Stockings. No Mantelpiece

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Where do you hang your stockings if not on a mantelpiece?
I want to get a fire surround but DH does not. I admit it is primarily for Xmas, to look festive for December and then hang the stocking from on the 24th. Lounge feels so plain without one.
How does Santa get in if you don't have a chimney?

Magic key of course! A large ornate one that only he can use to access the door when the key is clearly too big for the hole. It's tied to string that's tied to the inside door handle and put in the middle chamber of the post hole there's an actual term for that isn't there?!?!

I have a mantlepiece but no heavy hooks for the stockings - on the hunt now before I finish making the stockings!

My DD has always hung her stocking on her bedroom door handle.

Letter box...?? That's going to bug me now.

The door handle of their bedrooms. They've always known that Santa is just a tradition and not real so we don't have any bother about having to have a fireplace and chimney.

End of the bed. Or just laid in front of the fire or under the tree. We have a mantle and a fire but the fire stays lit overnight (stove that does all our heating and water) so we don't hang them or any chocolate would get melted!

The key thing just doesn't feel right to me.
I am quite liking door handles. I'd do end of the bed but I read on here ages ago how it's fine for when they are small, but makes it tricky when they might wake and bust you trying to quickly fill it!

on the stair bannister?

P.S. Yes, letterbox!

We have a mantelpiece but we only hang mini decorative stockings on it, and leave the mince pies and beer there.

Stockings on bedroom door handles so they can find them first thing and open them in bed with us

Stairs bannister could work! I like the idea of all four being lined up.

I hope Father Christmas finds your post hole ok, frogtime

The bedroom thing does get a bit risky, but all part of the fun.

We put ours on the end of the bed.

We don't have children

Under the small xmas tree in the DC room or hanging from the bed/bedroom door handle....whichever they prefer.

Stealth is required by santa to take the stockings out of the room to fill and then return. But I am very well informed when I say after a gin or two he can be remarkably quiet

And if he can't find his magic key for the front door then the tiny elves come through the letterbox then open the door for santa.

I also know this as there seems to be glittery sparkly santa dust around the door once he's been (if santa remembers to leave it after his gins)

End of the bed. Creep in, take the stocking out of the bedroom, fill it somewhere else (taking necessary precautions so you can't be rumbled), creep back in without the stocking to check they're still asleep, quickly go back and get stocking, lay it on bed without making sound, GET OUT OF THE ROOM LIKE A STEALTH NINJA.

That's how we do it anyway.

Beds always here, my DCs are 10 and 12 and I haven't been busted yet. Downstairs just wouldn't be the same.

Is stockings no mantelpiece the new fur coat no knickers?

My brother has two of each stocking - so he can fill up separately, and then just sneak in and swap full to empty. Like a stocking ninja.

Something like this stocking hanger

While still in the throws of decoratng they were hung from the patio door handles. Then we got sideboard and bought some weighted stocking hangers. I would imagine over door hangers would work too

Bedroom door handle! That's where mine was growing up. Preschool aged me never wanted that 'creepy old man' in my bedroom. It kinda makes sense....

Lay by the fireplace?
Until this year we didn't have stocking hooks
Plus DD is 100% freaked out by FC going upstairs
She draws a map instructing him of the 'zones' in which he must remain!

Mine go the staircase

We have a fire but no mantelpiece and hooks either side of the fire (at the edge of where a mantelpiece would be). At Christmas we have a stocking on each hook and a string between them with Christmas cards on.

This thread is reminding me how much I love the sound of stockings once they have all the presents inside

thanks Satsuki!