Do you fill your own stocking?

[CdnCarrie]

Santa only brings gifts and stockings for kids.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

like shampoo, toothpaste, soap and bath things, favorite candy, spices, etc.

That's how my mother-in-law does it but not going to lie in the last 5 years we've gotten more junk than anything and by junk I mean it's temu stuff my mother-in-law bought from FB. Between my two sister-in-laws, my husband and I we got last year this comb type thing that none of us understood what it was and when we sheepishly asked (because it can be awkward asking "um what is this") she couldn't remember what it was. We also got an egg cracker type thing the year prior that got us all having quizzical looks. The other thing is for my husband he loves gummy bears but his family sorta thinks that means he needs a pound of it and that is often stuff in his stocking stuffer, he doesn't want that large amount and really doesn't want gummy bears 10 yrs in a row, fav candy or not.

DH spent SO MUCH MONEY on them, putting expensive things that I think of as gifts into the stockings.

That's more like how my father-in-law's wife is. Usually she'll put in the M&Ms candy cane thing but a gift card can make it in there, a small electronic, for me often a small Disney thing, etc so she uses the stocking as both fluff stuff and actual gift stuff. The actual price tag is heavily dependent year to year but she treats them as an extension of gifts under the tree.

 

[Kennywood]

When I was little, there were 4 things I could always count on being in my Christmas stocking:

• Large apple
• Large orange
• Popcorn ball
• Book of Lifesavers

Even though I'm married now and a much older adult, I still put the apple & orange in the Christmas stockings for both my wife and me. I'll include popcorn balls, if I can find them. But, for whatever insane reason, Lifesavers stopped making the Christmas book with the variety of flavors.

My wife and I will slip small gifts into each other's Christmas stocking too.

 

[firefly_ris]

Even though I'm married now and a much older adult, I still put the apple & orange in the Christmas stockings for both my wife and me. I'll include popcorn balls, if I can find them. But, for whatever insane reason, Lifesavers stopped making the Christmas book with the variety of flavors.

Just saw the Lifesavers books at Sam's Club a couple weeks ago! Can't remember the last time I saw them.

[ETA] - Nevermind, upon closer inspection, it's the book but it's just filled with the regular multi-flavor rolls and not the single flavor special ones. Lame.