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.