how old were you when you found out there was no santa?

i'm glad i never caught my parents, boy would i have been mad, but only for a little while. it was nice while it lasted. thanks for sharing and for responding. have a nice day!!! :)

i was scared to stay up and wait for santa because i always thought that he wouldn't come until i went to sleep. i don't know what i would have said to him if he was real and i had the opportunity to see him when i was smaller. thanks for sharing with us and for responding!!!! :) have a nice day

i can't remember my exact age when i first found out about santa not being real, but i know that until i had kids of my own christmas was different after hearing the news. now that extra excitement about christmas is back now that i get to play santa for my kids. thanks for sharing with us and for responding.

thank you, merry early christmas to you too. :) who knows maybe he do still exist. i know that there has always been a gift under the tree for me each year that wasn't there before i went to bed the night before. it just may be true. thanks for sharing with us and for responding.

lol, i know. i was pretty mad when i found out that none of them was real. :) thanks for sharing with us and for responding. :) have a nice day.

my family celebrate christmas to the fullest, but we also knew the true meaning of christmas. thanks for sharing with us and for responding. have a nice day. :)

that is a great advantage indeed. i was a bit younger when i first found out, i am sure it had the same effect on most of us when we first found out. it's great you write stories about santa, i think others will enjoy reading what you have to say about him. it's also a good way to bring back some memories that you may have forgotten about. thanks for sharing with us and for responding.

lol, i was going in my mother closet trying to find some of her clothes that i could play dress up in when i saw my easter basket. i asked her why it was at our house so early when it wasn't time for easter yet, she said the easter bunny got the dates mixed up and that she put the basket up for me until easter. after that i started to figure out that the easter bunny wasn't real. i remember her telling me that the easter bunny said that he will bring me another basket on easter. she said that i was lucky because i was going to get 2 easter baskets. i was so excited i didn't even care about what i had found. :) i know she was just looking out for me. i know that santa has been good to me over the years. thanks for sharing with us and for responding. :)

Shontia your comment brought tears to my eyes because it was exactly the same as happened in our house when I ws young. I used to find an empty glass and the crumbs too and we used to look up towards the stars hoping to see him too. It all sounds sooo familiar We were so lucky that our parents made it all so real for us and sad that as adults we have no more magical things to believe in

i am sure your parents did a great job. one thing i liked was on christmas eve night my mother would help me and my brothers and sisters draw pictures to leave out for santa with the milk and cookies. the next day the glass would be half empty and we would see crumps left in the plate. our mother would tell us how excited santa was over the pictures and the treats we left him. that made our christmas special too. i also remember when i was around 3 and 4 and i would look up in the sky at night and see the red light from a plane and think that it was rudolph. lol. i use to wonder why he passed our house and didn't stop and my dad would tell us that he was coming to our house but we had to go to sleep first. i am now doing some of the same things with my kids and i hope they carry on the tradition when they have kids. thanks for sharing with us and for responding.

hello, i never caught my parents putting out presents for us, i was told that santa wasn't real by some kids at my school. i do however tell my kids about santa and let them write him and leave cookie and milk out for him. i also help them draw pictures for him, i always saw it as a way to bond with them even more. thanks for sharing with us and for responding. have a nice day!!! :)

thank you for sharing with us and for responding. i use to look at the christmas parades on tv and would see one santa on one station and another santa on a different station. i remember wondering how in the world he was able to be in two parades at once and my older sister would tell me that it was magic. i use to believe that every santa that i saw on tv was real. :) thanks again. have a nice day!!!!

i like the spirit of christmas. i wish people were in the same mood year round. i also like to help the less fortunate. my church give out gifts and feed those who may not have a meal on christmas or don't have a family to celebrate with. thank you for sharing with us and for responding. have a nice day.

yes, after finding out the truth it do change things. it is fun playing santa to my kids and seeing the smiles on their faces when they get up on christmas morning and see that santa has drunk the milk and ate the cookies that they left out for him. thanks for sharing with us and for responding. :)

Finding out the truth did change things for me because when I was young, the fun of Christmas was largely because of the mystery. But when I got older I learned to appreciate Christmas more and not just as something that is fun because it's mysterious and magical. I learned to enjoy giving gifts to people and spending quality time them.

christmas is my favorite time of the year too. i can't remember my exact age when i first learned that "santa" was really my mother and father. i am glad that they choose to make us believe in santa when we were young, because it made the wait for christmas day that much more fun. we use to leave cookies and milk for him. other kids at my school told me that santa wasn't real. that following christmas just wasn't the same, i was still happy because i got everything that i wanted, but it was still kind of hard finding out that he wasn't real. it wasn't hard as in i was depress or anything, things just was different. thanks for sharing with us. thanks for replying.

Hi shontia, It is really hard to find out something like that when you are small bit like the tooth fairy I suppose. When we used to have Carol Singers around the Houses late at night and because you were small you were already tucked up in bed just listening to them singing made it like magic and it was magic because I wanted to believe that it was so. No one can take that away from you ever.

i agree, it is a great feeling playing santa to the less fortunate and letting my kids believe that santa is real. i look forward to christmas each year too, it's the best time of the year. thanks for sharing with us and for responding. :)

i am kind of glad that i was lead to believe that there was a santa. it made christmas that much more exciting. now that i have kids of my own i get to see how my parents felt when we were kids. this is one thing that i will never regret. my little nephew wants spiderman to come and visit him at his birthday party. :) anyway, thanks for sharing with us and for responding. have a nice day!!!

thanks for sharing with us and for responding. i was also taught the real meaning of christmas but my parents also let us experience the magic of santa. i am not sure when it would be a good time to let kids know that santa isn't real. with my kids i was thinking about letting them find out on their own or when they get much older which ever comes first. when they start school, that's when i start to worry because i don't know if some of the kids from their school will tell them. i'll then have some explaining to do, but i think they will understand. :) have a nice day!!!

i hope when my kids find out that they will understand. i know it won't send them into deep depression or anything, it's just that when i found out, even though i still enjoy christmas and get excited when it is that time of the year again, things still seemed a little different after i was told that he wasn't real. i'm glad to hear that you son understood. thanks for sharing with us and for responding.

lol, no it is not the same. that was sweet, leaving a carrot for rudolph. i forgot all about him, but he didn't mind i don't think, since i got what i wanted each year. :) i was 5 when i got my first letter from santa and i kept it with me for a while, even after i was told that he wasn't real. eventually it got mixed up with some junk mail and i believe i threw it away. those were the good ol days, lol!!! thanks for sharing with us and for responding. have a nice day.

oh, ok. well thanks for responding. have a nice day :)