How much do you put in stockings?

[Opheliasgoldenwine]

I've never done a stocking before and I don't want to not get enough

I've added up the costs and so far it's costing about £50 to do DP's stocking how many items do you put in for a stocking that is non-edible?

DP's stocking is mostly edibles (satsuma, chocolate coins, chocolate santa, chocolate reindeer, salami, jar of nice olives, possible extremely effective fancy marmite) plus some new socks or pants, an expensive deodorant (which will last him most of the rest of the year, and which I buy mostly for me because I love the smell) a toothbrush and a copy of Private Eye. So everything is either cheap or something which I would have got anyway. Oh, and there are some cheap toys, like fingerpuppets and fortune telling fish kazoos and swannee whistles and those metal puzzles BUT I re-use those from year. They show up in stockings, vanish on Twelfth Night and reappear in stockings the following year.

Also a bar of nice soap.

It comes to around £30, but half of that is the deodorant. So if he smells nice anyway, £15 -20 will give you a good haul of presents.

My kids are 10. There are usually 10 things in each one plus gold coins, a tube of smarties or pastils etc and some sort of gobstoppers lolly.

Mist expensive things in the stocking are t.shirts (related to things they are interested in) but loads of little things from Tiger and a bits from gifts.dot.com sale. I would say it averages out about 25 quid each but it's bought over the year a few of DS stocking gifts M and S sale in January. £50 does sound like a lot

Everything goes into santa sacks at our house. They are enormous (3 x a pillow case) as they were made when they were babies. Now they are teens the sacks remain half empty as boxes are smaller!

I only do stockings for the children, and put about 7 or 8 things in. Small in size, but not (necessarily) small in value - there'd be a few things that cost over £5 or even over £10 because I like to buy good quality. I think I probably do spend about £50 each, but it's my favourite part of the Christmas shopping.
Things like colouring pens, stationery, novelty socks or mittens or similar, a book or audiobook, jewellery, little cuddly toy, small lego set, card game etc.
I'll probably spend about £70-80 each child on presents under the tree, so the stocking is a significant part of the present budget for us, whereas for others it's just a fun little extra.
You just need to decide whether you a are "fun extra" or "significant gifts" family and spend accordingly - other people can't tell you if it's too much or too little, because it is in the context of everything you buy overall.