Stocking filler marketing

[m0therofdragons]

Aibu to think a £55-£65 box set of smellies is not a "stocking filler"? I realise everyone spends different amounts at Christmas and I think I'm fairly generous without being ott but to me a stocking filler is under £20 and mostly under £10 but I keep seeing things packaged up in boxes with a Christmas label and sold in this way and it's irritating me. Christmas gift? Yes okay but stocking filler? Just no!

I don't think I've ever put anything costing more than £15 in a stocking, I don't fill them with tat but it's definitely smaller, cheaper items, £55+ would be a main present.

In a kids stocking, I dont think I put anything worth more than about £10.
However, DH usually gets a bottle of Whisky in there, which is more like £30. But he doesn't get much else - a magazine, some nuts, satsumas, chocolate money, socks. So overall price is probably less than the kids stocking.

It really annoys me when they do this!

A £100 necklace a stocking filler? Nah, that's a main present! It might fit in a stocking but stockings are for chocolates/socks/small toys that cost little.

YANBU.

I can’t believe some of the suggestions I’m seeing on stocking suggestion lists, they are far more than I am spending on some of my actual gifts.

Stocking presents in our family are under £5, stocking fillers are what fill up the gaps - a satsuma, a couple of carefully wrapped mince pies and some brazil nuts filched from the bowl downstairs etc.

YAdefinitelyNBU - some of the items being marketed as stocking fillers are just ridiculous! Just because something is small doesn’t make it a stocking filler, especially as you’re supposed to, y’know, fill a stocking up - who could afford to stuff a stocking with over half a dozen things that could each cost as much as a main present?

To me, stocking fillers are Terry's chocolate oranges and reindeer socks!

Stockings here are - chocolate, novelty items like slime or bouncy balls etc, funky pair of socks, nice pens, maybe a little Lego figure etc
Then they have a Santa sack downstairs which is their main present and a couple of things that were too big for stocking like a annual or a cuddly toy etc

Thank goodness it's not just me! I'm expecting socks and a terrys chocolate orange. Dc have one £10 item then chocolate and other little things. I have over spent this year but not to the extent marketing suggest I should. I'm so glad I'm not alone in my thinking!