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

I always put a tangerine into the toe of my teenage children's stockings. It's traditional 😁 one year I missed emptying it out (uneaten) before I packed away the stockings after Christmas and found it again next Christmas, absolutely mummified 😳

It would be a sticking filler to me. As in their smaller gifts get put in a stocking.

@YesJs That really depends on the person doing the stocking really imo

Someone said ‘gorging on chocolate’ as if it was a bad thing

That’s a really nasty thing to say. Take a look at yourself

My husband was Father Christmas at a Grotto a few times.
He was asked for electric toothbrushes a couple of times by young kids 😁

"usually".

Edit : It is also an ambiguous definition as small could relate to physical size or to value.

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.

Not sure that's true, the people who appear to go all out aren't always wealthy.

Someone said ‘gorging on chocolate’ as if it was a bad thing

completely acceptable christmas behaviour

Indeed. And conversely, we’re pretty wealthy and probably out-earn most on this thread ironically!

But that was not the point of the thread as people well know.

From hereon I shall refer to my indulgent stocking fillers as GIFTS

better?

Oh no no no....Scampi Fries are on the list of Terrible and Evil Crisps 😂😂

Do you have children op?

Yes, correct. Thank you.

But I’m not really concerned with what you call it. I don’t know you, I’m taking about retailers

@YesJs I'm tight! 😆

Indeed.

and if your own children decided to put more expensive stocking fillers in their children’s stockings than within the “definition” - would you manage to hide your cats bum expression?

you think this is an irrelevant question just to ask what your response would
be if your own children did what seems to really piss you off on this thread?

I had a drawer full of those small packets of tissues from my ex’s mum. They only came out if we ran out of loo roll.

Ok, enough said 🌷

Everyone's a millionaire on the internet 😉

what about fillers in lips?
they’re quite expensive 😆

They don’t break up like loo paper, they block the pipes, so hope you didn’t run out of loo roll often…

Are you angry about lip fillers using the word “filler”?

but it's not even about "going all out"

It's the OP starting a very pissed off thread because people do things differently.

Some of us think it's a waste of money to buy cheap stuff just for the sake of buying cheap stuff. Nothing to do with wealth. I'd rather spend more on something that keeps or will be used, than a piece of plastic that will end up in the bin that afternoon. And if it's small, it goes in the stocking.

And apparently the OP is mega-wealthy and out-earn all of us on this thread 😂

It can be a stocking filler. I tend to buy one main present then put anything else in a stocking. So the stocking is nice, not gimmicky. My 17yo would be thrilled to find a £25 lip balm in her stocking and actually, if you don’t go for too many items, that might be a very reasonable item to put in.