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.

As children they were on our bed a d we would open them up on our mum and dads bed with them. Then we'd get the jokes about that being it. Then we'd go downstairs to a pile of presents each. I do the same with my dc. They are 12 and nearly 14 now, but will still be expected to open the stockings in bed with us.

DCs stockings go on the ends of their beds. This is probably because, when I was 6, we moved into a new build with central heating & no fireplaces, so my memories of stockings are of them being at the end of my bed & I carried this on with my DCs. When they were younger, we’d leave a mince pie & sherry out for Father Christmas & a carrot for the reindeer. Thinking about it, we lived in a house with a fireplace at that time & left the food & drink on the hearth. So, I think it all depends if you have a fire/fireplace & therefore chimney, or not! My guess is that the cookies idea come from USA, via American Christmas “movies” (or films as I call them).

Stockings here are hung on outside bedroom door handle. Was the same when I was little. Means I don't have to sneak in to their room but the stocking is separate from the rest of the presents. As a kid I used to open it on the landing but my daughter comes to open it on my bed with me.

Santa snack is the American cookie and milk because no one drinks or likes mince pies in this house.

We didn’t get a stocking but a Santa sack and it was left in the living room with our presents. Santa got left a biscuit and a beer (not FC when I was growing up 100% Santa).

Our stockings are socks so one of the pair goes laid on the bed while the other of the pair is filled downstairs. Then we sneak in to the rooms and swap them and hide the empty sock. No need to fill in the room and it's one quick in and out.
As a child we left mince pie and brandy, coz that's what my parents wanted I guess. My kids leave mince pie and their daddy kindly shares one of his beers with Santa

Stockings on beds,although this makes it much hardeecwprk!
But i remember the joy of waking up christmas morning and seeing it filled so i did this with my DC, although one of them was scared of father christmas going into her room so we left it outside her bedroom door!
leave a alcholic drink ,mince pie for FC and a carrot for reindeer

Our stockings are hung by the chimney with care.

Whiskey for Santa. The year we left out milk, he didn’t touch it, and helped himself to the whiskey anyway.

I'm American and had a stocking downstairs by the tree on Christmas Eve but on the night before the Epiphany I'd leave a large sock at the end of the bed for one last treat from the Bafona (aka...whatever my parents hadn't ordered in time for Christmas! 😂). My husband is British and had his stocking on his bed but neither of us want to creep into our daughter's bedroom so hers is going on the fireplace.

When I was little, FC would leave the stocking on my bed (it was one of those huge plastic ones so more like a sack). With my own DC, FC leaves sacks in the living room next to the tree. We don’t drink alcohol so we never have it in the house! So we leave out milk, a carrot & a mince pie.

The cheek of him!

As kids we had Christmas sacks then later pillow cases which went in our rooms but on the floor not on the bed. DD age 3 has a sack which goes in her room- she is in a cot bed with the side off so still has the tall head end (if that makes sense), it’s going behind there so if she wakes in the middle of the night (still often wakes more than once!) she won’t see it and be so excited I can’t get her back down!
As for leaving something out- DD has latched on to the idea that you leave a mince pie so that’s what Santa will be getting. Not sure on drink as she hasn’t mentioned this so might not leave one. But she also says we have to leave carrots to the reindeer

Stockings used to go on the bed but after last year when I was still said at 3am trying to fill them I've said this year they're going on the fireplace.
My 10 year old is resisting, she says she loves waking up and feeling the stocking to see if it's been filled. I do feel guilty about changing the routine but they have squeaky floorboards and I can't face being awake until the early hours again

As a kid we had pillow cases my mum decorated for us with our names, they went on the end of the bed. We do same with my son except we do next to bed as he moves about so much. We didn't have a chimney or fireplace. My son leaves mince pie and milk out, and an apple for reindeer, my friend works with them and said they prefer apples to carrots so thats what we do.