Christmas 2024: Every Christmas, many parents tell their children that an old man comes down the chimney at night and places gifts for well-behaved children by their bedside and leaves on a sledge. Parents teach their children to be ‘good’ throughout the year and never lie, to receive gifts from Santa Claus and be on his list of good children.

Again. Believers of Santa Claus: Stop reading. Go sing a Christmas carol or eat a cookie or something.

A New York man who plays St. Nick is charging hundreds of dollars for a special family experience, but it’s not enough to get him into the black, he says.