Christmas stocking questions...

[jacksonsmom]

Ours hangs on the stairs and every member of the family has one. Our cats Rusty & Herbie, each have their own and Santa fills them usually with can cat food & new toys!

When we had our goldfish, Bruce, he even had a itty bitty stocking that got filled with a thing for fish food

We open our stocking after we open our presents. They are the last thing we dig into

 

[Daxx]

Where do you hang your Christmas stockings? We hang ours off of our mantle.

Do you hang stockings for your pets? Of course!

When do you open the stockings? Christmas morning!

OP -- we have a cat named Henry, too! Love that name!

 

[angel_bright05]

We leave the stockings on the end of each of the kids' beds. An empty one is left at the end of the bed and then I (...I mean Santa) trades the empty one for a filled one.

We don't do stockings for the pets. I do buy them presents though.

The kids can open their stockings in the morning when they get up. Saves DH and I from getting up too early. We usually get about an extra half hour.

The past few years we've been putting DVD's in the stockings so that bought us an extra 2 hours of sleep! They watched the movie, we slept.

 

[golfgal]

We leave the stockings on the end of each of the kids' beds. An empty one is left at the end of the bed and then I (...I mean Santa) trades the empty one for a filled one.

We don't do stockings for the pets. I do buy them presents though.

The kids can open their stockings in the morning when they get up. Saves DH and I from getting up too early. We usually get about an extra half hour.

The past few years we've been putting DVD's in the stockings so that bought us an extra 2 hours of sleep! They watched the movie, we slept.

Good idea with the DVD's. Our kids have NEVER gotten up early on Christmas morning--very strange. Usually DH and I are sitting downstairs waiting for them to wake up--we have been known to wake them up some years even.

 

[Chattyaholic]

We have no mantle, nor open staircase...but in our dining room we have some cabinets with hook-type handles and that is where the stockings are hung. There are four of them, so when DD and DS were little it worked out perfectly as we all had stockings.

Now, we do stockings just for the grandchildren. When the 5th and 6th ones came along I didn't know where I was going to hang those, but on each end are pictures that hang on the wall, close to the cabinets, so at Christmas I just take the pictures down so then I have the nails there that I can hang the extra stockings on so it works out fine. Now if we ever have a 7th grandchild....I have no idea what I will do.

The grandchildren always open their stockings soon after the gifts have been opened on Christmas Day.

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

We hang our kids stockings on the mantle above our fireplace. We have a stocking for our dog (not the hamster, fish or hermit crab though). But we only have 3 stocking holders (and 3 kids) so this year the dogs stocking gets hung on a door knob in the main room. Our mantle is smallish and our stocking holders spell J-O-Y so I don't to add another that wouldn't fit.

Usually our kids sleep in on Christmas (freaks, all of them ). My mom says that is my curse for waking up my entire family every single Christmas (and just 3 days prior to Christmas on my bday). So we get them up and dh goes out front to "make sure Santa came" (ie get the video camera going and set the oven to preheat). Once he says go everyone runs out and the Santa present (biggest, most desired gift) is unwrapped and displayed in front of where their stocking hangs. After they ooh and aah over that we remind them of their stockings and they dig into those. While this is going on we slip the egg strata we only eat on Christmas into the oven, then move the kids into the Christmas tree room to open their gifts. By the time gifts are open breakfast is done and grandparents, aunts and uncles start dropping by. Its a nice time!

 

[malibuconlee]

Well, we hang our stockings on the mantel. However we travel for holidays, so we end up with things "stuffed" into gift bags or on the years when Santa forgets those, plastic store sacks!!

Oh, and the dog doesn't have her own stocking, but she gets presents.

 

[pixie dust 112]

With no mantle or open staircase we don't put out the stockings for decoration.


Santa leave the stockings on the kids beds. When they were little it would get us at least a half hour more of sleep

We do the same thing! THe stockings always had coloring books and crayons in them to keep the kids occupied when they were little and give us time to sleep! Now that they are older we still leave the stockings on their bed. I have heard dd(16) opening her stocking just after midnight tho!

 

[luvflorida]

I have heard dd(16) opening her stocking just after midnight tho!

At least she waits until it's the 25th.

 

[JVL1018]

We have no mantle and no stairs, exceopt for the basement steps, so I bought over the door hangers and the kids have theirs hanging on the outside of their bedroom doors. DH and I hang tours off the top of our hutch in the kitchen.
The dog doesn't have a stocking, I should get her one.

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

The stockings, which I made specially for each of the kids (and the cat - as well as one for DH and myself) hang from hooks on the mantle.

We open ours on the morning of December 6, St. Nick's feast day, and we've done that since I was a kid.

The stockings are filled with fruit, candy, and little gifts - nothing big.

 

[donnajon]

I have garland looped from the mantal so I hang our stocking over the fireplace with those little plastic hook things that stick - then you pull the tab and it releases the sticky partwhen you are done. They actually stay hanging with the stuff Santa left in them. And the kids open them whenever they get around to it - no particular order.