What's in your stocking?
 

Okay - so in the past 11 years that Mr. AXO & I have been dating/married, I have come to learn that I must have led a very spoiled life as a child. One year, I got some gum and candy in my stocking from Mr. AXO -- I was like "WTH is this?" See - at my parent's house growing up, your stocking wasn't like the "BIG" Christmas gift, but it was the totally "not needed but definitely wanted" type stuff. We always got watches, jewelry, concert tickets, etc. in our stockings. Like I said - it wasn't the big gift, but it was a nice finishing touch (yeah - we always checked our stockings last).

I mentioned this at an alum party last week and they were like WTH? :confused: They said that they always got necessities like deoderant, socks, underwear, etc.

So to rip off the Capital One commercial.... What's in your stocking?

The stockings are often times my favorite part about Christmas morning! In my family, when we were little and would wake up VERY early, the rule was we could open our stockings but not any presents until 7am.

Our stockings were more little things, like gum and candy but also cute pens, life savers, socks, toiletries, etc but cute stuff. Fun stuff. Lottery tickets etc.

Now that I am an adult, travel sizes of laundry detergent, hats, christmas ornaments, ice scrapers etc.

I love stockings. There is a rumbling in my family that this will be the last time we exchange gifts which is fine. We are all so blessed and we don't need anything but I am going to propose that we keep the stockings. They simply are way too much fun for me!

The stuff in my stocking was always small inexpensive stuff. A pair of earrings, some cute socks, a candy bar, maybe an ornament, lip gloss, etc.

In our stockings were the traditional oranges, apples, and of course some candy hidden in there by my dad.

Jewelry? Maybe the candy kind :D but our stockings were filled with old fashioned stuff.

Cool to see the variety though.....

Coffee... batteries... lip gloss... toothbrushes...

Generally things that I now steal from my parents when I'm home. :)

I get some candy and a very nice piece of jewelry in my stocking.

The earth will stop its rotation if my mother doesn't give everyone a stocking with an orange or tangerine, pennies, and hard candy in it ("gold", riches, and a sweet year). From there, it gets a little dicey - usually lottery tickets, a magazine subscription, logic problem or crossword books, and a disposable camera or film. Nothing really exciting, but tradition does that to you!

Usually some sports cards packs, cheap tickets to a sports game in town, and candy

My parents usually put good stuff in our stockings. Like smaller gifts we asked for. Last year my brother got an Ipod in his and I got a digital camera.

The non-food items in our stockings vary but it's a *rule* that there has to be a very large orange in the toe, followed by a very big Red Delicious apple!

I have never EVER gotten fruit in my stocking. If I did, I would be super-pissed.

My stocking always had candy, money, jewelry, lip-gloss, etc. The small items. I ALWAYS opened my stocking(s -- yes, I had two) first. :)

I never had fruit in my stocking either. I always received lottery tickets, lip gloss, money, candy, pez dispensers. Small things like that.
I bought stocking stuffers for my husband tonight. I think up until last year he thought those magically got filled --- he would forget those every year. But last year I guess he realized that someone has to do them. I got gift certificates for tanning, mani and pedi. He did a great job!

I dont remember, honestly. Must not have been too impressive. The stockings themselves were cool. (My grandmother made them). My sisters were made ot of my moms wedding dress and mine was made from one of my dads old air force uniform coats.

My mom isnt very creative. In fact, some years she forgot to put anything in there at all.

As a kid, we always had a tangerine or orange in the toe of our stocking. Since we used our actual socks, there wasn't a lot of room in there for presents. We usually had some chocolate, a candy cane, Hershey's kisses and stuff like that. My own kids get mostly candy with a couple little inexpensive things. This year, my daughter is getting some lip glosses and my son is getting an 8 Ball pen (that tells fortunes, he loves those magic 8 balls) and a bouncy ball. They are each getting a small Ty Christmas bear too.

I remember one Christmas when 5-6 beanie babies were half-hangin out of my stocking! It looked so cute!

Usual small-ish stuff... favorite snack food, fun toilitries, stationary, the most expensive thing in there maybe a gift card somewhere.... all other larger gifts were under the tree, I also opened my stocking when I got up at the crack of dawn and had to wait on my other presents.

fruit, and toothpaste, lol

I always got candy and video games...or basically anything my parents or older sisters didn't want to wrap :p

We always have so much stuff in ours that they can't stay on the holders anymore. We get lotto tickets, makeup, candy, jewelry, etc. Pretty much whatever is small and fits. My husband's family just does 3-4 things in a stocking, so he's always excited to have Christmas with my parents because they load his stocking up with fishing lures, tickets to different events, etc.

We used to get toiletries and cute, fun stuff, but in the past couple years Santa's left Longaberger baskets in our stockings.

Re: What's in your stocking?
 

They got what in their stockings?!?!? :eek: I'm like you, I always got nice little "don't-need-it-but-want-it" type stuff, like perfume, jewelry, beauty products, etc. Never once did I get socks or underwear...were their parents out of their minds? :p

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I think I got some fun rainbow colored toe socks in the toe of my stocking once. =)

I always got good stuff in mine. Like nice jewelry, not crap target stuff. And cold hard cash. and candy. Now that we have a blended family we "don't get gifts for adults" :rolleyes: But, the stockings overflow so much that you ususally need a big shopping bag to carry it home. B/c one of my sisters has a mail order biz, we get lots of tea samples and food samples.

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I would die at that - I am absolutely phobic about NOTHING going between my toes. I can't wear flip flops or sandals that go between the toes. I don't even like looking at those socks at the store :eek: :eek: (Yeah, I'm a weirdo :cool: )

AchtungBaby - I was like you - deoderant in a stocking?! If I did get underwear, it was nice and had a Victoria Secret label on it. Although mom stopped doing this b/c we were a little embarrassed to have dad taping us looking at our great new silky drawers :p

I am so LOL that you guys all get lottery tickets - I would never think of that - pretty cool idea until one of you wins & then the sibling rivalry is on! :eek:

If I ever got fruit or underwear or toiletries like deodarant in my stocking, I would be like :confused: . I've always gotten jewelry, candy, electronics, lottery tickets, gift cards, and the obligatory tree ornament every year.

The boys are getting some fun candy and gum from the candy store (yes, a real candy shop, not a "Big Box" merchant!), one of those clip on mini book lights, a CBJ puck keychain, a Chick-Fil-A gift certificate, and if there's room their Game Boy games will go in their stockings. As a general rule they all get the same things (that nasty sibling rivarly thing) except for eldest teen who's still stuck in orthodontics! He'll get a pack of the snack size 3 Musketeers for yet another year, poor guy, but at least he likes them.

When we were little, our stockings were filled with little, fun gifts, like candy, fun socks, etc. For several years my brother and I knew that there would ALWAYS be beef jerkey in our stockings. It became a running joke, and now I kinda miss it! Now that we both are married, (but no kids yet) we and our spouses always get a DVD. My mom knows all the movies I loved when I was a kid, so she always does such a good job choosing for me: Parent Trap, White Christmas, Pollyanna...)

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I'm lucky because I somehow always win a few dollars, but my sister usually only gets a dollar or nothing. It just always works out that way, and I'd be pissed if I was her.

Good Old Poor Days
 

Got the Apple, Orange or Tangerine along with Hard Candy , Nuts and a Toy!

But redid it and had a shit load of Stockings on the Mantle Piece for all of the Relatives. God Damn did it get expensive.:mad:

Just buy fun Little things and throw in, it will cost plenty. But, it is fun to see everyone to get to their Stocking.

Just Buy Cheep Items as everyone likes to get something! :cool:

It is the season to give, not receive!:D