Tangerine in stocking - a must have or bah humbug?

[Pennies]

DH thinks I'm "harking back to your own Dickension childhood" when I said that I'd be putting tangerines in the LO's stockings from FC. This is in addition to the plethora of chocolate and plastic that will also be in there of course.

What's the score on fruit in the modern stocking then?

chocolate notes Bink...?

Yes, the comic idea is a good one - also takes up quite a bit of space!

must have - reduces space for other presents, but mainly it smells really nice

oh god i really am victorian mum

Must have, along with chocolate coins and an Annual. I usually eat the tangerines from their stockings while still in bed, (the dc never do)to get a vitamin c boost!

definately must have - Christmas wouldn't smell right without it. Chocolate coins too absolutely. - mind you I am restraining myself from giving choclate coins to the baby as I would just eat them all myself

5goldrings - well, yes, just flat squares of choc in wrappings to look like banknotes ... such a wildly exciting addition to ordinary old choc coins ... (or so my children will think)

Apple, satsuma and chocolate coins. Always.

Never - do people really do this in real life?

always, always

plus choc coins, plus a can of fizz (although dd1 wants a fancy smoothie drink this year )

my mum's only christmas present ever as a child was an orange in a mug. Must be traditional

Definitely tangerine in toe, then apple, then everything else.

Oddly enough they always seem to eat the tangerine, even when surrounded by othery sugary nonsense. Children are capable of appreciating and enjoying traditions too, they're not savage wild animals.

We always got a shiny red apple in one toe and a tangerine in the other as well as a few chocolate coins mixed through the whole stocking, which, by the way, was a pair of tights laid on the end of the bed - brothers borrowed their sisters' that night! I usually ate the tangerine and put the apple 'back' in the fruit bowl.
I fully expect Santa to put the fruit in my DDs stockings...

Mine get a chocolate orange in the toe of theirs.
I confronted my mum with the proof that Santa doesn't exist,by counting the satsumas in the fruit bowl on Christmas eve and then again in the morning.[Clousseau emoticon]

LOL wardrobe

we get pineapples and mangoes in ours as well

[snoot]

Hmm. Can imagine a lot of mess from squished mangoes if we did that

pineapples and mangoes?

How big're your feet?

or are your stockings only fruit-filled?

erm

we have quite LARGE stockings

it is a big thing in this house

And you'd have to make sure the knobbly pineapple wasn't next to the soft mango - or do you use under ripe mangoes?

well yes, of course, but I'm also planning to put a lump of coal in ds's...

(in my defence his idea of a treat atm is making a fire in the fireplace )

how's about a Chriwstmas pineapple? Forget about the stocking and just have a variety of soft presents sticking onto the pineapple?

Like your mango, as tellus says, plus chocolate santa, soap, hemp wallet, etc.