Page 3 | Should personalised Christmas stockings be M & D for mummy and daddy, or their actual initials?

Peterrabbity · 2026-08-03T10:10:26+00:00

I think M & D DH thinks actual initials of our names. Kids are aged 1 and 4!

TorroFerney · 04/08/2026 14:31

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.

Or modelling that everyone should get a present.

MysteryMachineRidesAgain · 04/08/2026 14:57

It wouldn’t have crossed my mind to put M and D.

HoppityBun · 04/08/2026 14:59

BeethovenNinth · 03/08/2026 12:06

Sweet Jesus Christ

He gets one too?

Scarlettpixie · 04/08/2026 15:01

There is a whole board for people who want to talk about Christmas in August!

DoAWheelie · 04/08/2026 15:08

Do real initials, you want something you can use forever and the kids won't always be at home.

Though this has just reminded me of one Christmas when I had to wrap everything twice. It was a small celebration, just me and my OH, my parents and my step dad. I wrapped in two sessions, doing stuff for my parents on day one and the rest on day two.

I didn't have any labels so I got a fell pen and wrote an M or D on the corner of each pack for my mum and dad. The next day, fully forgetting what I had done the night before, I tagged the presents for my OH and step dad after their initials - which just happened to be M and D.

On day three I realised what I'd done and had to open them all back up to figure out what was whose, but the paper was so thin and crap it all tore no matter how careful I was. I ended up redoing the whole pile using full first names only.

YouBelongHere · 04/08/2026 15:08

Team your own initials here.

Thank you though to all the people who pointed out it's August, none of the rest of us own calendars so makes keeping up with the months very difficult. Is it worth pointing out the word Christmas was in the thread title and if you're uninterested in talking about xmas any month other than December you didn't need to click and then subsequently comment? Probably not.

plinkityplank · 04/08/2026 15:18

OttersOnAPlane · 03/08/2026 11:45

Initials. Mum is not my real name.

And how old were your children when they realised that? Still believing in Father Christmas?

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WhatAMarvelousTune · 04/08/2026 15:23

I think it doesn’t matter at all. And may differ between families due to what the names are eg if you have a child called “Mary” you might want to avoid M on mum’s stocking. But if you have a parent called Alice and a child called Alex, it would make sense to go for M for the mum’s stocking, rather than having two with A.

Saltysweetspicy · 04/08/2026 15:31

Your names. I made the mistake of getting Mum and Dad for DH when the kids were little. Now I look at them and think 1. cringe 2. i don't want to be mum and dad when they leave home, i want to be (my name)!

MyLeftArmpit · 04/08/2026 15:34

My mum’s still got the cushion I made for her that’s proudly got ‘M’ for mummy stitched on it in sequins 😂 Funnily enough, my son made her a keyring at school and it’s got ‘G’ for Grandma on it. Must run in the family 🤷‍♀️

OttersOnAPlane · 04/08/2026 16:34

plinkityplank · 04/08/2026 15:18

And how old were your children when they realised that? Still believing in Father Christmas?

🙄

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Well, their grandparents and their uncles and cousins didn't call me Mummy in the presence of my children, they called me Otter. So it was pretty obvious early on.

I think after around 2 1/2 they knew what my name was. Definitely around 20 months they assumed when any kid shouted Mummy! I was supposed to answer.

I'm not having a stocking for 20 years with "Mummy" on it when my kids know before their three that I have an actual name.

ContractorQuestion · 04/08/2026 16:38

I’m bucking the trend, but if your reason is to have them as nice Christmas decorations, all lined up together, for a cosy family Christmas, then I think “mum” and “dad” (rather than M and D) would be quite nice!

hahabahbag · 04/08/2026 16:49

First name initials unless there’s a duplicate in which case all initials (if you are as silly as my parents and all the initials are the same, first names) but i wouldn’t do stockings for parents

Stompythedinosaur · 04/08/2026 17:14

Actual names I think.

If your dc are tiny it's probably hard to imagine that in a few years they will see you as the person you are, not just as mum and dad.

Iloveeverycat · 04/08/2026 17:23

I have never had names on stockings the presents inside had their names on. Only for the children as well. Adult presents are not from Father Christmas they just went under the tree. Same as the ones from other family members.

Pinkissmart · 04/08/2026 17:26

Initial.

If it’s from Santa, he won’t know you as Mummy, you’ll be little Becky who now has children of her own 😂

MartinAston · 04/08/2026 17:26

Who is filling the adults stockings?
Why are you posting about Christmas in the summer?
And who cares whether they have initials?
🤔

Original poster

Peterrabbity · 04/08/2026 18:33

2ndHandLou · 04/08/2026 14:17

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

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Because I saw them in a shop and thought I’d buy them before half the letters sell out by September as they usually do.

It’s not hard to not open a thread if you don’t like the title! Is it equally annoying when people post about summer holidays in December?

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Peterrabbity · 04/08/2026 18:33

MartinAston · 04/08/2026 17:26

Who is filling the adults stockings?
Why are you posting about Christmas in the summer?
And who cares whether they have initials?
🤔

I do. More for my daughter’s sake than because me or DH actually care.

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LadyHat · 04/08/2026 18:39

I have the stocking my mum made for me as a child so has my name on it. She then made one for each grandchild for their first Christmas. We love our stockings, best part of Christmas. My mum realised last year she never made stockings for her children in law so this year she’s making those! I’ve been married 20 years so not sure why now but it makes her happy and it’ll be nice to have all matching!

LadyHat · 04/08/2026 18:41

MartinAston · 04/08/2026 17:26

Who is filling the adults stockings?
Why are you posting about Christmas in the summer?
And who cares whether they have initials?
🤔

Don’t know about OP but I and children (teens) fill DH stocking, him and children fill mine. Whichever one of their children my parents stay with for Christmas will fill there’s. Stockings are the best bit of Christmas and it’s never too early to talk about them!!

Imaginingdragonsagain · 04/08/2026 18:46

ContractorQuestion · 04/08/2026 16:38

I’m bucking the trend, but if your reason is to have them as nice Christmas decorations, all lined up together, for a cosy family Christmas, then I think “mum” and “dad” (rather than M and D) would be quite nice!

I agree!

HelenHywater · 04/08/2026 18:48

My stocking still has "mummy" on and my eldest is 27!

MyDarlingRose · 04/08/2026 18:58

Your names! By the time they can READ the letters they’ll know you’re not called mummy

11AndCounting · 04/08/2026 19:09

I wouldn't get them initialled, too identifying.