What’s in your Christmas stocking?

[Boopuff]

im curious how other families do their stocking traditions. My family tradition is stockings are opened any time (usually when people wake up first thing they open). I like to put small gifts, ornaments, candy in the sock. when my kids were little, some small toys (kept them occupied until the big gift opening)

 

[LuvOrlando]

Some candy and small trinkets, started adding a bag of popcorn that sits under the stockings when the kids were teens.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

Nothing. We don’t exchange gifts anymore so I don’t bother hanging ours up.

 

[Ms.Minnie]

As a child I didn't get a stocking so as an adult I wanted my children to have them. I have continued that tradition to my now adult children, their spouses and children. For the adults they get some candy, Disney Christmas ornaments, tooth brushes, tooth paste, grill lighter for the boys, cute Christmas kitchen gadgets for the girls, gift cards, and card with money which is basically the adult kids gift. For the grandchildren, candy, small toys, Disney Christmas ornament, jewelry item for the girls, vbucks gift cards for some who use them, tooth brushes and tooth paste, and this year they will also get a card with money since we have cut back on the amount of items we are placing under the tree.

 

[sk!mom]

It’s different from year to year. The past couple of years, DH and I have avidly checked out GMADeals and ViewYourDeal. We’ve ordered throughout the year.

For everyone this year- Bombas. For DD, make up erasers, face roller, small Volcano candle. For DH and DSIL, a knife sharpener. For DSIL, Claws for grilling. For DS, boxer briefs and a portable
Phone charger.

This will be the last year that I do a stocking for DD and DSIL. They recently moved back here and we are going to their house Xmas morning where they have their own stockings.

i wouldn’t fill them this year except, I bought stuff before we had another plan shift.

 

[ronandannette]

No stockings for DH or me; I still do one for DS even though he's an adult now. It's a huge thing that a dear person made him when he was little and our tree wouldn't look right without it underneath. If there's one special gift we're giving him on a particular year that fits in there, that's where I put it and fill the rest of it with more mundane things like the requisite socks and underwear. I think DS actually likes those the best. At age 25, he's never in his life had to buy himself a pair of either. For the record, when DS finally moves on in life, we'll discontinue the stocking altogether and send it off with him as a keepsake.

 

[Kirby]

We didn't do stockings when I was a child but like a previous poster, I wanted to start it with our children. My sister makes all the family stockings so my kids will always have a stocking here at our house until we can't do it anymore.

I like to go to Christmas markets to find that odd item to add to the stockings. Also, I look for things when I go on trips.

I always put Chapstick in them. This year DH is getting Camel Jerky. It's actually really good. DS is getting a soup bowl holder with his college logo on it and a mask. DS's fiance is getting a soup bowl holder also with her favorite baseball team's logo, Harry Potter bookmark magnets, a HP notepad and a mask. DD is getting tape since she is always using mine and a Suduku book, GK's are getting a coloring book and a kaleidoscope. I usually add a gift card but this year I'm putting cash in instead. I'll put a few other things in also. It's fun too because everyone adds to each others stockings. The GK's think Santa puts everything in so the others have to be sneaky.

One year my kids filled up my stocking with coal and small water bottles.

 

[DisneyHardin]

DH and I don't do stockings for each other, but my Dad/Stepmom do them for us and my siblings. They put candy, chapstick, lotion, mini bottles of booze, socks, etc in them.

 

[NAB]

We do stockings but didn’t get them as kids. My parents only got stockings and were happy to get oranges and nuts in theirs.

I used to put small things like hair stuff for daughter, Pokémon cards for son. Now that they are 21 and 24 they get candy that is out for Christmas. It’s getting expensive my husband and I said next year we will go get chocolate bars from the dollar store….lol

 

[Kitty 34]

DH and I used to have those giant stockings which were a lot of fun. But we stopped doing those a few years back. So no stocking gifts for us.

 

[TwoMisfits]

This year, it's a candy/hot chocolate fiesta...

My kids will have 2 small boxes (different flavors) of Christmas Peeps, Trader Joe's snowman hot chocolate bombs, Trader Joe's spoon hot chocolates, and some Trader Joe's chocolates.

Since I can't have any of that, except the Peeps, my stocking will have the Peeps with a jar of Moreno cherries and a jar of vegan coconut caramel...(I already have dairy free hot chocolate on my shelf).

So, we have the makings of extravagant cocoa, but I spent about $10/stocking all in...

