Reflections on Santa Claus
Don’t you miss when you still believed in Santa Claus? Your mom or dad would ring some bells and you’d get so excited, thinking Santa’s sleigh was parked on the roof. Or how you’d leave cookies on the table for old Saint Nick himself, with some carrots for his reindeer, and to your amazement, they’d all be gobbled up by morning. We never questioned how Santa could possibly eat all those cookies and not be full… I mean, everyone else on your block put out cookies too, right?
Something I think is funny is how all of the shows on TV showed Santa’s elves in the workshop making wooden toys, porcelain dolls, jack-in-the-boxes and such – but as kids we never saw those types of “golden age” toys. We always got barbies and race cars and video game systems packaged tightly in cardboard and plastic. These were obviously things not made by human (or elf) hands. If the things didn’t say “made in China” right on the box (a far cry from the North Pole) then they were marked with Sony or Mattel, but surely never “Santa’s Workshop”.
What about all those mall Santas? They looked different every year. Sometimes you’d see 2 or 3 right next to each other, with different beards, different suits, different heights and weights, some were black, some were white… I’m not sure how we never wondered about them. 
Perhaps we were told they were just “helpers”, and that the “real” Santa came only on Christmas Eve. I really can’t remember. Parents have to be awesome liars and storytellers to think this shit up. I would give anything to, once again, have that childlike belief in something magical. Oh, to not have a care in the world! I must say that I can not wait until I have a family of my own and can do these same little things, share these same traditions; it seems like so much fun. 
December 24th, 2007 at 4:03 am
Thanks for the Christmas Gift! You know I was just talking about this to my mom and sister. We were laughing about how me and my sister would try to stay up to get a glimse of Santa but we’d never succed and would fall asleep
. Also how we would be amused to see the cookies and milk gone by the morning. I never really questioned the fact of how the Santas at the malls looked different every year, guess I just didn’t notice. Now of course I wonder how I couldn’t tell but I guess when your a kid you just don’t really think about stuff like that.
- GG
December 24th, 2007 at 4:17 am
Hehe LOL. I never believe in Santa Claus.
Do you?
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- Shaine
December 24th, 2007 at 4:40 am
I was just thinking about that ecact same thing, I don’t really get exited as i did when I was little, I just havn’t got much xmas spirit in me anymore… maybe if I met Santa Claus :) but that will never happen xD Yay i can’t believe its xmas eve! Have a good christmas and a hyappy new year ! >_~
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- Emerhley
December 24th, 2007 at 7:57 am
i still believe in the spririt of Santa and always will xoxoxo
- kimba
December 24th, 2007 at 8:31 am
I do miss the Santa years a lot these days, I guess the magic of it all is really special when you believe in things like that – I can barely remember what it was like when I believed in Santa, I don’t remember finding out he wasn’t real either – it’s weird.
- Eilidh
December 24th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I know… Christmas has never felt the same since I found out. I think I was about 9 or 10 at the time. Oh I was so mad! I wasn’t as upset that Santa wasn’t real as I was that my parents had lied to me all those years. Looking back though I wish it could have gone on longer. It was still exciting to watch my brother though… he believed up until about a year or two ago.
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- Ashley
December 24th, 2007 at 11:53 am
I never thought about the hand made toys they always showed in movies versus the ones that we actually got. That’s a good point though :)
Sometimes I do miss those days though, it’s fun though seeing my nephew get excited about it.
- Jenn
December 24th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
My little brother still believes in Santa, which means I get to to ;)
You’re right though, it’s weird how we never noticed all the obvious signs that he wasnt real xD
I miss being a child!
- Emma
December 24th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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- emerhley
December 24th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
I can’t say I really MISS those days. I don’t think I ever genuinely believed in Santa.
The other night I was watching a show about Christmas. Some mathematicians did the math and Santa would have 34 hours and night time if he were to start going around the world at 7 PM and make it to each time zone on the hour.
He would have to visit 7,000 houses each second!
- Ceepha
December 25th, 2007 at 8:21 am
I miss beliving in such things too.
Well, Merry christmas!
- Prathepa
December 25th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Ahh yess! Those good old days. xD I still like to believe in Santa Clause even though I know he isn’t real. But I love the inner kid inside of me. xD
- Hillary
December 25th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
My family never did the whole “Santa’s real” thing. We were the kids on the block who always told everybody that Santa isn’t real. One year we made a little girl cry–it’s insane how deep these kids believe in Santa!
I guess it would have been plenty fun to have those beliefs, though. I imagine it must get tiring for the parents to stay up late & put out “Santa’s gifts” and wake up early to get rid of the cookies, carrots & milk. Or maybe they did it all at the same time?
- Anya
December 25th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Oh, how I wish life was still that magical.
- Brie
December 25th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Santas the cutest make belive story, him and the easter bunny. but odly enough it worked for us? Damn i miss ’st nick’, i kinda wanted a bazillion gifts lmao. I hope your having a geat christmas!
- Laura
December 25th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
I ruined Christmas for my entire kindergarten class. After seeing my parents putting Christmas gifts under the tree at the tender age of five, I decided it was appropriate to tell my entire class that are parents were liars and Santa was fake. I got in trouble and had to sit in “time out.”
- Christina
December 26th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Well, the only issue with going back to a more innocent time is that there no longer exists and real innocence in the world. Kids being born with AIDS, addicted to drugs, born into a situation where they have a life expectancy shorter than a U.S. Presidents’ term in office, etc.
Life sucks.
- cass
December 26th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
My parents never did anything to pretend to be Santa. They usually don’t go through that much effort to pretend to be someone else, let alone Santa Claus.
Maybe Santa has helpers in China and in those companies that help create the toys, ship it to him, then he organizes them to the children that have been good and get what they want.
- Merinn