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?

Never had one growing up and don't do them now

I still have to do them for 30 yr old DD and 33 yr old DS and now DSIL too!

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?

Oh yes! We put whiskey and a KitKat out for him (because he needs a break - geddit?!). He brings all the gifts for DC but they know mum and dad pay for them.

Never did as kids and don't for my kids !
Always think they are full of rubbish!

I didn't have a stocking, so neither does my kid - we have sack's

We’ve never had them growing up and we’ve never done them for ours .

We dont

I didn't have one growing up.

DDs 12 and 14 never have.

I've got them one this year as everyone on here seemed to do them.

They already have a Christmas Eve Box now I'm wondering what the hell I can put in them, I've made me work for myself.

They don't have bed knobs or whatever you call them so not sure where to put them.

We’ve always mixed up everything in one Christmas bag (one per child, size of a small pillowcase) - little gifts, socks, sweets and silly things mixed in with ‘proper’ gifts. Still do them even though they’re now young adults. DS’s girlfriend (22) spent Christmas with us for the first time last year and I did one for her - she was absolutely thrilled, like a little kid opening all the packages, it was lovely!

People who say stockings are from Santa?
They must be tiny gifts? I said everything was from Santa.

I didn’t have them as a child so didn’t think to do them for dc. I always wondered what would go in them because they’re quite small.

Santa used to leave a pile of presents - Beano annuals, small Lego sets, small arts and craft sets, books, chocolate orange, bed socks and a Christmas tree decoration. Dc’s are 14 and 16 and Santa still visited last year even though they’ve known the truth for years. I think this year I won’t bother. Maybe I’ll buy them a small stocking and start a new tradition.

The X family don't have stockings, never had a tradition in either family, and now mostly because we don't have a fireplace. The young adults have aways been fans of envelopes to do their own thing.

We've been trying to cut down this year especially on stuff. Our tradition is real fizz on Christmas Eve or Boxing Day and a smoked salmon and scrambled egg brunch. A gentle come down after the big day.

I don't either. We didn't have anything like that as kids either.

We had them growing up, but at least three of the items contained therein were an apple, an orange and a tangerine. These were clearly straight out of the fruit bowl (having gone from being full on Christmas eve to strangely denuded on Christmas Day) and the apple tended to be Golden Delicious, which my mum liked (but I didn't, too sweet and soft and a bit grainy). The tangerine was the only one of my trio that got eaten, as the orange was hard work to peel and not particularly nice.

The stockings that I make up (for DS, DH and DSis) don't ever include room temperature fruit. I did once put a Jellycat tangerine in my sister's, just as a nod to our childhood experience...

No, we don't do stockings either. My dh and myself never had them growing up either. We just do a single gift from Santa and the all other gifts (from us, family, friends etc...). We do have a Christmas Eve box with a treat in though.

Gosh no. We’re already overloaded with gifts from friends, family. Why would i add more to that?! Surely no one needs that much stuff

Never done it either

Dc used to have a pillowcase when they woke up but wouldn't do it now they are grown up

I had them growing up in the 1960s and 70s. They were a colourful knee sock with an apple and mandarin, some chocolate coins and maybe one small toy.

I have some fabric boot shaped stockings for my DC. The apple and mandarin stopped when they were 10! They get sweets, chocolate coins, chocolate Father Christmas and socks!

We do, it’s lots of small inexpensive presents (candy canes, torches, little lego bags etc) that we put on the end of the kids bed. It just gives us (me & hubby) an extra 1/2 hr in bed while the dcs climb into bed together and open them.
They then climb into our with their spoils.

Stockings are my absolute favourite part of Christmas. They were my favourite bit when I was a kid and they're still my favourite bit now. DD is an adult but I'll carry on doing it for her for as long as she wants one!

Stockings were never a thing in my family while growing up. They were in my DH's family, so we do them for the DC now.

I’m 32 and my mum still does me a stocking 😳 No tat though but things like hair care products, fluffy socks, make up, chocolate etc.

We had, and now my children have, pillowcases.

I didn't have them growing up but I did them for my children as it kept them in bed a little longer.

As a child Santa left my presents in a pillow case, I carried on this tradition with DS.

But as he has grown older and his main presents under the tree got bigger and more expensive, the amount of "stocking presents" decreased and a pillow case was too big 🤣

So at the grand old age of 19 I made him a stocking and he gets that every year now.