# Your kid's letters to Santa

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-kids-letters-to-santa/334938>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 9, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-kids-letters-to-santa/334938 "2005-12-09T21:06:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-kids-letters-to-santa/334938/1 "2005-12-09T21:06:34Z")

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Do your kids write letters to Santa? What do you do with them?

last week, my 5 year old wrote his first letter to Santa, spelling everything himself:  
“Deer Santa, I hav bin a good boy and wood leyk a spunjbob carry okie masheen”

He put it in the envelope, addressed it “To Santa, North Pole” and drew an up arrow so the mailman would know which way was north, I suppose.

My wife took it, told him she mailed it, and said “It’s in our fire-box. We’re giving it to his wife for her first Christmas with us.”

Last night I made a “…from the desk of Santa Claus” letterhead, and wrote him back. My wife made an envelope with Santa’s return address, and we’ll mail it over the weekend.

[Snowcap](http://www.fontscape.com/pictures/bitstream/SnowCap.gif) font is perfect for this sort of thing, BTW. Feel free to steal that idea\*.

\*Unless you feel that stealing ideas posted on a message board is wrong, in which case, you can buy this idea from me.

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-kids-letters-to-santa/334938/2 "2005-12-09T21:16:29Z")

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I’ve got my kid’s stashed in the back of a desk drawer, and will use it to go shopping. I’ll probably slip a note in his stocking, too – Santa sending out responses pre-Christmas Eve doesn’t make sense to me. 😉

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**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-kids-letters-to-santa/334938/3 "2005-12-09T21:43:40Z")

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Well, it’s more of an acknowledgement letter. Santa wanted him to keep being good and doing his chores, reminding him that the elves are still watching, and the Jolly One requested a particular flavor of cookie to be left out on Christmas Eve. It’s win-win. The boy thinks that Santa took some extra time out to write to him, so he’s happy. In return, he’ll leave the requested cookies out, so [del]Daddy’s[/del] Santa’s happy.