What age did you find out about Santa?

matrim · 25-12-2011 09:03AM #1

To go with the "what age would you tell your kids about santa" thread. At what age did you find out about Santa? And what age did you let it be known that you knew?

I found out when I was about 8 or 9 (can't remember which) when myself and a friend discovered his presents in the back of his parents car. I pretended to know for a few more years as I thought if my parents knew then I wouldn't get as good a present.

Copper_pipe · 25-12-2011 09:06AM

The number of kids after getting laptops from santa and reading these threads and finding out the truth will be high.

Jesus Wept · 25-12-2011 09:06AM

I have no idea what you're blathering about.

MichealKenny · 25-12-2011 09:10AM

5th class, I actually cried, like a boss.

Buceph · 25-12-2011 09:38AM

MichealKenny wrote: »

5th class, I actually cried, like a boss.

like a boss

El Horseboxo · 25-12-2011 09:42AM

I was 9. I figured it out from Christmas films. Some chap says he's Santa. The kids all believe him but the parents don't and he's labeled nuts. Then it turns out he is Santa and the parents are all amazed that he exists. So if the parents just found out he's real then why the fúck had they been buying the presents all those years? Shouldn't they be entitled to a big refund for buying all the presents that Santa never delivered in the previous years? Or were the 2 lots of presents under the tree Christmas morning that they never questioned? It was that little plot hole that lead me to asking questions and figuring it out.

Carstuck · 25-12-2011 09:51AM

I was 7, always ahead :cool:

doomed · 25-12-2011 10:08AM

7-8 or so but I was troubled by the fact that he was in several department stores at the same time.

Quazzie · 25-12-2011 10:12AM

In the primary school I went to, the teacher for 5th class openly talked about their being no Santa, under the assumption that everyone knew at that stage.

LEIN · 25-12-2011 10:16AM

You mean he is not REAL!!!! :eek:

It was all a big lie for 30 years!

I'm devastated! :mad:

gmac102 · 25-12-2011 10:22AM

about 6 my big sister found her santy present under my mams bed and told me to look, still havent gotten over it hehe

Min · 25-12-2011 10:38AM

7, it was no big deal really.

This was a headline in papers two years ago - Santa buried in Ireland. So I wonder how many children saw that.

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/santa-lsquoburied-in-irelandrsquo-1976141.html

stovelid · 25-12-2011 10:38AM

10.

Davidson2k9 · 25-12-2011 10:54AM

10 or 11. My older brother would always say that he's not real when we were arguing but i didnt want to believe it. I was told by my mother on the dinner table on christmas day.

I'd love to go back to when i was young and get that feeling of excitement when you go downstairs and see your presents.

Ghandee · 25-12-2011 11:12AM

Find out what about him

What you folk trying to say here?

25-12-2011 05:34PM

i can't really remember, about 7 i suppose

Kevin Duffy · 25-12-2011 05:39PM

Find out what? That he's gay? I always knew that, his whole festival is so camp. 's obvious, innit?

WindSock · 25-12-2011 05:44PM

8 or 9.

I had just moved to a new school and we were standing in the queue after break to head back inside and I was saying something about santa and one of the lads laughed at me and said 'haw-haw can't believe you still believe in santa' or something.
I bit my lower lip to stop it from quiverring and said 'NO, I was just joking, like!:rolleyes:'
A lump formed in my throat that day, that never really left.
I also noticed a lot of other kids in the line went really really quiet.

cocoshovel · 25-12-2011 05:46PM

10, like pretty much everyone I know. Found the receipt for my playstation that santa gave me that was being paid off monthly under my mothers name, put 2 + 2 together and realized it. Didnt bother me at all.

I think 10 is the right age for most to find out about it. I knew one girl who cried in first year because she was told santa didnt exist, she was 13. Thats pathetic imo.

Da Shins Kelly · 25-12-2011 05:47PM

I was about 9, I think. I was already a bit suspicious and in denial really, when I heard my parents and older brother laying out the presents in the sitting room. Then I knew. Of course I milked it for about two or three more years after that.

My name is URL · 25-12-2011 05:49PM

I was never led to believe that he existed

mackg · 25-12-2011 05:51PM

7/8 older sisters told me.

boomkatalog · 25-12-2011 05:53PM

I was 10 when I finally gave in to the truth, depsite my brother presenting me with evidence several years before. He had found an old santa letter we posted and I got the whole 'if Santa is real, why is the letter here??'

My dad was told when he was about 7, his parents told him so that he could do all the Santa work for his siblings: wrapping presents and bringing them down to put under the tree.

Jimmy Iovine · 25-12-2011 05:58PM

I figured out in 3rd class, so I was barely gone 9 at that stage. We had a camcorder downstairs that I was going to use to film my parents with as they put down the presents. Then I was going to show it to my friends in school. Like many of my ideas in life I was too lazy to bother doing it. My dad told me the year after. He was relieved to find out I knew already.

I also remember a teacher in my old secondary school who would always tell the first years that he had that Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy aren't real. I suppose he meant it as a bit of a joke. Anyway one poor chap still hadn't been told that Santa wasn't real. Parents came in complaining to the principal about it all. Bit pathetic and sad to let it go that long I think.

Stompbox · 25-12-2011 06:01PM

Similar to most kids, around the age of eight or so.

A friend of my brother found out at the tender age of 6. He was rummaging around the boot of his parent's car when he came across a box containing rollerblades. He remembered that his sister had asked for a pair from Santa so he decided to mark the underside of the box with some pen ink. Lo and behold, Christmas day arrives and he discovers the mark on the bottom of the discarded box. Child prodigy or what?

padraig91 · 25-12-2011 06:02PM

I know a boy who is 13 or 14 (he is in secondary school) and his parents still have not told him

Jimmy Garlic · 25-12-2011 06:07PM

I found out one Christmas when I was 8 .. After that Christmas, when I got back to school, I told the senior infants there was no such thing as santa and their parents were lying to them. There was a lot of tears that day.

Jimmy Garlic · 25-12-2011 06:08PM

padraig91 wrote: »

I know a boy who is 13 or 14 (he is in secondary school) and his parents still have not told him

Is he a bit slow?. Not the sharpest tool in the shed?.

brummytom · 25-12-2011 06:12PM

7 I think. I cried...

I was one of the first in my year to find out. I told my teacher and she told me if I told anyone else, I wouldn't be allowed to go to play!

Shane-KornSpace · 25-12-2011 06:57PM

I was 8. Was staying in my grannys house for two weeks while my parents were in Spain.
My uncle who was 9 said out straight "you know theres no santa? its just your parents".
/childhood

Kasabian · 25-12-2011 07:16PM

Delete this thread

It hurts.

What age did you find out about Santa?

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