Adult stocking fillers, average cost £1

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Our adult DCs were shocked when I suggested discontinuing stockings, it's something we've always done and they want to continue as it's part of Christmas as they know it..(They do receive other 'main' presents, this is just fun & tradition).

We've compromised on picking names out of a hat so we each do one stocking for another family member. We've agreed on a £10 - £12 total spend for 8-10 gifts each stocking. Free or 2nd hand stuff is acceptable. Aim should be for items the recipient would use/appreciate to minimise waste. Something funny always goes down well but not always easy to find within the budget.

I've absolutely no doubt that they will all come to me for ideas at some point! Plus I have my recipient's stocking to fill.

Please can you help with ideas for low cost, low tat stocking fillers. Average price should be about £1 - £1.50, getting something for free means you can spend more on another item.

When I was making them all, I'd sometimes pick up multi packs of eg sports socks or soaps and split between the relevant recipients. That can still be done by consultation with a couple of the other givers, so similar ideas welcome.

Examples of things I've put in stockings In the past:
free perfume samples that were given out when walking through Boots.
'As new' looking books when a local charity shop was having an 'everything £1' sale.
Brand new Debenhams boxed photo frame bought in same £1 scale

Jars of herbs & spices
Jars of Marmite/Nutella
Practical things like sellotape, string, glue
Sweets & chocolate
Pringles, nuts, pork scratchings
Herb seeds
Bulbs (the planting sort!)
'Everyday' shower gel / deo
Notebooks/pads
Emery boards
Car air fresheners
Candles
Herbal tea bags
And many more things but you get the idea!

Thank you!

If you have several boys of similar size you can get T shirt bundles on Vinted (eg. A mix of size M T shirts), often works out about 1.00 per T shirt. Similarly, if you buy a few bits from the same seller on ebay (eg. Jewellery) you can reduce the postage.

Other ideas: home bargains do vitamins cheap. Get your uni kids some multi vits! Blank thank you cards. I got DS a 'sorry' card as he tends to need to say it quite often! Print some photos. Everything is digital these days but it's so nice to have a hard copy photo as a bookmark or to stick on the fridge. You can home make little treats and put in a Tupperware (the tupperware is useful too!) - multipacks of nice plastic boxes are quite cheap.

Ive ordered a couple of different beauty boxes when they have been on offer and will add the contents to female teens stocking. I got an ok beauty box for £2.95 and I save with libertys beauty drop so the October box goes in the stocking too

Home bargains 39p

Cadbury's chocolate robins for£1 a bag.
Sadly I've already eaten them!

I bought some of these suggestions, and now I've bloody eaten a tube of pringles and two chocolate orange bars.

@MorrisseyGladioli @Zoopet this is why I don't buy any consumables until the week before Christmas - any snacks, sweets, chocolate, cans of G&T etc have to be bought when there are other Christmas goodies in the house to eat/drink!

Drinks miniatures?

I've just been on to Sephora thanks to a poster on the bargain thread and got 5 nice sized products and a pouch for £1.95. You sign up for a subscription though which you can cancel. Will make 5 nice stocking fillers depending on what you choose. I got mascara, benefit eye brow pencil and 3 other beauty products (I chose 50 and 75ml sizes) for dd's stocking. Make sure you look at all 5 pages though as I clicked away then realised I couldn't change my choices!

Is there not a cancellation cost since you're taking out a 12 month contract to pay £11.95 a month?

Usually you are charged to cancel a contract thats why '1 box' packages are more expensive.

I've done loads of subscription deals then cancelled for free. Never been charged. I think they are trying to get you in the hope you'll forget to cancel. Most people will forget but I won't!! I suppose people like me (and others on here) are a risk these companies mitigate against.

Yes I'm beginning to regret my decision to buy lots of Xmas chocolate from Poundshop as I don't know if I'll be able to withstand the temptation 🤦🏻‍♀️

That Sephora offer signs you up for a 12 month contract.

I cancelled mine straight away and got the items not long after.

I always put one of those shower body scrubbers in (£1.50 for two pack in Primark) and a body spray eg Charlie for the girls and Brut/Old Spice for the boys

DS2(15), ever the pragmatist and very mindful of budgeting needs, said the other day 'oh we're probably getting too old for stockings now'. DS1 and DD were horrified. I promised them I would never stop!
I remember the first year I didn't get a stocking, I was quite sad. I got an extra present instead (a CD) and had agreed to this, but it wasn't the same. I was 14.