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IntenseMagic

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Tell me about your stocking stuffers.
I'm pretty much done shopping and working on wrapping for Christmas, and I have a couple of stocking stuffers ordered...
silly stuff like these
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and these
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and I always include a few scratch off lottery tickets. Most of the time, I hit up Dollar Tree and pick up little deodorants, soaps, face masks, car stuff, and candy.
I'd love to hear what you do or have done for stockings?
Are they mostly inexpensive stuff, or do you put the good stuff in there?
 
I like to add homemade gifts that are created over the year. Hand embroidered hankies, silk painted ties, mini stuffed toys, homemade notebooks, keyrings, pencil cases, foldaway shopping bags, coasters etc.
 
So far, we've gotten out two older kids (21 &18) who have their own cars some gel stuff that's supposed to be good for cleaning up all the nooks & crannies in your vehicle. We also always get them those candy cane-shaped things filled with Hershey kisses, Kit Kats, or something similar.

We are getting our youngest (15), who is always messing with something in the garage, a WD40 pen. I always get my daughter chapstik, although the last few years it's been hard to find the Christmas flavors I like to get her.

I still need a few more things, too.

I like the idea of scratch-offs!
 
3BluEyedBabies said:
So far, we've gotten out two older kids (21 &18) who have their own cars some gel stuff that's supposed to be good for cleaning up all the nooks & crannies in your vehicle. We also always get them those candy cane-shaped things filled with Hershey kisses, Kit Kats, or something similar.

We are getting our youngest (15), who is always messing with something in the garage, a WD40 pen. I always get my daughter chapstik, although the last few years it's been hard to find the Christmas flavors I like to get her.

I still need a few more things, too.

I like the idea of scratch-offs!
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I did that gel stuff one year, too! Chapstick is a great idea!
The scratch-offs are always a big hit. My daughter won $170 year before last!
 
We always did one of those chocolate oranges in the toe of their stockings. Their new ornament went in the stocking. My favorite pens, toothbrushes, Burts Bees, gift cards, a pair of socks (it's like Inception...stockings in a stocking! LOL) When they were little, those Lego mini sets, Beanie Babies (one of the kids liked the Mario Kart series, so he got mini stuffed characters). Jerky, gum, Altoids (a family favorite), sometimes Hershey's kisses or Ghiradelli squares.
 
My tradition growing up was fruit in our stockings (apple, orange, banana, grapefruit) so that’s the tradition I kept but we do mango, grapefruit, orange, lemon and lime. I also add candy.
 
My girls are grown, but I try to include something-candy, makeup. For my grandson- it's little stuff, candy, games...always last min and with me trying to figure out what to get is a trick!
 
It’s going to be different this year because it’ll just be Rob and me here for Christmas. The married kids are going to their in-laws and Megan is on her mission.

We have usually done an assortment of their favorite candy/candy bars, a Chick-fil-A or another restaurant gift card, and a small toy, card game or beauty items for the kids.
 
As a kid, my stepmom would give me candy canes (my favorite!) and those little battery-operated games (like Battleship). One year I asked her to spend what she would have on my stocking on the Angel Tree instead. Finding the "a little girl got a dollhouse" card was my favorite thing I ever got in my stocking.

My first Christmas with my husband's family, his grandma got me a purple pen (which I still have) and a bottle of hot sauce from the gift shop of the park we did drive-thru lights in.

My husband and I always get each other Reese's. He's threatening to put Flair pens in mine this year and I don't know how to tell him that the heavily discounted gift pack of Flair pens I've been eyeing will barely fit under the tree :giggle Last year, I made a tiny painting of our son and put that in my husband's stocking.I have a very tiny Lego sets in bags for my son but he could care less about the stocking once he opens his newest card or board game.

My mom (who doesn't even celebrate Christmas) hit up every Wawa and 7-11 she passed to find me as many bags of the Wicked-branded wild berry Sour Skittles before they stopped stocking them (pun intended) and says they'll go in my stocking.
 
I usually put a mix of candy/snacks and tiny useful items, like toothpaste, floss, deodorant, etc. in our stockings. I'm also prone to finding little things that i want and putting them in my own stocking. :giggle So far I've purchased some glue sticks and some tiny magnets to glue to some watercolor pans that I 3D printed, so I can mix and match my watercolor palettes more easily.

I think scratch off tickets would actually be a huge hit for my boys, so I think I'm going to do that too.

This year I also got them each a band aide tin. :giggle I know it's so silly, but I have my band aide tin from when I was a kid and it just where the band aides go! I always buy the big boxes of band aides and refill the tin with those and then the little tube of neosporin goes in there too. Both of my boys have their own apartments at college, so I thought this would be handy in their own places now.

Dollar Tree is great for stocking stuffers!
 
Karen said:
I usually put a mix of candy/snacks and tiny useful items, like toothpaste, floss, deodorant, etc. in our stockings. I'm also prone to finding little things that i want and putting them in my own stocking. :giggle So far I've purchased some glue sticks and some tiny magnets to glue to some watercolor pans that I 3D printed, so I can mix and match my watercolor palettes more easily.

I think scratch off tickets would actually be a huge hit for my boys, so I think I'm going to do that too.

This year I also got them each a band aide tin. :giggle I know it's so silly, but I have my band aide tin from when I was a kid and it just where the band aides go! I always buy the big boxes of band aides and refill the tin with those and then the little tube of neosporin goes in there too. Both of my boys have their own apartments at college, so I thought this would be handy in their own places now.

Dollar Tree is great for stocking stuffers!
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Love these useful ideas. Now that my kids are adults, we stopped doing stockings a few years ago because, honestly, we were all getting a bunch of plastic-y stuff that none of us could use and that almost immediately was donated. Aside from all that, some of the more useful things were always candy, nice markers and scratchers.
 
I forgot to add that we always do an orange or two at the bottom of their stockings, too! Both my husband and I grew up with getting an orange and candy in our stockings, so it's fun to continue that!
 
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