Where do you all get stocking fillers from and what do you spend on each item?

DevilsAdvocate1

building_with_lego wrote: »

I've heard of people doing 'breakfast' in stockings and may steal the idea: cereal bar, tangerine, carton of drink, packed lunch type fruit sweeties etc. Keeps them upstairs a bit longer as they're not so hungry, you see

We put the smallest presents in, tangerine and chocolate coins. I'm stealing the chocolate Santa idea. Oh, and we made the stockings ourselves a couple of years ago so they're fairly compact. :T

I do the breakfast thing. I put in a chocolate croissant (I get a bag of pre-wrapped ones and then put christmas stickers on the wrapping). My kids are obsessed with pop but don't get it very often, so I put a can of Coke or Dr. Pepper. Sometimes I have bought the small individual boxes of cereal which take up a lot of space too.

Mine all like hot chocolate and Poundland often has a snowman container filled with marshmallows. This takes up quite a lot of space and I put in some sachets of hot chocolate too. One year I found some Old Fashioned Lemonade which had been massively reduced as its normally expensive.

I also try to get the free Lego from the newpaper. All you need is so many coupons which you send off with £5 and it is posted out to you.

Sadly, my children's stockings are quite big, but I can usually do them cheaply this way.

I will look into The Book People as well. At the top I normally put a small cuddly toy and a christmas magazine.

HTH.

Bumpmakesfour

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

No I think a tenner for a stocking is about right.

Phew Last year my very annoying son did a total no sleep night despite sleep meds.He was still merrily singing jingle bells to himself at half past midnight when we went to bed...trying to hang stocking near beds of awake kids not easy:p Then he must have decided to check his stocking just before 2am,woke both his sisters up and a very bleary eyed hubby and me had three hyper kids eating smarties and ripping open presents at the bottom of our bed.There was NO hope of getting them back to sleep and we were downstairs by 5am.So we spent the day exhausted,had booked a very expensive xmas lunch at our fave country pub that we all yawned through and the cranky knackered kids were trying to strangle each other by 6pm :rotfl:
Need a plan B for stocking placement this year!!!!:p

skylight

I handmade our stockings a few years ago so they are on the smaller side!

Hawkins Bazaar is great here too. Plus chocolate/sweets (Jelly beans from Amazon this year!) and books. Plus the stuff that Father Christmas brings and if his stuff is too big for the stocking, he leaves the full stocking on the present(s) he has bought.

Anything under the tree is from Mummy and family.

CH27

Maximum of £10 for a stocking.
Son is 16.
I fill his with chocolate or sweets & some golf related niknaks ie tees & balls.

Emmarillo

Father Christmas leaves stockings downstairs in our house, because I am a light sleeper and I don't want him waking me up by going upstairs. Actually my children are too old to believe now, sadly, but the stockings remain downstairs.

I think it's far easier to do a stocking for a girl than a boy. I probably spend £25 each on them, but thats all they have from my husband and I on the day (we go to my parents, and they have presents from them and the rest of the family on Christmas day, then we have a treasure hunt at home on Boxing day). I put in things like fluffy socks, knickers, gloves, scarf, toiletry bits bought in Boots 75% off sale, a couple of things from Lush, bits of makeup (from poundland or cheap brands in Superdrug), gel pens and notebook, an annual, sweets and chocolate, a magazine and this year i've got lovely coin purses from Accessorize (70% off sale).

I really enjoy doing the stockings - it's easily my favourite part of Christmas. I buy bits all year so it doesn't feel like i'm spending much.

As other people have said for a boy, socks, comic, annual, match attax cards (if he's into them), a dvd- not a chart one,but there are really good ones for just a few pounds on Amazon. Aldi do delicious chocolate reindeer, a bit like the lindt ones but much cheaper. Top Trumps.

mummyroysof3

i must have small stockings for mine...which i think is a good thing

i aim for 5 things in stocking and a peice of fruit and i also take them a fruit shoot up so we can try to have a little longer upstairs before getting up

JBD

I put mainly sweets with a couple of little presents. The presents are just little bits, under a fiver. They have their stockings upstairs and can open them when they wake up. They have to wait until their Dad [my ex] arrives to open their main presents so it keeps them happy for a little while.

Bumpmakesfour

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

i must have small stockings for mine...which i think is a good thing

I blame nanny who bought them a bloomin SACK each with their names on...sometimes I see the nice small stockings and am tempted to "lose" the sacks,but that'd be mean:p

CH27

Bumpmakesfour wrote: »

I blame nanny who bought them a bloomin SACK each with their names on...sometimes I see the nice small stockings and am tempted to "lose" the sacks,but that'd be mean:p

Send the sacks back to nanny & suggest she keeps them at her house & fills them ready for when the children arrive on xmas day:rotfl:

Bumpmakesfour

CH27 wrote: »

Send the sacks back to nanny & suggest she keeps them at her house & fills them ready for when the children arrive on xmas day:rotfl:

LOL!Great idea..but she comes to us

I bought three xmas cuddly toys in the tescos sales that I forgot(only two weeks ago~pregnancy brain!!)..a snowman,penguin and a santa..so that'll fill them up a bit more.