How do you do stockings?

[Anonymous]

I wonder how people do stockings.

In our house the stockings are homemade and pretty big. I don’t set out to buy my kids “stocking stuffers” other than a clementine because somehow a clementine in the toe has become a tradition, but I find that if I buy a kid say 7 gifts (that’s what each kid is getting this year, not including the clementine) that at least some of them will fit if I’m creative (e.g. rolling up a magazine or a T shirt, opening up a pack of hot wheels and wrapping them one by one. Things in the stocking get wrapped in tissue paper and that doesn’t fit gets wrapped in tissue paper and tucked around the stocking except one “big” present that goes under the tree from mom and dad.

What do you do?

[Anonymous]

Stockings are traditionally sized - maybe 12-14”? So we do the orange on the toe, candy, small things like fuzzy socks, chapstick, hair things, and a chocolate Santa. Kids can open these while I get my coffee and cinnamon rolls going.

Presents are after, when everyone is ready and the fireplace is going.

[Anonymous]

We don't do stockings at all.

[Anonymous]

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).

[Anonymous]

We have regular size stockings, maybe 18". The stuffers are in addition to the gifts and none of it is wrapped. Some items in my children's stockings are:

necklace, macadamia nuts, jerky, chocolate truffles, fun socks, lottery tickets, gift cards, scrunchies, light up football.

[Anonymous]

I wear them for work in the winter, although will ditch them as soon as possible.

[Anonymous]

Anything edible goes in the stocking so the dogs don’t eat it, lol.

[Anonymous]

Anything edible in the stocking. Also if there happen to be a few small toys (which there usually are as our kids are little), they typically go in the stocking too. Nothing in the stocking is wrapped. We also set out some books (unwrapped) for each kid on the floor just under the stocking. Stocking+ books are from “Santa.” Other gifts are wrapped and under the tree/from us and other relatives.

[Anonymous]

Put a couple random little things in there from Santa's elves and also a candy cane and a couple chocolates. Nothing fancy or wrapped.

[Anonymous]

Little things go in the stocking unwrapped. The stockings are filled after the kids are in bed on Christmas Eve and are moved under the tree with the Santa gifts for Christmas morning. (We open family gifts on Christmas Eve.)

[Anonymous]

Santa presents aren't wrapped. Little things go in stocking. Big/irregular shaped things also come from Santa. Santa usually brings about as much as Mom and Dad.

[Anonymous]

Nothing expensive in our stockings. Candy, socks, underwear, bath products, chapstick, etc.

This may change as they become teens.

Santa doesn’t wrap anything, inside the stocking or out. Gifts from family are wrapped.

[Anonymous]

At home, the stockings are decorative. We almost never put anything in them.

At the ILs, MIL fills stockings for each of the kids with small things like lip gloss, chocolates, socks, hand lotion, a new toothbrush and toothpaste, etc. Nothing is wrapped.

[Anonymous]

We do stockings last. Everything small and unwrapped—candy, toiletries, stuff like that.

Gifts go under the tree, wrapped, as they are received or I get them wrapped.

Santa doesn’t wrap and his stuff goes out after kids are in bed. Or used to, because the jig is up here and the kids are older teens. Also, Santa tended to give larger, or harder to wrap items because ain’t nobody got time for that.

[Anonymous]

I have 4 kids that are all in their teens now (middle school-college.)
My kids have store bought stockings that look like needlepoint. The first 3 I found at Marshalls when they were babies, the tags said they were handmade. After the 4th was born I couldn't find more so I got one from LL Bean that was similar in style. https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/513739?originalProduct=75284&productId=1247179&attrValue_0=Snowman%20w%2FPuppies&pla1=0&mr%3AtrackingCode=B669AF02-BFE7-E511-80ED-00505694403D&mr%3AreferralID=NA&mr%3Adevice=c&mr%3AadType=plaonline&qs=3125276&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxfzvBRCZARIsAGA7YMxKVJrZQsLrhyIz471m-8L_q_jnCSF0pp8Pt9a365PUNChy5gRkFxkaAjUfEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

We traditionally put a pomegranate in each stocking...I still need to buy them this year.

I buy a few bags of candy (those candycane kisses, chocolate bells, etc.) and just put handfuls in each stocking.

This year they are each getting some novelty bandaids. (variations of these https://www.walmart.com/ip/Shakespearean-Insult-Bandages-by-Accoutrements-12389/38681257?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=11862&adid=22222222227000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=9007589&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=125207087&wl11=online&wl12=38681257&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxfzvBRCZARIsAGA7YMygBb95wC6B9Uh3V56b4sQowrkv6MZS_f_vIwC0PKTlQr2oGivmxuAaAj_AEALw_wcB)

Some beef jerky
mini bags of pistachios

They were each supposed to get an inexpensive pair of sunglasses (Tifosi Swank) but there was some issue with the shipping and apparently they aren't coming