Emergency: stocking fillers for a man

[LePruneDeMaTante]

Have a couple of foody things but NOTHING else for dh. Help!!!

[MamaPizzaChristmasToppings]

Ideas: book, socks, keyring, mug, scarf, gloves, hat...

Aldi currently has some good 'gadgets', like this one.

[chanie44]

Socks
Chocolates
Playing cards
A multi pen knife type thing
Boxer shorts/thermals
A pint glass
Bottle of beer/minature bottle of spirit
Hat/scarf
Electronic puzzle game

[LePruneDeMaTante]

Thank you
I had a mini panic there

[Haagendazs]

Pens
Book light
Earphone wind-up thing (£4 in M&S)
Mini torch
Cheap funny cufflinks
Mouse mat
Gloves/scarf
Miniature whiskey etc
Keyring
Bookmark
Racing grannies
Razor/shaving stuff

[Merrin]

WD40

(my DH would like it!)

[MackerelOfFact]

Second the multi-knife tool thing, got DP one last year and he is bloody welded to it. Amazon have Victorinox (best make, apparently) quite reasonably priced.

Also:

Pyjamas
Car bits (ice scraper, air freshener)
Bottles of beer/ale with funny names (Old Peculiar, etc)
Magazine/LoveFilm subscription
Cook book

[DeeOfTheNorthPole]

a nice pair of legas....?

[MamaPizzaChristmasToppings]

A good multi tool thing, got it for DH too.

[3WiseBoys]

I've got DH

socks
chocolate
gloves
mug
keyring
photo frame with picture of the kids for his desk at work
CD

[wheresmywaist]

Scratch card, magazine rolled up?

[DeckTheHugeWithBoughsOfManatee]

Chamois leather
Handkerchiefs
iTunes voucher
(If he commutes) One of those cup-sized thermal flasks from Halfords for when he's running late and hasn't got time to finish his tea at home. They cost about £8 and DP loved his.

[Sparklingbaubles]

Maplins have got an array of man stuff at the moment.

[heliumballoon]

Hand cream

[candytuft63]

Boots are doing fab gadgety man-type stocking fillers and they are on the 3 for 2. Got a multi-tool thingy a wallet and a wind up radio. I get the points to spend on me in the sales.

[SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]

Nice hot chocolate powder (whittards?), mini marshmallows and squirty cream.

A book - Top Gear alternative highway code is going in dh's stocking this year. Or a joke book, as another option.

Now Thats What I Call Music - from his youth - bring back old memories.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

My dp isn't into gadgets etc so he gets things like:

socks
gloves
pickled onions/mustard/chutney/chilli sauce/marmalade etc
cheese
pork pie
beer
shower gel

[PigletJohn]

wind up torch for the car, keyring torch.

kippers

indoor flying helicopter (about £10 in Dyas)

stuff he likes and you don't

calendar

nice leather gloves that are a bit better than he would buy for himself

[PigletJohn]

calendar of nigella lawson or other fantasy figure if you can stand the competition

[LePruneDeMaTante]

I took pigletjohn's advice "Stuff he likes and you don't"
Got him some microchips, a reverse Polish calculator and half a pound of kidneys.

[LePruneDeMaTante]

(sorry )

V helpful thank you
I found him a good bag in a sale and have put in loads of things like socks, a thriller, foody items, a mug...keeping it traditional.

[ReshapeWhileDashingThroTheSnow]

I got DH a mobile phone rest/tidy - hard to explain but you coil the lead round it, plug into the wall and the phone rests on a little shelf. More for my own sanity because I'm fed up of his trailing wires across stuff on the kitchen counters.

I don't do him a stocking any more because he used to be a bit non-plussed at getting one from me, pre-DC (and where's the fun in that?) but I used to include a book light (he invariably trod on them), hankies, socks and boxers, a jar of something tasty, chocolate, and maybe a book of handmade 'vouchers' (I will cook you your favourite dish, I will let you bugger off to the pub after work, I will wear those pants, etc). Not sure I could get away with that now, nor would the DSs understand why daddy was getting a stocking.

[CrotchFlakes]

WTF is a reverse Polish calculator and where can I get one?

DH has a jumper, chocolates, old fashioned sweets in a tin, a book, a wash mitt thing, face cream, hand cream, socks. Nothing exciting.

[GrimmaTheNome]

WTF is a reverse Polish calculator and where can I get one?

Its where you have to enter 4-2 as something like 4+2-, isn't it? You get them in the dim and distant past - were there any other than the very first Sinclair?

My DH doesn't wear stockings but if he did he'd fill them perfectly...

[LePruneDeMaTante]

Ahem, the Hewlett Packard f690x
Texas instruments z4657zzzzzz

He I could go on

[GrimmaTheNome]

Goodness. Why on earth would anyone want a reverse polish calculator collection?
Do they take minutes to work out trig functions?