Santa Claus existed!!!

sells

Santa claus existed when you were young, but now he is dead. You remember waiting on christmas eve, excited at the thought of all those presents, like those action men or barbie dolls, those transformers, surprises and selection boxes. Then waking up on christmas morning at 5 o clock, $hiting yourself at the thought of how much fun your going to have playing with your new toys and eating all those sweets. Then one day your mum, dad or that boy in your class in primary school tells you that "santa doesnt exist" and your world changed forever. You may have felt like $hit, cried or accepted it because your cool. Then christmas comes once again and your like "f*uck, this is ****e"

So what age where you when you found out Santa Claus didnt exist and how did you take it? For me, it was just last week.:(:rolleyes:

TanG411

What are you talking about?

Of course he's real.

JONJO THE MISER

Okay lay off the wacky tobackey:D

thomond2006

Yeah, and I have an enchanted jock strap!

sells

me too

jumpguy

I was about 10...or was it 11. I was beginning to cotton on by then just naturally, good few of the fellas in the class then knew it. Christmas wasn't the same...but I still love it for the time off school and the family being together again.

Michellenman

No one tell BrummyTom!!

Anna Molly

I caught my parents red handed when I was a kid.

I used to be shi*ting it going into the sitting room, incase the big guy was still in there and then take my toys for being naughty.

xOxSinéadxOx

ànyone else think this was going to be about how santa existed at some stage for real?



crushed.

admiralofthefleet

of course he did, unless your talking about the anti-santa

TanG411

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

of course he did, unless your talking about the anti-santa

Atnas? :O

Insect Overlord

There's something very Nietzche about the OP...

corcaigh07

i suppose i was nine, i found a receipt for fifa 95 in the back of our car. i was like, what the hell, ah that makes sense!

swingking

this has to be a record for the earliest mention of Christmas on AH. Seriously wayyyy to early !! :rolleyes:

DancingQueen:)

I was told when i was 6 by a friend who had an older brother and sister. I didn't believe her and then when i was 11 when i saw my presents in the garage.

Corkfeen

I was about 5 or 6 when I found out, was like some sort of weird antichrist child.:pac:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEe55NxFSSU

Ivona Tinkle

I found out when I was 8 a friend told me and I pretended to be asleep and heard parents rummaging in the attic

I let on for years that I still believed and got away with it till I was 13

Idjit

At 10 or 11 because i would NOT stop asking my dad whether he was real and his reply kept being: 'he is if you believe he is',which being a child of science, was not a good enough answer for me. I kept putting forward logical arguements to suggest he couldnt exist so eventually he got so fed up, knowing that i had basically figured it out anyway,that he confirmed it. The knowledge sucked but it would've driven me mad if he hadn't told me!

anniehoo

Ill never forget the day. I was helping my mam pack the shopping in Dunnes Portmarnock and she goes to the girl at the till "where will i get a cabbage patch doll". I was gutted. I kept on packing but that was the end for me. It was what my younger sister wanted from "santy"!

Id give my right arm(not literally like but ye know what i mean) to be back at that time, lyin in bed at 4.32am butterflies goin nuts, wonderin if santy had come and willing the time to go quicker. Christmas Eve night seemed to go on FOREVER!!!!Remember how good you were Christmas week? Ah..brilliant

CDfm

When my daughter was 11 I asked my son 14 yo at the time did she believe and he said yes and added " but you have to get me a Santa present too or you will ruin it for her".

So 5 years on I still kept it up this year and have never asked the question again;)

convert

I was about 8 when I copped on (parents had left the boxes of the bikes in the shed!). Pretended I hadn't seen them so I'd still get my present from santa. Worked till i was about 12, though Santa still brought me presents till I was 14 or 15 (parents' way of bribing me not to spill the beans to the younger siblings!). It worked out well!

But Christmas just isn't the same anymore... No excitement, sleepless nights with anxiety (of whether or not Santa would bring me presents. Has since been replaces with other anxieties ), remembering to leave out milk and Christmas cake (yep, parents had to cut the cake a day early and before family came for dinner!)

Just not the same anymore!

brummytom

I was 8, whinging about my Gameboy advance I think.
Mom told me to stop being so ungrateful, "Why?!" says I, "It's not like you bought it!!"

"Yes I did" she screamed.
She sat me down, told me he wasn't real, I cried and then mom and dad took me for Lunch at Asda

partyatmygaff

Never believed it really, our chimney is sealed and me being the intelligent kid I was never believed it.
Tried to prove I was right when I was 7 by making a list and leaving it under the tree.

Yup that was one hell of a crap christmas.

Mad Leprechaun

I went up to go toilet and i seen my mam and dad puttin presents out.Kind of had a feeling he wasn't real and I didn't say anything. I was bad to my sister though when she annoyed me so I showed her what was in the spare room haha.

blue_belle

anniehoo wrote: »

Id give my right arm(not literally like but ye know what i mean) to be back at that time, lyin in bed at 4.32am butterflies goin nuts, wonderin if santy had come and willing the time to go quicker. Christmas Eve night seemed to go on FOREVER!!!!Remember how good you were Christmas week? Ah..brilliant

yeah,me too. it feels like so long ago, and im only 18! but seriously, those were the days, there was noting else like it. and then there would be soot on the sitting room floor and chewed up carrots in the fireplace...which really cemented my beliefs.

from going through the argos catalouge and writing your letter to wishing it was bedtime on christmas eve, but you were never able to sleep anyway, and getting up at 4 or 5 on christmas morning nearly killing yourself coming down the stairs, awh, what i wouldnt give to go back to those days!

i found out when i was 11, i had been thinking that he probably wasnt real, and then one day at school my friend goes,"sure santas not real anyway" and i said "yeah, i know!" then when i got home it really hit me...
last christmas was my first without anyone in my house getting stuff from santa and it was so wierd, kinda sad...

sells

We need to bring him BACK!!! but how?

