If you were making a Xmas stocking for yourself what would you put in it?

[justpoppy]

Just that really. This will be the first year that all the kids in our blended family will be together for the whole of Christmas so I want to make it special.

I’ve done their stockings (and one for DP). DP is very generous with gifts but will not have the imagination to put a stocking together for me so I thought I might do one for myself.

I’ve got a few ideas but any others would be great. Or do you think it’s a daft idea and I shouldn’t be doing it myself.

I always do my own one 😂 well I share with DH. Normally just a few bits eg some chocolate, bubble bath, a book, a candle, new socks

It's a great idea!!
I would put in some nice chocolate, fluffy comfy socks, a Christmas candle, lip balm, luxurious showergel/ bath bombs / bubby bath, oh and some chocolate peanuts :)

Oh and maybe a suduku puzzle book or adult colouring book

Champagne, Brandy or Rum truffles
A novel
Another kind of book- nature/recipes/walks
Bath oil
A bottle of sloe gin
A lovely scented candle
Sugared almonds
Nice socks

Chocolate buttons
Warm socks
Hot water bottle
Gloves
Scarf

Books, seeds, bird food, tickets to the theatre. Soft socks, hand cream, lots of mini bottles of wine and Prosecco! A magazine I don't usually buy, nice pens.

Socks, gloves, fav chocolate,

Clothes
Books
A slice of cake
Nice pens
Card games
Tin of biscuits and jam
Socks
Gloves
A hat
A puzzle book
Earmuffs
Truffles

Really thought I was going to get slated for doing it myself! Loads of brilliant ideas. So far I think I’ll get myself (out of DP’s money!!)

Posh lip balm
A book
Lindt chocolates
Hotel chocolat liquor (just seen it in the cocktails section of the Waitrose magazine. The cocktails made with it sound amazing!
Shower bombs
Socks

Quite excited about doing this now

Nice mug
New socks & pants
Nice candle
Chocolate
Mints
Lip balm
Power pack
Book or 2
Nail polish

Good shout!!

I'd put in -
A mini champagne
A bath bomb
A new nail polish
A Camembert
Adele's new CD
A box of Malteasers
A deck of cards (I've my eye on the Famous Women set)

I don't do stockings but live alone with my ds and always do "family gifts from Santa".

Previous years we've had a puzzle, board game, new pillows, new bedding, puzzle books, wash bags complete with mini toiletries. Things like slippers, blankets pjs etc.

Ds always had his stocking from Santa and gifts from the giver. These things have always been useful gifts I'd buy anyway but as ds is disabled and we live alone if I didn't I wouldn't have anything under the tree!

We go to my parents for lunch and gifts and I do get presents there.

Room spray and miniature candles from the Seychelles range in The White Company

A liquid hand wash along the same lines

Occitane mini hand creams with Shea butter in them

M&S champagne truffles

A new mug

A chilly water bottle

A contigo travel mug

A new Christmas decoration

Pen

Wax lyrical candle in sweet pea (it’s my favourite budget candle ever)

Honey roasted cashews

Nespresso pods

Cans of posh cocktails

One of the new extra fast chargers for the new iPhones

EarPods (if budget stretched)

Am adding a mug, posh hot chocolate and some squirty cream that only I’m allowed to use
Bought a job lot of candles in Lidl the other day as I had a £10 voucher so don’t need any candles
Yankee candle melts though - not bought any of those for a while.

hand cream
wool socks
orange smarties
fruit pastils
lip balm

I would also include adult equivalents of the kids things: tooth brush, tooth paste, deodorant, tangerine. chocolate, sweets.

I've bought myself some things and just handed them over to my OH, including:
Slippers, mascara, cc cream, gloves, face wash...
He's great at finding obscure but useful kitchen gadgets and chocolate he'd like for himself so thought I'd help him out this year!

Over the past few years dh & I have done stockings for each other.

Last year mine had:
Mini champagne
Beautiful art notebook & pen from gallery shop
Anthropologie socks
Anthropologie fave masks in liberty fabric
Leonidas chocolates
L'occitane hand cream
Anthropologie mug with my initial
A Christmas decoration

I didn't choose any of them & he did really well! Am hoping for similar this year

If I was making my own & money was no object I'd have mine filled with wonderful curiosities from shops like liberty, fortnams, Harrods etc.

I dream of luxury chocolate mice & posh cocktails & real gold trinkets!

Sometimes I idly imagine what a millionaires stocking would have in it. I reckon i'd have NO problem putting one together

Why don't you draw up a shortlist of 30 items and asked your DP to choose and purchase your stocking gifts? It doesn't have to be 30 different items, you could pick 10 types of items instead eg Yankee wax melts and give him a list of your favourites; L'Occitane hand cream, pick a couple of your favourite scents for him to choose between; a box of chocolates, give him a choice of your 3 favourite types etc.

If I don't do one for myself then I don't get one, but I do them for DH and DS. I told DH he needs to do me one this year but I can imagine he's forgotten.

Mine will be similar to theirs, just small. A book, some chocolate and some socks.

I would like
Chocolate
Nail polish
Bamboo head band
Bamboo turban
Jade face roller
Face cream
Socks
Hair stuff
Pens
Notebook
Key ring
Lipstick
Earings
Book
Puzzlepad
Wax melts
Felt Xmas tree animals
Pillow spray
Chocolate nuts
Raspberry liquor
Candle
Face mask

Iindor
Sheet mask
Scented candle
Bath salts
Satin hair wrap/turban/pillow case
Fluffy slipper socks
Hand cream

This is making me want to do myself a stocking 😬

Chocolate coins
One of the small Times crossword books
Some beeswax tea lights
Lavender essential oil
A Radius Scuba toothbrush
Burt's Bees peppermint lip balm
Miniature bottle of Ghost perfume
Miniature bottle of Disaronno
Eco Warrior shampoo bar
Bar Dove soap
A tiny snow globe

And a satsuma

Tom Hiddleston