How does Santa do stockings at your house?

[mommiepoppins]

In our house we have big stockings for the kids only. Santa dose not fill them up all the way. my teenager is getting lots of raziors(free bee's) my kids get a flavored tootyh paste and new tooth brushes! bracelets and candy!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Before the kids DH and I used the stockings as SURPISE gifts for eachother. It had to be something that the other person DID NOT ask for, but was something we knew they wanted...CDs, perfume, cologne, stuff like that

Now that the kids are babies, we took turns buying stuff for the kids that could fit in there and filling them up! i don't know what he put in and he doesnt' know what i put in (all wrapped)

All stockings are Larger.

I love the ideas here!!!

 

[RADOPT]

In our house, Santa only fills the stockings for the girls. He leaves crackers, chips, small can of coke, small toy or two, socks and maybe a dvd. Santa does not wrap at our house. My girls get the stocking and Santa's gifts when they get up. Then we get ready and go to my mom's house for breakfast. We open family gifts after breakfast.

My girls open the wrapped gifts under our tree Christmas night when we get back. A few times it was the next day since we got back late. Any gift that come in the mail get opened later in the week.

Since my girls have special needs, it keeps them from getting upset and dissapointed when the gifts are all opened.

 

[Plantlady]

Santa fills up our stockings on Christmas eve, and sets them in front of the fireplace, since they are too heavy for our stocking holders.

All presents are wrapped (DH did it this way when he was a kid, I had never heard of such a crazy idea, but he insisted, it is more fun this way).

Mom and Dad have a stocking too. Dad (DH) is claiming that the story of Santa is "fishy" because there is no way he could fit through the chimney. So... Dad might just get coal in his stocking, for being a "disbeliever". That will keep the kids enthusiastic about Santa for a few more years.

Stocking gifts are opened first, no turn taking needed. But, Mom and dad have to be up (7 am is the rule). (Gifts are one at a time)

Our stockings are homemade (by me)... nothing fancy.. red felt, white and green trim, with our names. But, they are all identical in size. (my stocking growing up was smaller than my brothers. because I was smaller).

Our stockings are also part of the christmas decoration. they are hung up starting the day after thanksgiving. (growing up, we put them out on Christmas eve, because my mom said stockings were ugly).

Small, inexpensive items go in stockings. and Candy. Nothing expensive is in there though. Yes, it ends up in the bottom of a toy box, but it only cost me about $5. and they enjoyed it for a few days.. I got my money's worth.. Sorry, Santa's money's worth.

 

[FormrCastMbr]

Usually the stocking is opened first waiting till my DFi is awake...after the stocking is done, we wake him!!!

DS8's is usually filled with small toys, pencils, yugioh cards, shower gel, chap stick and candy...I love the stocking part of Xmas and even bought myself some stuff to put in...so everyone gets the same things...the cone shaped hot cocoa and chocolate coal...

I am busy packing it all up to ship to Disney...yeah! We leave in 10 days!

 

[ncbyrne]

When I was growing up, Santa always took our stockings off the mantle, filled them & then snuck into our bedrooms & left them hanging on our bed posts. When we woke up, we were allowed to open up & play with the gifts we found in the stocking, but we had to stay in our rooms until Mom & Dad got up. It worked pretty well & thankfully Santa has continued that tradition with my girls.
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This is exactly how our family has always done stockings too. The stockings are only for the kids and they are filled with small wrapped items about the same as everyone else has mentioned....except that we don't put in any fruit - there's no room!

 

[pezpam]

Mom made stockings for me and my sister, decorated with Christmas shapes we each chose, plus our initials. We still use those. (I'm thirty-cough now, lol) Now that we're older, I got stockings for my parents as well, kind of a small way to say thanks for all those years. I also made one for my daughter with a little teddy bear, some beading, and her initials.

We leave the empty stockings out on Christmas Eve along with cookies, milk, and carrots. Santa fills the stockings when he comes at night and leaves a note telling DD how much he liked the cookies and how much the reindeer liked the carrots. There are always pieces of carrot left on the plate, complete with nibble marks.

