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

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VioletSpeedwell · 22/11/2024 19:15

We Speedwells can't be the only family in Britain who don't put gifts in stockings.

Can we?

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Oreyt · 22/11/2024 19:50

I didn't have one growing up.

DDs 12 and 14 never have.

I've got them one this year as everyone on here seemed to do them.

They already have a Christmas Eve Box now I'm wondering what the hell I can put in them, I've made me work for myself.

They don't have bed knobs or whatever you call them so not sure where to put them.

Doggymummar · 22/11/2024 19:50

We dont

Floralnomad · 22/11/2024 19:49

We’ve never had them growing up and we’ve never done them for ours .

StampOnTheGround · 22/11/2024 19:48

I didn't have a stocking, so neither does my kid - we have sack's

DubLass · 22/11/2024 19:48

Never did as kids and don't for my kids !
Always think they are full of rubbish!

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VioletSpeedwell · 22/11/2024 19:47

Not that it matters, everyone does their own thing and has their own traditions - I suppose I might be curious to ask if you have ever “done” Santa / Father Christmasin any way?

Oh yes! We put whiskey and a KitKat out for him (because he needs a break - geddit?!). He brings all the gifts for DC but they know mum and dad pay for them.

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Happyher · 22/11/2024 19:46

I still have to do them for 30 yr old DD and 33 yr old DS and now DSIL too!

Devilsmommy · 22/11/2024 19:45

Never had one growing up and don't do them now

AliasGrape · 22/11/2024 19:44

We had pillowcases too, although I don’t remember them being a really big deal particularly - it wasn’t like ‘XYZ type of thing goes in the pillow case and the others under the tree’ which I feel like is how people do stockings now. I’m not even sure they happened every year - my big memory is of going downstairs to see if ‘he’d been’ and the presents would be under the tree, but I think on at least some years there may have been a few things put in a pillow case in our room.

We’ve done one for DD every year so far. I bought her a too small and too expensive personalised one for her first Christmas because I got carried away, then a friend also sent a larger knitted one which was also personalised. Neither of which are easy to duplicate which I’m kicking myself for now I’ve read the tip to have two the same to make filling easier without waking anyone! I do really like it when she opens the stocking in our bed first before going downstairs though - we always have guests staying at Christmas and sticking their beak in the general present opening so that bit always feels special just the three of us!

Butteredtoast55 · 22/11/2024 19:44

I never had them growing up. I did them for my DC until they were teenagers as they'd tend to be little things (and always a chocolate orange of course 😁)
One of my friends obsesses about getting stocking presents for everyone from about august onwards, and it's invariably a load of tat that she buys.

Fleamaker · 22/11/2024 19:39

Never done Christmas stockings, but I didn't have one growing up so it's never been a thing.

Don't do the Christmas pyjamas, boxes or Elf on shelf either

Crazykefir · 22/11/2024 19:38

No. Used to buy a load of tat that didn't get used.

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 22/11/2024 19:37

We do them with the little bits and pieces in, chocolate, fluffy socks, maybe some cool pencils etc and they're from father Christmas. I think it annoys the why did father Christmas but Veronica a pony and only got me a board game. We explain he can't fit big things on the sleigh and he's not a billionaire and the elves only make simple things.

Seashor · 22/11/2024 19:37

I LOVE making up stockings, they are the best part of Christmas for me. I love watching my children open them and they love receiving them. I make them up for my elderly neighbours, two ladies who live on their own, my mother in law to name a few.
Father Christmas brings them and all other gifts are from real people.

Gcsunnyside23 · 22/11/2024 19:37

My kids have stockings and get little fillers and chocolate in them buy my husband and I don't. Growing up I didn't have a stocking but we left out big sucks (like my dads football socks etc 😂)

PerditaLaChien · 22/11/2024 19:36

We had pillowcases as well. I remember we all had particular ones we liked to use for Christmas!

Soubriquet · 22/11/2024 19:34

We don’t. I never had them growing up, so never done them now either

N1C · 22/11/2024 19:32

Christmas stockings are excessive. My family don't do them either!

Merrymess · 22/11/2024 19:32

1MuffinSocks · 22/11/2024 19:31

We had pillowcases which had everything in including what would be classed as stocking gifts. Never knew it was such a thing before I joined Mumsnet.

Same.

1MuffinSocks · 22/11/2024 19:31

We had pillowcases which had everything in including what would be classed as stocking gifts. Never knew it was such a thing before I joined Mumsnet.

Idontjetwashthefucker · 22/11/2024 19:30

Also never had them growing up or since

BadPeopleFan · 22/11/2024 19:30

@VioletSpeedwell why don't you do stockings?

LochNessy · 22/11/2024 19:30

We do them, but it’s the only thing that Father Christmas brings in our house. All other presents are from us/family.

WowIlikereallyhateyou · 22/11/2024 19:30

You are not alone. Didn’t do them growing up, and we don’t have them now.

AppleKatie · 22/11/2024 19:28

We never had them growing up - although we did have everything you’d conventionally put in a stocking just mixed in with bigger gifts. I do them for my DC because I liked the idea and started it when they were young and it stuck.

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