What do you put in a stocking?

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I never got one of these as a kid so what do you put in them?

Brilliant! It's this time again!! I LOVE MN stocking threads!

my leg

What do people put in stockings for adults?

I got DP's pressies from here for his stocking and a few cheeky bit's from Anee SUmmers like boob strss balls ect!

In our house, FC does the stocking and we put one wrapped present from us donstairs under the tree for the children (but our children are only tiny) , along with the other presents that are exchanged,like Vanilla Pumpkin.

Tree presents are silly things, hung on the tree that must be very cheap but can be useful and are distributed after roast but before pud.

I don't wrap all the stocking thingies, just the best one or two things in there.

nothing.

father christmas does.

My kids got in theirs
some stickers
a watch
a breakfast cereal bar (just so I didn't have to get out of bed at the crack of dawn to make them breakfast!)
They loved it as they are NEVER allowed to eat in the bedrooms but this was a special occassion after all

my leg

We don't do them for adults, only started last year for both dc

A magazine/comic
Chocolate (Christmas themed)
Mini bubble bath or soap

can't rememeber what else tbh!

I haven't done stocking for a child yet... however I have done loads for dh (well 5 for the 5 years we've been together!)

I usually put in some of the following....

a miniature bottle of something alcoholic or a half bottle of champers

Some chocolate or a chocolate orange in the toe of the sock

Something smelly from Neals Yard or similar (dh likes their shaving soap)

Socks/boxers

A silly little book - one of those ones you find by the tills in book shops

Some kind of silly thing from Iwantoneofthose.com or similar.

A cd/dvd

Golf balls/tees

novels
cds
socks
novelty crap from Firebox etc
new toothbrushes
chocolate money
tangerine

Yes, stockings are from Santa, big presents are from the people who bought them and piled under the tree before Christmas Day itself. Then stockings magically filled on Christmas Eve

DS gets stationery (some from seal sanctuary this year due to exciting new obsession ), sweeties, character pants, little playmobil figures or small lego kits, an annual (it'll be Scooby Doo this year), one of those comedy pooing plastic animals (reindeer or polar bear). And this year he's been collecting little fossils/gem stones so some of them too.

Adults get a chocolate orange in the toe of their stocking, none of your satsuma nonsense - although I do actually love satsumas. Those little bottles of wine are nice too.

toy cars,
smallish toys that they've eyed up in tescoes (last year was cheap walkie talkies, a sportacus doll and a stuffed dog)
lots or art stuff (crayons, markers, paints)
a few sweets (but not many as they will be eaten before breakfast and all hell will break loose)

Im doing my two ds's their first stocking this year they are aged two and four.Im putting in;
Chocolate coins
Book
Dvd
a pack of matchbox cars
Small wall.e toy
Apple & satsuma

Fruit, nuts.... People still do this, don't they?

should have said... stockings are technically santa territory

Everything in the stockings is wrapped, except the tangerine and the bag of dried mango (which they are still embarrasingly excited about each year!).

Other than that a stocking for a teenage and pre-teen girl this year might include some of -

• chocolate coins
• a new flannel
• new toothbrush and paste (nasty pink, non-mint flavoured for dd2 if she is very lucky)
• something small with Emily Strange on: a purse, or notebook or something - they love the stuff but it is jaw-droppingly expensive
• silly badges to go on jackets and school bags
• bath bombs
• nail varnish for toes and toe divider things
• "posh" shampoo - ie posher than Boots own brand but not posher than Charles Worthington!
• gel pens
• "cool" postcards with stamps on, ready for writing and sending
• something stupid from Hawkin's Bazaar - wind up babies, or racing grannies or something of that ilk, for racing across the table round the Christmas dinner

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what, just fruit and nuts, beanie?

always have

a bag of chocolate coins.
Satsuma
small soft toy in the top.

then last year
bouncy ball
little racing cars
polystyrene airoplane (thing that slots together)
pack of top trump cards
kaleidoscope
bubble bath
little pack of haribo sweets.

DS2 was only little so I bought a big bag of plastic fruit and wrapped them individuality so he had 10 parcels to open but it cost me £1. (plus the essentials from above)

I do grown up stocking for DH and he does one for me.. nice little things like face cream and little pedicure kit, chocolate, socks

We have stockings in bed before breakfast and other pressies aren't opened until we get back from church so it keeps DS1 busy until it is time to go to church.

Ooh ooh Blueball - I want a WallE toy please! Where, where? I love him, he's so cute and robotty.

someone answer so I don't keep seeing the name Blueball.

Lol at Blueball.Boots have lots of mini wall.e toys for £8.00.I also got the dancing wall.e.My two ds love him though i do wish they had called the robot something else as the two ds are saying wall.e all day.

Oh dear - Pointy, I kept looking at your thread wondering what on earth you meant. Doh!

Thanks BlueBELL - I've been reading Yr 11 essays on screen all night and my eyes have gone squiffy, if that's any excuse.

Dont worry im thinking of changing my name to that Blueball now what do you think?

Runs for cover before Pointy comes back..

Actually Blueball would be a great name. Much better than Bluebell.