Stockings could be opened whenever you wanted once you were awake, and were entirely from Santa. They contained a mix of unwrapped things (nuts, satsumas, shiny pennies, apple, chocolate coins) and two or three wrapped things (always a book, often silly puzzle things, sometimes a chocolate orange)
Presents under the tree were mostly from named people (we definitely got presents from parents that were from parents, I have heard of English people where all the presents under the tree were from 'santa' or more distant present givers, and so technically they got things from everyone except their parents at Christmas which just seems really odd). But there would be about three or four from Santa, they would tend towards the slightly odd / joke / embarressing presents, things mum wanted to wrap up and give us but that weren't a Proper Present from them.
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Date: 2016-12-09 11:23 am (UTC)Presents under the tree were mostly from named people (we definitely got presents from parents that were from parents, I have heard of English people where all the presents under the tree were from 'santa' or more distant present givers, and so technically they got things from everyone except their parents at Christmas which just seems really odd). But there would be about three or four from Santa, they would tend towards the slightly odd / joke / embarressing presents, things mum wanted to wrap up and give us but that weren't a Proper Present from them.