Stocking fillers for teenage boys

JayneH_3

Key ring idea is brilliant, I'll have to try and locate a porchse one! Also somebody in another thread recommended https://www.play.com, they had loads of joke pressies like shocking pens etc.

Savvy_Sue

Yep - the 'respectable' lads mags, condoms, keyring for Jaguar - or whatever make of car he likes - from main dealers, accessory range.... & a couple of lottery scratch cards - but say you want 1/2 of everything over £1,000,000!!

I can't help feeling life would be soooo much easier if I had 'normal' teenagers. Well, on the Christmas stocking filling front, anyway. But the only mags they're interested in are Linux computer geek ones, and they buy their own so as to get the right thing (although I shall offer them a subscription for 2005). The eldest is learning to drive but doesn't even know what he's learning to drive in: sees a car as a box with a wheel at each corner which gets you from A to B. I suppose if I were prepared to buy a scratch card they might do the scratching ... Oh, and both hate music, never listen to it.

On the other hand, even without offering condoms, I don't think they're likely to get a girl pregnant in the next few years ... and the youngest, not quite a teenager yet, looks terrifyingly 'normal', drives us all potty with his music tho' not yet quite into girls!

Spendless

BHS often stocks stocking fillers from £1. One of those joke cans which is really for saving money?

Greenstuff_2

I havent got the hang (!) of the stocking thing quite yet but am getting there, I never had one as a kid so never really thought about it.
Mum in law had 3 boys and did stockings for all them, and every year among other things they had a bottle of Matey bubble bath, a toothbrush and a margarine tub full of pick n mix.
The first year Hubby and I had Xmas together he was so upset at not getting a stocking (ever seen a 6 foot skinhead pout?) that his Mum went and did him one in the new year ::)
Yes I now get him those things every year - including the Matey, and have adopted those as a basis for all stockings, and they go down really well.
I don't do the margarine tub, but buy a pack of tubs from ASDA, they are meant for lunchboxes and are reusable or disposable and come with stickers, perfect for pick n mix.

Greenstuff_2

Oh, nearly forgot, and a bag of gold and silver chocolate coins.

Did you know, why we give coins? Read no further of you really don't care, but St Nicholas was the patron saint of prostitutes.
Maidens used to hang stocking up outside as a sign to 'Gentlemen' that they were for sale.
St. Nick used to put gold and silver coins in their stockings so they didn't have to sell themselves.

Savvy_Sue

Did you know, why we give coins? Read no further of you really don't care, but St Nicholas was the patron saint of prostitutes.
Maidens used to hang stocking up outside as a sign to 'Gentlemen' that they were for sale.
St. Nick used to put gold and silver coins in their stockings so they didn't have to sell themselves.

Now I never knew that! Added to my store of useless information.

Now this is possibly the wrong place to put this suggestion, since a) it won't fit in a stocking b) it costs more than £5 and c) you may not wish to encourage gambling, BUT today I saw a Poker set for £5.99 in a shop called BookSales, it is one of those cheapie pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap bookshops which also does arty stuff and stationery, and I'm sure it used to be called something else but I'm not sure what. I think this may turn up in the youngest's parcel ...

Savvy_Sue

The first year Hubby and I had Xmas together he was so upset at not getting a stocking (ever seen a 6 foot skinhead pout?) that his Mum went and did him one in the new year ::)

So had he done one for you? Or did he really think they appeared by magic???

Greenstuff_2

He had done a spanking one for me, bad wife (or girlfriend as was at the time) :-[
Including a toothbrush and a bottle of Matey ;D

I had another thought, lego do little kits, like a car and bits, and Harry Potter.
I know toys R us were doing 3 for 2 Lego kits last year, they might do it again this year and if it includes the smaller kits they would be perfect.

Hubby now also gets nice bottles of beer, the nice ones like Organic and honey ones, I guess if it were older teens they could have alcopops, if that's allowed in your house.

Savvy_Sue

He had done a spanking one for me, bad wife (or girlfriend as was at the time) :-[
Including a toothbrush and a bottle of Matey ;D

Oh dear. That was a pity. And he'd managed it without you suspecting? Well done him. I suppose if it wasn't part of your Christmas culture you wouldn't expect it.

I had another thought, lego do little kits, like a car and bits, and Harry Potter.
I know toys R us were doing 3 for 2 Lego kits last year, they might do it again this year and if it includes the smaller kits they would be perfect.

Hubby now also gets nice bottles of beer, the nice ones like Organic and honey ones, I guess if it were older teens they could have alcopops, if that's allowed in your house.

Oh Lego is a good idea: the youngest still likes some kinds of Lego. And The Entertainer is another place which sometimes has good offers, especially on older kits. But the youngest is also the only son who likes any kind of alcohol, and I'm not putting an alcopop in a 12 year old's stocking! Drunk before dinner, nooooo!

SPL

Gotta have satsumas...or is that just me?

Also might be worth looking at sites like iwantoneofthose.com and firebox.com

They should have some things under a fiver.