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I still do stockings for my grown kids. A bottle of wine and some nice jam fills up a lot of it!
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I have to admit, although I now find the stockings annoying to fill, we will always have them. Because our initials spell REAL and I love the way they hang from my fireplace.
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I bought this for myself (big head) but could be good stocking stuffer or Chanukah gift.
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Just saw this stuff on Facebook - kind of neat for someone to keep at their work desk as a conversation starter and relaxation tool? Products – FOCAL
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These started as a tradition decades ago and have become my favorite holiday food! I confess to putting things in my own stocking (because I’m the stocking filler) and I might gift myself more than one orange!
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My daughter took her stocking years ago, asked me for one for her BF (now husband) and it is an important thing for her for them to fill each other’s stocking (and the dogs’ too). I just brought the other D’s stocking to her at her new house (she’s been home for most Christmases but last year was at her house and i didn’t send it to her). My D who is stocking obsessed is otherwise a minimalist, even with Christmas decorations, so it’s kind of a focal point at her home.
My sister is also obsessed with the stockings. They have a lot of high value stuff in them, including gift cards, make up, bomba socks. jewelry. Her kids do not get to take their stockings home with them as she expects them to come ‘home’ for xmas at some time during the season, and dammit, if those in-law parents want them for Christmas morning they should provide their own stockings (like my sister had anything to do with them; I made them all). Even her stepson, who hasn’t been at sister’s house for Christmas in 20 years still has his stocking at her house. My sister doesn’t like stepson’s mother at all, and she’ll never give up that stocking. It gets hung every year but not filled. My sister is a control freak.
I do think it is strange that my friend made 2 new stockings for her kids, identical to the ones she has for them, and 1 for her new-ish DIL (2-3 years married?). Exactly same stockings but friend says the OG stockings are for ‘her house.’ I think they should travel with the kids to wherever they are on Christmas. Santa would be so confused with stockings all over the place.
My mother starting putting extra, heavy stuff on the floor below our stockings. One year we all got new waste baskets and those were fun to fill up and tear through. A friend’s family (8 kids) all got new basketball nets for their driveway hoop every year and 8 new nets seemed to get them through the year.
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Our DS is a distance away and won’t be home for Christmas. I get a stocking each year, and fill it…and it’s really his gift. We have his childhood stocking here. The ones we send him annually probably get donated or tossed. But he keeps the contents.
We get our kids a small real gift, and then consumable things. We consider gift cards consumable. 
My kids would stage a protest if I ever gave up stuffing the stockings - it’s their favorite part! I did, much to their dismay, give up stuffing stockings for my husband and me. I was always stuffing my own stocking anyway and struggled each year with what to put in my husband’s. Ours are the only ones without names so I recycled them for my SIL and younger D’s BF.
I usually do socks, favorite snacks/candies, hair products/make-up/travel size perfumes (for the girls), lip balm for everyone, shower stuff for the guys and scratch-off’s.
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We have so many stockings - beautiful embroidered ones that my mother gave the kids, Mickey and Minnie Mouse stockings from a year-end trip to Disney World, etc. Of course, every year, my daughter “decides” that this year we will use the really cheapo, but gigantic felt stockings that we acquired somewhere along the way. They really hold a lot, so it’s a challenge every year.
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The large felt stockings we had when the kids were very young basically disintegrated a couple of years ago. The [adult] kids are still mad that the new ones are smaller (even though they are knit, so stretchy.) I have brought up stopping the stockings and as others have noted above they did not react well to that. This year I asked my H to help with stockings and he literally said no, that’s too hard. Sigh.
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If my kids asked for their stockings, I guess I’d give them up. We got them when they were born. My sister also made them a gigantic red one that matches her family. Her H was born close to Xmas and sent home in a giant red stocking courtesy the hospital.
My stocking is 53 years old! H’s sometime after we got married.
My kids like their stockings and the tradition well enough, but they’ve never expressed any great desire to have them.
I did add two new ones for the FDILs this year. They are pink (they both love pink) with their initial on it.
Oh and we always put them on the floor when filled. They are too heavy
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It never occurred to me to give my kids their stockings, I never got mine (although I think my mom stopped filling it after our oldest was born, I was 28?). I bought my kids’ stockings from pottery barn, so they coordinate. When I found out I was pregnant with #4/#5, I bought their stockings even though they were due after Christmas so they’d coordinate (they’re all embroidered). Last year the kids got us stockings and filled them (I never did stockings for H and I, just more work for me).
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I don’t know why it never occurred to me to put gift cards in stockings, but somehow it didn’t. Maybe because my kids were really too young until recently, and they really liked the random small things that went in there? But now I’m struggling for random things that will make them happy, so I think they’ll each get a GC or two too this year. (My guys are 19 and 21, no significant others, still in college, so still coming home.)
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I will put small $ gift cards in the stocking. Like $10 Taco Bell or $20 Amazon or whatever! Bigger gift cards (say more than $25) become a gift under the tree - wrapped in a little box or in a little gift bag.
My kids (37, 33, 28) also LOVE their stockings. Always have. They love the routine. I wrap the stocking gifts with leftover bits and pieces of wrapping paper. The worst wrapping job ever but they don’t care. 
If you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever, the traditions that your family develops are exactly that - the ones your family had/has. All are ok and many are different! 
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We also put a gift card (for a tank of gas) in stockings. I always hated how our families didn’t ever acknowledge how much money and time we spent always being the ones who travel! Theytook their stockings when they married, and I made their spouses each one. If they are here for Christmas, they bring their stockings, otherwise Santa resorts to a cardboard box, lol.
DH is an engineer who only uses pencils, so I got this for his stocking. Musgraves are made in the US, too. His coworkers tease him that when he retires, they will have a pencil party for him.
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Funny, (for better or worse) I NEVER considered having the kids take their Xmas stockings with them when they set up their own household. I still fill them and, if we drive for the holiday, bring them slong with the gifts. D and H got new stockings for their family.
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When we were young and poor, I cut up a red towel and made stockings for each of us and a spare one as well as one for a guest. I embroidered the kid’s names on each of their stockings. Well, since S got married, I’ve embroidered DIL’s name on her stocking and each stocking is filled WHEN folks are at our home to celebrate Christmas. When BIL & niece were at our house for Christmas, I filled stockings for them as well and gave them each a few gifts so they could be included in the festivities.
No one has ever asked for their stockings and I never thought to give any away. S may be spending his 1st Christmas away from our home this year because D told him he can’t always come to our home, now that he’s married—he has to do what his wife wants too and consider starting THEIR traditions. He has reservations to come to HI in January—Haha!
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