Filling the stockings

[dreamygirl25]

Out of interest.... Do you go up with the gifts and fill the stockings in their rooms while they sleep or retrieve the stockings and bring them down, fill them then take them up again?
We've done the latter. Hoping they stay asleep now!

Duplicate stockings which I fill and hide when I’m doing the rest of the wrapping up. Means no waiting around til they’ve gone to sleep to start filling them - I simply take them out of their hiding place and swap over.

My kids are both >18 but stockings and nice notes are by the fire. However, ds is in there watching a film so not sure what to do now!

Duplicate stockings . So much easier!!

We've always put the stockings out in front of the fire in the lounge before they go to bed. I'm glad we never had the "creeping into their rooms while they're asleep" shenanigans, it would give me heart failure

Our DCs have proper stockings/socks (DD1 has her DGGD old wollen stocking, DD2 has DH's old football sock), and these, quite handily, come in pairs. So we are in the camp of 'pre-filled and switch en route to bed'

This bit is really stressful - you lot with duplicate stockings are geniuses 🤣.

Well it's about 15 years to late but why did l never think about duplicate stockings 🤣

I did it - in, swiped stocking, filled it in my bedroom, back in, left filled stocking at end of bed.

My nerves though .

Stockings always by the fireplace in living room.

He comes down the chimney so quickly because he has the whole world to visit in just one night so he hasn't got the time to go tip toeing upstairs.

Besides he doesn't want to make mince pie crumbs in the bedrooms.

@MrsEricBana

My kids are both >18 but stockings and nice notes are by the fire. However, ds is in there watching a film so not sure what to do now!

@MrsEricBana

Santa is magic and knows to only nip in there only when the room is empty during a commercial break when your son nips to the loo

@MsEmmeline I still haven’t had the nerve to do mine!!

Living room stocking always, if she wakes too early she can be told to go back to bed as he hasn't been yet!!

Santa brings the stockings in our house too! @LuluBlakey1

I hang them at the bottom of my bed (something that became a tradition as my eldest used to not sleep as was scared of Santa coming in his bedroom) Also makes it easier for them to grab and pile into bed with me to open. Our dog also always has a small stocking too… Santa never forgets him

On a side note, it’s also a random tradition that our dog “buys” and wraps each DC a small present which is waiting for them on the breakfast table each Xmas. (Think bashed wrapping, slightly ripped and not stuck together very well) DC’s are still just young enough to believe our dog has managed this himself

@Doghairismyglitter

Santa brings the stockings in our house too! *@LuluBlakey1*

I hang them at the bottom of my bed (something that became a tradition as my eldest used to not sleep as was scared of Santa coming in his bedroom) Also makes it easier for them to grab and pile into bed with me to open. Our dog also always has a small stocking too… Santa never forgets him

On a side note, it’s also a random tradition that our dog “buys” and wraps each DC a small present which is waiting for them on the breakfast table each Xmas. (Think bashed wrapping, slightly ripped and not stuck together very well) DC’s are still just young enough to believe our dog has managed this himself

Ours get a present from the cats- just one each from both cats (who don't get much pawket money and spend quite a lot of it on Dreamies). The cats also have a stocking each- I put a packet of Dteamies a toy they can chase and some catnip in each.

Could never do the duplicate stocking trick as mine decorated them themselves when they were little and use the same ones years later!
I usually go in, take the stocking back downstairs to fill then deliver to their rooms on my way to bed. Always a bit nerve wracking.
Currently debating just throwing ds’s in his room and roaring at him to just go to bloody sleep. He’s still up there fucking about and I’m absolutely shattered, but he insisted on wanting it in his room. I went up about half an hour ago and checked in on him, he just said he can’t get to sleep. I asked him if we should just take his stocking downstairs but he said he wanted it in his room. (He’s 10,
My older ones are young adults now; they just leave theirs by the fireplace!!)
I’m giving it until 1:30 before I go up and tell him I’m leaving it downstairs!!
I would never actually roar at him obviously,‘I’m just knackered and narky and I really need to get to sleep as we have a houseful tomorrow and it will be chaotic from opening my eyes

We’ve never left stockings out either, Santa brings them (and leaves them hidden until it’s morning)