in the living room. Thus, we can make sure they pies are suitably diminished in the morning.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I stopped believing in Santa in 1987 when we'd just moved to Colchester and my mother hid my new bike under a sheet in her bedroom. I got a Raleigh Bianca, a Commodore 64 and a hamster that Christmas and god only knows how she could afford it or what I'd done to deserve it all. I loved that bike and it lasted me three or four years and literally thousands of miles

Can't remember when my brother stopped believing but I think he was maybe five or six but my sister was about ten which, given she's 17 years younger, I had the special Christmas magic right into my late 20's.

 

[jefmcg]

We have enough misery to endure and for a great deal of our life without burdening the very young with our own petty cynicism.

I don't know, sometimes I think the Santa myth can breed cynicism. I remember my older brother's grief when he found out the truth, because my parents had lied to him for so long.

And a few years later I finally realised that I believed in Jesus for the same reasons I believed in Santa and I held onto the belief in Santa for a long time after, deep down, I knew that it was a fiction. That was the beginning of my moving to atheism. Or perhaps the last step.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I became disillusioned with Jesus and the catholic church before I stopped believing in Santa and blame the teacher who told me that communion wafers weren't actually the body of Christ but made by nuns somewhere in Dumbarton. I was six.