One time around Christmas, I wondered why there wasn’t any soot on the floors after Santa came down the chimney to put down our gifts. My dad told me it was because he (Santa) carried around a very quiet vacuum cleaner to clean up the soot before he left.
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 was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- 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
- I thought Santa was going to be sent to jail for stealing gifts from Toys R Us.— Sandy
- when i was little i thought that jesus delivered presents on christmas not santa .— gaby