It’s not a fucking stocking filler!

[YesJs]

I’m getting sick of gift guides with ‘stocking fillers’ that are around £15-20.

‘Perfect stocking filler for a teen’ says Glamour of a £25 lip balm kit. GQ, recommends a Stockings contain at least 10 presents - more likely about 15-20. Therefore (unless you’re super rich) they need, by nature, to be much cheaper than this.

I earn good money, I wouldn’t spend upwards of £250 on a stocking BEFORE the main presents. AIBU

100%

Stockings are filled with lovely little things like a nice pen or a sweet or a shower gel. Not actual gifts!

Blimey. Lancome.

It’s a new one on me too but I bloody love crisps. I hope it takes off

In somewhere like B&M I did buy mine a Christmas themed Pringle set. It had 4 little Pringle tubs (the size I never let mine buy because they’re very overpriced) in cardboard Christmas looking box. So I can relate to that for crisps. But not if it’s just taking a pack of school lunch crisps out of the larder.

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I remember years ago my mom telling me her male cousin once bought her toilet rolls as a Christmas present!🤭

I don't really understand the point of a stocking and fillers altogether, it seems like more pressure to buy additional presents and tat. We just do presents under the tree.

I got tissues as a teen. I loved them so much. They were Groovy Chick which was all the rage

People say it about the things they buy too though, it has spread into everyday speech.

I really miss doing Christmas stockings: I’d pick up small amusing things throughout the year and sometimes even remember where I’d hidden them. A sugar mouse was de rigueur. And yes, later on there was a mascara in there, and it was Lancôme, but also a sugar mouse. One year I got a bit pissed confused on Christmas Eve, and my husband was rather startled by the mascara.

When people are saying tissues I assume they mean those little handbag packs that you can buy in Poundland.
The year I gave my girl a pack with a My Little Pony on the packaging she squealed with over excitement.

Very odd stocking fillers. I can't even imagine how disappointed I'd be opening my stocking to some tissues and a bag of crisps. They should still be semi "gift" like items even if they're stocking fillers.

My teens stocking fillers usually consist of 4-5 small items like a book, chocolate orange/ferrero roches, guitar picks, card game, poster.

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It was the same in ours too... (except it filled the 4am-6am) slot with one if our 'proper' presents in the end of the bed too... my parents were obviously desperate to 'sleep in' until 6am. I doubt they ever managed it

they did excel themselves one year though when they gave us (in the 70's) small transistor radios so we could stay warm in bed to listen to the weekly Sunday Morning kids stories on them!! It was YEARS later that it dawned on me it was as much as a present for them as us 🤣🤣

@YesJs adverts for things you can't afford can be annoying. But that's life. Should they ban Lexus adverts because I can't afford one?

companies need to sell stuff, to make a profit, to keep trading.

@SmallestGnome why is chocolate ok but not crisps?

I'm imagining my teens face if they unwrapped a box of tissues in their stocking.

And they like stuff like fun shower gel and a new toothbrush in their stockings!

A box of tissues and a bag of crisps?!?! Come on. I've been utterly skint at times but those aren't stocking fillers.

I know 🤣🤣🤣 a box of tissues?!?!??

you buy gold coins? 😂
I don't think you understand what the word "entitled" actually means.

I don't believe in buying crap for the sake of buying tat. Toothbrush are not a gift, they're an essential basic! I prefer to buy proper presents, and I assure you that doesn't make me "entitled' and my kids even less.

surely all they are arsed about at that age is sweets and charging around with their mates
as in, you just plonk them in the middle of a field or something? 😂

What I find fascinating is how involved you are in the way other people organise Christmas. I love how much disapproval comes into the choices of presents we give. It's brilliant

Same. The problem with stocking fillers is that you spend money on tat that no one wants and never gets played with unless you just go for the satsuma and a bag of chocolate coins approach. Think that ship has sailed sadly in my house.
so yes the smallest presents go in the stocking, unless they are small and the main event.

all of mine are older now and, they get a lynx set, a perfume/aftershave, some socks, some chocolates and an envelope with money in - all in their stocking, thats it, the only presents under the tree are mine and DH and the 3 grandaughters

When they were younger I would just put the smaller presents in the stockings regardless of cost, there could have been a £300 phone in the stocking and then a large present that cost me a fiver under the tree, I suppose we all have our own way of doing it

you can't eat crisps in bed.

Well maybe you can, but they are easy to choke on if you eat them lying down and the crumbs are pointy.

My friend writes a gift guide for the newspapers. The amount of free shit she gets sent…. Her whole house right now is full of luxury goods. She doesn’t get send £5 things. She’ll look through what she’s been sent and think about the colour palette and compile a gift guide from it.
It’s literally PR stuff. Don’t overthink it!

Yeah, they'd wonder if I was quite alright.

I remember one retailer calling an iPad a stocking filler. Not at £750+

Stocking fillers should be things like Terry Chocolate Oranges (£1 Tesco Clubcard at the mo), bath bombs, a nice pen etc.

I lost my husband to cancer earlier this year. My daughter is quite selfish and has 2 boys one at work and the other just started senior school. My daughter and her partner both work .The thing is , that my daughter always says I need you to collect the kids from school 3 days a week.She doesn't ask , she just expects me to fall in with what she says. Am I unreasonable?