I've been wondering about this dilema. Growing up it was always 'some from Santa, some from mum and dad' and that;s they way I'm doing it this year too (not that DS gets it at all).

But a part of our Christmas tradition each year is to go shopping and buy a whole bunch of toys to give away to salvo's or whatever for kids who's parents can't afford presents for them. My DH received presents from the salvos when he was young, so this is important to us. But then I was thinking, well, if we tell DS that chrissie presents come from Santa, won't he eventually wonder why we need to buy presents for other kids? We can hardly tell him that Santa doesn't give presents to poorer kids! Maybe he won't make the link....not sure!!