What have you bought for the stockings?

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I am the queen of plastic tat for stockings: it must keep them busy for a while as we don't do main presents until after breakfast, there must be an element of usefulness in at least one component, there must be chocolate coins, a Satsuma and a walnut.

This year I've gone for puzzles:

each one will get (as well as coins, Satsuma, nut)
a rubiks cube (not official)
a rubiks snake (not official)
a chinese puzzle box
a purse
a memory stick
a miniature Baymax nightlight (not official)

then depending on age/likes and dislikes they will get token socks or pants, lipbalm, a colouring book, some pens, some perfume, some post it notes and gel pens, toiletries etc.

This for five girls between 11 and 18. I have tried to keep it below £10 each but have gone over (£15) for a couple of them this year.

What do you put in your stockings?

Mine have choc coins
Choc orange
Some other choc/sweets I can't remember
Lego mixel bags
Small minion plush
Book
Lip balms
Bath bombs
( DS has mr tickle bubble bath instead. I secretly think he got the better deal)
Card game (snap/happy families stuff)

Both (boys of 8 and 2) both have chocolate orange although 2 year old just has a few Segsations, matey bubble bath, chocolate coins, socks and shiny coins (from oh's grandad).

Then -
Ds8 has a Turtles yo-yo, Star Wars boxers, chocolate skateboard, bobble hat, Never Ending Story dvd, books, Star Wars notepad, gel pens, Star Wars magic flannel, Dr Who calendar (for all those important 8 year old appointments lol), shockwaves spray gel (the best, apparently) and that's all I can remember at the moment.

Ds2 has chocolate penguins, Ben and Holly pocket library, toy ambulance, a fez (obsessed with hats ) 😂, colouring pencils and colouring book and I'm stuck on what else to get.

strawberry, dh is a bit obsessed with Tom Minis, as they are known here. I think he got them from Tootally Thomas. You will have a gold Thomas with your wheel. Am jealous.

Sorry Theresatrexinmybed it was china. They took over a fortnight to come but are absolutely charming at only 9 cm tall :-( .

However there is this in the UK on Ebay with click and collect: a bigger gift but if he is obsessed....
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Changing-Colorful-Big-Hero-6-LED-Night-Light-Baymax-Lamp-Children-Kids-Toy-Gift-/131671746486?hash=item1ea83f67b6:g:LRMAAOSwp5JWZ6UJ

If you want to try getting the ones from china they aren't much of an outlay (tiny but sweet) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262119071837?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Ah, thank you, I have found some on eBay so fingers crossed they will arrive on time!

The gold Thomas does look especially shiny.

hmmm, chocolate Brussels sprouts you say.... twitch, twitch!!

My stockings vary depending on what things they would like for Christmas so sometimes they have a bigger present and a stocking that I have fun bringing in for under £10 and sometimes I might have got them less as a present but the stockings are more.

This year they have asked for very little really so pretty much everything they asked for on their letters to father Christmas is in their stockings and I've got them stuff they need as their present from me and dh (camping stuff and whatnot).

Ds1:

Sweets
Bubble bath
Some new pens and pencils
a couple of books
Lego Harry Potter for wii (second hand)
The lego deep sea starter set (which will be a tease for him as he really wants the massive set and is getting it for his birthday in Jan).

Dd:

All she wanted was a box of chocolates and a family of soft toy penguins. So she is getting 3 penguins and a box of chocolates plus bubble bath and pens/pencils.

Ds2:

Octonauts toy
Bath stuff pens and pencils
choc santa

There must be something else in there to even it up with the others but I can't remember what!

DD (13), so far

2 x books (hardback greek myths book just added today as it was in the bargain bin at the bookshop!)
Iron on Ravenclaw badge
Tangerine

Did have a cheapy fountain pen, but my DPs have bought her a nice one as her main present, so that will have to get redirected.

I hope DH has something to go in it . . .

I miss getting my own stockings!!

