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.

 

[Kennywood]

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.

I've seen the "half book" but I've not seen the "full book" in decades:

 

[Jasper&Bowie]

I fill all the stockings (3-kids, 1-son in law, 2 grandkids, 2 dogs, hubby and myself). At least I know I'm getting good stuff.

 

[barkley]

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

an orange was the tradition in our home growing up, she and dad remembered during the war years the scarcity of some food items and how they became big treats, and Christmas stockings contained in mom's mind-treats.

Lifesavers stopped making the Christmas book with the variety of flavors.

my bf was broken hearted when this happened. she grew up with one each year in her stocking and she continued the tradition with her kids.

 

[QueenIsabella]

Growing up, one of my (childless) uncle would get every niece/nephew the Lifesavers Book. He had 25 of them! I still remember those books fondly--and Uncle Dom, too. My favorite were the butterscotch Lifesavers--I don't think I've had one in decades.

 

[Suger Mag]

I am the Yule Spirit in my house.... I buy the gifts for the kids (now adults) and wrap the gifts... and do all the stockings including my own. My husband shops for my gifts and does a wonderful job.

It does not bother me to do my own stocking. I make sure there is candy I like (hello bougie Dubai chocolate bars). I also do some blind boxes as stuffers, or a scratch ticket.... so there is an element of surprise in them for me too even though I pack them.

 

[wannabee]

I fill them all including my own. I enjoy shopping and my husband does not. He handles plenty of other things for the holidays. It doesn’t bother me at all.

 

[Kennywood]

(With apologies to Barry Manilow....)

I've been awake forever
And I've wrapped the very last gift
I put the bikes and all the toys together
I am tired, and I wrap the gifts

I wrap the gifts that make my children smile
I wrap the gifts and go the extra mile
I keep the bills that make my husband cry
I wrap the gifts, I wrap the gifts

 

[pezgirlroy]

For the women\moms\gift givers, who ever is generally in charge of gifts for Xmas- If you hang up a stocking for yourself, do you fill it or does someone in your family do it for you? Or do you leave it empty? If someone fills it, who?

I was talking to a friend about this and she said she is not going to spend money on stocking stuffers for herself this year. I didn't realize she was in charge of not only buying gifts for everyone but even small stuff like filling up her own stocking. Was curious if this typical?

No. I do my husband's stocking, the kids, the dog, and my parents. My husband does my stocking. I do all the other aspects of Christmas.

 

[pezgirlroy]

I have to be honest I would be really upset if my husband didn't do my stocking. I put a lot of work and effort into Christmas (including buying my own presents which is my choice). Him doing my stocking is one thing he can definitely do and he does a great job of it.

 

[DizneyFamof4]

DW does our DD's and mine and I am in charge of filling hers.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

(including buying my own presents which is my choice)

Could you give your husband a list of what you want and then they wrap it or put it in a nice bag or some other way where you get to open something that was done by someone other than yourself and purchased by someone other than yourself**?

**I'm not talking about the financial aspect as in shared expenses I'm talking about the actual act of buying said gift.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

hello bougie Dubai chocolate bars)

I've been meaning to look into the different ones out there I've seen them at Costco, Hallmark gosh it feels like everyone is doing them now, what's your favorite one you've come across?

 

[pezgirlroy]

Could you give your husband a list of what you want and then they wrap it or put it in a nice bag or some other way where you get to open something that was done by someone other than yourself and purchased by someone other than yourself**?

**I'm not talking about the financial aspect as in shared expenses I'm talking about the actual act of buying said gift.

I used to do that. But I am a bargain shopper. I buy my gifts from nordstrom rack, woot things like that. So if they are not purchased quickly they are often gone. I have no issue buying my own gifts but he better do my stocking.

 

[Suger Mag]

I've been meaning to look into the different ones out there I've seen them at Costco, Hallmark gosh it feels like everyone is doing them now, what's your favorite one you've come across?

I have tried two brands/forms

I really liked the big Beemax bars , which they had at my local grocery store. I ordered again off Amazon as they are all out at Big Y. Chocolate is thick yet soft, the filing was nice.



I did not like this kind/form. the chocolate is too thin and the filling too dry

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I have tried two brands/forms

I really liked the big Beemax bars , which they had at my local grocery store. I ordered again off Amazon as they are all out at Big Y. Chocolate is thick yet soft, the filing was nice.

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I did not like this kind/form. the chocolate is too thin and the filling too dry

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Thank you! The bar ones have been the ones I've been most intrigued about trying so glad you mentioned the difference in the two for you

 

[PollyannaMom]

I've been meaning to look into the different ones out there I've seen them at Costco, Hallmark gosh it feels like everyone is doing them now, what's your favorite one you've come across?

I had a Dubai chocolate cannoli at a restaurant, and it was a-ma-zing!! I will definitely be paying attention to the answers to this question.