When did you find out Santa wasn't real?

[dirtydickraines]

My father told me when I was eight on Christmas Day.

[Kash Flagg]

HE'S NOT REAL!!!??!?!

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

I was three, and I wanted an Oscar Mayer weinie whistle. Christmas came...no weinie whistle. That's when I stopped believing.

[KLRA]

mdb913 said:

I was three, and I wanted an Oscar Mayer weinie whistle. Christmas came...no weinie whistle. That's when I stopped believing.

That'll do Pig. That'll do.

[Lair of the Shadow MaDaBa]

OK, OK, I really was three. I went downstairs for a glass of water and I saw my mother and grandmother unloading the presents.

[KLRA]

I was like 4 I think, but me and my parents agreed to still go along with it. The finaly nail in the coffin was when I started wrapping my own presents.

["American Cream" Dusty Loads]

I found out a lot later than most people. My friend's used to tell me all the time but I never believed them. Anyways one year when I was about 11 my parents just assumed I knew he wasn't real so I went to open my presents and they all said from mom and dad, nothing from Santa. But the presents were awesome so I wasn't really sad.

[EvilMasterComatose]

Some c*** told me he wasn't real for no reason when I was like 4. It was bullshit, and I threw rocks at her.

[Chad1m]

I was 7. My parents left a tag on a notebook I got and they couldn't convince me that Santa had a Family Dollar at the North Pole.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

I did for a while as a little kid believe there was a Santa but I never did believe he went to my house. We didnt have any chimneys to get in so a person coming through the backdoor is pretty scary so I did wish he didnt come. Also since a very young age, my parents would take me and my sisters to TRU days before Christmas and tell us we could get whatever we wanted. Sorta made asking Santa useless is we could just go to a store and get it.

[wrath]

The same way I found out wrestling was fake.

Mom: "..You know Santa Claus isn't real, right?"

Me: "...Oh..." *stunned silence*

[Franchise]

I was 9 or 10. I realized that Santa's handwriting looked surprisingly like my mother's...

[emily]

when I read the title of this thread

[Mayonnaise]

Never. My parents and I just kinda dropped it.

[Shy Guy]

i was like, 11 or 12....

[lildude8218]

Toys R Us tags on my presents one year when I was 7 or 8. But I'm not sure I ever really believed because there's video of me at 3 on Christmas morning opening presents and someone said "Who brought you all of those presents?" and I said "Daddy." I remember it was always fishy that the presents would often show up before Christmas morning.

My parents have a history of blowing Christmas surprises anyway though. Firstly they would often bring me out shopping with them and while one shopped on one side of the store, I would be with the other one. Then if I happened to see something I would say "Who is that for?" and they would say "Someone else." Yeah, half the time they didn't even make up a name.

Then they would leave my presents in a white bag in the living room unwrapped where you could pretty much see through the bag. One of the most recent ones was about 12 years ago when I got my first stereo. My parents were wrapping presents in their bedroom and my mom called me into the room for some reason and there was my stereo sitting on the bed, unwrapped.

I actually like being surprised so it's sorta annoying when it gets blown.

[The OP]

This thread should've said SPOILERS.