Stocking fillers for teenage boys

Savvy_Sue

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

No, not just you. Really hard finding ones which won't get too squishy sometimes, especially as the satsuma has to go in the toe (ie at the bottom) with the chocolate money ...

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

They should have some things under a fiver.

But that means getting organised in time for delivery. I'm still at the 'thinking about it' stage!

Jodun

Santa always used to save up his shiney pennies for our stockings, now he's moved onto shiney pounds.

Savvy_Sue

Santa always used to save up his shiney pennies for our stockings, now he's moved onto shiney pounds.

That's inflation for you

Greenstuff_2

This thread sparked a conversation at the weekend when the inlaws were over.
Mum in law said she did stockings as the Grandparents used to come over for Christmas Dinner and they liked seeing the kids open their presents, so she would do stockings from Father Christmas so they would have something to open when they got up.
She said it was a nightmare putting the things in their stockings in the middle of the night in the dark, so they would put up one stocking and in the morning they would have a completly different one, Hubby said he just thought it was part of Santa's magic!
She said FC used different paper too, it was always that really thin cheap stuff.

Hubby said the stockings were just a brilliant part of Christmas, it didn't matter what was in them, but the fact that every year there was the same sweets, toothbrush (responsible old Santa) and Matey means that Christmas just isnt the same without them.
He said they all used to use the same bubble bath all year that was just ordinary whatever, but to get a bottle of matey that was all his was just great, especially as it was a novely bottle and still remembers some of the ones he had.
Now as the owner of his own business and a grown up and can have whatever he wants in his bath doesnt matter, it's the same excitement when he gets his bottle of novelty Matey!
So now I am a convert and am looking forward to doing stockings, so thanks for this thread and all the groovy ideas.

BTW, aparantly Tesco do the little Lego kits quite cheap, Hubby says any Teenage boy would love a star wars one with a stormtrooper, I think he's hinting ;D

vansboy

£3.49 buys a metre pack of Jaffa cakes, in Somerfields, I've just noticed!!

Or those looooooooooooong Toblerones??

VB

Savvy_Sue

£3.49 buys a metre pack of Jaffa cakes, in Somerfields, I've just noticed!!

Or those looooooooooooong Toblerones??

I trust you've told your stocking filler?

My stockings aren't a metre long ... sorry I'll start that again: the stockings the boys find on their beds on Christmas morning are really just glorified socks, so putting in a metre of Jaffa cakes will be rather taxing, but at least there won't be room for a lot more and one of them is very fond of Jaffa cakes and I think the other two like Toblerones, so that may be my problem solved!

Savvy_Sue

Mum in law said she did stockings as the Grandparents used to come over for Christmas Dinner and they liked seeing the kids open their presents, so she would do stockings from Father Christmas so they would have something to open when they got up.

We used to have pillow cases rather than stockings. I've never told my boys this! AND more presents later. But never anything from Mum and Dad: they were all in the pillow cases.

As we grew older we used to have to have our presents on Christmas Eve, because I roped the whole family in to help with a Christmas dinner for people who'd otherwise be on their own. It meant getting out quite early: big brother and sister were driving minibuses round trying to pick people up, and the rest of us were cooking lunch for 100. No time for presents before that, and we were always completely shattered when we got back. Now the sensible thing might have been to wait until Boxing Day, but one of us (and it wasn't me!) couldn't wait that long, so we had to have them Christmas Eve.

We had problems when my eldest started nursery school. We'd said very little about what happened on the present front at Christmas because that's not the important thing for us, but he was told that when you came downstairs on Christmas Day there would be presents under the Christmas tree. That Christmas we were with the in-laws, and that wasn't what they did! So he came downstairs after demolishing his stocking, and the presents were not where they should have been! Oh woe, oh catastrophe, oh disaster!

She said it was a nightmare putting the things in their stockings in the middle of the night in the dark, so they would put up one stocking and in the morning they would have a completly different one, Hubby said he just thought it was part of Santa's magic!
She said FC used different paper too, it was always that really thin cheap stuff.

Yup, our 'stockings' are actually woolly socks. And the way they are made makes stuffing them a complete nightmare, because there are lots of long strands of wool stretched inside and I keep getting things caught on them. Fortunately we've never had to leave them out beforehand: they just 'appear' on the end of each bed.

When I was young Mother Christmas had usually knitted a jumper or similar for each of us. Only sometimes she hadn't had time to finish them all (there were five of us), so there would be a note from Mother Christmas saying she was sorry she hadn't had time to finish, and perhaps our mother could finish this off for her. And because Mum was usually using the same wool for two or three jumpers she would try to make sure that we never all saw the same piece of knitting at once: if I admired her wool it would be for one of my sisters etc. Complicated or what!

Father Christmas and Rudolph sometimes leave notes for our boys: nowadays it's usually to the effect that it's getting more and more difficult to deliver to boys who don't go to bed when they should!

Also you do realise that those expecting stockings should leave a mince pie and a carrot and a glass of sherry (or whatever you think FC's favourite tipple might be)? We find Rudolph isn't always that hungry so sometimes just leaves a few teeth marks in the carrot ...

And of course we've done all this without ever actually confirming whether or not FC exists ...

He said they all used to use the same bubble bath all year that was just ordinary whatever, but to get a bottle of matey that was all his was just great, especially as it was a novely bottle and still remembers some of the ones he had.

Ah, Matey. Yes, I remember it well. I always go for something appropriate: the youngest got a decanter shaped bottle of port flavoured bubble bath one year because he's the one who tries and likes alcohol. The uncommunicative middle one has had Mr Happy shower gel. Can't remember what the big one got, probably Mr Tickle because you can't tickle him.

I was a bit sorry when M-i-L gave up the stockings: she said it was getting more and more difficult to know what to put in them and she'd rather spend on a decent present for them. But I decided to keep going myself and I quite enjoy it. They don't get identical ones any more: it's not worth it and they're old enough not to fight. But I still try to make them equivalent!

BTW, one year I did one for the M-i-L as a token of appreciation. Had to leave it outside her bedroom door so as not to disturb her. ;D

jat100

Also you do realise that those expecting stockings should leave a mince pie and a carrot and a glass of sherry (or whatever you think FC's favourite tipple might be)? We find Rudolph isn't always that hungry so sometimes just leaves a few teeth marks in the carrot ...

lol. I had to eat half the carrot that my nephew had left out last year (because my brother and his girlfriend don't like raw carrot!) but my brother managed to eat the chocolate mini-roll (what a surprise!). I asked my nephew if he was going to leave Santa some whisky and Rudolph some milk. He told me that Santa has to have lemonade or water because he wasn't allowed to drink and drive! My brother also had a great idea of putting some white powder (talc or something like that) on the carpet near the fireplace and putting bootprints in it. He then told my nephew that Father Christmas must have brought some snow with him when he visited. ;D

JayneH_3

Just to show how mature teenagers are, I'm also looking for some spongebob squarepants items such as soap or bubblebath! In our house he's a cult figure :P

Greenstuff_2

lol.  I had to eat half the carrot that my nephew had left out last year (because my brother and his girlfriend don't like raw carrot!) but my brother managed to eat the chocolate mini-roll (what a surprise!).  I asked my nephew if he was going to leave Santa some whisky and Rudolph some milk.  He told me that Santa has to have lemonade or water because he wasn't allowed to drink and drive!  My brother also had a great idea of putting some white powder (talc or something like that) on the carpet near the fireplace and putting bootprints in it.  He then told my nephew that Father Christmas must have brought some snow with him when he visited.   ;D

PMSL!!!

I have just realised what a deprived child I was. :-[