Buying my own Christmas stocking.

[TherebytheGraceofGodgoI]

I don’t really get presents for Christmas. DH will get a few things but buys the same things each year (my perfume etc) and I know in advance what I will get. I give him a stocking of well thought out gifts.
I have just ordered a book I was after and that got me wondering whether to wrap it straight away when it arrives and put it in a Christmas stocking for me from me. I would add things to it and it would give me something to look forward to having at Christmas.
Am I silly or do you think it’s a good idea?

Good idea

I think if you fancy that then you should. I'd also make sure he knows he can put some of your favourite treats in- favourite foods, candles, handcream etc. Give him a clue or two. That way you can both open a stocking and get a few surprises.

Such a fabulous idea. Hopefully you can add lovely bits over next few months... nice candle, comfy socks, special lip balm, posh chocolates, bath bomb, gorgeous nail colour, nice pen, lovely earrings.

I'd love to make my own stocking 👏

I think it's a nice idea, we don't really do presents at all, but I am tempted to buy myself a few treats throughout the year and wrap them up & hopefully forget what they are .

I love making my own stocking 😂

It sounds very nice, you could also ask your DH to add a few things so some are surprises too?

I wonder if I might see if my DH would like to do them this year actually, thanks for the idea!

Great idea!
I’m on my own, so I started doing this a few years ago. I collect a few little things every month from September onwards. Christmasy chocolates, stationery & pens, miniature drinks, a Lindt Father Christmas, hair bobbles, all sorts of fun things. I wrap them up too!
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I'm a solo parent & my kid & I 'choose to believe' in Santa, so it makes sense for us both to get a stocking 😁

Thanks all. I’ll do it and pick nice things rather than the serviceable essentials.
I miss my Mum’s stockings as she always got them spot on!

For the last few years dh and I have bought ourselves a few bits and pieces in the run up to Christmas and popped them into each other’s desk drawers. It’s just been easier sometimes to buy for ourselves when it’s involved sizes, or specialist hobby equipment, or I’ve just snagged a bargain. We also get things for each other. I’ve often forgotten things I’ve bought for myself until they turn up again on Christmas morning. It’s nice having a few surprises but also a few things that are exactly right too.

Absolutely @TherebytheGraceofGodgoI you should. I’m single, and I realised a few years ago that (almost) everyone else got lovey curated, well chosen presents at birthdays and Christmas from their partners, but not me. After one birthday when no present arrived by my birthday - mail was late, or meeting with people who would give it in person a few days later, I was quite upset, and then realised it was ridiculous and that I had the power to make myself happy!

I now buy myself great presents and I wrap them beautifully. Sometimes I try and buy them far in advance and I will have forgotten what is in it, but that feeling is an extra bonus. The main part is that I feel just as excited on my birthday or Christmas as others, I enjoying showing my gifts “what did you get? Yes, this is what I did” and I feel happy to think of using them over the next few days.

So my advice is don’t stop at a stocking, get yourself a Christmas gift too, for all the hardworking you put into the prep for the day. And another one, for surviving it! No one has to know, they’ll be under the tree with all the others! And you’ll get something you appreciate.

I've been doing it for years. I'm a single mum so don't have a partner to buy me gifts. I started when ds was about 4 and got upset because Father Christmas hadn't brought me as many presents as for him, and tried to share.

Since then it became a house tradition. I treat myself to nice bits of makeup, fluffy socks, hand made chocolates, a new swimming cossie, all sorts.

I do a stocking for me because I do one for everyone else and no one does one for me.

I did mention in a passing comment after about 6 years with DH that no one makes me one, ever since he has designated one of my gifts under the tree a 'stocking filler'... I guess he sort of took the hint but its still not a stocking lol.

I’m doing my own this year and I can’t wait!

I do this! DP is great at buying nice presents that are thoughtful and a surprise so it is very spoiled of me really, but I get myself some makeup and possibly skincare stuff as he is clueless and would need me to write him a list anyway.

So, on top of our budget for buying for each other I order stuff online and keep it in the box, just wrap it up and if I do it early enough I'll forget some bits I have got and it will be a genuine surprise

We have had a few years of not being in a position to do this for each other and I was content to not have presents and not get him presents but I have to be honest it does add to the day.

You should definitely get yourself something nice to open, us women put so much work into organising and planning and getting everything for everyone else and we are often last on the priority list. Treat yourself!

I have always done my own and genuinely love it. DH and Dc buy me lovely tree presents but Father Christmas seems to completely get me .

I pick up treats throughout the year and occasionally DH adds a little something after I have gone to bed on Christmas Eve.

Thank you everyone. I agree with you all, after years of making sure everyone else had nice things I’ll be doing it for myself this year and am looking forward to it.
Hoping you all get what you want xxx

It's a great idea! If you buy and wrap the gifts now you'll probably forget half the things you've gifted to yourself by christmas 😅 one of my friends treats himself to an expensive gift every christmas, last christmas it was the new Xbox and like every other year he gifts wraps it and places it under the tree for Christmas morning.

We don’t do stockings for adults, only the children but last year some of DHs presents were tiny so the dc and I found an old small stocking in the Christmas box and decided to make it up and put it under the tree for him. They then decided that I should have one too. Dh wouldn’t be arsed with going out shopping for little bits and pieces, so he gave both dds some money and they got me loads of little things that were so thoughtful. Some books, my favourite bits from Lush, some hotel chocolat things, candles, nail varnishes, my best biscuits, nothing big - mainly things I’d pick up for myself if I was out shopping with them so they knew what I would like.
It was so nice that I’m going to suggest they do it again this year
Obviously they aren’t from Father Christmas (although dds know about this now, they’re older teens) and they don’t get left on my bed but it was nice to open.
I think it’s a good idea op, wrap them as you go along and you’ll have forgotten what they all are by the time Christmas Day rolls around!

Do it early. Wrap everything beautifully and maybe change the shape a little so by Christmas morning you’ve forgotten what in the stocking. Lovely surprises.

Good idea. I'm my own on Christmas day, so I think I'll do this myself. I have a newly-adopted cat, she's getting a stocking, too (at the moment she likes meat sticks and string!)

Not silly at all. I'm doing the same for myself this year. Today I bought a really lovely velvet stocking on etsy and have started making my list.

I love this idea😊 I'm on my own with my little boy who is 4. Last year was the first year I did him a stocking, I'm not British and didn't grow up with this tradition but now I want one too😁

We decided that even after dd stopped believing in santa we would never actually mention it & we would continue on all our traditions as normal - stocking, Santa presents etc & she's 16 now & it's been a lot of fun

Over the past few years dh & I started doing stockings for each other as well as tree presents.

I love it. I like thinking things to put into his & I love opening mine. We do a mix of edible treats - I get a mini bottle of champagne, my favourite chocolates from Leonidas. Last year I got cashmere socks & gorgeous patterned socks from Anthropologie. Liberty face masks, a mug with my initial, a beautiful notebook, a nail polish & a magazine rolled up & the chocolate reindeer from the Bailey's ad which I had wanted for ages (& them never opened!)

I am really looking forward to this year's though feeling slightly worried as he's really busy in work & doesn't seem to be thinking about Christmas at all so it might be a Tescos selection at this rate

When dd got married her new husband saw me assembling stockings for the adults and thought no one did one for me so he did! I still have the fluffy duck and stretchy chicken. It was so lovely of him. I fact dh and I do stockings for one another every year so that year I had two.
When I lived in Sierra Leone for 2 Christmases my Mum sent my stocking pre packed in a shoe box.
I always say I will stop believing in Santa the year I don’t have a stocking even if I have to do it myself. 77 years and counting!