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How did you find out Santa wasn't real ?

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  • #32
    Agent J
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    I cant remember what age but probably about 7/8.

    Couldnt quite work out why santa insisting on stopping at both my mothers and my dads house seperately...


  • #33
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    It was never suggested that he was real.


  • #34
    midlandsmissus
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    My older brother told me when I was 5! the boll*x


  • #35
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    My Mum went and ratted to me. I was actually vacillating before that and would have probably got another year out of it as well.


  • #36
    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    I didn't exactly find my presents, one Christmas eve I found the wrapping paper that my presents miraculously appeared in the next day.

    I never told my parents as it was obvious they got such pleasure out of wrapping them and waiting for my reaction.

    It wasn't the same after that though.


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  • #37
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Sharpshooter wrote: »
    It wasn't the same after that though.

    Amen to that.


    Christmas has never been the same since I found out :(


  • #38
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    brummytom wrote: »

    Christmas has never been the same since I found out :(

    I have to say I enjoyed last Christmas myself.




    :)


  • #39
    Jay P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    brummytom wrote: »
    Amen to that.


    Christmas has never been the same since I found out :(

    So true.

    I can't remember how I found out...I think I just figured it out.

    When I was in third or fourth class, I was insistant he was real because there was no way my parents could afford all the presents.
    I think that was around this time, or after that, that I found the receipt for one of my presents, so I told my friend, who told his brother who told his mother who told my mother who told me I was being nosy, and that Santa was real. And that the receipt was for presents bought for one of my Dad's friend. How gullible I was :)


  • #40
    christina_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭christina_x


    i was about 11 and we were watchin home vids and there was a part in one where my dad and bro were tipsy enough but i couldnt figure out when it was or what they were doing, there was just an awful lot of giggling. next thing i see them carrying in my computer and bike and stuff that santa had brought the previous Christmas, and placing them near the tree. was sickened:p


  • #41
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    robinph wrote: »
    It was never suggested that he was real.

    Er, wow.
    How'd that work?


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  • #42
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    I just realised that is it impossible for a man do what he's meant to do, about 9 or 10.

    Even now my parents still say Santas coming haha.


  • #43
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    Santa's not real :eek:

    Next you will be telling me there is no easter bunny:rolleyes:


  • #44
    Daemos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,645 ✭✭✭Daemos


    MissIT wrote: »
    I let them think i still believed for another 4 years. That way i got presents off my mam, presents off my dad and presents off santa.. im an evil genius.
    Ha, I did that as well, my parents are really soft and couldn't bear to tell me the truth, so while I figured it out naturally when I was around 9, they thought I still believed it when I was around 13 :D

    Extra pressies FTW :D


  • #45
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    i was about 6......found "santas present"
    never believed since


  • #46
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Lemondrop kid wrote: »
    Er, wow.
    How'd that work?

    Parents bought presents and stuck them under the tree, which I'm guessing is the same as happened for everyone else?


  • #47
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,645 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Santa is not real????

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

    If my mother tongue is shaking the foundations of your state, it probably means you built your state on my land.

    EVENFLOW



  • #48
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    robinph wrote: »
    Parents bought presents and stuck them under the tree, which I'm guessing is the same as happened for everyone else?

    Yes - and then said they were from Santa.
    But you implied they didn't.
    So, how'd that work?


  • #49
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Lemondrop kid wrote: »
    Yes - and then said they were from Santa.
    But you implied they didn't.
    So, how'd that work?

    Was never said that the presents were from santa, they were always from whoever it was that had gone down the shops and bought them.


  • #50
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,314 ✭✭✭BOHtox


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  • #51
    Dudess
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    Quite late - girl in my class told me when I was 10. But then I was in denial for a few months ("of course Santa doesn't come to her - she doesn't believe in him") but by that Christmas I underwent a conversion - to not believe in Santa was "cool" and grown-up so I was quite happy to be filled in on the truth.


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  • #52
    Lemondrop kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Lemondrop kid


    robinph wrote: »
    Was never said that the presents were from santa, they were always from whoever it was that had gone down the shops and bought them.

    Wow. So i assume there were no major 'Santa doesn't exists moments' :rolleyes:


  • #53
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    I kinda suspected for a while, but kept my suspicisions quiet so as to get more presents!:D
    But then a wrote a letter to Santa, asking him how Mrs. Claus was etc. and left it with the milk, biscuits and carrot.

    My sis wrote back as santa. I was looking at the letter a few days later and copped that it was my sister's writing. So I just said in a really sad voice "Santa's not real, is he?":(

    Edit: I think I was around 10. But in hindsight, i was really stupid. My parents used to leave Smyth's toystore price tags on the presents!


  • #54
    robinph
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,146 Mod ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Lemondrop kid wrote: »
    Wow. So i assume there were no major 'Santa doesn't exists moments' :rolleyes:

    Nope.

    Think there may have been some moral lesson they were trying to teach about not telling lies or similar such pointless exercise.


  • #55
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    At about 6yo I stayed up all night and when the fuc*ker didn't show up I discovered both my parents were dirty liars. :mad:


  • #56
    delricyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 462 ✭✭delricyo


    Worked it out myself at about the same age I figured out how to do long multiplication

    Same issue. At first, you doubt it is true. But then it just makes sense :D

    Managed to milk it for a year or 2 after .


  • #57
    ddef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 426 ✭✭ddef


    I was around 10 too.
    Was about two weeks before Christmas and I was in my parents bed on a Saturday morning. Both my parents were downstairs, but they left the radio on...
    "my kid has been writing this huge list of presents he wants for Christmas, how am I supposed to buy all this". And then it clicked.
    It was 2 weeks before Christmas, man....


  • #58
    omb0wyn5ehpij9
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    I can't remember how I found out he wasn't real, as far as I remember I found out off somebody in school!


  • #59
    tudlytops
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭tudlytops


    i was only 5 and my brother was 12 the b*****, was really nasty.

    here i was writing my letter to Santa, when he garbed me by the arm and said " you want to see Santa, do you" took me to my parents room opened a wardrobe and there they were all the presents.

    I cried all Xmas day and refused any presents until about 2 days later, but in the end the presents own :)


  • #60
    Paige Turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 308 ✭✭Paige Turner


    Was 8, and went to see the REAL santa in Dublin. Was just about to get my photo taken with him when two gardai came in and arrested him. Buckets of tears, the truth came out. :(


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  • #61
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    brummytom wrote: »
    I was aged 7, it was the 27th December

    Me: "This Gameboy's rubbish"
    Mom: "Don't say that Tom, it cost a lot of money"
    Me: "Well you didn't buy it, Santa made it!!"
    Mom: "HE'S NOT REALLLLLLLL
    Me: /crying

    Tell the truth, that happened yesterday, didn't it?


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