Do we do Santa?

I'm not sure why this is such a popular question we get, but we get it so often that I'm just making a post to get it out there. Yes, our kids believe in Santa. The follow up question we get-why?! Why do we let our kids believe that a man gives them gifts they want when we have so many kids? It's not really about the size of our family really, we just want them to have the opportunities that all the other kids their age get. This includes, Santa. I'm going to be honest, before Brooke was born her dad and I discussed telling them there was no Santa, being honest from day one. As time went on however and she started to get it, we realized she kind of came up with the Santa idea on her own. As time went on and I met Jason and our families became one, we decided to let them believe in Santa. It was something we really enjoyed as children and they weren't being harmed in it. We have told our kids many times that Santa is more of a feeling than anything else and explained he can't always bring what you want. That brings us to the next question, how do we afford it? We shop literally from January 1st until December 24th, we shop thrift stores, clearance, and use layaway. As we were looking at all the stuff we got our kids, because we apparently like going overboard, we were also wondering how we afforded it. I guess our shopping strategy is working out better than we thought because our savings account we made for Christmas still has money in it. So long story short, our kids know what Santa is about, they know the true meaning of Christmas, and we will allow them to believe until they stop and really hope that it's a long time away.