Jewish wife, married to Catholic husband. The first year he did stockings I was so horrified I took it over (he filled them with plastic junk that I threw out - the sheer waste was awful).

It is a fun challenge for me! Make up bag, hair toys and nail polish for DD, travel nail care kit for college DS plus a fidget and some other items that will be nice to have a school. Both kids get funny bandaid. Some phillips head screw drivers for DH (don't know where they disappear to in our house), plus a backscratcher. For me, new ramekins - I am going to make chocolate lava cake. Plus candies and always an orange in the toe.

DH will always put a few items in my stocking, and I appreciate that he wants to surprise me, but I have never once used or liked anything he has put in there.

I do them all. My mom sends me some little gifts (already wrapped) to put in mine and I throw in my favorite candies.

My husband does them mostly, and I do his. Not very well, unfortunately, poor guy!

Anonymous wrote:For those that only do children’s stockings and not adults, when do the children’s stocking stop?

I’m 38 with a husband and two kids. I still get a stocking from my mom, as do they. We also do our own from Santa. I fill my husband’s and the kids’, he does mine.

I'm an earlier PP in a family where everybody helps and everybody gets stockings. But, we are reading Tolkien's Letters to Santa right now and it sounds like their family had established that Santa stuff ends at age 14. I thought that was a good way to do it, especially if there are siblings: just pick a point where people age out, and where younger kids can see it happening so it's normal.

Anonymous wrote:DH stuffs my stocking.

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DH stuffs my stocking.

Just wanted to post the SNL christmas skit on this thread. Seems appropriate for all us moms who stuff our own stocking!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOVCtUdaMCU

I'm 50 and my mom stuffs a stocking for me every year (the same one I have had since I was an infant). In normal times I get it when I go home for a visit over the holidays. In the last two years she's sent it to me in the mail stuffed.

I stuff the stockings in the house on behalf of Santa. I also keep a bag in a corner where I drop stocking stuffer worthy things and anyone in the house can "shop" from it and wrap for anyone else in the house.

In our family, grandma is the primary stuffer (she loves making presents and surprises) but me and my sisters also usually contribute. Our stocking gifts are small — candy and pens and the like — so usually everyone has one of everything and we stuff our own stockings along with everyone else’s.

I give my high schooler and college freshman Xmas buckets. Easier to put stuff in there.

My mom actually gave me stocking as a Christmas chore when I was 18. It's pretty fun.

I wish someone would stuff my stocking. Its been way too long.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those that only do children’s stockings and not adults, when do the children’s stocking stop?

I'm one who said that.
My kids are in college and high school now. I'm thinking when the youngest goes to college, or maybe the following year (sophmore.)

Why? Life is so grim for the young right now / why not add a little silly Magic for young adult Children as well?

Anonymous wrote:We both take care of the kids stockings. DH stuffs my stocking and I take care of his.

+1 although I’ll admit - when we celebrate with my parents (and stay with them Christmas Eve), they do the stockings for DH & I. To the PPs asking when kid’s stockings stop — I’m 31 and DH is 37 so can’t tell you yet.