Where do your stockings go?

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On reading a lot of posts it appears that quite a few children have their stocking on their bedroom. Is this normal? We never had our stockings our rooms, they were hung on the fireplace cos Father Christmas comes down the chimney. Also never heard about milk and cookies thing cos we used to leave out mince pies and sherry. In hindsight maybe he shouldn't have been DUI but didn't think of that when I was little.

Me and DH could never agree on want Santa prefers to eat and drink lol so we’ve always let the kids choose - it varies year to year. This year 3 year old has picked Coke (after seeing Santa’s face on it in Asda 😜)
and Halloween cookies 😂 (probably because that’s the last time we made cookies lol)
so I think some angels can be turned into ghosts 😂
our stockings go in front the fire place

We had stockings hung on our bed when we were kids. I remember when I was old enough to know about father Christmas, pretending to be asleep when my mum came in to fill the stocking. Both of us playing along to keep the magic alive.
We didn't have a proper fireplace, just an electric fire. We left a drink, a carrot and a mince pie for father Christmas in the living room. I can't remember what drink - probably whatever my mum wanted to drink!
This is the first year we're doing the magic properly. As adults, now we've got a fireplace we've hung the stocking there. But I want my child to open her stockings upstairs on our bed before going downstairs and seeing all the presents under the tree. She has no where in her room so I have just bought some hooks to go over the landing banister. So all 3 stockings can be hung up there on christmas eve and the minute she comes out of her bedroom she'll see them all full up.
We'll leave a carrot, a glass of Bailey's and a mince pie out for father Christmas

waking up as a child on Christmas morning with a stocking on your bed is such a magical feeling. The paper all crinkly and the weight of it by your feet 🤩

When I was a child stockings always went on the hearth/floor in front of the fireplace, alongside a mince pie and a glass of whisky. My kids now do the same.

I get jittery enough sneaking into rooms for the tooth fairy, I couldn't cope with having to do a whole stocking in the dark 😂

We have them in our room and the kids come into us in the morning and sit on our bed to open them why we wake up and have a cuppa

Our ‘stockings’ are actually big christmas bags so wouldn’t fit on the fireplace, they go at the end of the bed/cot for my two youngest and outside my eldest’s room because he’s 17 and sleeps naked, so I’m not wanting nightmares when I go to bed on Christmas eve, then they open them in bed with us in the morning

When we where kids we had pillow cases

As a child we would hang our pillow cases on the bannister at the top of the stairs. DM would fill them after everyone had gone to bed and bring them into our rooms. I don’t remember ever hearing her do it. I haven’t got the nerve to do it for my DC so I leave them next to the Christmas tree. DC are not allowed to open their stockings until everyone is up as I didn’t go to all the trouble of putting them together not to see them opening them but as a child DSIS and I opened our stockings together in our bedroom as soon as we woke up. We would show everyone the contents at breakfast.

I’m in my 50s and never had a stocking when I was a kid, just a pillowcase downstairs by the Christmas tree.

My DC have always had a stocking, and I put them at the foot of their beds… However, now that they are mid teens, they tend to go to bed later than I do! Not sure what I will do with them this year.

We have special hooks over the fireplace so we can all hang our stockings up. As a child we would lay them on the floor in front of the fireplace, but I was always mildly disgruntled that they weren’t hung up like in the pictures on Christmas cards, so when I had my own children I made sure we could hang them! They get heavy though, when they are filled up.

I had duplicate stockings when the children were little so I could prep them in advance and they went at the foot of the bed. However after having to stay awake half the night due to excitable children I have advised my adult children to have them downstairs! After a break for a few years everyone gets a little stocking on Christmas Day just got to explain the contradictions to my very observant 7 year old grandson!

End of the bed, by the feet. So when they stir, their little feet can touch the stocking and feel the rustling! They love it.

I always had my stocking on the end of the bed (it was an old sock!) My children have their stockings on the end of the bed too! We get them out on Christmas Eve.

I didn’t have any wrapped gifts at Christmas as a child so I like to make more effort for DS and luckily DH is OTT on all things Christmassy.

DH creeps in and puts the stocking at the foot of DC’s bed when he goes to bed.

They all hang on the end of our bed (super convenient to fill) and we leave a mince pie, carrot and a glass of milk by the fireplace.

As kids - outside my door!
my own home - hanging off the mantle piece

End of bed in our house. Although dd has a bunk bed so hers is hung off that and DS just lays on his bean bag…. They aren’t allowed to open them in thier rooms though, they bring them down to us and open them one by one in our bed. All 4 of us, ds17, dd13 squeezing on our double bed is a sight. I know they are older but they love it still.

Used to be Coke and mince pie, along with a carrot… we did that as kids and ours now do that.

End of the bed by their feet. I grew up this way and have carried it on. I remember the excitement I would feel waking up and reaching down to feel it had gone from empty to overflowing with gifts.

Foot of the bed always there's nothing like the excitement of feeling the weight of a full stocking with your feet when you wake up (I'm in my 50s) and DH and I still do this for each other as well as young adult DCs). Downstairs would be all sorts of wrong to me, they were always on our beds growing up too.

That's because milk and cookies are for American Santa.

British Father Christmas is a functioning alcoholic :)

We always did stockings in bedrooms. Top tip: have two identical ones for each child, fill one in advance and replace the empty one silently.

Ours are hung from the dining chairs to be opened after dinner, something that started to keep autistic son at the table. He's 30 now and that hasn't been an issue in years but when I mentioned moving the stockings he and his siblings were outraged so they stay where they have always been and we open them after dinner.
Grandson comes here now too so he has a stocking at home first thing left outside his bedroom door and then a second one hung from his chair at the table. He never questions getting two because he has never known anything different.

When they were little, they were in their bedrooms. Mostly they'd bring them into our room and open them there. Stockings never had much in them - selection box, pair of socks, small car for the boys or a hair band for my daughter. So we weren't bothered about missing them opening the gifts - just missing their faces.

Now that they're all grown up, they have stockings hung on the fireplace, because I think they look nice 😂

Actually, one year, Blue Peter did a craft thing where they made houses out of cardboard boxes, so from that year onwards, our main Christmas craft thing was making houses - surprising how creative they could be 😊

When we were little we didn’t have stockings, we used to hang an empty pillow case at the end of our beds and mum used to sneak in to put presents in it from Father Christmas. We were allowed to open them when we woke on Christmas morning, and then after we’d dragged mum and dad into our bedroom to show off our new toys, we’d all go downstairs and open the presents from mum and dad which were under the tree.

I’ve never been able to sneak into my kids’ rooms to be the Tooth Fairy or Father Christmas, it’s far too stressful! We have stockings that we put under the tree before we go to bed. Presents from DH and I go under the tree when the kids have gone to bed, then Father Christmas puts anything too big for the stockings in front our gifts with the stuffed stockings sitting at the very front.

As a child I would hang my stocking from a knob on the sideboard; except one year when I was allowed to be very greedy indeed!

I got the idea to hang up a pair of my tights.
In the morning there they were, stuffed from toes to waist, and sat on the edge of the upholstered bench; now that was a memorable Christmas morning!

I put out cookies and milk, and always a few carrots for the reindeer,

We didn't leave stockings anywhere. Our stockings were huge though, it would probably have come up to my waist if I stood in it now as an adult (and it was big enough for me to stand in - sort of like this).

It appeared overnight filled with presents at the bottom of my bed, and there would be one further present downstairs from Father Christmas.

We would leave a carrot, a biscuit and a glass of Baileys out for FC and Rudolph.