Men & Women: Please don't put that in my Christmas Sock

[GOOFY4DONALD]

[*]Anything X rated
[*]Weight loss book or exercise videos unless I specifically asked for it. Otherwise, I'd take it as a not-too-subtle hint that I'm getting too fat

Nothing says the true meaning of Christmas like porn . I hope my MIL doesn't read this or she will get me an exercise video. If you have read my previos post (about the sweatshirt) My MIL would purchase an exercise video entitled "Fat Chicks Need Exercise Too" . Oh my MIl what would I ever do without her...Hmmmmm

 

[KarenAylwood]

I don't need razors, deoderant and stuff either... nothing says Merry Christmas like a Bic razor!

AAA membership-- thats not a gifty item.

This is what I ask for every year!

I always ask for toiletries. I guess I'm one of those people that want things I can use... and have you SEEN the prices of razor refills?? Get me a 10 pack of those things and I'll love you forever!

I've gotten my AAA membership in my stocking for the past 8 years... and I'm hoping for a 9th


The only things I can specifically remember not liking were Yankee Candle votives in very random scents... like ones I don't normally burn, and only one of each.

 

[jckdisneybound]

Now I LOVE getting the toiletries in my stocking, new tooth brush, razors, shave gel. One year while growing up my Mom didn't buy the toothbrushes, my brother and I were so disappointed.

What I don't like, cheap chocolate. That's my biggie. I'd take the scratch tickets, a good book etch.

 

[tink2dw]

When I was a kid you got an orange in the toe of your stocking, it hearkened back to the time when citrus fruit was very hard to get and it was expensive,
then you got in the shell mixed nuts, and ribbon Christmas candies and 1 chocolate cherry wrapped in gold foil, and small games, the paddle and ball, a jump rope, a slinky, silly puddy, the dime store type stuff.

My favorite year for stocking giving was the year I forgot to buy any candy, so I ran down to our little village stores and everything was closed. The only store open was a sewing store/craft store that had stocked a few Christmas items, I got a fancy solar calculator that had a closing cover. This was about year 2 of solar calculators it looked very fancy, I got it for Dh, got a special my little pony with a baby with the brush and hair rollers and a pretend curling iron, and for my stocking I found a hand held game of 21, that still rides in my purse, I get funny looks when it gets bumped and starts playing it's music!!

 

[Youarehere]

female..

an IOU!! puuuulease.. just get me some bubble gum or something.. Id even take a tampon

An IOU!! Who does that? Unless he mail ordered your stocking and it was late shipping??

 

[Youarehere]

Female

Dh only did my stocking the first year we were married. It was FILLED with candy. After that first year, he decided to pay my mom for whatever she picked up and then she wraps it and gives it to him w/the total!!! It's much better! However, every year there is a *joke* gift in there. Last year's was a flute....

MIL gave me a used wallet w/a 20.00 bill in it one year....

A flute? Is there a private joke there or is your family really strange, cause I don't get it?

Have you learned to play it?

ETA: Maybe you can give SueinBoston some advice!

 

[WendyisDarling]

When I was a kid you got an orange in the toe of your stocking, it hearkened back to the time when citrus fruit was very hard to get and it was expensive,
then you got in the shell mixed nuts, and ribbon Christmas candies and 1 chocolate cherry wrapped in gold foil, and small games, the paddle and ball, a jump rope, a slinky, silly puddy, the dime store type stuff...

One year in my childhood we had Christmas morning at my grandparents. They made up our stockings as they must have for their kids (my mom). I received an orange (the tradition was lost on me at the time), some in the shell nuts (I knew they had these in a bowl in the living room) and some chocolates (identical to those that were given at church the Sunday before). No trinkets. I thought it was odd. I wasn't a spoiled a kid by any means, so I didn't really care. But, I do remember it thirty years later.

Another mom with no stocking here. I have been inspired by other posts to make stockings now for my mom and MIL, who are also in the Moms w/o stockings club. They'll be really surprised.

 

[wendy46001]

Is he a dentist at least?

nope he's a navy pilot
if he was a dentist i would have tried to understand

 

[princesspwrhr]

Another mom w/o a stocking at home.......

My MIL does 'stockings' at her house, but really she just tosses a grocery sack of stuff to people instead of putting it in the stockings.

Things normally in there that make you scratch your head

• valentines candy - no not the stuff that's currently on sale at Christmas - the stuff that was on clearance in Feb of the same calendar year, evidence by the white coating on cheap chocolate, 'one-ness' of gummy type candy and 'use by' date on some things with a Dec or Jan date
• dollar store ceramic figures and trinkets - I am NOT a trinket or clutter person and she knows this!
• cheap chemical laden over frangrenced or barely frangrenced under the chemical smell bath products that she knows I can't use
• clearanced scent products from B&BW - I have to give her credit for trying here. She knows what scents I don't like and she always gets those, but at least she tries to get the good stuff
• cheap kid flavored lip balm
• leftover samples from whatever she's recently been testing (she does those sample things at the supermarkets for cash)

Now, dh's stocking/grocery sack is usually awesome. He gets good chocolate, a small hickory farms meat/cheese thing (he likes, I don't, but still...) some coffee, possibly razor refills for his actual razor, a mini mag light one year........ worst thing he gets in his stocking is a cheap 'grooming kit' you know the kind - tweezers barely work, nail clippers aren't sharp etc.

