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Offline littlelamb

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What age
« on: December 08, 2010, 10:15:51 PM »
How old were you when you found out there wasn't a Santa?
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Re: What age
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 10:50:32 PM »
What?!?  There is no Santa.  :bawl:
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Re: What age
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 11:19:18 PM »
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCiZFPsKR8[/youtube]

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Re: What age
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 11:23:13 PM »
I was 5 or 6.

Never tried to tell my kids Santa was real.  We had fun 'being' Santa to each other. 
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Re: What age
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 11:31:11 PM »
Quote from: longview on December 08, 2010, 11:23:13 PM
I was 5 or 6.

Never tried to tell my kids Santa was real.  We had fun 'being' Santa to each other. 

I did, I lied to my kids.
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Re: What age
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 11:37:06 PM »
I think I was about five, but I had "grave concerns" prior to then.
Can still remember one Christmas Eve, my Dad had us girls look out the window to see Santa in his sleigh.  One of the neighbors had put up a display in their yard.  I remember asking Dad why Santa and the reindeer weren't moving. :-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2010, 01:01:19 AM »
If you don't believe in Santa, Santa doesn't bring gifts. :-)  So I believe!
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Re: What age
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2010, 05:32:01 AM »
I still believe in Santa.

It's the tooth fairey that I have my doubts about.
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Re: What age
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 06:50:23 AM »
A friend of mine just had her 5th grade son humiliated at school when his friends found out he still believed.  There comes a point in time, say 8 years oldish, when you have to stop going above and beyond to prove to your kids that that stuff is real.  I have a friend who goes insane to "prove" to her kids that the tooth fairy is real.  We never did tooth fairy here.  Santa was gone by 3rd grade too.

That being said I think I was about 18 when I found out the truth.
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Re: What age
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2010, 08:03:40 AM »
Quote from: md11hydmec on December 09, 2010, 01:01:19 AM
If you don't believe in Santa, Santa doesn't bring gifts. :-)  So I believe!

Exactly!   :cheersmate:  However, I did have my doubts at 11, when we were at my step-dad's families house, and my gifts from Santa were wrapped in Chaunkah paper, as his family was Jewish.  I kept my yap shut however.   O-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 08:13:50 AM »
I think I was 7 . . . I found a stash of presents my mom had hidden in a closet for me.  It was my own fault, I shouldn't have been snooping  :hammer:


Did anyone ever get a 'Christmas in February' gift from Santa (or whatever month)?  I would get those once in a while because Mom would forget where she had hidden things!   :lmao:
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Re: What age
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 08:20:41 AM »
Not sure if I ever "believed" Santa was real... it may have just been another story to me.  I honestly don't remember.  The thing that cinched it was when I was about 8 or 9 hearing tools clanging and my parents cursing trying to assemble three bicycles and still get to bed at a reasonable hour.
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Re: What age
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2010, 08:21:55 AM »
Quote from: njpines on December 09, 2010, 08:13:50 AM
Did anyone ever get a 'Christmas in February' gift from Santa (or whatever month)?  I would get those once in a while because Mom would forget where she had hidden things!   :lmao:
That might have happened once or twice.  My parents were not really the forgetful type.  If they spent money on something, they damn sure knew where it was. :rotf:
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Re: What age
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2010, 08:24:13 AM »
Quote from: njpines on December 09, 2010, 08:13:50 AM
Did anyone ever get a 'Christmas in February' gift from Santa (or whatever month)?  I would get those once in a while because Mom would forget where she had hidden things!   :lmao:

Yeah, that happened to me on occasion too.  A nice February bonus.  :-)

I found out from a couple of neighbor kids when I was 7 or 8.  I still remember their names, the bastards! :censored:  :-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2010, 08:47:20 AM »
I still believe in "Santa"..... :naughty:


I think I was told on the playground at elementary school there wasn't a Santa. When I asked my mom, she said it was my choice to believe in Santa or not.....but she also said that if I didn't believe in Santa, then there was no reason for Santa to bring me presents. I chose to believe.  :-) She died a few days after my 13th birthday...the next Christmas there were no Santa presents or stuffed stockings.

My kids always got their big present from Santa and a stocking stuffed from Santa, separated out from the gifts under the tree. It was that way until they left home. The stockings still get stuffed though... :-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2010, 08:47:25 AM »
I knew the Santa horseshit was bogus from the get-go.

We didn't have a freakin' chimney for him to slide down on, my mother couldn't bake a cookie if her life depended on it, and the gifts marked "from Santa" had my mother's handwriting on it. I never saw any ******* hoofprints and sleigh markings on the roof, and I ESPECIALLY knew it was bogus because none of the reindeer EVER took a dump on the roof.

