Does anyone not 'do' stockings?

[Stressfordays]

I'm wondering if I'm the strange one but we've never done stockings? No one I know does them either? Presents get wrapped and put under the tree. I didn't have them as a kid and my parents didn't either. We call the cheaper bits you buy stocking fillers but don't actually put them in a stocking. Am I doing Christmas wrong? 🤣

We put the Santa sacks in the living room by the fireplace. I used to put them in their bedrooms but the sneaking in was too stressful. Much easier for me and Santa by the fire.

I think it probably is to some extent. I relate to this clash. DH wanting to sit around doing everything slowly and me wanting to parboil the bloody potatoes.
My brother in law pointed out that they never had this problem because they did presents round the tree on Christmas Eve after dinner with their German speaking relations.

We only had stockings in the morning. Tree presents were for after the big meal, about 3pm.

This is the first time I'm not doing stockings fir my DC (mid 20s). I bought them each an chocolate advent calendar and one hadn't opened it yet and the other was opened on 28th. I won't be buying any next year.

Never had them growing up did some in adult hood in first marriage I did both I stopped after a while now I’m on my own I’ll do my own bits through the year.

We don't and also never had them as kids
We sometimes had sacks that presents go put in , just to make things easy and not have to sort them all in the morning when kids were little and got loads of things

“Is it a middle class/working class thing?”
I’m working on the theory that most of the British working class didn’t have a Christmas tree until well into the twentieth century. With large families and low wages presents would be almost entirely from parents to children. The stocking with ‘an apple and an orange and a piece of coal’ and not much else was replaced in more affluent times with a pillow case or a heap. The concept of Santa presents and other presents isn’t possible with one small stocking so must have taken a while to evolve.
I’m speculating that sitting exchanging presents around the tree is a more middle class tradition which perhaps always co-existed with stockings in more affluent homes.