Santa and his band of holiday misfits

mbalbritton

mbalbritton

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With my youngest kid reaching that age where this will be the last Christmas that she can hear Santa’s sleigh bells (Polar Express reference), it takes me back to try and remember when I first learned/discovered the lies and deceitful actions of my parents and elders.

I don’t recall the moment. Seems that after 8-10 years of being lied to about Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth Fairy, you’d recall the seemingly traumatic moment you said to yourself, WTF! You’ve all been lying to me!!!??

Do you recall that moment?
 
My 3rd grade teacher told us, but I don’t remember being shocked or upset, so I must’ve known before then.
 
I was 2nd/3rd grade...I questioned it, asked my mom...she told me I was right. It was just something people did to enhance the season, but if I told class mates or siblings, she’d beat my ass. Then she told me if I didn’t believe in Santa, I didn’t get any gifts. So I still believe. But I don’t remember it being any issue for me. Maybe if I were younger or hadn’t started questioning it.
 
The Tooth Fairy is real...because I had to put money under the pillow a little over a week ago and inflation is a bitch!
 
Don't really remember when I found out, but I do remember keeping it going for my little sister who is 4 years younger. To me that was more fun than thinking he was real. I'm ready for next Christmas when my little girl will really understand the story.

Duane
 
Don't remember the age but I know when I became skeptical.I was about 7/8 and woke up Christmas morning to my step dad pulling the back seat out of my moms 64 Impala cause Santa accidently put them in the trunk by mistake and mom had locked her keys in there as she was getting them out.Yeah right,I was flying the BS flag before there was even a bs flag to fly.

Jake was 8/9 and straight up ask,Tonya just came clean about it.The whole thing was sad for her and she even cried a lil over it. @CLRracer and @UTfball68 and who ever else has lil kids enjoy it while you can cause it knocks the shine off of Christmas when they know.
 
First grade I think. I remember my friend's mom jerk me outta the room, finger waving the crap out of me. I was just trying to be honest with a buddy and let him see the writing on the wall plus the fact that he was being lied to. I'm pretty sure that day was when he became fully aware of the conspiracy. :D
 
Wes said:
4th grade I found my stash in one of the closets. Pretty much everything I had pointed out in those big ass Sears catalogues.
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I have an aunt that's abut 14 months older than me,she lived across the road and we were like bro/sister.One year we made a deal that we'd tell the other what they had for Christmas.I was naïve enuf to go along w it and told her.She told me too but what she told me was waaay better than what I actually got.Lying hussy.
 
1-tonmudder said:
Jake was 8/9 and straight up ask,Tonya just came clean about it.The whole thing was sad for her and she even cried a lil over it. @CLRracer and @UTfball68 and who ever else has lil kids enjoy it while you can cause it knocks the shine off of Christmas when they know.
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Christmas was my Grandma's absolute most favorite time of the year, and she died on Christmas day. This time of year will ALWAYS be special to me, I just hope I can show my kids how special it is even after the magic of Santa is gone.

Duane
 
CLRracer said:
Christmas was my Grandma's absolute most favorite time of the year, and she died on Christmas day. This time of year will ALWAYS be special to me, I just hope I can show my kids how special it is even after the magic of Santa is gone.

Duane
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Good for you I hope you can too,I really mean that.For me its just about like any other day I just get to eat good,open presents, and put up w family longer than I want to.Ive developed a Archie Bunker attitude about most everything.
 
When I learned to read i found out about ole Saint Nick in a book about another country and their traditions... ummm I didn't say shit bc I thought I'd stop gettin presents ha! Tooth fairy I never believed in bc I never sleep and caught Ma swapping for cash same for Easter basket... wish I could go back to those days!
 
What gets me is I got a damn quarter a tooth now kids get like $5 a tooth... wtf
 
Croatan_Kid said:
The Tooth Fairy is real...because I had to put money under the pillow a little over a week ago and inflation is a bitch!
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I just lost $10 last week... I'm tellin ya
 
C.Berry said:
What gets me is I got a damn quarter a tooth now kids get like $5 a tooth... wtf
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Fuck that. My daughter has gotten a dollar per tooth. She's 7 now. And luckily has no sense of the value off money (yet).
 
mbalbritton said:
I asked my 15y/o if she remembered when she caught on. Sh said ya, when I recognized your handwriting from the tooth fairy’s note saying she’s be back tomorrow night because she ran out of money.

