We have various stockings from past pets that come out as needed, most often to sub in for stockings that didn’t make it into the car for the trip to Grandmom’s. Could use those.
Adults don’t get filled stockings in our house. We Christmas at grandmom’s house, and we just put out stockings for the grandkids on Christmas Eve as needed. Usually my niece and nephew need to “borrow” stockings. Names don’t really matter— the stocking order is oldest kid to youngest, so that how we know who’s is who’s.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is a fiendish knitter who only likes to knit in the round and has a thing for sock patterns. If you met someone at a bar on the 23rd and they showed up at 9 pm on the 24th, she’d have a stocking for them but she’ll make you embroider the letters on because she hates that part.

I like your mom!

me too!

Anonymous wrote:Does everyone have stockings with names on them? In our family only kids get stockings. And none of them have names. We have a few extra, so the kids look through them all and choose which ones they want each year.

Names, yes. Matching, no.

Ours have initials, not by design but because they’ve all been made by various relatives over the years and no one seems to choose patterns that have space for full names. Everyone but the dog has the same first initial but the stockings are all quite different so it isn’t confusing. My late parents didn’t have childhood stockings so they made them for each other in the 60s, and otherwise everyone’s are very specific to the era when they were born. People who marry into the family are expected to supply their own stockings or someone makes them one because all of us siblings use our childhood ones. We would definitely judge a new SIL or BIL if they rolled in and ordered a set of matching ones from Pottery Barn rather than being their own or let us make one.

Does everyone have stockings with names on them? In our family only kids get stockings. And none of them have names. We have a few extra, so the kids look through them all and choose which ones they want each year.

My in-laws had couples stockings. I remember my 1st Christmas with them that my MIL filled
DH’s stocking for both of us and did the same for her other kids with spouses or SOs. I thought it was a nice idea and once everyone was married she continued it. She has 5 kids and she wouldn’t have had a big enough mantle for 12 stockings anyway. My young adult kids have SOs which seem to be getting serious but they won’t be with us Christmas morning. I would just get a few complimentary stockings without embroidery and fill them if they were here so they felt welcomed.

My sister’s in-laws had crafty looking felt sfockings for the entire family with names in glitter glue. That would make it really easy to add one at any time for a SO or grandchild.

In my family we really didn’t do much with stockings. They were basically where small gifts went. Adults definitely didn’t get stockings. I don’t like that. Sad anemic stockings.

In dhs family everyone gets a stocking. They are inexpensive to begin with so it’s not a big deal to get a girlfriend on. She writes the name on in puff paint. Grand dogs have stockings too.

I personally think stockings only should be where Santa comes on Christmas morning. It’s weird that my kids have multiple people’s homes with stockings filled by Santa. The year we celebrated with relatives I was very sad to find my kids’ stockings already filled before I had a chance to put anything in. I had needlepointed and embroidered all my kids’ stockings and they were meaningful so we had traveled with them prior. I let her fill them though, I’m sure I’d love to fill my grandkids stockings too.

I really love filling stockings. They always have an orange, a Penny, a candy cane, their favorite candy and then fun stuff like nail polish, lipstick/chapstick, bath bombs, small toys.

I see all these memes about moms not having stockings, but I couldn’t care less if mine isn’t filled. I have all I want.

Anonymous wrote:My mom is a fiendish knitter who only likes to knit in the round and has a thing for sock patterns. If you met someone at a bar on the 23rd and they showed up at 9 pm on the 24th, she’d have a stocking for them but she’ll make you embroider the letters on because she hates that part.

I like your mom!

My mom is a fiendish knitter who only likes to knit in the round and has a thing for sock patterns. If you met someone at a bar on the 23rd and they showed up at 9 pm on the 24th, she’d have a stocking for them but she’ll make you embroider the letters on because she hates that part.

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Anonymous wrote:WTH? I have extra stockings for anyone and everyone who is in my home. It's just a stocking! You're not giving him a dowry or her virginity or something.

I would only do a monogram for a serious relationship though.

Lol, to me a stocking on the mantel implies you are part of the family. Guests don't traditionally leave their hosiery in the main living area.

Be sure to make a big fuss when you present the monogrammed stocking to your future child-in-law. "Many have had stockings here before you....but only you have been monogram worthy!" Might actually be a compliment, tbh...

I mean, residents of the home don’t traditionally leave their hosiery in the main living area when guests are visiting, either.

OP, when my kids were dating, I’d pull out a spare stocking and put a piece of masking tape with the SO’s name in Sharpie on it. Everyone would always get a hoot out of the “homespun” nature of that next to the embroidered ones.

When you say they got a hoot out of it, you mean they secretly talked behind your back about how incredibly rude that was? I'd rather have a stocking without a name than one as "homespun" as that.

NP. This is a bizarre comment. Are you saying you would monogram a boy/girl friend’s name on a stocking? That seems extreme.

Ours all have masking tape with our names on them, but they only show up on Christmas Eve after the kids have gone to bed.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who is at our house on Christmas morning gets a stocking.

What do you put in them?

various things depending on the year and person. A chocolate Santa, an ornament, lotion, chap stick, chip clip, note pad for the late adopters, I find fun things at container store and crate&barrel and Barnes&Noble. The skiers like hand warmers. Something small with a favorite team logo - if they have one. Leftover Halloween candy - this year everyone gets a KitKat. Madlibs or other small travel sized game.

Things like that

I would give a stocking to whoever is there Christmas. They don't have to match all the other stockings.