In Your House, Do Adults Get Stockings....

[Dustybinlydia]

Or just the children?

Just curious about how other people do things.

Yes we all get stockings regardless of age. My dh does mine and I do all the rest (17 in all). I start very early :)

We never had them as kids although Santa brought us lovely presents.

DH and I did them for each other for a few years but then the recession hit and we concentrated on DC. I don't know if I'd be bothered starting up again now.

Just spotted your post Pranmasghost. 17

8 grandchildren, their parents and dh :)
I have 9 grandchildren but one lives in Canada so just send presents otherwise it would be 20.

17 stockings sounds like hard work!

Yes!

My sister and I do each other and I do one from the kids for DH.
Dsis and I go a bit mad but it's mostly consumables but I'm the only person in her life to spoil her at such times and she deserves it for all the stuff she does with, and for, my family

DH's is quite minimal - socks, beer, chocolate, etc. - as he's a bit of a bah humbug about Christmas.

My Mum always did stockings for us as adults and whe she was unable to do the shopping my sister and I took it on on her behalf. We've continued but my brothers don't. We did one for our Mum too and shared the cost between the 4 of us.

I'm 26 and I still get one from my mum

Yes DH and I do stockings for each other with a few contributions from both sets of parents and usually my DSis too - and we'll reciprocate. In my family the tradition (started by my DGF) is to label each present with a semi cryptic clue as to what's inside the wrapping...helps you drag it out longer on Xmas morning.

DP and I do stockings for each other, nothing major, just chocolate and toiletries with a couple of other bits in.

The dc know that we do each others because Father Christmas only brings presents for children.

Yes, it's only me and I have a stocking because they had a three for two at Lakeland and I had two children at that point so ordered a third for nothing! So I use it to put in the things for us as a 'family' - shared DVDs for example, maybe a spare chocolate thing if there's one left over when I am doing the others. Things I don't want the children to fight over basically!!

I don't have other presents though.

We have stockings with a £20 limit - amazing what you can get for that - I also love both putting them together and opening my own!

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Thanks

Having moved into my first adult home last year and started my own traditions everyone including the cats get a stocking

If you wake up om Christmas moring in our house, you have a stocking. I have 6 to do this year and only 2 of them are for DC

Stockings stopped at university age in our house - until DB bought a friend home for Christmas when he was at university whose parents had never done a stocking for her growing up: and it all started again... A few years later, I moved back to the UK (hadn't been home for Christmas since university) and decided that I would do stockings for my parents. Tradition still continues, with SIL also now having her own stocking (also did not have stocking growing up, but less surprising, as neither from country where Christmas is celebrated, nor Christian).

The rule now, though, is no "landfill" - so tat is out, useful is in: and there will usually be sweeties, a DVD or book in each, plus something quirky (that inevitably fills DB2 and DF's definition of "landfill" but never mind :-D)