Damn.
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Jonas lost his teeth really late. Heck he's 13 and still has a couple extras in there.
Anyway, years ago we just plain forgot. He got up in the morning and was like, Oh the tooth fairy didn't come.
Ah crap.
While he was brushing his teeth I slipped a few bucks under his pillow, and suggested ,"hey are you sure, go check again."
He came back later and said, "gee that's funny, I put a new pillow on my bed this morning, the money just appeared under the new one."
I knew, and he knew, I was busted. Doh.
 
I remember it was a kid in 1st grade who told me. I did not believe him, but asked my parents later that day and they confirmed. They asked me to keep it a secret so it would not spoil the magic for my sister, who's 3 years younger.

Fast forward to 2017 where the tooth fairy in our house is still only paying $1/tooth.
I have 3 kids in middle school, none of them believe anymore. I have no idea when the oldest figured it out, but it seems like a long time ago. I think he kept quiet about it figuring if he 'broke the story', the gifts would end. My daughter found out at school somehow in 2nd/3rd grade. My youngest son refused to see the truth, even though his siblings and friends hinted and probably even told him the truth. We, as parents, had to sit down with and lay it all out with him. Figured we needed to set him straight before he entered middle school.
 
I don't remember anything that far back...


My girls are 7 and still have no idea. However, we will be with an older cousin this year at Christmas and she knows. I sure as hell hope she can keep her know-it-all mouth shut for my girls!
 
rockcity said:
I don't remember anything that far back...


My girls are 7 and still have no idea. However, we will be with an older cousin this year at Christmas and she knows. I sure as hell hope she can keep her know-it-all mouth shut for my girls!
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I think id pull the mom to the side and talk to her about it.Girls can be the spawn of the devil and do shit just for the hell of it
 
RatLabGuy said:
Fuck that. My daughter has gotten a dollar per tooth. She's 7 now. And luckily has no sense of the value off money (yet).
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fuck me... i wish our 8 year old already knows money and sells Pokémon, video games, whatever he wants on eBay... he's as good on a computer as I am to tell truth about it!! I'm trying to talk him into selling all his Pokémon to buy a 4wheeler or a old junk mopar to build for next 10 years but he's like ehhh video games are life!!! Lol
 
For the record I DO NOT give the money for teeth I don't spoil I spank, but as we all know What mamma says always goes... lmao :shaking:
 
I had this discussion with my wife recently. We have a 20 month old daughter - Should we raise her to believe in Santa?

Not to sound like a total Scrooge, but why lie to your kids only to crush them with truth later? Why have them focus on something that is 'fun' and materialistic, but not the true purpose of Christmas? Also, why should we buy things and say someone else bought them? We talked about simply telling her it was a fun tradition but that Santa isn't real from the beginning. Seems to me that's the best compromise.

Unfortunately, the wife asked our older son who just found out Santa isn't real, what he thought we should do. He wanted her to think their was a Santa.

So... that happened.

I blame the future tears on him.

There's a LOT of reasons to not raise them, and the only good reason is fun.

Teach them that presents cost money and thankfulness should be generated towards the parents who worked hard for them instead of some figure who gave them free stuff. (Gee, I could pull that into some political/social directions!). Teach them that the only faith figure they need to impress with their behavior is God and not some Jolly Guy in a suit. Speaking of which, teach them that if some fat peeping tom sneaks into your house offering free goodies and candy in return for certain 'behaviors', he's going to get shot.

Okay, maybe I am a Scrooge.

But I stand by it, Santa is Bullshit. Responsible Parents teaching Life Lessons and Christian principles is more important.
 
Wait, found out what? What are you guys saying?

I don't remember how old I was, probably 5 or so. I couldn't sleep Christmas eve and got up and went back to the den. Stepped in the doorway and saw my Aunt filling the stockings. Just turned around and went back to bed.
 
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