Where would you hang your stockings?

[ItsAHollyJollyTee]

So we have no fireplace, so no mantel. I was going to hang them on a bookcase, only blue tack isn't holding them up and I can't get a nail into the bookcase wood.

I don't want to spend the money for those hanger things.

Anyone have any ideas?

As a little girl, I always put the empty stocking across the bottom of my bed. Then (Mummy) Christmas would sneak in and take it away to fill, then sneak back and replace at the end of the bed!

You could make a ceremony of it on Christmas eve bedtime, each child carries their own stocking to bed. Makes sense if they are to be opened first.

my tv is wall mounted on the chimney breast wall, and i have a wooden cupboard underneath. the kids stockings get hung on the handles of the cupboard, and mine and db's go on nails in the wall.

Could you get over-the-door hooks and hang them off your doors?

We have incredibly thick interior doors that I have never found hooks to go over! Also, then they won't close and we use our front room as a giant playpen.

Any other ideas?

Nails in understairs cupboard door (if you have one, obviously). We have no fireplace or mantlepiece & the book case is in a different room so that's the only place for them

Don;t hang. What a freakin nightmare.

Put on end of bed. Or hang them on bedpost at a push, if you have such things.

It's nice to feel a heavy stocking against your feet in the morning.

We have no fireplace ( contemporary house ). We do have a chimney though, so Santa comes in through the loft. We leave his mince pie, sherry and carrot on the landing at the top of the stairs. The children's stockings are hung on their bedroom outer doorknobs on Christmas Eve, and once filled, Santa leaves a jellybean trail down the stairs to where he's left their big present.

taffeta, that's a good idea... may I pinch it please?

There may be chance of a cuppa in bed on Christmas morning yet......although I'd put money on dd1 finding jellybeans & presents before we even opened our eyes & us coming down to find opened pressies everywhere

lol @ contemporary house

sorry should say new house instead? no fabulous Georgian piles here, fnar.

lucysmam - excellent. I say to the DC that I am also very excited to see what Santa has brought, so they must come and wake me. They have done every year so far......although my elder one loves company, the younger one is a bit sneakier, but fortunately a real slug, last year the elder one had to go into her room 3 times before she reluctantly got out of bed...she's 4, whats she going to be like as a teenager??

I was thinking about right now, not so much Christmas morning.

I grew up with the stockings hung on the mantelpiece and this is the first year Christmas it's here rather than at my inlaws, who do the end of the bed thing, and I'm trying to put some of my childhood traditions in, like hanging the stockings.

How do you hang stockings on a mantelpiece? Wouldn't you need to knock dirty great nails into it?

lol taffeta, thanks for the tip, I'll write it on my notice board so I don't forget (thankfully dd1, who is almost 4, can't read much yet, so I'll get away with it ) & dd2 can't get anywhere under her own steam at the mo so we're safe in that department

On George Clooney's bedpost.

We used to put them on the floor of our bedroom near the door so that FC wouldn't come anywhere near us.

Our mum would help us find a nice big hiking sock for us (she had already filled it's twin) and when we were asleep simply swap them over.

Panetto my step-mum has these gold stocking hangers. They sit on the mantelpiece with a hook that hangs down for the stockings to go on. The too bit, that holds them up, has santa's sleigh and his reindeer, one per hook, IYSWIM, so makes a 'picture' across the mantel.

I am not describing thus well, I'll look for a link!

like this only with Santa!

h I see, I know the sort of thing. But do they hold a full stocking, tree?

If you buy those, make sure they are good quality. I just got some from ebay and one broke in transit and I really am dubious about whether the other will hold a full stocking. The ones you linked to look much better, Holly.

I did have some lovely ones but lost them in a house move

The ones my family have are very sturdy and do hold a full sticking.

I can't afford anything like them this year, though.

Hence asking for ideas!

Maybe I'll just nail them to the wall...

as children they were put against the fire place.

we don't have a fire place so put stockings at end of bed.
ds2 is very excited this year. it's really lovely

DS's is pinned up on his bedroom wall at the moment and on xmas eve he is going to hang it on his door handle (as he is a very light sleeper and I wouldn't want DS to wake up as
mummy Santa is filling it up

I had to think abotu this lsat year.

in the end, we hung them on doorknobs.

but if your dining chairs have sticky-up bits at the top of the back, you could hang them on there.

(sorry about crap typing - my hands are frozen solid)