How old were you?

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

How old were you when you stopped believing in Santa Claus? Why did you stop believing?

I was about 10, I think, my older cousins told me there was no santa and said that if I looked in the closet in mom's room I'd find all the presents. I'll be damned, I looked and there they were.
Wicked

 

[EarthWind]

There's no santa???

really tho, umm i was about 9 when i found all my presents and my sisters presents on my grandmothers bed all layed out, like a display.. she had a purple case of hair stuff and i have a pink case of hair stuff.. we switched them...

finally told my mother a few years ago that we did that!! lol she called us little buggers! lol




edited for stupidity...

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

EarthWind There's no santa???

oops, did I disappoint you? So sorry.

 

[Diablogrl]

I grew up in a strange house...while we recognized Santa and read stories about him, we were not raised to believe in him. My parents believed that believing in fictitional characters only led us to heartbreak in the long run (I remember my best friend coming over to my house when we were 10 crying that there was no Santa, and I just didn't get it). Thus, to answer the question, I suppose you have to belief in him before you can stop believing in him.

 

[EarthWind]

hee hee..

I told a friend of mine there was no santa when we were 5.. she told her grandmother (who happend to be our babysitter at the time) and she ragged me out while i stood on the front step of her house! she got mean!! lol

i think i cried

 

[someplace]

I still believe in Santa at my house. All my (grown) kids do too. He doesn't bring you pressies if you don't believe in him! LOL. My 26 yr old son and I have some fun with this, as you can imagine.

 

[christcat69]

I think I was 6. I came downstairs when my parents were placing the presents beneath the tree.

 

[mfs686]

I can't remember.....I was pretty young then.....

 

[MissVictoria]

My parents never presented santa claus to me in a way that I believed that he existed.

 

[medjay]

I remember when I was 6 or 7, I woke up at six in the morning and Santa hadn't come. Depressed, I went to wake my parents up and told them. My father told me Santa was probably just running late and I should go back to bed. A few minutes later I heard some rusting in the closet and then all the presents were there.

Afterwards, my parents seemed relieved they no longer had to keep up the charade.

 

[kjtatts]

About 10.

I was most confused to find my uncle asleep on the couch, Christmas morning, dressed in a wrinkled Santa outfit with his boots at the door and fake beard half off.......

And the glass of beer (that I was told Santa prefers) and cookies were gone, of course........
Gee, adults look silly when they are trying to explain their way out of a huge cock-up like that!

I suspect, looking back, that he had more than just ONE glass of beer......But I dont think it affected me too much....Im ok....really......

 

[Starblayde]

When i saw that the tooth-imprints in the mince pie we left out for Santa were the same as my Dad's teeth. About 5 or 6 i think

I was disillusioned early

 

[sheath]

I remember reading "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" when I was...maybe ten? I don't remember my parents ever actually telling me there was no Santa.

I still believe, by the way, in everything that editorial said about Santa Claus. Just because you don't see fairies dancing on the lawn does not mean they are not there! And as long as there are children with wonder in their eyes, so there does the heart of Santa Claus exist.

He's in all of us.

Now, where's my milk and cookies????

S.

(edited for spelling...I'm a writer and an editor, I can't help it.)

 

[Guest]

I always figured it was unlikely that fat, old geezer would fit in the chimney.

 

[Star of Penumbra]

I was six or seven.

 

[marksgirl]

I busted the Santa wanna bees when I was 5!

 

[Guest]

I can't remember, but in the first grade, I told every kids there was no Santa, so it must have been pre-school age.

 

[medjay]

I always figured it was unlikely that fat, old geezer would fit in the chimney.

We didn't have a chimney. When I asked how Santa was going to get in, my father said he used magic to open the front door.

Then I asked how it was possible for one man to deliver toys to kids all over the world in the space of one night. He said that Santa traveled counter to the earth's rotation therefor making him able to accomplish more in one night. I said that sounded kinda unlikley, so then my father said that Santa used his magic to stop time.

Then I asked how Santa was able to fit toys for all the kids in the world into that one tiny sleigh. My father told me to go play because he was busy.

 

[morninggirl5]

I was 8 and still truly believed. My mother told me the "news" and i was completely disullisioned.

My younger sister (she was 5) had already figured it out, they decided it would be a good idea to tell me before she did.

 

[Naughty Elf]

I believe in Santa. He's real.

 

[Ice Cold]

seven or eight... hearing your parents wrap presents on Christmas eve, then seeing them tagged from Santa....
the gig was up.

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

My oldest stopped when she was 8. She started asking if he was real and I didn't want her not to beileve so I turned it around and asked her, "Do you think he's real"? She said no so I said ok then he's not. Now my little one who is 7 is asking and I'm playing the what do you think game with her. I want her to believe at least one more year.
As for how he gets in he has magic keys for houses without chimneys and to explain why some years they get more than other I tell my kids that I send money with their list and santa gets what he can from the list with the money I send.

Wicked

 

[cybergirly]

I honestly can't remember ever believing in Santa. I do remember my mother getting very upset with me when I was about 6 and told my younger brother that Santa wasn't real. But then I was always a nosy kid, I'm sure I started looking in closets and under beds about the same time I learned to walk.

 

[concrete]

w-n-e

not the age that you stopped believe-ing
it's the age YOU became...

 

[medjay]

Another question I remember asking my father:

"If Santa's elves make all the toys at the north pole, then how do I end up getting stuff packaged by Hasbro and Kenner?"

His reply: "Santa's got a contract with those companies to construct and package those particular goods."

"So, they have an assembly line and a packing plant at the North Pole?"

"Yeah."