Anonymous wrote:My kids make me a card. Other than that I don't get gifts. I tell dh every year he should have the kids pick out something for me, but they never do. I'm pretty direct about it and make it clear that it can be socks or candy. Every year he forgets and says oops when the kids hand him what I picked out with them. We have enough "stuff" and I buy what I need. But something little to open would be nice.

I'm sorry. Very sad. DH should know better. He could get little thoughtful things and wrap them very nicely. I always loved giving gifts. When I had nothing, I still gave and made the gift look really nice.

I won't get anything either. Not a thing. If I told you my situation, you wouldn't believe me. At least I'm not in the hospital this Christmas!

I always stuff my own stocking, but my mom usually sends a few extra stuffers for everyone in our family. Sometimes DH has something to add to mine, but he's not much of a gift person in general. In his family, adults never had stockings at all, so it's not really a thing for him.

This year I'm getting new wool socks, a couple of kitchen gadgets (new spatula and instant-read thermometer), chocolates, a box of tea, and bath salts.

My kids make me a card. Other than that I don't get gifts. I tell dh every year he should have the kids pick out something for me, but they never do. I'm pretty direct about it and make it clear that it can be socks or candy. Every year he forgets and says oops when the kids hand him what I picked out with them. We have enough "stuff" and I buy what I need. But something little to open would be nice.

Three lipslut lipsticks--RBG, Fake News and Resting B$tch Face. Love them--and they don't come off--like at all. They're matte which I also like.

My husband and I are both guilty of buying things we want, when we want them, so gift giving is near impossible on both ends. This year we picked an item to wait on, and sent each other the links to buy. For me, Christmas is more about traditions like baking cookies, watching bad Christmas movies, and enjoying decorations. I don't really need a gift. Maybe when our kids are older (currently 2yo and 6mo) and I feel more pressure to meet their expectations, I'll be singing a different tune...

For stockings, I usually go to World Market and grab a hodge podge of things for everyone. My stocking usually gets Ritter and Kinder candy, hot chocolate or tea, and some mini wine bottles. I'll probably start getting a couple pairs of good boot socks next year.

I buy all the presents in our house, including my own and stockings. My DH doesn’t really care or get “gifting” and I love giving people gifts. I don’t care much about receiving gifts, since I have everything I need and as the family shopper if I wanted something I would just buy it. If it was important to me DH would engage but it isn’t so he gets a pass. I like the idea in this thread of asking DH to do my stocking though. Might be fun to see what he comes up with! I’m going to try that next year to mix it up.

Things I bought myself for Christmas this year, including my stocking: bombas, earrings, tinted chapstick, electric tea kettle, book.

Bought myself 10 big chocolate bars from Europe. They are filled with alcohol. Ate them all in 5 days. Enough sugar for a year.

I"m the OP and my husband has lots of wonderful qualities but he is probably the world's worst gift giver. His love language is acts of service and he has built us a beautiful garden in the back yard, made a beautiful charcuterie board by chopping down the tree and chopping the wood and sanding it, etc. Retiled the laundry room floor. He's awesome - but one year he gave me Jean Nate bath oil for Christmas which made me feel like I was 90. (Literally, we used to visit my grandma in the nursing home and bring her this.)
So I"ve been buying myself gifts for years (usually one really nice high end handbag, but who goes out anymore?) It just never occurred to me for some reason that I could have a stocking too until this year. Henceforth, I will have a stocking (and yeah, I hesitated with the thread title because I knew you would all read something dirty into it, but I literally meant filling a stocking and not some weird inuendo. Bunch of perverts!)

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Anonymous wrote:Inspired by that Saturday night live skit where mom gets a robe and nothing in her stocking, I just got myself some awesome gifts from Amazon! Mom will not have an empty stocking because I just got myself a yeti coffee mug, cute socks, Lilly Pulitzer pen set, Vera Bradley notebook, a meditation journal . . .the lord helps those who help themselves. What gifts did you buy yourself this year?

For Christmas? Nothing.

After a year of coming down and I was the only one with nothing in the stocking and 3 button downs (which I never wear) under the tree, DH and I had a chat about expectations. I expect that I will not fill my own stocking after doing nice things and buying thoughtful gifts for everyone else during the holidays. He can find some candy or something to put in it. It's ridiculous that I had to spell this out to him, fwiw.

As to gifts, I didn't tell him I didn't like what he bought me. But suggested going forward we give each other lists. So now we give a list of a bunch of things in varying price range that we can choose from. I also usually do some surprises knowing what he likes/paying attention. He does less of that. It's disappointing he is not a more thoughtful gift giver and I have NEVER asked for anything expensive (bags, jewelry, etc.).

Your DH randomly gave you three button down shirts? Like work button down shirts? That's so weird. He just grabbed three different colors of the same random ass shirt?

My DH fills my stocking. I don't remember as a child if my mom filled hers or not (single mom), but once I was old enough, I filled it myself.

Anonymous wrote:Inspired by that Saturday night live skit where mom gets a robe and nothing in her stocking, I just got myself some awesome gifts from Amazon! Mom will not have an empty stocking because I just got myself a yeti coffee mug, cute socks, Lilly Pulitzer pen set, Vera Bradley notebook, a meditation journal . . .the lord helps those who help themselves. What gifts did you buy yourself this year?

For Christmas? Nothing.

After a year of coming down and I was the only one with nothing in the stocking and 3 button downs (which I never wear) under the tree, DH and I had a chat about expectations. I expect that I will not fill my own stocking after doing nice things and buying thoughtful gifts for everyone else during the holidays. He can find some candy or something to put in it. It's ridiculous that I had to spell this out to him, fwiw.

As to gifts, I didn't tell him I didn't like what he bought me. But suggested going forward we give each other lists. So now we give a list of a bunch of things in varying price range that we can choose from. I also usually do some surprises knowing what he likes/paying attention. He does less of that. It's disappointing he is not a more thoughtful gift giver and I have NEVER asked for anything expensive (bags, jewelry, etc.).

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter figured out that I stuff my own and took over doing mine when she was 10.

This is so adorable. (Mom of boys here does not hope for this.)

Mine does and he's 17. He already put wrapped gifts under the tree for DH and me and cards!

This is great! Not because he's a boy, so much but because he has it figured out at 17 and will be awesome with his kids/spouse when it comes to Christmas in his own home.

Anonymous wrote:Chocolate covered cherries - the cheap ones sold at cvs.

Ha. My mom LOVES these. And hates the expensive ones. I'll pick her up some this week.

Not as stocking stuffers, but I've treated myself to plenty of "gifts" over the last month. I got a new Coach bag, two different expensive body creams, a new plant stand, new cast iron skillet, new mixing bowls, and a few new crystals.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't bought myself anything, but am saving for a dog. Who knew it would be so hard to get a dog? In my state your choices are pretty much chihuahuas, German shepherds, cattle dogs or bully breeds. Nothing wrong with any of those if you have the lifestyle and space for them, but I don't. So--that leaves purebreds since the dogs that would be a good fit for the average apartment dweller get snapped up the same day they become available. Maybe the universe doesn't want me to have a dog, or maybe I'm supposed to wait a while longer, but that's what I'm putting my personal Xmas funds toward.

How much do they cost?

Can you adopt

I was asking how much they cost because the pp said they have to save up. If they have to save up to buy a dog how will they afford it when they have to feed it and take it to the vet?

Because a lot of purebred dogs that are smaller, appt size dogs cost $1000+. That would be a save-up amount.