When you were a kid, how did you think Santa delivered all the gifts?

[Drunken Irishman]

It's always cute to see kids' imaginations when it comes to Santa. When I was a kid, I always thought Santa had the ability to stop time when we were sleeping, giving him all the time in the world to deliver every gift to children across the world. I think I thought this because my parents were always so rigid on the time I had to go to bed on Christmas Eve. It never varied, I would think that maybe if I were awake during the part where Santa stopped time, something horrible would happen. So I'd spend some nights trying to force myself asleep because I was afraid I'd get stuck in some time vortex dealio.

Also, I grew up in a house with no fireplace, so I always wondered how Santa came into the house. Our neighborhood was pretty crime ridden, so on every Christmas Eve night I'd demand my parents keep the front door unlocked, but they wouldn't. I think they told me Santa had the ability to shrink himself down so small that he could enter the house through the bottom of the door.

Of course I believed 'em.

[Lil Missy]

1. I never gave it any thought. I just thought Santa was magical.

It was finding out that my mom was the Easter Bunny that took me by surprise. I caught her hiding the candy eggs and I was crushed to learn there wasn't really an Easter Bunny. Go figure?

[Drunken Irishman]

2. I think I just asked if there was no Easter Bunny.

And when my mom said that there wasn't, I kinda knew that meant there wasn't a Santa Claus either.

[Berry Cool]

6. Actually it was at Easter when I was about eight that I figured certain stuff out

and then it was "You mean there's no Santa either?"

[Lil Missy]

8. And then there was the Tooth Fairy too.

[ElizabethDC]

4. Same here. I always thought Santa was one of those thigns that couldn't be explained.

I think I also knew that if I thought too much about it, I'd probably learn that he wasn't really, and I really didn't want to learn that. I liked believing in Santa Claus.

[Berry Cool]

3. For a long time when I was growing up I did live in a house with a chimney

so I thought Santa really did come down the chimney. Hung my stockings on a real mantel and weighted them down with stuff as best I could because they didn't make stocking hangers back then like they do now. It would be lying on the hearth next morning, weighted down with candy and stuff.

My mother would always make a big deal out of having to open the fireplace damper (we never actually had any fires in the fireplace) on Christmas Eve to make sure Santa could get in.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Santa came in through the bulkhead doors to the cellar

and he crept upstairs to the living room.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Through the kitchen window, of course

I saw his muddy footprints over the sink.

Why do you ask?

[Maraya1969]

18. Oh that is so cute and creative of your parents. I remember the crumbs

on the table where Santa ate the cookies. It was really magical.

[Xipe Totec]

24. Parents? Wha..., What do you mean, parents?

You're not suggesting that...

I mean, it couldn't have been...
















Doh!

[Maraya1969]

25. Oh Noes! I mean I meant Santa and his reindeer. That's what I meant!

[Bluzmann57]

9. I just though he was...well, you know, Santa

We had no fireplace so I can't figure it out. But I do remember one Christmas eve when I was around six or seven years old and had to pee. Really pee. But I was sort of afraid if I did, Santa wouldn't come. I finally got up and did my business and Santa came, so it all worked out. Now I just get up and do my business and bitch about it. Ah...old age.

[lost-in-nj]

10. We have a fireplace

actually this is the house I grew up in..
we bought it from my parents...

so before the stupid stove...
we would burn our lists in the fireplace and they went to Santa
my children did the same thing in the same fireplace


and of course... he came down the chimney


lost


cookies and milk ALWAYS waiting.......

[Frosty1]

11. I always knew where the presents came from.

I was never told that Santa brought them.

[Skittles]

12. my parents did not lie to me either

[Berry Cool]

16. I am proud to say

my mother lied to me.

[Skittles]

21. well good for you I guess / nt

[lost-in-nj]

17. You know what

I didn't lie...

I believe in the CONCEPT of Santa Claus

when I was growing up
and when my kids were also
we NEVER had alot of money.....
BUT


our miracles ALWAYS came true.....
I believe
we had nothing......
then we did

SOMETHING
is there.....







lost

[sakabatou]

13. He didn't

I was/am Jewish.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. My parents left the front door unlocked, and Santa would lock it behind him.

Then I woke up once to get a drink of water, and my mother was putting out my gifts from Santa. I was completely depressed.
Duckie

[MorningGlow]

15. We had no fireplace, so my mom said they'd leave the door unlocked

And I believed her. The bigger deal was what happened when there was no snow--how could he land his sleigh? My mom said he came by helicopter. I never liked the idea, so I always hoped there'd be snow.

[mwooldri]

19. When I was younger I thought Santa made its way through the letterbox.

In the UK we don't have mailboxes but have flaps in our front doors where mail would be delivered.

Oh and Santa didn't do cookies and milk. He did sherry, or brandy, and a mince pie.

Mark.

[laurelbunny]

20. hmmm

*I am not a little kid but I am 12, We moved this summer, but i lived in a trailor for 12 years of my life, My parents left the door unlocked, and if they try to make me believe in him I believed less, but if they didn't i believed more. I always wondered why all the toys Santa brought were stored bought, and now as I am 12 I try to believe, while my parents tell me he isn't real,
* I've been wondering about his existence to kids, it may be that kids don't really think about it, but maybe adults underestimate the reality of Santa, if you think about it he brings out the giving spirit in all of us, while he may not be a real man his spirit is completely real and lives in most of us during the holiday season.
* So if u put out gifts for your children, or donate toys to those less fortunate, you are
Santa to a child.
* Long live Santa, and long live Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone (Can't wait till Santa comes!!!)

[fortyfeetunder]

22. Row houses, no chimney...

Figured he came through the front door. But we never heard a doorbell ring, figured that was the magic.

[Omphaloskepsis]

23. My parents told me that Santa wasn't real.

I never believed in him. They also told me not to tell the other kids.

[qb]

26. I didn't... my parents insisted on receiving full recognition for the gifts they bought :)

And I don't blame them. If someone did give me a gift that was "from Santa" I knew it was BS.