Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

Should personalised Christmas stockings be M & D for mummy and daddy, or their actual initials?

86 replies

Peterrabbity · 03/08/2026 11:10

I think M & D

DH thinks actual initials of our names.

Kids are aged 1 and 4!

OP posts:
Roseonthebalcony · 03/08/2026 12:28

Initials in this house, parent of a 5 year old. I am not Father Christmas’s Mum.

Screamingabdabz · 03/08/2026 12:28

Dear oh dear… as if the question itself wasn’t bonkers enough…but to ask it in August… 🙄

BowlingSunflowers · 03/08/2026 12:28

There is a Christmas board for all things Christmas related. I am saying this as someone who loves Christmas and you will find lots of posts on there year round.

For some Christmas is not a joyous occasion and they can hide the Christmas board.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/08/2026 12:29

We use old Christmas stockings mostly donated by my Mum! The kids would not have enjoyed Christmas any more had we had brand new personalised ones.

I mean it’s fine to spend your money like this if you have it but I really think it’s only the parents who get anything from it. And you have to ask, is it worth it?

saveforthat · 03/08/2026 12:29

I have been on here a very long time and this is probably the most ridiculous question ever asked. Well done.

Katflapkit · 03/08/2026 12:29

EverMissWicklowSometimes · 03/08/2026 11:49

Personalised stockings for adults are cringey as fuck.

Grinch

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/08/2026 12:29

Roseonthebalcony · 03/08/2026 12:28

Initials in this house, parent of a 5 year old. I am not Father Christmas’s Mum.

😂😂😂😂
I rather like the idea that you are!

ToKittyornottoKitty · 03/08/2026 12:30

saveforthat · 03/08/2026 12:29

I have been on here a very long time and this is probably the most ridiculous question ever asked. Well done.

Then you have missed a LOT of daft threads

orangehandles · 03/08/2026 12:30

Children get stockings from Father Christmas, not grown-ups. You are making a rod for your own back here.

Gardenisablooming · 03/08/2026 12:30

Your own initials. You aren't just dm and df..
We still do stocking for adult dc..

Even the 30+one !

Roseonthebalcony · 03/08/2026 12:31

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 03/08/2026 12:29

😂😂😂😂
I rather like the idea that you are!

Show quote history

🤣🤣🤣I wish I was to be fair.

Newusername0 · 03/08/2026 12:32

We chose our actual names. Kids are same age. Didn’t occur to me to do m and d, Santa knows my real name 😂

ZanyMaker · 03/08/2026 12:33

Yes, YABU

ToKittyornottoKitty · 03/08/2026 12:33

orangehandles · 03/08/2026 12:30

Children get stockings from Father Christmas, not grown-ups. You are making a rod for your own back here.

Rod for her own back? Yeah what a nightmare her and her DH are going to buy eachother a few extra presents!

ExtraOnions · 03/08/2026 12:37

Assuming you are only using them whilst they are little, M&D is fine.

This site is full of people who would give Scrooge a run for his money.

Networksecurity · 03/08/2026 12:38

Just make all the stockings for generic use

A bell on each & a deccoration

Then anyone can use them for 100+ years

Original poster
Peterrabbity · 04/08/2026 11:26

Sorry, didn’t realise this would cause a stir!

Stockings are decorative and stay above our fireplace in December.

OP posts:
SilkRoads · 04/08/2026 11:36

Whatever allows you to spell out rude words with four stockings along the mantelpiece.

UnintentionallyFabulous · 04/08/2026 12:48

The only adults I know with personalised stockings are PIL who have Mum and Dad.

Kidsandhouse · 04/08/2026 13:59

But again, it's August...

MinnieMountain · 04/08/2026 14:13

Report your thread and ask for it to be moved to the Christmas topic. Pretty please.

saveforthat · 04/08/2026 14:14

SilkRoads · 04/08/2026 11:36

Whatever allows you to spell out rude words with four stockings along the mantelpiece.

🤣

Newsenmum · 04/08/2026 14:15

Unless it actually says the full words Mummy and Daddy Id do initials for names

2ndHandLou · 04/08/2026 14:17

Peterrabbity · 04/08/2026 11:26

Sorry, didn’t realise this would cause a stir!

Stockings are decorative and stay above our fireplace in December.

You didn't realize that posting a about Christmas in an August heatwave not in the Christmas topic might be to say the least annoying to all the normal people who has the topic hidden?

Apart from anything else how one earth is this on your mind now, absolutely incomprehensible to me

SevenPrettyPetals · 04/08/2026 14:20

Actual initials. My name isn’t Mum or Mummy, I call my children ‘darling’ or ‘sweetie’ but I wouldn’t put ‘D’ or ‘S’ on their stockings.
Also seeing as it’s my partner who fills my stocking (oo-er), I don’t really want mummy on it…