Christmas Stockings

[wow]

Christmas Stockings for me are one of the most beautiful christmas decorations in the home. When they are personalised they show a family togetherness and unity which is really what Christmas is all about. There is nothing nicer than sitting back by the fire with the family stockings hanging over the fireplace waiting for santa. I love Christmas!! What the stockings are filled of is irrelevant

[onemagicalchristmas]

I agree! I try to find unique stockings because I can't sew !

[PumpkinJack81]

My wife's maternal grandmother sewed each family member their own unique stocking. They are so lovely and special to the family!

[Treefairy]

Has a child I would always get a satsuma, a chocolate orange, nuts and various cheap plastic items, such as a water pistol or bubbles in my stocking - and I must admit I loved, all these items - What did you all get as children in your stockings?

[onemagicalchristmas]

Has a child I would always get a satsuma, a chocolate orange, nuts and various cheap plastic items, such as a water pistol or bubbles in my stocking - and I must admit I loved, all these items - What did you all get as children in your stockings?

We always got nuts, orangles, apples, candy. I don't remember getting any toys in our stockings. :tree:

[Mistletoe]

Has a child I would always get a satsuma, a chocolate orange, nuts and various cheap plastic items, such as a water pistol or bubbles in my stocking - and I must admit I loved, all these items - What did you all get as children in your stockings?

Depending on my age, I got candy, make-up, jewelry, hair ornaments, coloring book and crayons/colored pencils, reading book, stuffed animals... I believe I got the little toys, but I can't remember specifically...

We never got fruit, but I believe my grandparents did in theirs.

[onemagicalchristmas]

I like to find cute odds and ends to put in stockings for my family. The easiest ones are for my fur babies the hardest isfor my greats! they are all into different things!

[grottogirl84]

hey!
gosh haven't been on here since xmas!!arent i terrible!???i still love it promise!so am i missin out on much?? who's having a cheeky think about xmas yet????:carols:

[Mistletoe]

hey!
gosh haven't been on here since xmas!!arent i terrible!???i still love it promise!so am i missin out on much?? who's having a cheeky think about xmas yet????:carols:

haha... heck, it's almost June (only 32 weeks away from Christmas), which really isn't that much time at all!

[onemagicalchristmas]

I better get busy then!

[MelindaB]

I used to have the best stockings in the world, and then my family grew. After 4 years of looking for matching stockings, I am finally giving up and buying new ones this year.

[devoy26]

i bought some christmas decorations last week. got so excited when i saw the new stuff in the shops. spent a fortune. cant wait for december :dizzy:

[gandr1212]

When my daughter was young and deciding if "SANTA" was real she caught me putting gifts under the tree. Later her conclusion was -- "I know that you buy us our christmas gifts, but I'm not sure about the Stockings". THen a few years later I let her down and forgot to fill the stockings early and got caught.

That's life

Gail

PS - I hope I didn't ruin it for some of you ! Yes there is a Santa if you want to believe it.

[kimmy]

as a child we didnt have stockings, we just had christmas sacks, but once my first child was born i brought christmas stockings to hang on the fire place and i love them, now i have another child and we all have matching stockings with our names personalised on them and they look lovely over the fireplace, i cant wait to put them all up this year, i love finding small gifts to put into them. we also have matching stocking holders that go onto the fireplace, they are similar to these
http://www.christmaspeople.com/santa-stocking-holders/24981.asp

[KrisKringleforSingles]

I have mini stockings (they're actually from Godiva). They're so cute and perfect to hang on the mantel of my fake fireplace.:home:

[ChantelleJoy]

My mother (or was it my Grandmother?) had knit both me and my brother personal stockings a long, long time ago - we've had them for as long as I can remember, but they were so nice they were considered the Decoration Stockings. We had plain red (albeit larger, so I was happy with that) stockings, and they were always filled with chocolates, candy, little toys, Hair Things for me/Car things for my brother.

Did anybody elses parents individually wrap the stocking presents too? (I think that this was so that my mother got to sleep in more since we were allowed to open our stockings before waking her up!)

[ANGWife]

I love shopping for stocking stuffers all year long!

[angelpugs]

I have quilted stockings and a couple regular stockings as my mom use to wrap our stocking gifts and i still do this as it is fun.our stockings always hung by our fireplace and our tree was in the window next to the fireplace.:christmastree::waving:

[ChristmasFanatic]

When I was a kid and even now, I've always had the red stocking with the fluffy white trim. As a kid, mom decorated my two younger brothers and my stocking with writing our names in glue and putting glitter on the name to fancy it up.

