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

As this very thread has shown..,, many don’t

this is so baffling. The idea that people are surprised and cross that people have different budgets for stocking GIFTS 😆

Stocking fillers are meant to be little incidental gifts that don’t quite make the under the tree mark. I used to put chocolate coins, those little bags that had a lego figure in, novelty type stuff, in my kids stockings. Haven’t done one for years as they’re a nightmare to fill for adults imo.

They “should be”

They are “meant to be”

there is no should or meant to be about it

Cheap novelty stocking fillers are usually a waste of money. I would rather spend £20 on something that will be used than £5 on something to just pad out the stocking then just be clutter.

I didn’t say I disliked crisps, just that I’d never heard of them being in a Christmas Stocking

But I don't want tat in my house! That's problem. Cheap seems to equals plastic, useless, eventual landfill. Expensive seems to mean something that actually has a use. DD is still primary age but it is getting harder to come up with ideas

stocking fillers should be up to about £25 for the lot imho.

£25 barely buys anything

My kids get one big present from us (bike, kindle, nintendo switch are examples) and then a stocking but the stocking has a mix of less expensive things & one or two items for £15-20. Otherwise its just tat?!

Eg it might be

• rainbow bath bombs £5
• book £7
• card game £5
• cuddly/novelty item £5
• kids mini camera that prints stickers £25
• sweets/choc
• stationery/pens/craft item £5

Sorry to divert thread but I just spat my tea out laughing at your user name arseintheCoopWindow 🤣

Hard to comment now as mine are 22 and 25, and prices have gone up - but stocking fillers were about £10 each plus chocolate bars etc.

I enjoy shopping for stocking stuffers but it has greatly enlarged. I now do them for 9 people.

To the poster who asked about tissues and crisps.
I give little sized pouches of Kleenex, not a box. For the crisps, if I can find a little bag, they'd go in. Ditto a small container of cookies. For babies, I would get the small sized cookies, teething biscuits or the snacks that came in a Pringles style container.
Other general things for stockings:
lip balm
hand lotion
bandaids (when young the decorated kind. Not as adults)
toothbrush
fancy toothpaste
hair ties
small flashlight
batteries
small knife
multi-tool
individual serving size of cereal
stuffed animal
bath toy
stickers/sticker book
small book or paperback if older
pens
pencils
little notebook or drawing pad
comb
wet brush
Hair clips, barrettes, headbands
trial size shampoo and conditioner
trial sized hair spray
perfume or cologne samples
sugarless gum
nail polish
measuring tape
socks
makeup samples or small trial sized
shower gel
body lotion
face wash
make up remover cloth
cotton pads
face lotion (trial sized)
small ball, like the hi-bounce ones
bubbles
punch ball
soap
small perfume or cologne
candy of different kinds/sizes
orange
An IOU for either a favor, eat out, fun tie (Put in cute envelope)
eyeglass repair kit
electronic cleaning wipes
face wipes
Deodorant
Coffee
Tea
tiny bottles of liquor
ornament (for daughter/son/granddaughter/Dad or something they like/enjoy and usually by Hallmark)

And, anything else I can find that is unusual, silly and usable. The above is what I remember from little one to adult. And before anyone says anything; yes, I know some of those things are strange for you, but they aren't for me and the people who get a stocking. Trial sized items are great, especially if they go for weekends or overnights with friends.

Erm….the phrase is in the dictionary…..

Second comment is weird and rather a non-sequitur so I won’t bother. I guess that’s what happens when you’re wrong - deflect, deflect - a Trumpian game!

I always put crisps in the stockings (teenage boys). Eg on holiday they discovered scampi fries 😆 so I've already bought each a 6 pack of them for the stockings 🥰

A lot of people tend to assume their own views are the prevailing ones, but it's not always the case.

Ok I think we've established everyone has their own definition of stocking fillers!!! There is no right and wrong.

In our house it's smaller (but not necessarily cheaper) items, in other households it's a few cheap bits to literally "fill a stocking", in others it's satsumas and a bag of crisps...

Some people spend £20 on stocking fillers. Others spend £200. Some might spend £2!

Seriously, chill out people 😂

The whole point of stocking fillers is that they are cheap, fun items, and fill up the stocking.

I love stockings - clementine, sweets of choice, chocolate, silly read, socks and or knickers, nice highlighters or pens, notebooks or drawing paper. Weird tree decoration to add to collection. Good times.

I can understand a disagreement and discussion between husband and wife

but trying to enforce "rules" about complete strangers.. that's hilarious 😂

I think some people like the OP spend too much time on social media comparing with others and are miffed not to be in what they think is "the league", I can't see any other explanation.

Stocking fillers are £0-£8
imo

Love crisps in a stocking! 😁

I would love to buy for girls between 7-18. That's the fun age group!

I always had no trouble with my Mom, sister, MIL, daughter or granddaughter.

Guys/sons/husbands are the most difficult.

I miss the days of music and video tapes, CDs and DVDs. Those were always a hit, inexpensive and fun.

Great that’s at yours

i use the stocking to throw in some indulgent premium make up items because they’re small

Just wanted to say thank you, this list is very useful!

They are annoyed because it makes them feel inadequate.

Stocking filler definition from the Oxford English Dictionary.

I mean put what you want in a stocking, that’s your prerogative. But items of £30-40 are not by definition stocking fillers, and currently the dictionary and 93% of people on here agree with me. So there!

people are missing the point. I’m not saying you can’t put what you want in a stocking. I am saying it’s not a stocking filler. Just like if I put my cat in the fridge it wouldn’t be appropriate to call a cat a ‘ fridge filler.’

I also think it changes depending on the age of the recipient. My children are young, and their stockings are inexpensive. They're getting things like chocolate coins, bubbles, stickers, hair clips, Lego mini figures, bath bombs etc. But I foresee a future date where I'm getting them fancy mascara, perfume, tech / gadgets, jewellery etc. That's what my mum did when we were growing up, the stockings changed as we did. By the time I was eighteen my more expensive presents were generally small in size and went in the stocking.