Besides, everybody knows that those elves are lazy bastards anyway and their friggin' elf union never would've approved that kind of a contract anyway - being responsible for making all those toys for all those kids around the world.  :whatever:

That announcement from NORAD was bogus too - "Sighting from a sleigh emanating from the North Pole..., yadda yadda yadda."

I was a cynical kid, especially about no-brainer stuff like Santa Claus.

"Gonna make a list, naughty or nice..."

Yeah, right. Lemme hit the snooze button on this one.  :whatever:   :lame:
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Re: What age
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2010, 08:48:35 AM »
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Re: What age
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2010, 08:51:47 AM »
Quote from: njpines on December 09, 2010, 08:13:50 AM
I think I was 7 . . . I found a stash of presents my mom had hidden in a closet for me.  It was my own fault, I shouldn't have been snooping  :hammer:


Did anyone ever get a 'Christmas in February' gift from Santa (or whatever month)?  I would get those once in a while because Mom would forget where she had hidden things!   :lmao:

Dude!  One year when I was in junior high, my brother and I unwrapped all of our presents, while the parents were at work, and then rewrapped them.  As usual, I received sweaters, turtlenecks, and pajamas.  I didn't like any of them.  It was sooooooo hard to fake it that day.  Even if you don't like a gift, it is much easier to fake liking it if you don't already know you are not going to like it.  
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Re: What age
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2010, 09:33:54 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on December 09, 2010, 08:51:47 AM
Dude!  One year when I was in junior high, my brother and I unwrapped all of our presents, while the parents were at work, and then rewrapped them.  As usual, I received sweaters, turtlenecks, and pajamas.  I didn't like any of them.  It was sooooooo hard to fake it that day.  Even if you don't like a gift, it is much easier to fake liking it if you don't already know you are not going to like it.  

There should be a moratorium on Christmas presents for teenagers  :hammer:  Mine will pick up each present and tell me what it is before it's unwrapped -- usually he gets most of them right so I know he's not truly "guessing".  Annoys the crap out of me  :argh:

There's a train that runs behind our house that takes coal down to the Atlantic Electric Power plant and I have, on more than one occasion, grabbed a few pieces that have fallen off the coal cars and handed them to him!  :-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2010, 09:36:02 AM »
Quote from: njpines on December 09, 2010, 09:33:54 AM
There should be a moratorium on Christmas presents for teenagers  :hammer:  Mine will pick up each present and tell me what it is before it's unwrapped -- usually he gets most of them right so I know he's not truly "guessing".  Annoys the crap out of me  :argh:

There's a train that runs behind our house that takes coal down to the Atlantic Electric Power plant and I have, on more than one occasion, grabbed a few pieces that have fallen off the coal cars and handed them to him!  :-)

Reminds me of how my Dad used to wrap gifts. He'd stick 'em in a paper bag and hand 'em to you. Now THAT's the way it should be done!  :rotf:
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Re: What age
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2010, 09:43:26 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on December 09, 2010, 09:36:02 AM
Reminds me of how my Dad used to wrap gifts. He'd stick 'em in a paper bag and hand 'em to you. Now THAT's the way it should be done!  :rotf:

Ha, ha  excellent!!  :lmao:
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Re: What age
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2010, 09:49:15 AM »
Unless it was at a very early age and therefore relegated to the edge of the memories, I don't believe I ever believed in Santa Claus.  It seems to me I recall viewing the whole thing as a "ritual" in commemoration of some long-ago event or person, and nothing more than that.

I was five years old, and my younger brother, three, when we happened to wander into the basement of our house alongside the Platte River of Nebraska.  It was an easy basement to get into, and very large and spacious, but for whatever reasons, neither of us paid much attention to it.

We came across what appeared to be boxes of yet-to-be-assembled toys, but being brought up well, we didn't look any further than that, figuring we'd know soon enough anyway.
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Re: What age
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2010, 11:56:29 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on December 09, 2010, 09:36:02 AM
Reminds me of how my Dad used to wrap gifts. He'd stick 'em in a paper bag and hand 'em to you. Now THAT's the way it should be done!  :rotf:
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taking a guess here but cynicism runs in the family?  :whistling:
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Re: What age
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2010, 11:59:50 AM »
Quote from: ConservativeMobster on December 09, 2010, 11:56:29 AM
Quote from: Eupher on December 09, 2010, 09:36:02 AM
Reminds me of how my Dad used to wrap gifts. He'd stick 'em in a paper bag and hand 'em to you. Now THAT's the way it should be done!  :rotf:

taking a guess here but cynicism runs in the family?  :whistling:

I dunno about genetics, but The School of Hard Knocks has certainly contributed to my realistic look at things.  O-)
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Re: What age
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2010, 01:15:18 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on December 08, 2010, 11:19:18 PM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txCiZFPsKR8[/youtube]

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