Christmas Stockings.

[Georgiesmum]

Does anyone here still fill christmas stockings for their grown up children, husband or wife?

[Hopkirk]

I wish my wife would still fill her stockings for me

[squarebear]

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[Bluestone]

Well, my children are only little (5 and 11) so I obviously still do theirs, BUT, my Mum did one for me up until I left home at 17/18... and every year there was a tangerine in the bottom! :-)

I used to make one up for my husband, but it was mainly full of... er... never mind :P

[Georgiesmum]

The mind boggles Bluestone. lol

[petal54]

I know this not relivant to this post,but when we wer kids,we liked to be able to go out in clothes given to us for crimble,which not v.practical if only been given socks.

[Ann]

I did this as a joke some years ago GM, I prepared a black stocking for everyone on Christmas Day - which included Mum, Father-in-law, Uncle and Great Uncle all of whom were elderly. They thought it was great fun and it started off lots of discussion on their childhood Christmasses. I included things that I had in my Christmas stocking as a child, like a tangerine, nuts, sugar mouse, chocolate Santa, magic painting book, a frog which jumped in the air minutes after you pressed a metal strip down, a plastic fish which told your fortune depending how it curled up in your warm hand ......metal puzzles, dot to dot puzzle books, licquorish torpedo sweets, black jacks and a dab and sucker (sherbert sweet) How we all laughed ..... and I took a family photo of us as a memento of us all holding our stockings up filled with the presents. Most of the relatives have died now but I still look fondly at this photo.

[Caran]

I do a huge stocking for daughter, SIL and 5 grandchildren. Daughter does one for OH and me.
I also do an advent calendar for them all, this has graduated from fabric with 24 small pockets to a large cardboard box. Everyone has 3 pressies wrapped in their own individual paper, there are 7 of them so I do a general one too, to make up the numbers. Daughter does an advent box for us two as well. We start planning these much earlier in the year.

[slinkycat]

My daughter, aged 25, moved out earlier this year. She's told me that she'll pop down Christmas Eve to put her sack under the tree :)

[Slapshot]

Absolutely....It's not chrimbo if I don't do one for her, just wee daft things sweets and the like....mind you the 1ct diamond the other year took her by surprise

[Ann]

An advent box ............... that is a brilliant idea carandrog.

[Caran]

Ann it got such a chore trying to find things small enough to fit in fiddly pockets, made it a whole lot easier and meant I could get "nicer" pressies.

[Ann]

I am making my own christmas crackers this year carandrog, the contents on the ready boxed ones have suddenly become very tacky this year - cheap plastic items and only suitable for children. I am putting brooches, tie tacks and miniature aftershave/perfume samplers in mine.

[Caran]

Ann, daughter has always made them for all of us. She collects miniature liqueurs
from holidays during the year, and from where she can. I was in B & M last week and spotted 5 mini Baileys for around £5, I rang her and she said yes.
This year for the first time we will not be wit them, OH and I are going to Guernsey. We felt they should have a parent/grandparent free one for a change, didn't go down too well but we stuck to it. So this year they are having a complete change. They had a family vote (her, sil and 5 kids) what they wanted on the day. No Xmas dinner, they all wanted as many party packs and goodies as would fit on the table, so a massive shop to M & S and Waitrose to get their finest. Quite envious, would quite like that for a change.