DD (will be four) is getting

Chocolate coins
Chocolate teddy bear
Frozen socks
Balloons
Slippers
A tiny my little pony
Fake tattoos (bugs and butterflies!)
Christmas puzzles
Thomas the Tank Engine
Paper aeroplane
A Christmas DVD
Purple nail polish

And I think that's it - it does fit!!

mine always get slippers, fluffy christmas socks, tangerine, choc coins and a carton smoothie then usually 3 other things, this year my boys are getting a marvel superhero mini teddy, a car and a robo fish, my daughter has got some earrings, lip glosses and a pair of earphones. we open stockings in our bed so they have the drink and fruit before the carnage begins downstairs

I always spend a fair bit on the stocking as don't do plastic tat as can't abide buying stuff that will be in the bin by the end of the holidays.

Dd 8.5
Little live pet
Socks
3x MLP
2ds games
Stablio colouring pens
Hetty Feather book series (4)
Selection box
Anitails bookmark
2x cd's
Sparkly Playdoh
MLP Playdoh
Choc coins
Bubble bath (Matey)
Harry Potter colouring book.

It's my favourite part.....

They have the staples of:
Chocolate coins
Shiny £1
(Satsuma- obviously will buy nearer time)
Tube of sweets
Mini chocolate figure
Christmas animal biscuits
Shower gel
Toothbrush
Tree decoration

Then they both have
One of those magic Christmas tree things(where you put it in the special water and it grows fluffy stuff on it?)
Can of silly string
Activity book
Lipbalm
Pens

Then another 4 little (under £2) items each and one main present each.

DS(3) has
Octonaut toy
Torch
Magnet set
A Mr Men book
A parachuting man
A gingerbread Santa
Socks
A swirly wand thing
A toy reindeer

DS(1) has
Bath toys
A tamborine
A clicky Santa
That's not my Santa book
A cuddly Twirliwoo
Socks

I might put in a little bag of mixed coins each for their money
Boxes too, as neither of them like chocolate!

I also try to give things they'll play with or use, as we have too much tat. Allergies mean no smellies, ever!
They each get:
A book (i try to get something christmassy or winter themed)
A diary (I got the doodle a day type for youngest)
Playmobil blind bag
Jelly beans
Stationery (usually character stationery that I don't allow during the year -school rules!)
Lip balm (nivea stick for DS)
BlueTak (they go through a lot!)
Joke book
A hexbug each
Chocolate coins
Tube of malteasers
Mini spy kit with UV light/pen
No-one but me likes satsumas!

I've gone a bit crazy on DS's (aged 8) stocking this year for several reasons. Firstly, I think it might be his last year of believing in Father Christmas, but also he doesn't really ask for very much. His list was lots of little bits and bobs like those mini skateboards so I kind of felt like I had to get everything he asked for.
So, he has:
2 mini skateboards
1 Hexbug nano
1 tin of Match Attax cards
Several more packets of Match Attax cards
Colouring pens
Good writing pens (he was very specific about this on his letter to Father Christmas!)
Colouring book
Hulk soap on a roap
Mutant Mania figures
A Deadly 60 book
Some little wooden/metal puzzles and trivia cards (bought in Jan sales last year :))
Plus a load of sweets and chocolate.

Also a fleecy onesie for Xmas Eve. I'll probably also twitch and get him a festive bath bomb and some hot chocolate for Xmas Eve too.

