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Where do your DC hang their stockings on Christmas Eve?

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ceebeegeebies · 12/12/2011 19:21

In the lounge, outside their bedroom or in their bedroom?

Just pondering what to do this year - previous years they have left them hung on their door handle outside their door but have actually decorated their bedroom this year and the stockings have pride of place hung at the bottom of the bunkbeds and look great.

However, obviously the stockings being inside their bedroom is a bit more tricky come Christmas Eve but I also have visions of them waking up and opening them without disturbing us having to open their bedroom door.

Maybe I am overthinking this What do you do?

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PresentsRibbonsAndMerrySantas · 12/12/2011 19:22

this year after last year, they are going on the landing, and staying on the landing

KWL51 · 12/12/2011 19:25

At the end of thier beds. My eldest usually still awake for the last couple of years but he's 14.5 now. The others sleep with door open so easy to sneak in grab it go to my room to fill it and put back in place.

orienteerer · 12/12/2011 19:26

On landing (much easier than bedroom)

CroissantNeuf · 12/12/2011 19:30

Next to the fire place in the dining room

2kidsintow · 12/12/2011 20:58

Laid out on the bottom of their beds, or hanging from the bedknobs at the bottom. My DDs til now have been v good at not getting up too early to open stuff and they like to bring them through to our room to open, which is lovely.

lucysmam · 12/12/2011 21:00

On the landing, dd2 a very light sleeper & would wake the moment I stepped into her room to fill it. Am almost certain dd1 will deliver it to her when she wakes & finds hers outside her door as well before they come and join us in bed to open them

CuriousMama · 12/12/2011 21:00

On the end of the beds, I sneak in and get them to fill then return them, worked so far and dss are 11 and 14. DS1 loves his stocking bless him

CuriousMama · 12/12/2011 21:01

Must add you could vacuum and my two would still sleep.

relaxingathome · 12/12/2011 21:01

on their beds, but have identical ones ready filled, so it is just a matter of swapping them over.

lucysmam · 12/12/2011 21:07

That's a good plan, relaxingathome, will try to remember that when they are a bit bigger

PastGrace · 12/12/2011 21:09

relaxing that is genius.

My mum was the same as Curious - sneak in, remove, fill, return.

It's just not the same if you don't wake up and feel it all heavy on your legs. DP was afraid of someone coming into his room, so Father Christmas left his on the landing by his door.

ScramblyEgg · 12/12/2011 21:09

By the fireplace in the sitting room - DS doesn't like the idea of a strange man coming into his room.

smokinaces · 12/12/2011 21:09

Mine hang them from their bunkbeds, or on their door.

But, being 5 and 3 they dont get them filled back in their rooms. Father Christmas fills them and puts them in my room to look after, until they get up at 7 (ok 6) am.

That way I get to see their faces, and watch them opening them all. And they get to climb into my bed without getting told off for 1 mornign a year

relaxingathome · 12/12/2011 21:11

It was my DM's genius first :)

MerylStrop · 12/12/2011 21:11

off the mantlepiece, in the sitting room
we have to poke the kids with sticks to get them up in the morning, even at xmas

BarkisIsWillin · 12/12/2011 21:12

Stockings are hung by fireplace but Santa fills them and places them on beds - amazing really as dc are 18 and 14!!

MistletoeAndFlump · 12/12/2011 21:18

Ours hang off the mantlepiece over the big fireplace in the sitting room. I would rather they stayed there but on Christmas Eve the DC pull them all off my neat display and take them up to bed - sometimes clutching them in their sleep

Santa has to fill them really quietly

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ceebeegeebies · 12/12/2011 21:19

Thank you - am liking the suggestion of having identical stockings but there is no way I could do that as the DS1's stocking is personalised and 5 years old so I doubt Mamas and Papas still do it

I guess I am also thinking about the fact that if I leave the stockings in their bedroom, they may feel a bit funny about a strange man going into their bedroom.

Also, those of you who don't have to deal with DC pre-6am on Christmas Day - I am very My 2 are usually up just after 6 on a normal day, let alone Christmas Day However, I do like the thought of seeing them open their stockings and see their faces after the effort of buying all the stuff. My mum used to make a real effort with our stockings and I am trying to do the same for my DC

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PastGrace · 12/12/2011 22:54

One year my parents told DSis and me that we had to stay in bed until 7am... which would have worked well, except that we were too little to tell the time. My sister apparently scrambled over them and shouted "is it 7 in the morning yet?", my dad grunted "yes" and off we went, happy as Larry. My parents think it was about 3am!

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