When I was little I used to believe that if our family was out visiting on Christmas Eve too late, and came home and interrupted Santa while he was bringing presents, Santa would never come back to our house again. And Santa visited on the stroke of midnight so you had to all be in bed by then. So I was always in a state of high anxiety on Christmas Eve when we were forced to stay at our boring cousins' house until 11:30 p.m. We would never get home in time!! Stupid grownups!!
Also, I believed Santa needed a chimney to come down. This was never a problem because my mom would always put up a fake cardboard chimney decoration in the living room. I knew very well it wasn't a real chimney and didn't lead anywhere, but I believed Santa could use it.
A childhood belief about father christmas
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- I used to believe that santa had a spare key to our house because we had no chimney.— Karl Andrade (Bombay, India)
- Until i was 8, I believed that, If you didn't have a chimney, Santa Clause would come in through the toilet.— Maya
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- when i was little i thought that jesus delivered presents on christmas not santa .— gaby
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K