Guardian Omega Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 Fake? Well, with Christmas coming and I was thinking of presents when it hit me........how did you find out he was a fake? I found out when I was coming down for a midnight snack and spotted my parents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taos Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I don't know....I think there just may be some ppl around here that still believe........just a guess though. Anywho, when I was about 14 and I just figured it out on my own......*shrugs* Originally posted by Guardian Omega I found out when I was coming down for a midnight snack and spotted my parents. A midnight snack on Christmas.......my parents would never let me do that......which is how/why I was able to put two and two together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivy Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 WHAT? what do you mean he's fake?! only joking of course. i knew from a young age, my parents didn't really bother pretending that he was real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormHammer Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 An older friend told me one day...just in passing. I think I was about 8 years old or something (he was 2 or 3 years older than me)...anyway, it came down to fisticuffs. I did my bit to defend Santa's honour that day, I can tell you. I chose not to believe it for another couple of years, but it was never really the same after that. Thankfully, I don't think I'll have much problem letting my kids down easy...they're pretty smart already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpYzEr Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 What?! Santa is not fake! Long live Santa!! OK, I found out by my best friend. He told me but i didn't believe him then i asked my parents and they said he was fake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Warrior Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I caught my parents putting presents from Santa under the tree at around 1am in the morning on Christmas Eve when I was 11. They said that Santa had just come and they were organizing the gifts so I could find my gifts together in the morning. I bought that for about 1 week and then I came to my senses. I was also growing suspicious that the Santa's notes to me were always looked very familiar to my mom's writing. I put 2 and 2 together and figured it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gorganfloss Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I found out when I saw that Santas and my parents wrapping paper and tag thingys were the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jed Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 Originally posted by Dark Warrior I was also growing suspicious that the Santa's notes to me were always looked very familiar to my mom's writing. I put 2 and 2 together and figured it out. Exactly how I found out. At around age 8, I sorta realized my gifts said they were from Santa when it looked like my mom's handwriting. Also, when I was 7, when we left food out for Santa, it was still there the next morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 Originally posted by Gorgan I found out when I saw that Santas and my parents wrapping paper and tag thingys were the same. yup. I found presents before Christmas, and on Christmas, the tag said, form santa. I was 9 when I found out. Eh, Christmas isn't as fun anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GonkH8er Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 Personally, I'm not going to let my kids believe in santa. I'm going to tell them the truth from the start. Letting them know that it's the parents who are buying all the gifts and not some magical fat man would probably teach them to respect us a little more for all we do. Plus, the whole letting down thing a few years down the track. Why exactly do we have a santa? Sure, people might argue he's iconic of christmas, but dont we have xmas trees and presents and family togetherness to remind us that it's christmas again..... And if you want to take a christian view on christmas, shouldnt jesus be the icon? I did believe in santa.... and I was so angry at my parents when I found out. I think taking advantage of childhood blissful ignorance only to have that bliss destroyed a few years later is terrible Down with santa! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Talliusc Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 lol, this thread brings back memories. believe it or not i found out by asking questions that they couldnt answer. they'd answer that he was magical, then when id do something stupid like break a lamp id say it was by magic and they'd tell me that theres no such thing. by the time i was 7 i had figured it out, though i suspected from a year or two before. i was very sneaky and id always find all my presents in the closet, or in the crawlspace or behind the radiators etc. on christmas it'd say from santa and that got me wondering. i think for a day or two i thought my dad was santa....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratmjedi Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I never was brought up to belive that there was a Santa. I saw other kids talk about it but I didn't say a word. I never really got many present's at home and we have never had a Christmas tree at our house cause of money and my parent's saying it was a waste of money getting a tree and then throwing it away. I still am not sure if I am going to make my children believe in Santa. I'll by the tree so that my children can have what I didn't but as for making them belive in Santa I am not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-s/<itzo- Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 didn't..... no one told me. it was just common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mex Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I helped wrap up the presents and I thought "what the heck, if i'm wrappin it, then, santas a fake, dumb cows!" 0_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mima kake Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 We don't have santa in our country. But wo do cellebrate Xmass. But the santa thing is not our tradition. We got a simmilair kind of thing at the 5th of december. And it's also for the little children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I saw my mum putting my christmas stocking on the end of my bed one night, twas a sad night indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-s/<itzo- Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 to think about my parents never told me about santa. when i found out about him i was too old and cared less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SettingShadow Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 ohhh.... I think I stoped beliving in Santa when I was 5-6, he looked a bit to much like my grandfather (he also had the same voice and he had the same smell ), I was never really "dissapointed" that he was a fake.... I dont really care about Santa.... didnt then either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kstar__2 Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 the guy mima told us about is named "sinterklaas" my parents just come to me and told me when i was about 9 years old. i immeadeately asked "and santa and the easter bunny, are they not real too?":D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arreat Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 when iw as watching a rugrats episode where i think it was angelica who pulled his beard down( this was back when i was 6 or 7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondrahosek Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I was 8, still living in a tiny flat in Prague, the Czech Republic; now I live in Vienna, Austria. My father had a whisky newsletter collection under the TV. I was just looking in there... And I found the letters we put on the window for "santa". Then my parents could not simulate Santa anymore Now I am constantly asking them what E-Mail does Santa have... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyOneCanoli Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I was in first grade (7 years old or so), and we were looking at pre-made Easter baskets in the supermarket. It kind of hit me then - why would there be pre-made Easter baskets if the Easter Bunny made them and brought them himself? So I asked my mother, who denied it at first. Deep down, I knew the truth, so I kept pestering her all that night until she admitted it. Then I just applied that to Christmas time and the Tooth Fairy. I'm pretty sure I cried. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiRtY $oUtH™ Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 I never believed in Santa...its true. My parents told me that people would tell me about Santa but that he was not real. I actually appreciate this because imagine when they tell you that you've been believing in a lie they told you for years...I would be pissed. Its better that they told me the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefox98 Posted December 1, 2002 Share Posted December 1, 2002 Interesting thread My parents were very tricky about the whole Santa thing, my Mother could write in many different ways, such as Calligraphy, etc, so I couldn't put that together. Somehow they always got the presents under the tree when I wasn't looking (I would sneak downstairs and they wouldnt be there at say, 2 in the morning or 3, or 4, heh.) But even as a really little kid I was skeptical of the whole ordeal, so one day I just asked them, "Hey, is Santa not real?" And they said, "We don't want to lie to you, yeah he's fake." So, it pretty much reinforced my theory, heh. And also, I remember they told me to make sure not to say anything to the kids at school about it, considering they all still believed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 hehehe i saw some stuff my parents got (accidentally opened a cardboard box and found alot of stuff, but didn't know who it belonged to) and on christmas i said 'hey i saw that in a box' i think i was 7, and they told me and i wasn't emotional about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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