Do you do your own stocking or does your dh do it?

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We’ve never done adult stockings and my parents stopped when we grew up. I love the idea of doing them now and will do one for my dh this year. Question is - do I ask him to do one for me or shall I do my own? 😉

He actually did one for me many years ago but stopped as it was always with my family who didn’t do adult stockings, so I know he wouldn’t be obtuse to it.

What would you want in yours?

I do my own!! I buy all the bits I want and put them in a drawer over November…for DH to wrap on Christmas Eve. I will have forgotten what I’ve bought by then 😂

Forgot to answer the question of what’s in it…

Laneige Lip Sleep Mask
Tangle Teezer hair brush
Kitsch scrunchies
Neom Christmas Wish oil
Diptique hand cream
Waitrose choc orangettes
Fluffy slippers
x2 books I want to read

Will add socks, Lush bath bombs and maybe a pair of earrings.

Me and my mum do each other and it's usually new mug, socks, long teaspoons, chocs, nice soap , shower gel, new tree Dec etc.

I honestly don't see the point in doing your own? I find the idea really depressing actually! It sounds like he'd be perfectly willing and capable from what little you've written so just ask him to do it.

I normally buy the things in September and leave them unwrapped in my stocking... hubby then adds chocolate and a couple of small presents.
Normally we do useful presents- so massage balls, resistance bands, socks, moisturiser, perfume etc and then a few favourite treats...
He has some new darts, tip shaper, pool table brush, massage ball, socks...

My husband does mine. He's pretty good at it.

I agree. I don't know why you'd do your own.

DH does it, we secretly do each others!

Do the people who buy their own things also buy the gifts for their partners? Or do you each buy your own?
It seems very sad to buy your own gifts on behalf of someone else - what's the point and why aren't they capable of choosing something for you?

What's the point in buying yourself a load of stuff and then putting it in a stocking? Surely if you decide to do adult stockings they are gifts from your partner to you and vice versa? What on earth are you achieving buying your own gifts?

I honestly don't see the point in doing your own?

Same, I don’t see the point.

We have them and we do one for each other, last year my gran stayed over Christmas Eve and I did her a stocking as a surprise, she was thrilled , doing my own would feel sad

What on earth are you achieving buying your own gifts?

yes and if I did buy something for myself eg a lip balm or book as pp mentioned I don’t see the point in waiting months to use/read it.

Half and half here. I have bought some Elemis night mask (bargain thread), some bed head foxy curls hair cream, some earrings, a caribiner keyring with torch, eugy squirrel kit, he will do the rest.

DH does mine. He doesn't particularly enjoy it but he does it as its nice to do something for someone you love, and I love getting a stocking. It's not much to ask really. There's no excitement if you fill your own! I give my DH ideas of the sorts of things I like/need - chocolate, socks, bodywash..

so I know he wouldn’t be obtuse to it

What does this mean?

DH does mine and it’s always lovely. Scented candles, nice choc, bubble bath, mini Prosecco, nice socks and a book. That sort of thing. I do his too.

Also don't see the point in doing your own! DH and I do a stocking for each other. He's never done them before but humours me and is learning! (First year he bought a gift set of toiletries and just emptied it into the stocking which was nice but not very imaginative!)

For his I usually do a couple of toiletries nicer than he usually uses, a funny pair of socks, plectrums or other guitar bits, maybe a little fidget type puzzle or card game and always chocolate coins.

What on earth is the point of doing your own?

I've been a single mum for many years, have a partner now but still don't live together. I've always done my own when doing my kids. Never found it depressing, good excuse to spend some money on myself and get little treats for myself, which I don't often do. Although my eldest now often buys extra little things to pop in mine as a surprise.

I usually get myself a selection from the below, depending on what I want/need:

Expensive lip balm
Fancier mascara/eyeliner/lipstick than I would normally buy
Literary themed pin badges for my work lanyard (I'm an English teacher)
Hair bands
Cosy winter bed socks
An nice underwear set
A book
A new mug
Some nice stationery
Perfume
A metal bookmark
Some patterned tights
A purse
A keyring
Fancy vegan chocolate truffles
Vegan hot chocolate bombe

Doing one as a single parent is completely different though - I absolutely get why you'd do that when your kids are young. They pick up on mum not having anything and it can upset them. Plus you can't exactly expect them to do it for you. But doing your own when you're in a relationship?! I don't get that at all..

My DH has done it from the first year we met. As others have said what’s the point of doing your own or even buying things to put in your own?

They haven't been young for a long while They still get stockings though, and so do I. I think my 26 year old would think Christmas was ruined if we didn't all have stockings and she hasn't lived at home for a few years! She always stays over Christmas though, despite normally living with her boyfriend. We love Christmas as a family though and it's our favourite time of year to just be us three together, watching Christmas movies, eating until we burst and (for the last 8 years or so since they were older) drinking Bucks Fizz from morning until midnight

There can be reasons why people might do their own stocking. I used to work with a lady who was a single parent who had no other immediate family members, her children were too young to go out and buy presents for her.

She saw a lovely idea on socal media, so in came the 'naughty elves', she bought herself some presents, got the wrapping paper and some cellotape and used to leave notes to the kids (from the elves) asking them to wrap presents up for their mum.

A bit of both. If I see something I want I grab it as chances are by time dh gets time to go it will have sold out or whatever. But he'll also go get bits.
We do them because the kids want us having them. So it tends to be just nice foods, shower gels etc.

This.