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

Nothing worse that sales assistants in "designer" stores 😂

(See Pretty Woman for reference too)

Why not?
A bag of unusual flavour crisps that you wouldn't normally get and a mini pack of tissues with a popular character on the packet like Batman or Minions.
That's pretty cool stuff when you're a kid.
(or just childish like 50 year old me)

Most teens obsessed with make-up (so not ALL teens...) would be a lot more appreciative by a Lancome mascara than their mums who put any mascara and a bit of foundation during the week between the gym and work. None of the women I know spend any time researching and comparing mascaras and make-up, they just grab something quickly.

(and pay for a professional make-up for events 😂)

My boys are men and they still get a stocking from me 😂. Bloody boxers are £42 from next this year , when did that happen😮?

Lol I put fruit sweets a few lil bits and bobs and a santa present in my kiddies stockings taking the santa gift out I would spend around £20 cause let's face it with the sugar tax climbing and fruit is extortionate anyway🤣 then im left with around a tenner for the little bits per stocking

Always had an annual in mine. Dandy or Beano.

Get out of bed then and sit in the floor 😂😂😂

Are you not English/in Engand?? (Not sure where else has them??)

Gold Coins are gold foil wrapped chocolates moulded like coins 🤣🤣

£1.99 - £2.99 is my idea of the price for a stocking filler! A hair bobble, slide, small toiletries, pens, notebooks, sweets, chocs, games, hobby materials, novelties etc. At £10-20 you’d need to spend £200 on a stocking.

I think people are missing the point about the tissues.
Kids love tissues like this....
(picture incoming)

A stocking without gold chocolate coins is not a stocking 😂

Small children. But not teenagers.

My parents did not have that kind of money in the 90s. Our stockings would have a book, socks, chocolate, satsumas, a beanie baby, some underwear, maybe a snow globe or a dvd or something. Bigger presents under the tree. It certainly didn't take away the magic, we were absolutely beside ourselves with excitement!

We spent last Xmas with relatives with primary school aged DC and they had an entire bin bag of huge "stocking" presents each! Plus tree presents later on. And by 3pm the gifts had been forgotten and they were all having a huge bloody row over the tv remote.

The pressure to spend huge sums of money these days is batshit and the amount of waste is even more batshit.

😆Probably going to cause mass outrage here but my Gran was firmly of the belief that a "tot" of whisky in a cup / bottle of warm milk was key to getting babies / small children to sleep well. I mean, she wasn't wrong but think it would be frowned upon these days😂

Just Quit with the 'should be'

Read other peoples posts & realise different people have different ways of doing things.

Teenagers getting ‘Lancombe’ £30 mascara as a stocking filler jaysus christ is my child gonna feel deprived 😂 mind you we’re saving for her university costs and future house deposit so hopefully she’ll appreciate it eventually! Satsumas until then!

I am with you OP. I am so over Xmas at this point. It’s basically just companies making a tonne of money. It’s just capitalism. Oh actually makes me down. If you want to buy your DD a mascara do so. Don’t make it about a day which is just about spending as much money as you can, eating whatever you can and often feeling a dark night of the soul come the evening. Magical my arse.

My girl is 17.
She stil loves them.
I think last years had Batman on.

I'm partial to the ones with 'notes' and coins. Gotta have them in a stocking, whichever type. Essential.

The number of presents thing is competing with social media. Stuff SM, stop being sad and make Christmas on how your children want it.

some kids might, others would be a bit puzzled, and stocking fillers are not reserved for kids.

I am loving the idea to fill stockings for all the MIL with crisps and tissue, imagine how well that would go and the threads after Christmas 😂

For me a stocking filler is fun & should be cheap. A £50 present is not a filler.

Yes, packet of novelty travel tissues, but 'a box of tissues' 🤣🤣🤣

There's always one 😂I'm not even the poster you're replying to and I also disagree with teens having loads of expensive cosmetics but I will buy DSD a Benefit Mascara or a Drunk Elephant product as a Christmas pressie. It's a treat for a special time of year. Not an every day occurrence.

We are horribly materialistic creatures.

But I agree completely that a stocking filler is some chocolate or little cheap treats. A present is a present.