The kids are usually junk also - they get the almost expired valentine candy, cheap dollar store jewelry that breaks in an hour or is nickle that they're allergic to, nasty kid flavored lip balm (tastes more like vasoline)

I shouldn't complain. For some reason the effort isn't there. It's been 10 years and I've come to a place where I feel nuetral about it. Soon it will be a joke. She still gets my oldest the same stuff my younger neice likes (Which my oldest doesn't), she gets my younger 2 baby stuff, and telling her and my SMIL what the kids are into is a waste of breathe - well a waste of email this year since that's how they asked for the kids interests.

 

[bettyann29]

An IOU!! Who does that? Unless he mail ordered your stocking and it was late shipping??

Nope he put a note in my stocking.. saying IOU.. on top of that he gave me a cd that he had already bought me a month before Christmas..

 

[branv]

female..

an IOU!! puuuulease.. just get me some bubble gum or something.. Id even take a tampon

My hand to the sky, I first misread this as an IUD.

Uuuuuhhh...what?! And just how did they manage to sneak that gift in?

See what kind of rumors speed-reading causes?

 

[Cyntillations]

Wow, after reading some of the 'horror stories', I know how lucky we are that some thought actually goes into Christmas here, and there are no spiteful 'gifts'.

 

[snowman]

I hate getting fruit in my Christmas stocking.

Otherwise, its all fun, useless stuff....though last year I was the only one who got a broken eyeball. To explain - everybody got a rubber eyeball in their stocking last year. They lit up if you tapped them on the table (sorta like the light up ice cubes). Well my eyeball didn't work. I was crushed.

Christmas stockings for us are just meant to be useless fun. We give each boy $20.00 and head to Dollar Tree. I've gotten Fart Bags, Silly String and whoopie cushions because the boys thought they would be funny. Carl always picks out a pink hat for Dustin (last year it was hot pink AND furry).

 

[ZPT1022]

nope he's a navy pilot
if he was a dentist i would have tried to understand

now that's just weird then

 

[pamlet]

Christmas stockings for us are just meant to be useless fun. We give each boy $20.00 and head to Dollar Tree. I've gotten Fart Bags, Silly String and whoopie cushions because the boys thought they would be funny. Carl always picks out a pink hat for Dustin (last year it was hot pink AND furry).

We did that one year ... and it was SO MUCH fun... we all went together into the store - but to PROMISE ... NO PEEKING... 20 to split between 3 other people (and 3 dogs and a cat) ...

Somehow hubby, ds1 AND ds2 each got me the exact same angel figurine (even though they had multiple colors .. I got a blue one from each of them) .. and two Santa's in BLUE outfits (was kinda weird -as we are NOT police officers in our family... )

hmmm maybe we'll do the same thing this year ... we really DID have fun that year .. of course I supplied the candy ... real of course ... I always make sure everyones favorites are there .. and I always get each of the boys a lifesaver book - that's a hold over from when I was a kid - my aunt always gave us each a lifesaver book and 5 or 10 dollars...

 

[uratoon]

My MIL likes to buy me clothes and undies that are about 10 sizes (not kidding) too big. This one shirt looked like it was out of a sitcom. It had cats and a Christmas tree a and big bells that jingled. It looked like my whole family and a few orphans could have called it home. When I thanked her she said that if it is too small she can get me a larger size....did I forget to mention that this woman hates me?

My MIL hates me also!! Last year she got me a jacket that was a size 5X. Now granted I am a large girl, (size XL) when we got home I put it on to show DH and he stood there like 'What?' is it too big? Now come on, DH and I could have both wore it at the same time! I think I will wear it to her house this year.

 

[Green Tea]

Dear MIL, please do not give my husband a portable vibrator in his stocking again.


I hate to leave that hanging out there, but honestly, what more can I say. It left both dh and I speechless. With dh, that isn't saying a lot. WIth me- well, it takes quite an 'electrifying' gift to leave me speechless.

 

[ZPT1022]

Dear MIL, please do not give my husband a portable vibrator in his stocking again.


I hate to leave that hanging out there, but honestly, what more can I say. It left both dh and I speechless. With dh, that isn't saying a lot. WIth me- well, it takes quite an 'electrifying' gift to leave me speechless.

Did she know what it was or was it one of those deals where they have it labeled "stress reliever" or "massager" or something

 

[mickeyluv'r]

I'm one who doesn't get anything unless I put it there, and that is too depressing, so I don't bother....We haven't done stocking gifts the last few years

I used to put mostly practical gifts in DH's - underwear, socks, that sort of thing - anything too small to be worth wrapping. We have a bad habit of buying stuff for us while we're shopping. Ya' know, things we actually need and happen to find on sale.

Then when we'd open them we'd make a joke of it and pretend like they were things we really wanted.

 

[Green Tea]

Dear MIL: Please do not give me cheap clearance tee shirt from Penny's, size extra large, with kitties on it. I wear a size 0 or 2, no kitties, no screen prints. I like Ann Taylor and Talbots if you care. And still, please no vibrators for the husband this yeaar.