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Sensitive subject: Stocking, Sack or pillowcase?

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Stockingsofdinosaurs · 04/12/2006 18:29

What did you have and what do your kids have?

We always had one leg of a pair of tights which stretched into these 8' long heavy things that we lugged about the landing. Great for us but I'm far too lazy to replicate it for my kids. My mum always said that pillowcases and big sacks were greedy but I swear she get more into each tight leg!
Mine are having these little felt sacks (about 14" x 10") we got from a Santa Steam ride last year. Being a)miserly b)lazy and c)anti waste and excess plastic Far East tat, I'm going to see how long I can fob them off on the kids

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Skribble · 04/12/2006 22:25

Oh I do like Pandas idea, plain white pillow cases can be got for tuppence so I may start a new tradition even though pillowcases seemed a bit greedy. But I think the ide of a pillow case with a picture from everyyear sounds nice.

jetgirl · 04/12/2006 22:27

We each had one of my dad's thick winter socks full of little things to keep us amused until after church, and a sack in the living room which contained all our presents not just the ones from our parents. When I got older I wanted to be more grown-up - I think I was ten - and asked for my presents under the tree, but still wanted the stocking!
My dd (15 months) has a stocking I lovingly made for her last year - you can buy fabric with stocking cutouts printed on so it was dead easy - which will also contain little things we have found for her in the last few months, and we're wrapping her main present and putting it under the tree with the others.

PrincessPeaHead · 04/12/2006 22:33

stockings

good sized material ones, but not gigantic. pillowcases just aren't so fun (and toooooo big to fill - half the fun is trying to get wierd shaped presents out of a wierd shaped stocking)

Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 04/12/2006 22:48

We didn't really have them. I think we pestered and got one of Dad's socks with some rubbish mum found round the house in them.

Mine have a felt stocking with a FC motif on. They get little presents in there - not wrapped, just stuffed in - and just a 'pile' of main presents in the lounge - each child's pile on a different chair/sofa and we have glitter leading from the fireplace to each pile.

JoolsToo · 04/12/2006 22:51

you flippin well did. you had a sweaty sock with fruit and crisps and crap and money in them. Just like I did when I were a lass

Skribble · 04/12/2006 23:01

I might make stocking shapes out of the white pillow cases so as not to go totaly against my principles.

WonderCod · 04/12/2006 23:02

PILLOWCASES are reserved fro spoiled brats imfo

Skribble · 04/12/2006 23:07

I am only thinking about pillowcases after reading pandas idea, they draw a picture on it each year.

poinsettydog · 04/12/2006 23:09

We had long ribbed football or hockey socks. Kids have stockings. No contest.

Remember having a pillowcase one year as a child and all teh excitement was gone - the aesthetics, the feel of it.

jurathernothavesprouts · 04/12/2006 23:14

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ledodgychristmasjumper · 04/12/2006 23:16

They could afford cases for their pillows but they couldn't afford socks?

Stockings here everytime.

Frostythesurfmum · 04/12/2006 23:18

I'm a bit at people who think pillowcases are for spoilt brats. I used to have one and it definitely wasn't the case. Maybe we just had large but cheap things in there! I can remember one year when we got a doll's cradle and wardrobe and my sister and I had it as a shared present.

We use v large present bags for dsd and dd, but they get all their pressies in there bar one.

Interesting how everyone does it differently.

ledodgychristmasjumper · 04/12/2006 23:22

I think it's all changed now but when I was in primary school most people had their dad's sock and the 'spoilt' children had pillow cases. Later it all changed because they invented those huge plastic stockings anyway so people had either or. I just think a stocking is nicer when it's full the shapes it makes , the satsuma in the toe just makes Christmas imo.

poinsettydog · 04/12/2006 23:27

You got a cradle and a wardrobe in your pillow case ?

And you say these were cheap presents? Must have had a pillow case the size of a... uhh.. wardrobe

Tortington · 04/12/2006 23:29

none.
pressies under tree - if the kids were lucky. sometimes it was a piece of cheese in foil and a slice of bread on the gas fire. ( if we paid the bill)

ledodgychristmasjumper · 04/12/2006 23:30

You could afford foil?

Skribble · 04/12/2006 23:31

We lived in a shoebox so nowhere to hang socks.

Skribble · 04/12/2006 23:32

BTW the shoebox was in a hole in the road and wasnt even a clarks box.

Frostythesurfmum · 04/12/2006 23:35

Actually I realised how daft that sounded as soon as I clicked "post" . That year we didn't get them in our pillow cases they were waiting by the tree. They would have been pretty much all we got though, other than small things like the satsuma and maybe some colouring pencils and an annual, and we always got a pack of notelets to write our thank you letters - no other presents from mum and dad and no others under the tree. Is that what the difference is?

fussymummy · 04/12/2006 23:53

My kids all have a stocking each. (this is from santa!!!!!)

Full of loads of small pressies, and a couple of bigger ones that get left on their bed.

After breakfast, they get some more from us.

Then family presents, then more from us!!!!

I just buy things, (when i see sales), and put them in the loft and forget what i've bought.

I know i've got far too much again, so i'll keep some back for birthdays!!!

2000milestoeidsvold · 05/12/2006 01:05

we have stockings - small knick knacks and then larger presents wrapped under the tree

growing up we had santa bags/sacks but that had all our presents in and then one present from santa that was put at the end of the bed.

LazycowLyinginaManger · 05/12/2006 09:33

We had pillowcases - but all the presents went in there from family, friends etc. We didn't have presents under the tree.

My family are Italian though and Christmas day is much less of a big present giving day than here. In Italy they give presents on Santa Lucia (13 Dec) and Jan 6 (Epiphany) - though I think that is changing a bit now.

After a few years I think my mum clicked that we were supposed to have presents under the tree so she would put 1 present from Santa under the tree. The rest were still in a pillow case. I never really understood the stocking/sock thing as we just never did it.

I used to love getting up and feeling the weight of the pillowcase on the bottom of my bed!

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Stockingsofdinosaurs · 05/12/2006 09:53

Hadn't occurred to me that pillowcases needn't actually be filled up and could be tied to look like sacks (but what about your mate whose pillowcase gets filled to the brim?). Still not that Christmassy though I like Pandagirl's idea of the drawings - how nice to see your artistic improvement every year!
Might make my own plain stockings one day and provide special Christmas fabric pens.

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