Chocolate in stockings.

[Karlee30]

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!

We didn't have chocolate in stockings either. I don't think we would have been terribly excited by it though.

Selection boxes and chocolate oranges were the kind of token gift you might get from a neighbour (and a box of biscuits for your parents).

My DGM would buy us Christmas chocolate Santas and advent calendars before Christmas, DM made individually wrapped chocolate stars to hang on the tree but no chocolate in the stockings.

I don’t think m I got chocolate every year in my stocking but probably most years. I’d get a dozen selection boxes from family/family friends etc

We had a ceremonial "returning of the satsuma to the fruit bowl" on Christmas morning after Santa presents - it was just part of our traditions

As kids, we always had chocolate coins in our stockings. It was the only day of the year we could eat chocolate first thing!
We, also, got nuts and a satsuma but I haven't bothered as we all put them back in the kitchen at the first opportunity 🤣

For ours, they get a tube of chocolate, a bar and a net of mini sized.

As children we had a selection box, paternal Grandparent bought chocolate oranges.

My children get chocolate coins and a Toblerone in the stocking. The selection box is under the tree. My Dad still buys a chocolate orange for all of us, adults included, as it isn't Christmas without it. You crack it open boxing day morning, usually in bed.

Your Dp had very strange parents you need to tell him!

Mine get chocolate coins in theirs. They are quite young so I think that is enough. I fully intend to add more as they get older though!

We didn't get chocolate given to us growing up (I was very allergic, sorry siblings 😂).

But we always had the selection boxes kicking around, and we were given sweets alternatives! Plus always the satsuma in the toe of the sock, or pillow case depending on whether or not my mum could find them!

As we got older and I grew out of the allergy, we always got given a chocolate orange along with the real one, and some coins or something!

Always chocolate coins and a big tube of your favourite chocolate (orange smarties for me!) now a Lindt reindeer too!

We have never done selection boxes in stockings (or those big tins of chocolates everyone seems to buy at Christmas!). But yes, always some chocolate. Net of chocolate coins and often a Lindt Christmas bear etc.

It's perfectly normal. Actually odd to think it isn't normal.p

Always chocolate coins and a satsuma in the stocking! Possibly a chocolate orange too

We always had an apple and an orange in the bottom of our stockings, and like you Op, they weren't usually eaten and just went back in the fruit bowl. We always had chocolate coins, chocolate father christmases and sugar mice, along with other small gifts and an annual. Me and my siblings would always wake up very early Christmas morning and would happily stay quietly in bed reading our annuals and stuffing our faces with sugar mice and chocolate, thus giving my exhausted parents a couple more hours of sleep. Selection boxes were always under the tree and there was always loads of chocolate in some form or other at Christmas. It was the one time of year in our house that gluttony was permitted.

I don’t recall much chocolate in stockings but I always (still do) had a selection box from my Dad.

DH and I have a tradition of proper chocolate liqueurs hung on the tree had to replenish them mid December last year.

I expect we will start having them in adult stockings instead once they are in danger from little fingers!

We didn't have stockings growing up but did get chocolate for Christmas.... usually a selection box but could also be a tin of Roses.

For my DC Father Christmas must bring the stockings as they contain chocolate or some other snack that mummy would never buy. I'm actually going to go down the world food aisle this year and buy an interesting sweet snack or other treat from Father Christmas's travels.

Chocolate in stocking was usual here too, but not just chocolate. I don't see how it would cut costs, stocking are cheap bits and bobs so would be the cheap but anyway, whether those bits are chocolate or Toiletries or whatever. It's the big gifts which is where costs can be saved.

One year my parents took the chocolate bars out of the selection boxes and filled our stockings with them, we thought it was amazing!

Chocolate coins and a Terry's chocolate orange here. We haven't done selection boxes but maybe that is one to start for this year!

Got to have a chocolate orange in the bottom of a stocking and a Toblerone fits perfectly up the length, with maybe a little box of Lindt squeezed in too

I always had a choc orange in my stocking. DH always had chocolate coins. Definitely normal.

The Cadbury selection box is our traditional Christmas breakfast!!!

Chocolate coins are a must, we also used to have a tangerine, a “smokers” selection box which was mostly liquorice , a couple of walnuts and a sugar mouse.

No chocolate?! What?!!!

Father Christmas always puts chocolate coins in the stocking along with a choc or sweet tube. They also have a selection box among their presents. Completely normal and expected!

Has he not been in a shop? What does he think all the chocolate branded chocolate is for?

We always have a terrys chocolate Orange in our stockings, but my mom still does a stocking for my brother who is 32 and it’s just sweets and chocolates… tubes of sweets, and some fancier things from Homesense maybe. I think it’s a good idea!

Christmas branded! 🌲