To ask if anyone else DOESN'T do Christmas stockings?

[VioletSpeedwell]

We Speedwells can't be the only family in Britain who don't put gifts in stockings.

Can we?

You might be

Nope we don't do stockings either! Although strangely enough DC2 has asked this year if we can despite the fact they are 9 and 13 and have never had them before!

I didn't have a stocking growing up either!

We never had them as kids but I do them for mine.

Not that it matters, everyone does their own thing and has their own traditions - I suppose I might be curious to ask if you have ever “done” Santa / Father Christmasin any way? (As that’s who brings the stockings in my tradition, and still does even in my thirties 😉)

Never had one in my life!

My kids do though.

Nope we never had stockings growing up and I never did them for my kids either.

i don’t remember having them as kids and I haven’t done any for my child to date

We never had them growing up - although we did have everything you’d conventionally put in a stocking just mixed in with bigger gifts. I do them for my DC because I liked the idea and started it when they were young and it stuck.

You are not alone. Didn’t do them growing up, and we don’t have them now.

We do them, but it’s the only thing that Father Christmas brings in our house. All other presents are from us/family.

@VioletSpeedwell why don't you do stockings?

Also never had them growing up or since

We had pillowcases which had everything in including what would be classed as stocking gifts. Never knew it was such a thing before I joined Mumsnet.

Same.

Christmas stockings are excessive. My family don't do them either!

We don’t. I never had them growing up, so never done them now either

We had pillowcases as well. I remember we all had particular ones we liked to use for Christmas!

My kids have stockings and get little fillers and chocolate in them buy my husband and I don't. Growing up I didn't have a stocking but we left out big sucks (like my dads football socks etc 😂)

I LOVE making up stockings, they are the best part of Christmas for me. I love watching my children open them and they love receiving them. I make them up for my elderly neighbours, two ladies who live on their own, my mother in law to name a few.
Father Christmas brings them and all other gifts are from real people.

We do them with the little bits and pieces in, chocolate, fluffy socks, maybe some cool pencils etc and they're from father Christmas. I think it annoys the why did father Christmas but Veronica a pony and only got me a board game. We explain he can't fit big things on the sleigh and he's not a billionaire and the elves only make simple things.

No. Used to buy a load of tat that didn't get used.

Never done Christmas stockings, but I didn't have one growing up so it's never been a thing.

Don't do the Christmas pyjamas, boxes or Elf on shelf either

I never had them growing up. I did them for my DC until they were teenagers as they'd tend to be little things (and always a chocolate orange of course 😁)
One of my friends obsesses about getting stocking presents for everyone from about august onwards, and it's invariably a load of tat that she buys.

We had pillowcases too, although I don’t remember them being a really big deal particularly - it wasn’t like ‘XYZ type of thing goes in the pillow case and the others under the tree’ which I feel like is how people do stockings now. I’m not even sure they happened every year - my big memory is of going downstairs to see if ‘he’d been’ and the presents would be under the tree, but I think on at least some years there may have been a few things put in a pillow case in our room.

We’ve done one for DD every year so far. I bought her a too small and too expensive personalised one for her first Christmas because I got carried away, then a friend also sent a larger knitted one which was also personalised. Neither of which are easy to duplicate which I’m kicking myself for now I’ve read the tip to have two the same to make filling easier without waking anyone! I do really like it when she opens the stocking in our bed first before going downstairs though - we always have guests staying at Christmas and sticking their beak in the general present opening so that bit always feels special just the three of us!