Aibu to give dd (8) and empty stocking for Christmas...

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Well ,empty apart from concert tickets to see one direction?

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SaintMerryweather My ds would howl if he got 1D tickets. He cannot stand them. Now Pet Shop Boys and he would think his christmas was made! Shame that the Edinburgh Hogmany Party said that under 16's weren't recommended or else he and dh could have gone.

I've just discovered he told his sister he would like commonwealth games tickets to watch a bowling event! He obviously didn't listen when I said that we had been allocated what I applied for! But they aren't a christmas present.

Isn't a Christmas stocking supposed to contain a tangerine and a bag of chocolate coins?
Or am I very very old?

I think the rot set in when people started using pillow cases instead of socks. With socks you only got what your mum could cram in, which, yes, in my house was a tangerine (often actually an orange, tangerines were lovely but rare) and a wooden puzzle that never worked, and some slightly furry chocolate coins.

Now they get a pillowcase full of loot.

Stockings only here. No pillowcases. Always has the orange at the bottom and some form of chocolate (not always coins).

I never had a stocking.

In my family, we've been having pillowcases since the very early 1970s - so not exactly a new thing. The contents were always thoughtful, fun and (with hindsight) quite often second-hand.

I loved Christmas as a child and I want my childre to love it too.

Is it just me that does, new books under the tree, second hand ones in the socking? ( older kids)

Awwwww, notso.

Don't feel too sad beast I got presents at the end of the bed, but I really wanted a stocking especially as my Mum and a Dad used to say how great they were when they were little
DD can't believe that. Cluedo was my main present one year!

Will she still be getting presents under tho tree?

OP I have decided not to put the 1D tix into DD's stocking but to pop them into an envelope, inside an envelope, blah, blah going up in size until I can get to the biggest envelope we can find then wrap that one in a really festive way. By the time she has opened all the envelopes on christmas morning to find this tiny ticket inside it she will go off like a rocket! DD is not expecting these tickets at all so it's coming as a complete surprise to her - I can't wait to see her face light up!

I am sure whatever you decide to do your DD will be over the moon - after all it's 1D to them - nothing else matters!

I would just pick up a few small gifts like chocolates and anything cheapish then give her the tickets. At 10 she should be able to understand the value of stuff.

When I bought DS a special trip away I made up a letter outlining the stuff whe was going to do and who was going with him, it was brilliant seeing his face as he read it, he was 6.

As a rule we do not buy big gifts for the DCs as we likebthem to have lots to open, birthdays are for 1 big gift in our house unless we are buying the big gift as an additional present at xmas.

I would definitely put a letter together saying about the overnight stay.

We often do stuff as a family (although I think DH would draw the line at a 1D concert) so I understand where you are coming from and think some people have been quite rude to you although DH and DS1 went away without me and dS2 due to cost, the thing they were doing was less important to DS2 and I even though we would have gone but it enabled us to buy other presents insteas so I understand what people are getting at.

Haven't RTFT but I agree with the PoundShop 1D tat - it's always nice to have a stocking to open at Christmas I still have mine and I'm 30 It's about the unwrapping and getting to the bottom of the stocking, not really what's in there. I thought the satsuma and the chocolate coins were non-negotiable too.

I think it depends what you've done previously. I always believed understood that the stocking at the end of the bed was from Father Christmas and the gifts under the tree were from parents and other family.

If you're happy to stop the gifts from FC then so be it, but, as a teenager/young adult child, I always loved the tradition of the stocking, it was part of the magic of Christmas.

Personally I would get a few bits to go in the stocking too (The Range & The Works usually have lots of cheap and cheerful 1D stuff) but if it helps I've just asked 9yo DD her opinion and she thinks just tickets in the stocking is fine, maybe with an itinerary detailing the whole trip, hotel etc too.