Stocking ideas for wife in 30s

[slipperypenguin]

We do a stocking for each other on Christmas morning to open alongside the kids. Nothing super expensive (think chocolate bar / nail polish / lip balm).

Looking for some nee ideas for this year please

Oooh I LOVE doing stockings for people :)
My suggestions are:
terrys chocolate orange
chocolate coins
a candy cain
lottery ticket/scratch card
lush bath bomb
mini Prosecco/can of cocktail /bottle of wine
or if not a drinker posh bottle or can of pop
Lindt Santa
pretty metal straw
nice pen

Travel sized cosmetics for the car or handbag- mini perfume, handcream, makeup wipes, lip gloss, foot mask, spooleys with an eyelash serum. Id love any or all of those!

Trolley coin
Foot peel masks
Coffee sachets
Pop tarts
Reusable face cleaner
Posh toothpaste + new brush or brush heads
Silk scrunchie
Chocolate umbrella, sugar almonds, pear drops, chocolate Brazils, sugar mice
Can of gin
Lego mini fig
Teabag squeezer
Pasta measure
Coffee syrup
Hot sauce
Christmas ornament
Credit card holder
Knife sharpener key fob
Burts Bees lip balm
Drinks stirrers

With consideration of awesome ideas of the posters above, my dream stocking would have

Pretty patterned socks- I always seem to need more!
Lip Balm
Chocolate orange/ coins/ Lindt figurines or walnut whips
Nice functional/smart writing pen/s
Trolley coin
Chocolate bomb for dissolving to make hot chocolate
scratch off lottery ticket
A pretty fold up umbrella
Meaningful or pretty christmas tree ornament
Possibly a pretty pack of handbag tissues
Mini bottle of Rose wine

I wouldn't mix soaps and chocolate in one stocking. I don't know how, but I have memories of my mum doing this and somehow the chocolate all tasted a bit soapy after even through the packaging.

Personally I wouldn't care much for the bath products or cosmetics as I know what types I like and I'm probably not keen on change.

I'm on my 30's and do my own stocking bedside my DH is crap at them 😂.

Things I have got this year and last year include:
Salt rock fairy lights (Asda)
Warm trainer socks (Sketchers)
Handmade moon shaped wall decoration from Etsy
'Book shop' scented candle in amber glass (Etsy)
Benetint lip stain
Neoprene socks
Small tin of solid perfume (Etsy)
Brew tea company tea leaves or tea bags
Cheap strap for Fitbit
Lush bath bomb
Eyebrow razor
Left handed pens
Bamboo toothbrushes
Bamboo pens
Weighted sleep mask or headphone sleep mask
Electric handwarmer
Handmade fudge (Etsy)
Green and Blacks Ginger chocolate
Monty Bojangles
Pork scratchings
Power bank with torch
Head massager
Bike mirror
Cycling gloves
Wallet ninja
Fidget toys

Tin of ready mixed cocktail from M&S
Miniature of Baileys with a glass
Emery boards
Tweezeman tweezers
Small torch for a key ring
Hair clip
Champagne bottle stopper
Fun Christmas earrings

Lip balm
Mini bottle of wine
Gloves
Lindor chocolates
Foot cream
Hand cream
Mini hot water bottle
Cup to go for hot drinks
Hot chocolate sachets
Make up remover wipes
Hair scrunchies
Book

Go to M&S and buy a selection of mini products from their beauty section. They have some lovely perfumes for £5/10 etc. Also candles and anything from their aromatherapy range.

A pair of earrings

Socks

Lindt mini eggs

Malteser chocolate reindeer

Incense sticks

Rimmel nail varnishes are cheap

Face wipes

One use face masks/ foot masks/ hand masks (plenty in B&M)

Lip balm

Hand cream

Pens and small notebook

Scout round some charity shops for mugs, trinkets, jewellery, scarves, a book etc

As DH is not the most discreet I know I have...

• a travel cup
• fudge
• cactus seed
• book

He usually puts gingerbread in as he knows I hate it! (Goes back to early on in the marriage where he kept forgetting)

Then there will be chocolate

So many lovely suggestions wish you were all making me a stocking 😍

The one thing I would say OP is that it very much depends what your wife likes, a stocking for me is about being extra thoughtful and carefully choosing things I know the recipient would love not just grabbing any mini sized "stocking filler"
for example the mini bottle/ can of alcohol or soft drink would be her favourite, the chocolate could be either her favourite or something she always mentioned getting as a child. If you know the brand of toiletries or makeup she regularly uses a miniature of those is useful but a miniature of something she'd never use is pointless.

Stocking fillers I have received and LOVED in the past have been quite personal to me that someone else wouldn't want if that makes sense. For example I love Nutella but don't buy it often so a little jar of that was well received, a fancy jar of curd was also a lovely treat. A small compact mirror for my hand bag the year I dropped mine and smashed just made me feel really well thought of.

Lovely that you've posted on here for ideas, bet she will be chuffed with her stocking and I think it's nice for the kids to see their parents enjoying the stocking fun like you say doesn't have to be expensive.

Merry Christmas 🎅🏻