Stockings for adult children

[Eeyore98]

My mother still does stocking for me, my sibs, all our spouses, herself, my niece and nephew, and the five dogs we all have between us! FOURTEEN stockings in total!

Now, she does mostly fill them up with basics, like a pack of flossers, new toothbrush, etc. She will get a couple packages of socks and divide them up between everyone. Everybody gets an apple or orange in the toe of their stocking, and they're topped off at the top with small $ gift cards for gas, scratchers tickets, things like that. For the pets, she will get big packages of a few different kinds of dog treats and divide them up into smaller bags. She just really likes to do stockings (and, honestly, I think she likes the way her mantle looks totally covered in them!).

This is our Christmas a couple of years ago:

That's stockings for DH, me, and 3 kids (18, 21, & 22 at the time). And Santa still puts stuff in them.

Holy moly, those are some huge stockings! A little kid could hide in one!

 

[crz4mm2]

I kept doing them for a couple years or so after DS got married, but then it just got too difficult to think of things to put in them. Stockings for the grandkids are so much easier. I haven't done them for the adults in several years now.

IF people were coming HERE to my house, it would be a no brainer.
And everyone that LIVES here gets one. I just don't think I am going to fill stockings and tote them other places.

Thanks all. Nice that a lot of you still get stockings from parents.

 

[diznee25]

I will do stockings for my children, and their future spouses and children til the day I die. It is one of my favorite things. Although, I may have to purchase smaller stockings. I ordered ours online and they are HUGE!!! It takes a lot to fill them up.

I still remember when my mom stopped doing stockings. She told me it was getting too expensive, and she wasn't going to do them anymore. I understood, but stockings were one of my favorite things about Christmas. I really missed them, and love doing them for my kids.

This is why I continued the stockings as well. Except minus the kids and add dogs. Growing up I always remember the stockings to be overfilling, but DH and I would go broke trying to fill our stockings to the brim! We buy each other maybe $50 worth of stocking stuffers. That's equals a few items, maybe a DVD and gift card....and Christmas candy.

diznee25

 

[Swimnoid]

Yep! Stockings are my favorite part. I could do without the rest of the presents.

DMIL has a whole wall of all the family stockings including her 4 kids, their spouses and all the grandkids and now their spouses!. It is quite a showpiece. She still puts stuff in them but not much...toothbrushes, pens etc. After I was around long enough to see this wall start growing and noticing her stocking was always empty I got all the daughters/DILs to get something special to put in hers too.

At my house we all pitch in for stocking stuff. It is almost a tradition for all of us to go out a couple of nights before Christmas eve and go stocking shopping at the same time....same store, split up and avoid each other! DD's BF also gets one and so does the dog! and we get silly stuff as well as useful stuff. Little cans of playdoh, tiny puzzles, lego sets etc.

 

[js]

Do you do stockings for your adult children? If not, when did you stop?

My mother (karensi) did stockings for all of us (3 children) and continued until we were adults. She stopped doing our stockings when we had children and instead of us getting the stocking our children do. My brother did not have any kids and he always still got a stocking and my sil would make fun of him every year. She use to wrap each "gift" in the stocking too (even if it was a chapstick) but that stopped about 10 years or so ago.

 

[wvjules]

I love stockings! DBF's parents fill them for everone, including DD and I, and my parents also fill them for us too.

They are usually filled with an orange (I put oranges in ours), candy, jewerly, water bottles, socks, cheaper items, etc.

When you are all done unwrapping the presents under the tree and you think you are done then you realize STOCKINGS still need to be opened. They are like a Christmas 'bonus'. lol

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I'm 47 and still get a stocking when I get to my parents' house Christmas Day. They do stockings for me, all my brothers, our spouses, and children. I think they are nuts, but it sure is a sweet tradition.

At home, Santa still comes to bring stocking stuffers to both my teens, but DW and I must be bad because we never get anything.

 

[sbell111]

I'm thinking that it's just those people who live in the house, regardless of age. Otherwise, it would get too confusing for Santa.

 

[LBIJim]

We stopped the stocking bit when my daughter was in her early teens. Don't remember the reason why, and we don't miss them. We DO have stockings with our names written in glitter on them, but they're just for decoration.

Jim

 

[ICF]

Growing up, once a kid moved out of the house on their own they no longer had a stocking at the house.

Of course, none of us ever went back there for Christmas morning either.

We still got gifts from my parents whenever we celebrated Christmas together, but it was always either later in the day on Christmas or a few days later depending on how schedules worked out.