 

[loves to dive]

I have stockings hung on the chimney for Hubby, my adult son, our dog and me. We usually just put gag gifts in them, silly things like pez dispensers and such. I need to add two more this year (which I will get next week at WDW) for my son's SO and their daughter. Hubby and I don't exchange gifts and I'm pretty sure my son and family won't be coming over on Christmas so I probably won't put anything in theirs this year. The dog will get some toys in hers.

When I was growing up there was always fruit and nuts and one of those huge candy canes in ours. We opened them when we opened presents on Christmas morning.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

im curious how other families do their stocking traditions. My family tradition is stockings are opened any time (usually when people wake up first thing they open). I like to put small gifts, ornaments, candy in the sock. when my kids were little, some small toys (kept them occupied until the big gift opening)

Santa learned early on to leave the stockings in the bedrooms after filling. The kids always got to get into their stockings, and open any gifts inside; and then they had to stay in their room until we were awake. Usually I was up before them, making cinnamon or orange rolls and coffee; so once I heard them making noise, I'd go in and send them to wake up DH.

We always put a piece of fruit in the toe of each stocking (mandarin oranges for DS; red apples for DD#1, either red or green apples for DD#2; green apples for DH and whatever is left for me); whole nuts; candy (Kisses, Hershey's miniature candy bars; York patties; Reese's minis,+ those plastic canes with things like Sixlets or Hersheyettes or Reese's Pieces in them; a small gift or two (things like Barbie shoes, Hot Wheels, lotions, fancy electronic kid toothbrushes, etc); and a candy cane (Santa brings those, and leaves them on the tree and in the stockings)..

This year, Santa is bringing the adults mini stockings, with a couple mini alcohols, a couple lottery tickets and a few pieces of candy. DGS#2 is getting the usual stuff (above).

 

[design_mom]

We do stockings on Christmas morning. We have family come over in the morning. "Gifts" wait till everyone gets here, but stockings can be open as soon as our family is up. The stocking stuffers are a mixture of practical and fun. There's usually something you need (like socks or underwear), along with some more fun stuff and rounded out with candy and small gift cards. My daughter's has nail polish, makeup brushes, a cute little stuffed animal, etc. I had intended to put some of her favorite gel pens in it, too... but I had planned to get a package of 6, but scored a package of 20 for the same price on Cyber Monday. I was like "sweet! What a deal!" and only realized after I ordered it that the 20-pack won't fit in the stocking! So it got wrapped instead. This is similar to how it was when I grew up.

My husband's family does their stockings on St. Nicholas Day and do not do stockings for Christmas. (In my family, St. Nicholas fills our shoes with candy on St. Nicholas Day. Santa fills stockings for Christmas.)

 

[DisneyGrammyT]

We carried on our stocking tradition even when the kids grew up and moved out. I like to get the usual treats of candy and lottery tickets , the usual deodorant or toothpaste and toothbrushes, but also something funny. I got all the guys in our family a bib to wear during dinner. A lot of them are dribblers LOL. Each with a different saying on them like, This he is not a bib, my Cape is on backwards LOL. That one was for our Batman fan. Or give strange foods to try. Great to start Christmas off with a few laughs!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

My aunt does a stocking for each of her 7 kids, their kids, and her 6 great-grandchildren. Plus me. It's always a bunch of candy and a scratch-off.

One Christmas when I was little I came downstairs, and my baby sister was in my stocking.

 

[cvjw]

My boys love their stocking the most, but I tend to go overboard on them. And stocking isn’t the correct word - they have so much stuff that it is in a giant sized reusable Christmas shopping bag. I fill it to overflowing with so much stuff - everything from money, gift cards, a little candy and then mostly food items and interesting things from Costco. I am only giving the boys mostly money this year, so opening their stockings will be the highlight of Christmas morning.

 

[indimom]

I enjoy filling stockings. It varies alot. Always some sort of holiday treat: chocolate, specialty cocoa mixes or coffee mixers, mini flavored liquors, etc. It's usually where I put the gift cards (even if it's their primary gift and a larger card) just because it's a safe place to keep those tiny lil things. Fancy Socks. Scarves/Gloves. Small electronics accessories like pop sockets or earpod case or whatever. Makeup/Jewlery/Lotion/Perfume/Cologne/Similar. Notepads/Pens/Erasers. Ornaments. Really anthing goes if it will fit in the sock.

 

[neverlandsky]

We keep it 100% candy. We will be retiring stockings after youngest is 18.

 

[Sinder]

I fill them with practical but fun things.