How do you do stockings?

[Anonymous]

Interfaith family, celebrate Chanukah and everyone gets a stocking. Stocking has a clementine in the toe and other candy wrand well. Plus little things, unwrapped (mechanical pencils, toothbrushes, bath bombs, charging cords, nail polish, travel grooming kit - clippers, nail file, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Just little unwrapped things in our stocking as well. Pokémon cards, chapstick, deck of cards, water bottle, cheap necklace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don’t wrap things that go in the stocking. The kids get things like candy, small toys, and toothbrushes. They find the stocking when they also find the 1-2 gifts Santa brought (unwrapped).

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interfaith family, celebrate Chanukah and everyone gets a stocking. Stocking has a clementine in the toe and other candy wrand well. Plus little things, unwrapped (mechanical pencils, toothbrushes, bath bombs, charging cords, nail polish, travel grooming kit - clippers, nail file, etc.)

Do your kids get other things for Christmas than this? If not I’d call that Jewish with an honorable mention to Christmas. Hardly equal billing if all the good gifts are Chanukah presents.

Signed,
An interfaith family

[Anonymous]

We have beautiful handmade stockings from my grandmother. We do an orange, dark chocolate, hobby-related items and magazines, nice skincare/toiletry type things and anything else that is smaller (like smaller tools or guitar picks, etc), pistachios, nice socks (like Darn Tough out of Vermont), event tickets

[Anonymous]

Stockings are for candy, scratch off tickets, little things like chapstick or lipsmacker, maybe a piece of jewelry, a new pair of earbuds. Nothing big or expensive at all.

[Anonymous]

Big babies in my house. DH and DS (16) love their stocking gifts. I fill them to the brim and they savor it over the days until the New Year (crescendo is usually an important gift). It's my favorite tradition, especially now that teen son is old enough for some irreverent stuff. Last year was a phallic Trump thing that said obnoxious things. Also last year, tucked a few "magnum" condoms in DH's stocking. He threw them at DS and said, I think these will fit you better. I took them back!

[Anonymous]

We don’t do gifts in stockings. We put a tin of “coal” (candy) to remind kiddos that they weren’t perfect this year (they still believe in Santa right now). My parents did the same thing...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big babies in my house. DH and DS (16) love their stocking gifts. I fill them to the brim and they savor it over the days until the New Year (crescendo is usually an important gift). It's my favorite tradition, especially now that teen son is old enough for some irreverent stuff. Last year was a phallic Trump thing that said obnoxious things. Also last year, tucked a few "magnum" condoms in DH's stocking. He threw them at DS and said, I think these will fit you better. I took them back!

Ewwwwwwwwwwww

[Anonymous]

My mom kept our handmade stockings and would give us gifts in them when we saw her at Christmas. After my mom died my sisters and I started a tradition where we trade off taking a sister's childhood stocking and gather things for that sister all year. Then the 3 of us get together the day after Christmas and exchange stockings. This year my sister is getting some spices, local honey, a T shirt from the bar we went to together this summer, a makeup bag with a funny saying on it, a bookmark, and...diamond earrings. I am SO EXCITED to give these to her!!! They're in the toe. No clementine needed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big babies in my house. DH and DS (16) love their stocking gifts. I fill them to the brim and they savor it over the days until the New Year (crescendo is usually an important gift). It's my favorite tradition, especially now that teen son is old enough for some irreverent stuff. Last year was a phallic Trump thing that said obnoxious things. Also last year, tucked a few "magnum" condoms in DH's stocking. He threw them at DS and said, I think these will fit you better. I took them back!

Way to keep it classy for the celebration of Christ's birth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Big babies in my house. DH and DS (16) love their stocking gifts. I fill them to the brim and they savor it over the days until the New Year (crescendo is usually an important gift). It's my favorite tradition, especially now that teen son is old enough for some irreverent stuff. Last year was a phallic Trump thing that said obnoxious things. Also last year, tucked a few "magnum" condoms in DH's stocking. He threw them at DS and said, I think these will fit you better. I took them back!

Way to keep it classy for the celebration of Christ's birth.

Don't worry, we don't open stocking gifts until after midnight mass. We're a kind and compassionate family with a sense of humor that gives generously to those in our community, all year long. Laughter is a gift. I guess those with class are devoid.

[Anonymous]

OP: you put things IN the stocking. That is how it works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Big babies in my house. DH and DS (16) love their stocking gifts. I fill them to the brim and they savor it over the days until the New Year (crescendo is usually an important gift). It's my favorite tradition, especially now that teen son is old enough for some irreverent stuff. Last year was a phallic Trump thing that said obnoxious things. Also last year, tucked a few "magnum" condoms in DH's stocking. He threw them at DS and said, I think these will fit you better. I took them back!

WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interfaith family, celebrate Chanukah and everyone gets a stocking. Stocking has a clementine in the toe and other candy wrand well. Plus little things, unwrapped (mechanical pencils, toothbrushes, bath bombs, charging cords, nail polish, travel grooming kit - clippers, nail file, etc.)

Do your kids get other things for Christmas than this? If not I’d call that Jewish with an honorable mention to Christmas. Hardly equal billing if all the good gifts are Chanukah presents.

Signed,
An interfaith family

We buy the children Chanukah presents - they are Jewish. Dad insisted on a tree and stockings. His family buys them Christmas presents, my family buys them Chanukah presents.