Presents always had to wait until after everyone was up and we'd had breakfast. Stockings we opened when we woke up. When we were little, we'd creep down the stairs, get the stockings, and climb onto Mom and Dad's bed to open the presents inside the stockings. We still do the stockings before breakfast and normally we all haul ourselves out of bed when DD wakes up.

The toe of the stocking gets filled with candy. The rest is filled with small gifts - things like lip balm, nail scissors, pencils, maybe a few small chocolates..... small items, some useful, some fun. Nothing in the stocking costs much.

 

[twoeeyy]

When I was a kid Santa would leave our stockings on the foot of our beds full of wrapped presents. We were allowed to open them when we got up in the morning. I figure my parents thought that this was a good was to buy themselves a little
extra sleep in the morning. We had to stay in our rooms until mom and dad went downstairs to check and make sure santa had come.

We do the same tradition for our daughter. Mom and dad also get wrapped stockings left for them on the foot of the bed.

I have a funny story: when I was little I evidentaly woke up in the middle of the night and opened my stocking, well when I woke up in the morning I did not remember opening my stocking so I cried for hours thinking that santa had opened my stocking

 

[calie_j]

Interesting thread, I never knew how many people had the same do not wake mom & dad rule. Our kids can open their stockings as soon as they wake up, tho I think we had to put a 6am earliest time on that one year, and play with what's in it as long as they don't wake us up. If they do wake us up they will not be opening tree gifts until after supper that night, otherwise we open the rest as soon as everyone gets up.

Only the kids have stockings, homemade ones I cross stitched beautiful santa/christmas scenes on from a kit and H sewed the red felt onto the back to make the stocking. I get alot of compliments on them and had each one done for their 1st xmas.

I've cut back on the candy and there's only a few pieces in each; a small chocolate santa, peanut butter tree, marshmallow snowman, or laffy taffy, etc. The gifts are wrapped and just a few small ones that will fit in the stocking. Some years it's a gameboy game. Sometimes whatever small toy. This year the teens are getting an itune gift card (they have no idea they're getting ipods so this will be fun to see ) and DD is getting some cd's and alot of little hair things.

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

This year the teens are getting an itune gift card (they have no idea they're getting ipods so this will be fun to see ) and DD is getting some cd's and alot of little hair things.

We did something like that one year, we put a gameboy sp game in my DS's stocking, but none of the kids had one so he got up in the middle of the night to peek and switched it with the gameboy color game in his sister's stocking .

 

[1-AlterEgo]

he leave a fruit item and a candy item then two small unwrapped items

 

[jckdisneybound]

We all do stockings, all the same size. I do DH's and he does mine. Our's are also filled to the brim that they overflow! We open ours while eating breakfast before presents.

Presents are opened one at a time after breakfast. So far we don't have a let Mom & Dad sleep rule as our DD has always been a sleeper. We will see how this year goes.

 

[winkers]

It's fun to see how many different ways there are to do stockings! I love doing the stockings, I collect things all year long, usually from clearance rack or the dollar store. All of them are wrapped and overflow the stocking, so we usually put it on the couch. My kids open their stockings first then their big present from Santa. After that we sit down and have our traditional breakfast rolls. Then we open the rest of the gifts. Having breakfast makes the excitment last a little longer and ensures that they eat something healthy that day!

 

[kilee]

At our house everyone gets a stocking including our dog. They are all average size.

DS's usually has some movie size candies, as well as a few small "toy's". I know this year it has a nerf gun, a walllet, a small flashlight, and some mini sharpies. Things like that.

Dh's always has razor refills, usually cologne, puzzle books, and slim jim's. I usually have razor refills, puzzle books/magazine, earrings/necklace (nothing expensive- more like from Claire's), pens/higlighters for work.

We usually do stockings about 1/2 way through the gift opening. Now that DS is older (almost 14) we tend to do about 1/2 the gifts, stockings, eat breakfast, make phone calls, then the other 1/2 of the gifts. DH and I open gifts inbetween DS. We really try to make the morning last as long as possible.

Also, we've never had the let us sleep until a certain time issue, well okay, we have but it's always been set for me. DS has never been up before me on Christmas morning, ever. I am usually too excited. Each year dh tells me to let us all sleep until 7am, then we can get up. Even as an adult/mom I'm usually laying in bed for what seems like forever in the morning waiting until 7am so I can wake up dh and ds.