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Chocolate in stockings.

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Karlee30 · 01/09/2021 13:15

Hello all! Maybe a little soon to be thinking about it but me and dp had a conversation this morning about how we need to cut down on what we spend at Christmas this year. We have two dc.

I told him that I was thinking of just putting chocolate in stockings (coins, tubes, Santa shaped chocolate you get my drift). Also cheap novelty gifts in sacks and bigger presents just wrapped separately.

Anyway, Dp told me he doesn't think it's normal to get chocolate in stockings (or sacks or anything) for Christmas and that he never got chocolate for Christmas.

Me - not even chocolate coins or a selection box?!

Him - no!!

Me - gawping at him. Remembering always having chocolate coins and a selection box.

I am not saying that chocolate is necessarily needed but surely it's very normal to put chocolate in stockings?!

It's the only time it's acceptable to eat chocolate all day long right?!

I just feel like we experienced Christmas different growing up and sometimes it clashes (not just about the chocolate btw). I don't think he had a magical Christmas growing up whereas my mother was ott (not always a good thing, it could get too much sometimes).

He didn't grow up poor or anything. Money wasn't the issue!

But yeah I am planning to use their stockings for chocolate as like I said they are quite small and can't get much else in them anyway!

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SheWoreYellow · 01/09/2021 13:16

Selection box and chocolate coins are usual here. I think it’s pretty normal.

SheWoreYellow · 01/09/2021 13:17

I think as a child I probably just had a chocolate orange though.

OrangeTortoise · 01/09/2021 13:17

I didn't have choc in my stocking when I was growing up, but my DC do. Chocolate in the stockings (usually a choc Santa) and a selection box too! As you say it's the only time they can eat chocolate all day!!

mumonthehill · 01/09/2021 13:21

Chocolate coins, chocolate Santa, selection box always in the stocking!!!!

PeonyTime · 01/09/2021 13:23

Absolutely yes to chocolate coins.
And also other edibles. Chocolate, sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks. Good space fillers without vast expense (and there is NO WAY Mummy made the stockings if they contain fizzy stuff, because she never let's us have them!!!)

IWillWashTheGreenWillow · 01/09/2021 13:26

Chocolate coins, a chocolate orange and a little pot of jam are non-negotiable here! If I didn't put them in, it would be The Year Father Christmas Forgot and I'd never hear the end of it.

Also an apple and an orange in the toe of the stocking (usually back in the fruit bowl by 10am, except for the one that gets stuck upstairs and is discovered in DS2's room, mouldering into the carpet, sometime in mid-February).

Jumpingintosummer · 01/09/2021 13:27

Always a net of chocolate coins in each DC’s stocking plus then a pack of their favourite chocolates (fererro rocher, hotel chocolat and Reece’s).

Lyricallie · 01/09/2021 13:28

Absolutely chocolate in stockings. We used to get coins and a Santa chocolate figure (which sometimes when you unwrapped it has an Easter bunny in it cause Lidl clearly just reused the moulds haha). Chocolate orange too. Tbh our stockings were 80% chocolate and then maybe a lip gloss and some hair bobbles.

Selection box with main presents downstairs too. So much chocolate. Although my DH was the same he never even had his stocking filled they were just decorative.

He got me a stocking our first Christmas together and used it as a gift bag for one small gift. I laughed and had to explain what a stocking usually has in it. I.e. fill it with chocolate Wink

nellieee · 01/09/2021 13:29

Always chocolate coins and maybe some chocolate goodies. Both given and received stockings.

MissyB1 · 01/09/2021 13:30

Where did he grow up? I ask because my dh is South African and he didn’t get chocolate for Christmas either. But it was the middle of their summer so it might have melted!

I always had a sort of net stocking thing that was like a selection box. And I put a bag of Percy pigs in my ds stocking.

FrostedFlakesAreMyJam · 01/09/2021 13:32

We didn't have stockings, but we had chocolate ornaments (amongst normal ones) on the tree and were allowed to eat those on Christmas and the following few days. Loved that!

But I don't think lack of Christmas chocolate = non-magical Christmas tbf.

merryhouse · 01/09/2021 13:33

It's not a stocking if it doesn't contain chocolate coins [gavel]

I've always included a chocolate orange, mostly because my stocking as a child always had a real orange and satsuma but for a long time my sons didn't really like them. Licquorice catherine wheels too, and a chocolate bell/santa/reindeer. Any interesting special edition sweets that catch my eye. More chocolate. I remember getting Spangles in my selection several years running.