We just choose stocking fillers by size rather than price, so some are pretty 'main' presents IYSWIM

DS 6
Avengers socks
Batman story cubes
Transformers top trumps
Tiny chocolates
Pharaoh handbook
Puzzle books
Ash (pokemon) hat
Smallest size Lego set
Fossil box

DD 8
Monster high socks
Tantrix game
Monster high top trumps
Tiny chocolates
Astronaut handbook
Puzzle books
Gym leotard for her doll
Smallest size Lego set
Gemstone box

DS 7:

Minion money tin
Uno playing cards
Book
Backscratcher
Rubber snake
Jigsaw (make your own)
Chocolate money

DD 5:
Minion money tin
Dress-up tiara
Jigsaw (make your own)
Playmobil fairy on unicorn
Backscratcher
Small 'disney princess' bits like mini notebook, pencils, stickers etc.
Chocolate money

Mine only get one main present from us so the stockings tend to be quite full. This year they have (boys aged five and eight):

Magic wands (one makes a sound, one has tricks you can do with it)
Bath stuff (slime, crayons, stuff that changes the colour of the water)
A book each
Stamps and stickers with names on
Snow globes
Digipets
One has a secret diary and one has minions playdough
Glow stickers you put on your wellies
Scented markers
Colour in rubik's cubes
Puzzles from Pound Shop made of Lego type bricks with pictures on
Kaleidoscopes
Minion socks
Electric toothbrushes
Chocolate
Candy canes
Tangerines
Pound coin

I still do stockings for my Dc aged 23,22 and 19 but this year I've got nothing so far.
I was thinking of pretty notebooks for DD plus pens (she writes a lot!) Shower gel for all, chocolate of various sorts, pair of pj's each because I know they need them and it's boring to spend your own limited earnings on them.
Other than that I'm out of ideas.

20 month old DD, first "real christmas" as she was only discharged from hospital after being sick last Christmas Eve.

Main present is ikea kitchen which I have spent ages "pimping up" for my own amusment if I am honest

Stocking

Sofia the first hat with built in Tiara
Sofia toothbrush
Two Shleich small animals
Small Thomas train
Small ball
Sofia bag (free with other purchases)
Crayons

I think the other presents may not get a look in after she gets the hat andd crayons :)

Dd (3)
Sweets
Big Tube of smarties
Choc snowman
Jelly belly
Gloves
Hotwheels
Wooden car & train
Card game
Bubbles
Glow stick
Gloves
Coin purse
Pencil colours
Pencil case
Note book and pen set
Bath foam
Flannel
Tub of playboy
Torch
Balls
Mini my little pony
Plastic musical instrument
Orange
Rasins

Dd14
Choc santa
Big Tube of smarties
Sweets
Jelly beans
Hot choc
Packets of Polo mints
Lip balms X2
Novelty troll keyring
Novelty Earsers
Study post it notes
School pens
Highlighter pens
Nail varnish X2
Character socks
Pencil sharpener
Body sprays
Yoyo
Book light
Notebook
Coke glass
Hand warmers
Dry shampoo
Bubble bath
Bubbles
Notebook

Baby ds 11month
Toothbrush (just getting his first teeth in time for Christmas! )
Plastic toy boats
Toy cars
Plastic musical instrument
Small packet of Choc buttons

Sorry cantgonofurther but tub of playboy made me I've been wondering how to pad out dh's stocking

Mine both have

Playdough tub (ahem)
Tube of chocolate buttons
Chocolate Reindeer
Choc coins
Variety pack
Large Bourbon biscuit
Satsuma
Glitter glues
Mini tsum tsum from Disney store
Truck
Stickers

Ds 4 is also getting:

Paperback book
Swimming goggles
Marvel stationery set
Superhero figure
Small Lego set
Keyring
Whoopee cushion
Slinky

Dd 2 has:
Hair grips
Bing mini library
Torch (covets her brother's)
Crayola pens
Playmobil figure
Harmonica
Slinky

The stocking is the thing from Father Christmas, so try to make it good in terms of useful quality stuff, tat I wouldn't normally let them buy and treats they wouldn't normally get.

Never did the stocking thing when I was little, my dh made me one our first Christmas as a couple and now I love doing them for all 3

Satsuma
Apple
Choc coins
Tinti bath colour
Plan toys bath toy boat with animal
MIL has knitted a Father C doll
Toy train carriage with an initial on
Playsilk
Holztiger nativity figure for the set
Holztiger fence panel for the farm set
Wand for DD1 and toy phone for DD2