To ask if anyone else DOESN'T do Christmas stockings?

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My kids had the pillow cases too

Nope. Everything goes under the tree now mine are a bit older as the stocking was always padded out with tat/stuff that was going to end up in landfill!

I never had a stocking as a child but I used to put a small number of very small presents in a stocking for my daughter when she was very young to discourage her from getting up reallly early on Christmas Day.

We’ve never done stockings, I don’t think we did them growing up either, however I’m actually contemplating it this year as I quite fancy the idea and as my son is now getting older he knows he’ll not be getting tonnes this year and a stocking seems like it could be a perfect way to limit how much I buy!?

I think the stocking is the best bit!

Never

Never had a stocking growing up but I do them for my children. DD (now 13) was always a bit suspicious of the idea of Santa being in her bedroom, so the empty stockings are left out on the landing on Christmas Eve. I just put toiletries, socks etc in them but it's a nice surprise.
Don't get Christmas eve boxes or weird elves though.

Our kids were deprived, they never had them and never looked for them.

We never had stockings growing up, just a big sack of presents under the tree. My children now have a stocking and a sack but the stocking is really just another bag to put presents in.

Growing up I never had a stocking and all my presents were under the tree and from Father Christmas. My husband’s family had stockings from FC and gifts from parents under the tree.

Our son gets a stocking but only for small gifts, the main presents are all under the tree. Stockings are too small imo! I’d happily not do stockings for him but want to maintain the tradition from my husband’s side.

We don't do them either. We did when the kids were small but they are grown up now and we haven't since they were in their early teens.

Nope, never had one, never done one, you just get 'a pile' here!

Nope, but I'm not British and frankly I still don't quite understand the idea. What do people put in them? And why is it separate from other presents?

However we do a 1st of December thing - the children wake up to an advent calendar each and small bits like activity book/stickers, a Christmas story book, hot chocolate (a box to be used throughout December), some Christmassy baking - sprinkles or cookie cutters/shapes or just a premixed box from the supermarket, and Christmas socks.

I just wrapped the smaller presents and added them to the pile. Mine still had chocolate coins and whatever, just not in a stocking.

Oh, other posters have reminded me 😅. Always chocolate coins, sometimes chocolate oranges (although they were more expensive when I was a kid) and we would feel all the bumps from the outside and try and guess what was in them. Chocolate coins in bed before breakfast still feels festive to me 🤣

I never had one growing up and have never done them for my kids who are in their twenties now.

We had them as children up to about 12 and I loved it. It's the part of Christmas I remember most tbh. It was literally a giant sock of my dass, (we had 1 each) that was the only 'father Christmas ' presents in our house (and that only til I twigged as the youngest at about 7). It would appear hanging on the end of our beds overnight and was filled with various small toys, puzzles, sweets etc. We would open it in bed, so I guess it gave us something to do until we had family presents after breakfast.
I wouldn't do them for adults. And tbh I was the last one getting them and after the age of pretending to believe and siblings not opening them with me it was a bit flat. And parents stopped sneaking them in overnight and just kind of lobbed them at me in passing 🤣. But as a smaller kid with all of us opening them and playing with the toys in the early morning they were great.
Tbh I can still remember the excitement and some of the stocking toys. Can't really remember any normal presents I got at that age!

Same here - perhaps you are my sister.

We’ve never done stocking either, I didn’t have them as a child and DH thinks he did but can’t imagine being very excited by them.

The kids do get small presents but they just go on the pile.

We only put Lindt chocolates (reindeer, Santa, strips of both etc.) in the stockings that are hung up on the mantle.We have sacks for the actual gifts and anything that is too big for the sack is left beside the tree. No distinction what is from us and what is from Father Christmas.

I do for my kids but didn't have them growing up which even back in the 90s/00s seemed unusual

Never have. Never will.
For me, it's as unnecessary as these Christmas Eve boxes some people are doing.

We don’t. DH is French and can’t fathom it. Christmas is much « less » in France. 1 gift or just a few gifts per person and no mini gifts, no giving of novelty chocolate (or at least not in our city.) Tat for office secret Santa type thing is available but not as much as in England.

When I was a child in the sixties the stocking was one of dad’s old socks and there was a red apple, an orange a few nuts (in shells) and some shiny new coins. This would have been a real treat when my parents were little. I haven’t carried on the tradition!!