First off - where the heck have I put them?!!! Arrrgghhh! I can't find them anywhere! And I can't find any in the shops!

I'll keep looking both in the house & in the shop and providing I find them in either of these places.................

Do you wrap the presents you put in the stockings? I can never remember what I do from one year to the next.

Just spend the morning wrapping the kids presents and watching Bridget Jones's Diary, she certainly helped me but never gave me any hints whether or not I should wrap the presents for the Christmas Stockings or not and never told me where I could find the blasted things, but that's them all done....bar the stocking presents as I will wait for the worldy advice from you lovely, gorgeous people! :xmastree: :xmastree2: :snowman:

I personally have never wrapped stocking pressies - but i know many who do. Each to their own really.

I love my stocking, in fact, i think its the best part of Christmas morning for me.

My mum made our stockings when my sister and I were small. And i still use the same one now. Even though im older now, i STILL get a stocking, and when Mr.B joined the family .... mum made him one too.

She stuffs mine full of makeup, knickers, smelly trial size bits and bobs, emery boards, sweeties - all sort of things.

Mr.B gets more sweets in his, and little games and pens etc ....

In the last 5 years we have done my parents a stocking each too. They get smellies, and sweets and i always put a mini bottle of champagne in mums too.

I love christmas :wub:

OOH I would'nt wrap the prezzies for the stockings.Not because it's too much effort or anything, but just coz I think there is no need.
Half the fun is in being half asleep and tearing excitedly into the goodies.
Takes a while to register anyway on Christmas morn...so I just would'nt wrap anything except the main prezzies.
:-))
I LOVE Christmas.......................

Stockings? You still get stockings? I wanna stocking :( I haven't got a mum to do one for me though and considering I've bought and wrapped my pressie from Mr C I don't think he will surprise me.

I might just go out again and buy a load of the bits and bobs that I've seen and would have liked while I was buying for everyone else and stuff a stocking full to bursting for meeeeeeeee :laugh:

Yes..do that ..
it will be glorious!
you can never have enough bits n' bobs at Christmas time.
:-)))

We've always had stocking - we each do one for one of the others, but this years we're finally giving them up and just having stocking for the babies:( .

I suppose it's time for the new generation to take over, and it did end up costing a small fortune, but I'm going to miss my toothbrush, satsuma and chocolate coins :cry:

We've always had stocking - we each do one for one of the others, but this years we're finally giving them up and just having stocking for the babies:( .

I suppose it's time for the new generation to take over, and it did end up costing a small fortune, but I'm going to miss my toothbrush, satsuma and chocolate coins :cry:

Aww Floops :cry: Why not still do it but scale it down and just have your satsuma, coins and toothbrush. Make it a private family tradition between you and cockers.

We compromise - wrap some - keep others unwrapped. My sons (17 and 20) ar still getting stockings this year! Maybe I should drop hints that Mum & Dad should have stockings too

We all get stockings. Hubby made them way back and we've added the boys as they came along. Usually it's fruit and candy and little things we put in them. We don't wrap the stuff though. Hubby and I try our best to make sure we do them after the boy's have gone to bed. Logan is 16 and then some but Spence is only 7 so everyone gets a stocking, because he still believes and I guess we'll keep on indefinitely b/c it's something I really didn't have as a child and have treasured SO MUCH with my children.:wub:

Both mine have stockings and we wrap the pressies, along with some chocolate coins, satsumas, nuts and other sweets. They just love them and go straight there before the big presents are opened. :D

We wrap all our stocking presents as imo it makes it so much more exciting, not only for the children but for the adults too! :holiday:

Still can't find the stockings - can ony think they must have got thrown in the charity bag when we had our massive clear-out in May when we were going to move. Anyway Mr B managed to get some Christmas stockings in Southampton........see it is good for something!

And I think I will go with Rob's idea of wrapping some and leaving some unwrapped.

And I don't get a stocking no more either, and since I am in the campaigning mood, I am gonna campaign for one and stick a placard outside for Mr B to see when he comes home from his final ever trip (HURRAH) from Southampton on Thursday!

I wrapped the babies' stocking presents last night. Cos there's three little ones around this year (my two plus my brother's one) we decided to each buy three items to go in each baby's stocking.

Gigi and Billy will get some good stuff, but I've got a feeling Eddie's going to get an awful lot of socks :laugh: :xmastree2:

'ere all, guess what? I've got a Christmas Stocking - whooohooooo! :snowman:

Dear Mazwad, bless her, popped round tonight after work with my turkey that she kindly got for me and she's given me a stocking with strict instructions not to open it til Christmas Day. Wasn't that a lovely thing to do?

She said it was for helping her when she was new to computers, but that was just a cover for being soppy and soft and nice and reading my message that I hadn't got one.

What a lovely s-i-l eh? Thanks Mazz :hug: :wub:

Aww, Critique I am delighted for you - little things mean a lot don't they? And what a Christmas Star, Mazza is! A wee smasher as we would say up here in the North!

:xmastree:

How lovely Crit, it was a very lovely, thoughtful thing for Mazza to do! I am so chuffed for you :hug:

As for you Mazza my girl, what a lovely kind heart you have :wub:

I used to love getting my christmas stocking. Full of sweets with a tangerine at the bottom.
I'll never forget that feeling of excitment when waking up and reaching over to see if the sock was fat, knowing that He's been. :)
I've not had a sock for a long time now, but I got this last year from one of my freinds and I'm going to put a chocolate and a cig in it to have on Christmas morning.

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Awwww Crit - im so glad you have your very own stocking. Open it with the excitement of a child on Xmas morning :thumbsup:

Mazwad .... would you like to be my sister :ninja:

And Bob - a ciggie in your stocking .... how wonderful is that - enjoy :thumbsup:

bhs do a fab stocking, not very traditional but fab nonetheless. its a leopard print stiletoe boot. and me having a fetish for animal print right now i love it! however i did not buy it, i got myself and bf mini stockings instead coz theyre too cute to say no to. and they were reduced and i get discount so i got them for a £1. but i couldnt let them live a life of misery being left on the shelf could i?