Keogg

Aw I thought this was going to be about Santa existing.

(Warning: the following story may be bull, i only heard it from a friend)

apparently there was a Santa of sorts, in Turkey or somewhere, centuries ago, that gave Muslims(or other religions) presents on Christmas day to convert them to Christianity:D
would love to believe it, can't be sure though... i should really google this

procure11

I would personally be very upset if my son is 7 year old and didnt realise that it is all a farce tbh

*giggles*

I was about 11 when I started noticing things, like how we don't put stamps on the letters. Or seeing the price stamps on the boxes on Christmas morning. Or looking it up online to see if he really does exist. There was a Saint Nicholas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas who used to give gifts to the poor, thus brought about the idea of Santa Claus. Also, how does one man manage to travel the world in one night with all those presents? http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/santa-around-world.htm
Does anyone think it's a little weird that "he can see you when you're sleeping"?
Then came the age when you started to look for the presents hidden around the house. To this, I've never found one.

Niall09

*giggles* wrote: »

Does anyone think it's a little weird that "he can see you when you're sleeping"?

Ah, so the head of the church is actually Santa Claus? :eek:

bigeasyeah

Yeah I know-St.Nicholas of Myra.
Another thing,stay off the drugs.Drugs arent cool.Stay in school.

In All Fairness

Did you hear about the Cavan man who took his child to see Santa's grave.

kincsem

Feck, my carefully prepared Word document is now in the recycle bin.

legendal

Neighbour to my older brother's friends on his birthday: "So how did ye find out Santa doesn't exist?"
Me, aged 10: "Oh, I haven't found that out yet."

Had come to realise it for a good while at that stage though. Wasn't 'officially' told until I was 12, once I still got the presents I was happy

Must be hard for parents keeping the fib from their children these days, what with broadband and all. We used to sneak downstairs when the folks were asleep to watch TV when we were younger, surely some of the yungins are doing that with the internet nowadays.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

*giggles* wrote: »

I was about 11 when I started noticing things, like how we don't put stamps on the letters. Or seeing the price stamps on the boxes on Christmas morning. Or looking it up online to see if he really does exist. There was a Saint Nicholas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas who used to give gifts to the poor, thus brought about the idea of Santa Claus. Also, how does one man manage to travel the world in one night with all those presents? http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/santa-around-world.htm
Does anyone think it's a little weird that "he can see you when you're sleeping"?
Then came the age when you started to look for the presents hidden around the house. To this, I've never found one.

Ask Ben Linus.

Fajitas!

Christmas forum--->

tarbuck

I think I was about 10 when I realised but I kept up the pretence for another year because 'hey I didn't want to blow a free ride'. After all, people here might have noticed that once you stop believing your christmas haul suddenly diminishes by about 50%, and who wants that (other than your parents of course!)?

So anyway after my 'bonus year' for some reason still unknown to me I thought it'd be great to show my family how cool and grown up I was because now I didn't believe either so the following xmas I deliberatly walked in when I knew they were wrapping my little brothers 'Santy present'. Biggest mistake ever. I should have kept it going until I was 18.

My name is URL

Christmas is fcuked up, we should celebrate Festivus instead.

All you need is an aluminium pole, no tinsel, that's distracting

And at the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around, and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year!

a Festivus for the rest of us!

shivvyban

I was 5... damn those bullies... however believed in the tooth fairy until I was about 11...

CDfm

My name is URL wrote: »

Christmas is fcuked up, we should celebrate Festivus instead.

All you need is an aluminium pole, no tinsel, that's distracting

And at the Festivus dinner, you gather your family around, and tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year!

a Festivus for the rest of us!

But what about the aluminium pole - Cmon Mum shake that thang.

EdgarAllenPoo

Think I was 4 or 5, kinda shatters the illusion when you wake up at 1am on Christmas eve to find your da playing the Super Nintendo "santa was bringing".

snicket

It's kinda sad but I don't remember ever believing fully in Santa. In second class we had to write him a letter for homework and mine accused him of being made up. I had to read it out in front of the class the next day, think I spoiled all the other kid's Christmas :P

pikachucheeks

This might sound really bizarre, but I was actually terrified of Santa Claus, when I was growing up. Spurred on by a fear of burlgars.

My aunt came into my room one night to find me with a pile of toy bears at my feet, shoving them up the fireplace one by one, crying my eyes out.

When she asked what I was doing, I told her I was blocking the chimney, so "a strange man" couldn't come into my house while I slept.

I was hysterical for hours!

sells

In All Fairness wrote: »

Did you hear about the Cavan man who took his child to see Santa's grave.

fair play to him.

Calibos

Stopped believing in Toothfairy, God and Santa Claus in that order.

useful_contacts

sells wrote: »

Santa claus existed when you were young, but now he is dead. You remember waiting on christmas eve, excited at the thought of all those presents, like those action men or barbie dolls, those transformers, surprises and selection boxes. Then waking up on christmas morning at 5 o clock, $hiting yourself at the thought of how much fun your going to have playing with your new toys and eating all those sweets. Then one day your mum, dad or that boy in your class in primary school tells you that "santa doesnt exist" and your world changed forever. You may have felt like $hit, cried or accepted it because your cool. Then christmas comes once again and your like "f*uck, this is ****e"

So what age where you when you found out Santa Claus didnt exist and how did you take it? For me, it was just last week.:(:rolleyes:

i dont remember

though my friend walking into the bathroom and the bath was piled high with christmas presents, his parents had hidden them up there so they could move them under the tree quickly

still makes me laugh