What stocking present do you remember best from your childhood?

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When I was 4 I got a Hello Kitty compact with a comb and mirror. I don't know what happened to it but I remember it so clearly and I was hugely proud of it. I still wonder what happened to it.

I've just looked it up and found the exact one

I do remember lots of other things but that is the one that has always stood out.

Best thing ever for me was the long packets of felt tip pens with about 30 pens all in colour 'order'. I honestly still get a flutter of excitement remembering back to seeing one of those packs in my stocking ☺️

It wasn't even in my stocking, my little sister got this wind up spider. It didn't look very realistic when stopped but was very very very fast. It caused all kinds of chaos, when we went to wake up visiting family in the spare room she put it on the bed of one of them and it ran into their sleeping bag. They got out of bed like a rocket!!!! 😂😂😂

I was once given a tube of peach smelling hand cream. The top of the tube was a small orange peach. I loved it. I felt so grown up. I was probably around 7 years old. Ive never forgotten it!

With apologies to my parents (as we were very generously treated as children).

Most memorable for me was monkey nuts as they were still in the stockings when we put them out the next year.

@Riapia

I had a really happy childhood. Brought up by my DM as a single parent. I can’t remember anything about childhood Christmases except the year I got a chemistry set. I was terrified of Santa from being very young so DM had to tell me he wasn’t real. Maybe that’s why childhood christmases have been wiped from my memory. Can’t even remember any of the food or meals

That's really strange as my mum had to tell me the same, I was terrified of Santa.

I still remember Christmas feeling magical though and I remember absolutely loving it, but I have no memories of specific gifts that I loved or whether or not I even had a stocking. It's weird.

My best stocking present was a Labrador puppy toy that barked, walked forwards and then flipped over. Oh my, I was so happy 😀

I always got a bottle of matey bubble bath in my stocking. I remember one year getting ‘fluffit pens’ which I was so excited about!

I always had a sugar mouse with a string tail in my stocking. When they stopped adding tails for 'health and safety' my mum would stick her own ones on them! I always struggled not to eat it at 6am!

I also opened my bedroom door one year to find an A La Carte kitchen outside in the corridor! My mum must have set it all up overnight. I loved that thing.

A copy of Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett.
Fimo.

We always had lovely presents, but these stuck in my mind as being amazing.

Always a tangerine in the toe, some new pants, and chocolate coins.

Fred basset soap.
A white Teddy bear that had brown trousers, red jacket and a brown waistcoat. A white bear nightdress case that had a voice thing in it, that made a noise when you moved its head.
Our presents were always in a pillow case. One year my nanna got me a pillow case with my name on it, it was used every year after that as my "stocking".
Red towelling pj's that I though were a tracksuit, huge embarrassment when I was told, but I loved them anyway.

I always got a dark chocolate Terry's chocolate orange in mine.

Tube of jelly tots
Matey bubblebath
Torch
Chocolate coins

The only thing I can remember from stockings was a chocolate smokers set. Pipe, cigs, cigar. 1970s. Those were the days

One of these!

Plus little bubble baths shaped like bottles of booze. Whatever were our parents thinking 🤣

Also one of the original Nintento Game and Watch

So many of these bring back memories.

I remember every year getting very shiny new 1p coins. (My Dad worked in a bank and was able to get new ones). I loved how beautiful they were.

Big tubes of Smarties and Jelly tots. Oh and chocolate buttons. The tube seemed to go on forever.

One of those machines you out 2p coins into and get a mini bar of Dairy Milk. Amazing!
I also fondly remember an ink stamp with my name on, when personalised items were not so common.

One year we got a Terry's Chocolate Lemon instead of a chocolate orange.

I'm pretty certain I didn't imagine it. Have never seen them since.

Every stocking had to contain:
A satsuma
A hazelnut, a walnut, an almond, a brazil nut, and some years might also include a pecan, all in their shells.
One of each current coin of the realm, all shiny and new mint condition.
There was usually an annual (Beano or Mandy or something like that) and small things like pencils, maybe a book, small toy or puzzle.

But it wouldn't have been a proper stocking without the satsuma, nuts and coins.

A matchbox doll. Really treasured it!

@TheOrchidKiller a Terry's Chocolate Lemon?

Indiana Jobe Adventure book, one of those you had to make decisions or pick a number snd it would send you on different path in the book.

Indiana Jones!