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

jjblondie

My childhood stocking was tiny and fit a satsuma, hula hoops (we weren't normally allowed sweets or crisps etc) and a notepad and pencil or something of that ilk. Mind you, a satsuma and hula hoops was never the most pleasant of breakfasts :-D

bigmomma051204

That Tickseed website is great! Placed a little order because its only £2 p&p for an order under £10 which i think is actually okay-ish for quite a small site! Usually sites like that charge about £3.95 for delivery which puts me off!

So, thanks for that link

building_with_lego

I ordered a few bits from Tickseed just after the link was posted; had a phonecall from them at teatime as one of my items is OOS until next week. He let me know that they're putting lots of new things on the site in the next couple of weeks too, so I'll be keeping an eye out. Lovely things, not the usual either.

rosie-lee

Just wondering, how many presents under the tree, people tend to do for kids.

Mine are 5 & 10, I usually do a stocking and then a sack downstairs. Things will have to be scaled back this year, how many pressies is a nice amount do you think?

Lunar_Eclipse

rosie-lee wrote: »

Just wondering, how many presents under the tree, people tend to do for kids.

Mine are 5 & 10, I usually do a stocking and then a sack downstairs. Things will have to be scaled back this year, how many pressies is a nice amount do you think?

We do one gift plus a stocking from Santa and three gifts from us (to represent frankincense, gold & myrrh.)

I really like the 3 gifts cap, but have been known to wrap up a bundle of books into one gift to keep with this Xmas theme.

joolesw1972

I'm 39 and still get a stocking if we stay at Mum's on Christmas eve! It's one of my Mum's slipper socks, it used to be one my Nana knitted but that went a good few years ago! We always get a satsuma, choc coins, a pen or pencil, small note book, lip salve and a mini hand cream or face mask. I love it!

The stocking was always left outside our door as children (as I've always been a poor sleeper!) we were allowed to open it in our room once we were awake but would be given a time, about 7am I think that we were allowed to go into Mum and Dad's room - we weren't allowed to set foot in the lounge until the kettle had boiled, they both had a cuppa in their hand and the camera was ready!

I've had some good stocking fillers from halfcost and the 95p store online

chanie

rosie-lee wrote: »

Just wondering, how many presents under the tree, people tend to do for kids.

Mine are 5 & 10, I usually do a stocking and then a sack downstairs. Things will have to be scaled back this year, how many pressies is a nice amount do you think?

I think it depends on how much you are going to spend. If its a big prezzie, then I'd say one, but if you ae going to get a couple of smaller ones, I'd say 3-5. But don't forget, the children will probably get presents from other people as well.

victory

I don't do so much how many pressies rather more we have a x amount to spend divided by the 4 of us and whatever we get from that gets wrapped up, if I have books they go in one at a time, everything is individually wrapped so as long as the amount is strictly followed in ££ then they could have masses or just a few, the older they get the more expensive the presents are and the less they have to unwrap:D

RazWaz

Do you have a Home Bargain near you? The ones around me all sell lots of branded toys but very cheep. Picked up some 500 piece Harry Potter glow in the dark jigsaw puzzles for £2 each last week.

bigmomma051204

Another present related pondering.....

My little boy tends to only get the presents we are buying him on christmas day - this is because we visit both sets of grandparents on boxing day and they, of course, like to give him his pressies then which i understand totally. (Though, when i was young, i always had ALL presents on christmas day from grandparents as my parents refused point blank to do any visiting on xmas day.. so had loads to open which made it very exciting lol!)
So i kind of always feel i have to buy quite a lot of pressies to go under the tree for my little boy as otherwise, he would only have a couple!
Also, all other relatives who buy for my little boy tend to give the presents to my mum as they see her (we live a little way away)... so she decided last year that she wanted my little boy to open ALL those presents at her house too and refused to let me have them to put under our tree. Consequently, despite me buying a couple of extra ones for him at last minute (lol), it still looked pretty bare and empty under the tree! Now i find this a bit cr*p - call me jealous lol but i kind of want our little boy to enjoy christmas day with us and have loads to open etc rather than having to wait until boxing day then be given TONS!! He even said last year that he prefers boxing day at grannies to christmas day at ours cos there are more pressies lol! :cool: Am i silly to feel like i want him to enjoy christmas with his mum and dad the most??