Is it only me who doesn't do Christmas Stockings for their children?

bluenose1

I have always just wrapped up their presents (main and small) and left in the Lounge from Father Christmas.
Just wondering if this is a newish thing. I am from Liverpool and not sure if it regional or if I am totally not with it?

samphe

bluenose1 wrote: »

I have always just wrapped up their presents (main and small) and left in the Lounge from Father Christmas.
Just wondering if this is a newish thing. I am from Liverpool and not sure if it regional or if I am totally not with it?

Yep, you're definately not with it! :rotfl:

Only kidding. It's just something that we've always done and I had as a kid when I was growing up.

kayandy_2

My mum stopped doing me and my sister stockings when we were in high school so I was about 13 now she just wraps them all up but me and my sister do each other a stocking now and have done since mum stopped doing them!! And my auntie just fills her boys stockings up with sweets so your not alone!!

Murtle

We had stockings and main pressies, but they were all in the lounge and we had to wait until everyone was up before going to open them...this was also because my parents used to put all christmas decorations up after we had gone to bed on christmas eve so was a huge surprise.

We still have stockings but we don't have to wait till everyone is up as we aren't always at Mom's house anymore.

Scorpio_girlie

Don't worry - it's not just you!!

My son is 4 and we have not done a stocking at all. He has a Santa Sack that he hangs up in his bedroom on Christmas Eve. Father Christmas fills that and leaves some more as well, normally!!! However, not sure that Father Christmas has got much money this year, so it may be a little less!

SG
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samcantcope

I think everyone has their own traditions, we do do stockings, which are left on my girls bedroom door, it has the chocolate coins, satsuma, and a few small presents (but no piece of coal LOL), they open these on our bed then we all go downstairs to all the wrapped pressies. :j

This is what happened when I was little and I like to carry on the tradition.

shegirl

I never had a stocking when I was a kid but I always do one for ds with little things like sweets etc in.It's hung on his bedroom door.

Emmarillo

My parents did them for us and I've always done them for my children, but I leave them lined up in the sitting room rather than leaving them on the beds. I do one for my husband, and even the cat has one (new bowl, toy, bag of treats and a couple of little posh tins of food!).

tracey12_2

My brother and I used to hang our stockings on our bedroom door handle on christmas eve and we used to get 50p coin, chocolate coins, an orange and a few small toys each. Then we had all our main presents wrapped under the christmas tree.

I carry on the same tradition with my two children. The stocking is always from father christmas and hung on their bedroom door handles before going to bed on christmas eve and the main presents are from mummy and family and are under the christmas tree in the Lounge.

Tracey

cdsmiler

We always had stockings (or sacks as we got older) from Father Christmas, but all the presents under the tree were from friends and family. Think it made us appreciate the gifts more knowing who they were from (and they appeared slowly from the time the tree was up until Christmas day), but keepign the magic with the stocking/sack suddenly becomming full of presents! I'll be doign the same with DD.

fatblackandwhite

I am 36 and I always had a stocking as a child. I cant remember what was in it though or even if it was just a sock hung up. (I suspect the latter). I also had to leave a shoe out on NYE for Father Time to fill with sweets. My DS has a stocking which I will fill for the first time this year (will only be two) and I am also insisting the OH and I both have stockings although I dont hold out much hope that mine will be filled.