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I have just realised I have no stockings for the DCs

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Hopefully · 20/12/2011 14:04

I have been merrily buying presents and have hit realised that there is nothing to put them in! Fuck knows what I did last year - I was 6 months pg with DS2 and suffering foul SPD so not on top form. Anyway, I have 3 days to go we pack for family Christmas in London. Do I:
a) make stockings (I probably have some festive fabric kicking around, but don't really have two hours spare atm)
b)brave the crowds in town and buy stockings (where!?!)
c) grab the nearest two pillowcases while packing
d) find two semi clean pillowcases this evening and trim them with festive fabric, to be picked off in the New Year. Quicker and dirtier than (a) but still slightly festive.

Can't believe this hasn't occurred to me until now!

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girlywhirly · 20/12/2011 14:08

Can you get to a Homebase or B&Q, or even some of the supermarkets, they are all selling their Christmas stuff off cheap?

CharminglyOdd · 20/12/2011 14:11

Wilkinsons are doing cheap stockings. Trimmed pillowcases also sound good. If you have the time to trim and enough fabric could you make two very rough pillowcases out of Christmas fabric?

Wants3 · 20/12/2011 14:12

Well you are more organised than my sister who only realised at bedtime on Christmas eve and ended up using a pair of 15 denier stockings. The children didn't seem to mind!

Anonymousbosh · 20/12/2011 14:12

Pillowcases! DD has a big sack from last year, haven't found a nice enough one for ds so we are using his brightly coloured cot duvet cover as a sack, he won't give a stuff that it hasn't got festive prints on it!

FestiveFriedaWassailsAgain · 20/12/2011 14:13

I use a leg from a pair of tights. They hang up the christmassy stockings but FC leaves them the filled leg of a pair of tights. Mainly because that's what we had as children!

This year they are ladder resist M and S ones Xmas Grin

BlueChampagne · 20/12/2011 14:13

Trimmed pillow cases for now, then snap up some cheap Christmassy fabric in the new year and get the sewing machine out.

NancyBlacket · 20/12/2011 14:18

We always used a pair of tights with one leg stuffed down the other. The advantage is if you have two pairs the same you can fill the identical one at your leisure and then do a swift swap rather than creeping in twice. As kids we used to love the lumpy bumpy tights and my DS doesn't know any different!

usualsuspect · 20/12/2011 14:20

Have you got any big socks you can use?

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Hopefully · 20/12/2011 14:26

My step-sisters had tights - they used to freak me out, like Santa had delivered a really deformed amputated leg for Christmas. Xmas Shock

There's a b&q down the road, I might try there later this evening, and go for trimmed pillowcases if it's a fail.

And yy to cheap festive fabric for next Year's stockings in the Jan sales.

I can't believe I'm so lame. My kids have hand knitted socks to wear with their hand made pyjamas and hand sewn toys. But no bloody stockings!

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BlueChampagne · 20/12/2011 15:07

Hey - at least you remembered before Christmas eve!

ForeverChangesNothing · 20/12/2011 15:11

I always had pillowcases at stockings as a kid, they are nice and big so lost of room for presents Wink

TheChristmasTreeSurgeonsMate · 20/12/2011 15:11

Pillowcases is traditional. Now that I'm the grown up I fuss about choosing a different style of pillowcase for each person, luckily my mother has a selection and is not a white company addict. But that's not strictly necessary, really.

PuffOfSmoke · 20/12/2011 15:20

When I was little my Mum couldn't find my stocking on Christmas eve, so she put all my goodies in an Asda bag along with a poem to explain why Santa was using Asda bags this year. Still have the poem and she still (20 years later) uses Asda bags for my stocking! Xmas Smile

Get0rf · 20/12/2011 15:24

I forgot about stocking last year, I only realised when I had wrapped all the stuff pissed on christmas eve.

I used a pair of old M&S tights in purple. DD and DSS looked Hmm at them.

I bought some very nice felt ones in Poundland this year.

Seona1973 · 20/12/2011 16:36

we used to use an actual sock when we were kids (clean of course!).

etJeviensEntretesReindeers · 20/12/2011 16:40

I have got two each for mine, I couldn't find a nice one for ds2 like ds1's, so ended up making him one, but first I'd bought one each from Lakeland as they had nice embroidered ones.
They personalise as well. I guess it's a bit late for this year but worth a look for next!

I made ds2's out of an old jumper, with lots of applique and a bell and ribbons and so on. Good fun.

etJeviensEntretesReindeers · 20/12/2011 16:41

Oh yes when we were kids we each had one of my father's skiing socks! Huge and long and woolly.

pranma · 20/12/2011 20:49

I always use[d] those big thick white 'fishing socks' very cheap at most markets.My dd still has her original one from 37 years ago.I have bought many pairs over the years and now there are 10 'active' pairs in the family-so 20 socks in all :)

Guitargirl · 20/12/2011 21:19

I had a stocking panic on Christmas Eve last year. In the evening on the 23rd everything was done, wrapped, etc. I got out the DCs stockings to show them what they would be leaving out for Father Christmas. DS (age 1.11) was going to have a Pingu stocking which had been DD's when she was a baby. DD (age 3.11) had more things for her stocking so instead of an actual stocking she was going to have a small sack from Mamas and Papas. When I showed DD and she realised she wasn't going to have an actual stocking but DS was, her little face just fell and she was so upset. I tried to explain that not having an actual stocking meant Father Christmas could fit more in but nothing doing!

So, cue me on Christmas Eve running around every shop imaginable in a panic trying to find a semi-nice (not pink satin with black fur trim) stocking faced with sceptical looks from the shop assistants who looked at me like I was the worst mother in the world!

Our local shop only sold personalised ones at £40 a pop. I eventually found a white one with silver decorations and trim in one of those dodgy Christmas shops which nobody can remember what they sell for the rest of the year. It was the last one in the shop, I also bought a silver and white bell to tie to the top of it. DD was delighted, I earned a few more grey hairs and the bored looking shop assistant did not look even remotely interested in my explanation of why I was stocking shopping so late...

Sorry that was long!

sunnyday123 · 21/12/2011 07:15

theres loads of shops near me that sell them - card shops/ home bargains/wilkinsons etc even tesco/asda/aldi - usually start from £1! I would have thought that even with a few days to spare you would have to live in the middle of nowhere to not find one and have to make one!!!

Home bargains has tons to put in them!

robino · 21/12/2011 07:54

Hooray! Some other real stockings or legs of tights users! I got laughed out of the room last year when I confessed this to some friends. It's what we always had as children and I've carried on. They make fantastic present containers, all stretchy and long.

girlywhirly · 21/12/2011 08:52

I'm so glad I'm not alone in having my presents in a nylon stocking as a kid! I'm sure peoples DH's would love a fishnet one.

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