thanks, but ugh, we don’t drink.
We’re big on nonalcoholic stuff, though - maybe i’ll investigate some of the new beers out there - it’s a skyrocketing category, NA beers & wines. I even saw a four-pack of mocktails at the ShopRite last weekend …
Mocktails! 4 for $16!!! It’s literally something we can mix at home!!
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Costco is selling Butterscotch Beer (non alcoholic) also for Harry Potter fans.
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We are fans of ginger beer (non-alcoholic). It was recently on coupon at Costco. It the stockings look too empty, we can add a ginger beer bottle or two to take up some space. Bought some candy we all like to add to the stocking and some dark chocolate orange candy D loves.
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Most of the stuff in kids stockings is food. An orange (tradition!), chocolate coins, chocolate covered coffee beans, interesting protein bars, that kind of thing.
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“Santa” is getting his wife and daughter each a gift card to a local day spa for their stockings; and is getting some nice hand lotion for his mother-in-law. Son is getting a bottle of his favorite hot sauce.
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Stocking stuffers are sometimes the main gift. For SIL and DH, I’m getting gift cards to the local microbrewery. DD gets a gift card for a mani-pedi. DD and SIL each get a couple of new ornaments. We get small amounts of edible treats, pistachios, some chocolate bark, and some fruit (fruit typically goes on the fireplace mantle not in the stockings).
Everyone will get one scratch off lottery ticket. In our family, no one has ever won even $1 on Christmas…
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Question about stockings – when do y’all look/open yours?
In our family the stockings and Santa gifts are not wrapped (my parents and DH’s parents weren’t Santa wrappers either). We look at those first thing before breakfast and then after breakfast we go around and open the wrapped presents to and from each other.
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Our tradition is we open stockings Christmas Eve (nothing wrapped).
This was always the way we parents explained how Christmas and Santa worked - parents supplied the stocking gifts, then we all went to bed after setting out milk & cookies and Santa came down the chimney overnight.
(We also sprinkled flour on the hearth, stomped a big bootprint in the flour, and ate the cookies/drained the milk after we’d spent all night assembling big toys in primary colors 
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Depends on my mood—I often wrap a few larger things for stockings and some gifts from under the tree I sign from me, some from H, some from both of us and some from Santa. It’s a whimsical thing—depends on what strikes me. H rarely buys gifts other than the stuff he frequently gets for himself and opens immediately. By the time we open, I often forget what’s under the tree—haha!
Stockings filled in early morning hours of christmas day, usually. Whomever wakes can open stockings before others wake. We all until everyone gather around tree before opening the gifts.
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In my family, we left the stockings at the foot of our beds. The tremendous excitement for me was to wake up in the middle of the night and feel the stocking and realize it was filled–though we didn’t look till morning. Then we could look at them together while waiting for grownups to be up and get coffee so we could go down to the tree.
It is an insane thing for a parent to do, so of course I did the same with my kids. 
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Stockings (with unwrapped items) before breakfast…. and back in the day before Grandma came over. Everything else wrapped.
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We do stocking first on xmas morning, but I wrap all the little gifts.
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Everything wrapped here! Stockings opened 1st thing Christmas morning. Gifts opened after I’ve fed the horses and my husband has made a feast for breakfast.
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Our kids were allowed to open their stockings whenever they woke up on Christmas morning. It kept them busy for a little while!
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It’s the first thing we opened together and then to the Santa presents and then to the family presents. Breakfast came later. Most of the stuff was unwrapped. Maybe a few items I’d wrap
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Stockings are opened first on Christmas morning. They contain small gifts and an assortment of treats. I usually wrap a couple of the items. After stockings, we take turns opening gifts from under the tree. Breakfast is sometime after all gifts have been opened.
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Stockings with unwrapped items before breakfast and gifts after. Which these days will probably be around noon. I just bought the last items for my sons’ (adults who live elsewhere) stockings - lint brushes for after spending time with our dog who sheds 24/7.
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Did you get them Chom Chom?
https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Dog-Cat-Hair-Remover-Couch/dp/B00BAGTNAQ?th=1
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Picked up last stocking stuffers today at a used book shop. Nature oriented stuff for husband, garden oriented stuff for DIL and Ohio biking trail stuff for future son in law.
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I have Chom Chom which helps it he still manages to leave his white hairs on his human brothers’ clothes.