Your own stocking

[Bellafrenum]

If you were doing your own stocking, and had a budget of around £50 all in, what would you put in it?

So far I am thinking M&S chocolates, a scented candle but not sure where from, and a new mascara ...

I’d put £50 in it

I'd love someone to do me a stocking, but I never get one and I'm not doing my own.

Lego, couple of books, nice chocolates or wine.

So, for context, I am just looking for ideas of actual gifts to go in a stocking. Thanks!

Lindor chocolates, Clarins beauty flash balm, new christmas chic lit book, Wolford opaque tights and a bar of nice Italian soap

I do a stocking for my friend, she does her husband and child and her mum done her, sadly her mum passed away just after Christmas, so I do her stocking, I buy things all year, in sales and charity shops and bill her husband every so often, she says it's her best gift

A good bag-sized (eg. portable, not the size of a bag!) hand cream.

Some nice earrings or pendant.

NOT a nice notepad as everyone gives me those and they're nearly all still empty.

A pen.
Nice booze.

Super helpful first couple of responses 🙄

St Eval candles
A book
Lindt chocolate
Some really nice shower gel (haven't discovered my favourite brand yet)
Space mask
Silk scrunchie
Nail polish

I’m always a tiny bit unsure so I’ll ask the question - what size is the stocking? I’ll have some ideas if I know that bit!

Scratch card

Books, chocolates and maybe some posh hot chocolate :). Done.

Hotel Chocolat chocolate, fun socks, nail polish, mini gins and Clementines.

Fudge.
Socks.
Book.
New tree decoration.
Necklace.
Joke pen (fluffy koala this year).

Really nice chocolate, for sure! For me that means fancy vegan bars, but Hotel Chocolat or Lindt as recommended by PP are great. I also think adorable foil wrapped chocolates (could be Lindt ones or liqueur chocs or marzipan) are great for stockings.

Neal's Yard hand cream, posh lip balm, bath oil if you take baths!

Mini Diptyque candle if you want a big treat? St Eval ones are cheaper but also gorgeous.

Cashmere blend socks! Or fluffy socks if you don't want wool.

A winter colour of nail varnish from a nice brand.

A cute little alcohol miniature.

Scrunchie!

Etsy stuff - washi tape, stickers

I wouldn't, I just don't see the logic. Sorry, that's not very helpful! Hope you enjoy whatever you decide to put in it. :)

It depends on what you like and what you consider a treat.
I am putting in mine small Lego sets, a couple of paperbacks, some fancy bubble bath from a brand I wouldn't normally buy and some socks. I might put in a new outfit for my Elf in the Shelf.
Some people might say it's daft to do your own stocking but it's become kind of my little tradition that I do one for my husband, my mother in law and me. (Why can't he do my one you ask? Because I LIKE doing it. I like getting presents - even if I buy them myself . My husband likes Christmas food which I have zero interest in so he does that side of Christmas).

Interesting miniatures are always fun in stockings (as long as you drink), nice socks, chocolates....

Socks
Chocolates
Fancy candied fruit
Hot chocolate
Orange smarties
Lip balm
Nice soap
A silk scrunchie
Seeds
A Christmas decoration
Gin miniature
Magic flannel
Mascara
Hair stuff
A magazine
Coffee shop voucher

A lipstick with a coordinating nail varnish

A book

A gift card for a (nice) coffee shop/tea rooms

A small box of especially nice chocolates

A pair of earrings

A pair of leather gloves

A cashmere hat (I’d have to hunt around to get one within the budget)

Good cosy socks

Vintage brooch

Oh I forgot - you have to have either a chocolate orange or chocolate coins !!

I’d personally rather have a clementine or satsuma, now that Terrys chocolate orange is apparently vile and waxy. Some chocolate coins would be cute as long as you could find some made with good chocolate.

Lindt Father Christmas
Miniature Baileys & glass
Christmas biscuits
Prestat chocolates
Nail varnish
Pillow spray
Lip balm
Emery boards
Tin of watercolour paints
Hair clip

Pillow spray is a good one! As is lip balm.

Socks
Little bottle of champagne or cava
Miniature spirit
Lindt Christmas chocolate
Niederegger marzipan
Soap on a rope
Hair turban thing for the gym
Burts bees lip balm
Scratch card
Audible voucher
Earrings
Nice coffee for my aeropress
Swim lap counter
Hue bulb
A teacosy knitting pattern and some wool