Question: Stocking Stuffer Traditions

[Nomilynn]

Hello there..

I was replying to the thread about Christmas shopping and this thought came to mind.

My family has always wrapped stocking stuffers. We also include one apple and one orange in each stocking, to round out the toe and heel of the stocking.

What are your stocking traditions? Do you wrap the stuffers? Do you put anything special in every year?

[Suki Wingy]

They are not wrapped. We usually get an apple and an orange, candy, and a hotwheels car or something similar.

[carole]

I never really had a stocking tradition, but i did do it for my children a few times over the years, as I saw other family's doing it, i usually filled them with chocolates, and little gifts, like jewellry etc, but never oranges and apples.

[Freedom]

We always got an orange in the toe. Mom said that made it easier for her to fill the darn thing, lol! The other stuff in there was never wrapped, except once in a great while whatever landed on top. I haven't filled a stocking, not having children. Oh, we almost always got a toothbrush in there; this was before the electric ones, lol.

[Taz_Zoee]

Growing up (and even now) my mom always gave us a bag of M&M's in our stocking. And as the size of the bag grew over the years she now has to just set them beside the stockings. LOL And we used to get little things like earrings, or small trinket type things. Sometimes she would wrap them just to have more to unwrap.
Bruce and I exchange stockings too. I usually get candy and if I can think of something small to put in there I will. Otherwise, just candy. One year I bought the package of the mini bottles of cologne and wrapped each one individually. One year he got me cute cat and dog pencils and neat ink pens. Just silly stuff like that.
This year he will be getting Almond Rocha candy and his main gift will be in his stocking - a gift card. Boring, but oh well.

[Nomilynn]

Thanks for the replies!

My family and I still exchange stockings, and when I started dating my bf two years ago, I sewed him a stocking and filled it for him as well.

Our stockings are usually filled with things like toiletries (fave shampoo, soaps and bubble bath, toothepaste, etc), socks, undies, candy, and any small stuff.. like this year I got my bf a wine bottle thermometre.. little things like that. Sometimes I will put in a CD as well.

I remember talking about stockings in school one time and I was shocked that not everyone wrapped their stocking stuffers - opening stockings is always so much fun!!