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When to put stockings up

28 replies

Zazzabeans · 24/11/2014 18:33

So, I'm thinking about putting tree next week, have never hung stockings on fire, normally just get them out Xmas eve and fill them.
However dds think I should hang them on the fireplace next week as their friends all do.
Is this the norm ?

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lucysmam · 24/11/2014 18:35

I like to hang them up with the rest of the decs...no fireplace though so am wondering where this year Confused

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 24/11/2014 18:36

We just put them on beds on Christmas Eve, we use our fireplaces so can't have anything hanging from them.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 24/11/2014 18:37

Definitely Christmas Eve, unless you have the sort of fireplace that looks right with them and they won't get in the way for a month.

waithorse · 24/11/2014 19:45

We do them Christmas eve.

SanityClause · 24/11/2014 19:51

Our DC hang them off the end of their beds on Christmas Eve. Why did I do that? I've always had to wait for them to go to sleep, then sneak in. DD1 is 15, and goes to sleep after us, now. How will I fill her stocking? Gaaah!

pictish · 24/11/2014 19:54

Christmas Eve here too.

MehsMum · 24/11/2014 20:29

Christmas eve, though the DC, who are old enough to know better, want them out once the tree is up (and I am a horrible parent and that doesn't happen till the weekend before Christmas).

EhricLovesTheBhrothers · 24/11/2014 20:40

Christmas Eve definitely. They aren't a decoration.

Zazzabeans · 26/11/2014 11:24

I have seen lots of people putting them up with their trees, but im not so sure Confused

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JohnCusacksWife · 26/11/2014 11:26

Christmas Eve, at the end of the bed. Have never heard of stockings going up any other time!

DuelingFanjo · 26/11/2014 11:27

Christmas Eve. We have them by the chimney.

TweeAintMee · 26/11/2014 11:43

Christmas Eve, on end of the bed.

DamselNotInHerDress · 26/11/2014 12:08

Christmas Eve on the ends if beds. We use our fireplaces anyway so wouldn't hang them there.

curiousgeorgie · 26/11/2014 12:10

I hang them on the fireplace, empty until they go to bed on Christmas Eve. (When they are then too heavy to hang so I just place them on the hearth.

It looks fab Grin

WildFlowersAttractBees · 26/11/2014 12:13

We sit them under the tree when it goes up then they are hung on the end of each bed on Christmas eve.

QoFE · 26/11/2014 12:15

Christmas eve.

And I have 2 of each stocking so I can fill one in my room then do a swap to make it quiet and faster!

SooticaTheWitchesCat · 26/11/2014 12:17

On the end of the bed on Christmas Eve before they go to sleep.

Showy · 26/11/2014 12:20

7pm on the 24th of December. At the earliest.

Daydreamersea · 26/11/2014 17:28

About a week or so before Christmas as we like seeing them hanging up.

TweeAintMee · 26/11/2014 20:56

QofE - you cunning creature! Love that idea. Sadly our socks are a mixture of rather eccentric odd sock shooting stockings etc. so to find the other half would be a challenge.

QoFE · 26/11/2014 22:28

Ours are grandad's old wooly thigh high fishermans socks Grin and grandad was very particular about such things so we have both of each pair. I can't take credit for the idea, it was one I read on MN years ago when my oldest was small. But it is genius.

glentherednosedbattleostrich · 26/11/2014 22:33

QoFE, we do the 2 stocking thing too!

OP, definitely Christmas eve

steppemum · 26/11/2014 22:41

Ours are pretty, and go on our lounge door, or on the bannisters and then upstairs on Christmas eve.

steppemum · 26/11/2014 22:42

I creep in and pinch stocking, then fill it in our bedroom and then return it.

mistlethrush · 26/11/2014 22:42

Christmas eve for stockings here.