We usually got an orange, a popcorn ball, a few nuts and smaller candy in our stockings and maybe even small gifties and stuff like bubble bath or Avon items. Then, I believe I mentioned this in a different post, Mom decided she and Dad should stay home on New Year's Eve and be with us kids and as chance would have it, that year, she felt like she didn't really have much to put in our stockings, so when she and my Aunt came home from Midnight Mass, she had my Aunt write a note, as Santa, explaining he'd taken our stockings back to the North Pole and would return them on NYE. So, the tradition was born and from that time on, stockings were the highlight of NYE.

We still do this, today! It's cool, because we hit a lot of the after Christmas sales and get items that are fun and it still gives us something to look forward to.

[CandyKara]

I wish I could sew my own stockings, I can't find what I'm looking for and won't settle!

[Ellie]

I wish I could sew my own stockings, I can't find what I'm looking for and won't settle!

You sound like me! I'm always on the lookout for something different. What kind of stockings are you looking for?

[Marshmallow World]

Christmas Stockings for me are one of the most beautiful christmas decorations in the home. When they are personalised they show a family togetherness and unity which is really what Christmas is all about. There is nothing nicer than sitting back by the fire with the family stockings hanging over the fireplace waiting for santa. I love Christmas!! What the stockings are filled of is irrelevant

Maybe you can help me understand why Christmas stockings mean family togetherness and unity to you. I really want to understand that.

My mother's six children did not have stockings growing up and my husband and I only put up stockings a few times for our children. I never knew what to put in stockings. Older children aren't interested in cheap gifts and we couldn't afford expensive gifts. I thought, "Why spend ten dollars per stocking on something no one wants and who can spend fifty dollars times four for children's stockings?" So I ditched the stockings. Now the kids are grown. I hang two stockings. DH's stocking has little boys' toys in it. Mine has little girls' toys. The grandkids get to play with them.

We had identical stockings last year, one hung on each side of the armoire:

http://i774.photobucket.com/albums/yy27/DiademRose/Christmas%20Displays%20in%20Our%20Home/ChristmasStocking2008-1.jpg

[Ellie]

Maybe you can help me understand why Christmas stockings mean family togetherness and unity to you. I really want to understand that.

My mother's six children did not have stockings growing up and my husband and I only put up stockings a few times for our children. I never knew what to put in stockings. Older children aren't interested in cheap gifts and we couldn't afford expensive gifts. I thought, "Why spend ten dollars per stocking on something no one wants and who can spend fifty dollars times four for children's stockings?" So I ditched the stockings. Now the kids are grown. I hang two stockings. DH's stocking has little boys' toys in it. Mine has little girls' toys. The grandkids get to play with them.

We had identical stockings last year, one hung on each side of the armoire:



That's a cute idea with the toys. However, I'm with you. I only remember them maybe one or two Christmases when I was growing up. My mother put in fruit and nuts a few times, never any gifts. Now, my kids and grandkids don't really use them either. I hang them more for decoration than anything. I guess they would be a good place for gift cards.

[Marshmallow World]

That's a cute idea with the toys. However, I'm with you. I only remember them maybe one or two Christmases when I was growing up. My mother put in fruit and nuts a few times, never any gifts. Now, my kids and grandkids don't really use them either. I hang them more for decoration than anything. I guess they would be a good place for gift cards.

I'm not critical of those who enjoy them so much. I'm wondering if my family is really different from other families. I love them for decoration. If I put a gift card in one, I'd just hang a little stocking. But, anyway, I do think there are some beautiful stockings out there! And I can see putting candy in them or homemade cookies.

[gandr1212]

I used to have the best stockings in the world, and then my family grew. After 4 years of looking for matching stockings, I am finally giving up and buying new ones this year.

Why buy New ? Just add to those? Use your "Perfect Ones" in one place and distribute the others out. You could let each child Pick his own then hang it on his door.

When my children got old enough to start buying each other gifts, they would buy a stocking stuffer.

Gail

[KrisKringleforSingles]

Stockings for my family weren't so big either. The closest thing to stockings was when we celebrated St. Nikolaus Day on Dec. 6, German style. We would put one of our boots outside and the next day we would find something in it, usually a small chocolate or something.