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Karlee30 · 01/09/2021 13:35

Thanks all. I actually forgot chocolate oranges 😱😱 always had one of them myself too!

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LowlyTheWorm · 01/09/2021 13:35

One year I had the kids choose a smelly stocking or a sweet one- smelly was like bath or shower treats, lip gloss, perfume, scented things in other words. But could have stuff that you’d buy anyway like shower gel or razors (if age appropriate!) facecloths etc. Sweet would be anything edible- chocolate orange, American candy, mini Pringles cans etc.
Worked out well as it could be done at a low cost. Then wee extra toy things could be wrapped as gifts to bulk out the parcel pile.

mafted · 01/09/2021 13:37

I didn't get a stocking or chocolate from Father Christmas. I used to get a selection box, chocolate Father Christmas or box of matchmakers from my cousins.
I later found out my Dad used to bin all the other chocolate from relatives.

My children get chocolate and sweets from Father Christmas and my Dad Hmm

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Karlee30 · 01/09/2021 13:37

@MissyB1

Where did he grow up? I ask because my dh is South African and he didn’t get chocolate for Christmas either. But it was the middle of their summer so it might have melted!

I always had a sort of net stocking thing that was like a selection box. And I put a bag of Percy pigs in my ds stocking.

He grew up in the U.K.!

I remember the net stocking things too!!

One year I remember getting creme eggs in to stocking. Maybe they started bringing them out earlier in the 90's 😂😂

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Angel2702 · 01/09/2021 13:39

I always put a chocolate orange with a knitted cover, chocolate Santa and chocolate coins in stockings along with a satsuma and box of raisins.

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Karlee30 · 01/09/2021 13:39

@LowlyTheWorm

One year I had the kids choose a smelly stocking or a sweet one- smelly was like bath or shower treats, lip gloss, perfume, scented things in other words. But could have stuff that you’d buy anyway like shower gel or razors (if age appropriate!) facecloths etc. Sweet would be anything edible- chocolate orange, American candy, mini Pringles cans etc. Worked out well as it could be done at a low cost. Then wee extra toy things could be wrapped as gifts to bulk out the parcel pile.
Fab idea. My two are still a little young to appreciate smellies though!
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Youseethethingis · 01/09/2021 13:44

LTB Xmas Shock
Chocolate coins in the toe of stockings is The Law!

yikesanotherbooboo · 01/09/2021 13:45

We got chocolate coins or a sugar mouse. My DC got chocolate coins and a chocolate Santa ; sometimes a chocolate orange as well . They never really ate them.

Crocky · 01/09/2021 13:48

I never had a stocking as a child but there were chocolates on the tree and we’d get a selection box. Have always done stockings for my dc with plenty of chocolate in.

MirandaBlu · 01/09/2021 13:50

Growing up, we always had a foil-wrapped chocolate santa and little net bag of coins in each stocking - also an orange (not choc), a pack of smoked almonds, a little tin of pastilles, and a candy cane. Exotic foreign sweets or snacks if my parents had been travelling or popped into a shop that had them. All mixed in with various non-food items.

We didn't have selection boxes in the stockings, but they were always around at Christmas because people would give them to my parents.

LilacSloth · 01/09/2021 14:20

Always had chocolate coins, an apple and satsuma/clementine in my stocking and I do exactly the same for my dc. Smile

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Karlee30 · 01/09/2021 14:26

@LilacSloth

Always had chocolate coins, an apple and satsuma/clementine in my stocking and I do exactly the same for my dc. Smile
We always had an apple and orange too. Don't think they ever got eaten though. Back into the fruit bowl on Christmas Day 😅😅
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MsSquiz · 01/09/2021 14:48

I always got a chocolate Santa, some chocolate coins & a chocolate orange in my stocking. There was also always a satsuma that went straight back in the fruit bowl!

When I was little there was also general "tat" gifts (stocking fillers) which were replaced by toiletries, make up and then jewellery as I got older.
My selection box was usually from an auntie or grandparents.
And I grew up poor in the 90s!

My DD was only 1 last Christmas and she had some chocolate buttons in her stocking.

Did his family just not do stockings or sacks, etc?