What do you put in your christmas stockings?

candie_gill

I have two to make up, one for my other half and one for my little boy who's 2.

Would really appreciate some ideas, i do have most of my sons already including:

*Disney's Dumbo on DVD
*Kinder suprise egg
*Cars art pack
*Small Cars ball
*Crayola, washable markers, crayola pencil crayons, crayola crayons
*Smurfs candy dispenser
*Toy story 3 pretend watch full of sweets
*Small treat size pack of haribo
*choc coins
*Giant santa pen
*candy cane

Also will add a piece of fruit (family tradition) and a chrismas ornament of some sort, usually a snow globe.

skylight

OUr stockings contain whatever they asked Mr C for. Plus chocolates of course. We have small stockings so the kids are encouraged to write and ask for the smaller things rather than bikes etc!!

candie_gill

skylight wrote: »

OUr stockings contain whatever they asked Mr C for. Plus chocolates of course. We have small stockings so the kids are encouraged to write and ask for the smaller things rather than bikes etc!!

We have small ones too Can you imagine trying to stuff a bike in one! DO you do stockings only xmas day then or seperate pressies too?

clay_angel

I always put in socks and pants sounds boring but i choose ones like ben 10.last year i got some ben 10 socks from pound land .my boys thought they were cool

skintbint_2

have always included apple, orange, penny (£2 coin now) a new toothbrush and novelty nail brush for my two and they are teenagers now and for o/h always put a tin of lager!

skylight

candie_gill wrote: »

We have small ones too Can you imagine trying to stuff a bike in one! DO you do stockings only xmas day then or seperate pressies too?

I do seperate pressies too. Everything under the tree is myself and family, whatever is in the stocking is Mr C. But they open them at the same time really. I ask the kids what they would like Mummy to buy then ask them what they would like Mr C to get. Most of the time its too expensive or silly.

L is 9 this year and wants me to get her a Kindle (erm.. no!) and Mr C to get her a dune buggy. (Dinky toy, here I come!)

sleepyme

I always put an orange at the bottom as it's traditional and then loads of little pressies like chocolates, coins, books and small toys.

We always let the kids have them before we open the main presents and while we are doing breakfast so they don't get bored of waiting.

candie_gill

Thanks for the ideas, i put toothbrush and new socks in xmas eve hamper with pjs and a book or xmas dvd and few activities for the day.

We allways got fruit as kids too and a £1coin, we had a giant knee length sock though not a stocking lol

WeeSnowbaby

Added this to my thread subscriptions as I'm looking for stocking filler ideas for my 2 yr old DD

candie_gill

I picked up a couple more fillers for my LO today, one was a sponge bob (his current fav) suprise filled plastic egg and the other cant seem to remember now.. mummy brain fog!

Mrs_Money

My sons (they're all in their twenties now but still like a stocking) like shower gel, (sounds boring but they never seem to need to buy any, the amount they get at Christmas!) Lynx deodourants, little air fresheners for their cars, long tubes of sweets that you can buy at Christmas (they fit up the leg of the stocking!), the giant Quality Street chocolates, a chocolate santa (if I can get one for 99p LOL), socks, boxers (they just never want to spend their own money on these) in the past I've also bought nail clippers, bottle openers, chocolate liquers, big rolls of sellotape, WD40, screen cloths for the car, rolls of Duct tape - Poundland is really my saviour when it comes to buying lots of little things.
I used to always get chocolate money - but it's such awful chocolate now, and they appreciate better stuff now they're grown up, so will have to rethink that! I've also bought (new) stuff from charity shops - best buy was a new pair of M&S black men's socks in a Christmas Tree shaped box for 50p!
Got to start shopping for it now- it takes a long time and much thought to do it cheaply!