Started your Christmas shopping yet? Wondering what to put in their Christmas stockings this year?
Then read on!
When it comes to Christmas the first presents I buy tend to be stocking fillers, partly because I buy things when I see them so I donβt forget about them, and partly to help spread the cost.
This got me thinking that there are certain golden rules when it comes to stocking fillers, things no self-respecting Christmas stocking should be without.
5 stocking fillers no self-respecting stocking should be without
1. An orange. Or satsuma, depending on what youβve got in the fruit bowl. Why stockings should have oranges at the bottom of them varies depending on who you ask, all I know is that I always had one, and so do the kids. Itβs the very first thing I put in so itβs the very last thing they take out.
2. Chocolate. Whether itβs a chocolate Santa, a chocolate reindeer or chocolate coins, a Christmas stocking just isnβt a Christmas stocking without chocolate stocking fillers in some form or another. Am I right or am I right?!
3. Presents! It might sound obvious, but in addition to the aforementioned orange and chocolate, stockings should actually contain presents. I was horrified when Misery Guts revealed the gifts in his childhood stockings were never wrapped. Wrapping might be a job you could do without as a parent, but surely the unwrapping is half the fun!
4. Toothbrushes and pants. Or things that youβre going to have to buy them anyway. Christmas stockings are a great opportunity to pass off the more mundane items that they actually need.
5. A good book. I always put a book in the kidsβ stockings, something a bit special that I know theyβll love. Like a new story from an author they already know, or the next in a series we already have.
Do you have any Christmas stocking traditions in your house? Are there any golden rules you always stick to when filling stockings? Iβd love to know what they are!
This is a collaborative post.
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Reading this I couldn’t help but check off each item. These will certainly be in my girls stockings this Christmas #MMBC
Yes books, chocolate santa and fruit I definately put in my stocking X #mmbc
My family was a Christmas stocking family – my mother always had oranges, nuts, chocolate, and small presents. Some of my favorite memories. For years my sister’s family and mine did stockings with all sorts of little odds and ends – great fun! #MMBC
You’re the second person I’ve heard putting a toothbrush in. I’ve never thought of doing it. Satsumas, nuts, choc coins, a book and a toy are mainstays, and usually a bit of stationery and socks. Maybe I’m missing a trick. #MMBC
Some thing they want, something they need, something they wear and something they read is the mantra, I think, Everyone is getting a lush bath bomb that give money to a charity (the trans youth this year) from our santa. They all love bathbombs so I figure at least these ones give to a cause as well. Our santa doesn’t wrap. There is a present from us that is wrapped. I am traumatised by the environmental waste at xmas. #Dreamteam
Toothbrush, orange and chocolate will be in all my kids stockings still even as teenagers. #Dreamteam
My kids are 20 and 13 and they expect to have chocolate coins in thier stockings still lol. I always put pants and socks in them too and maybe a bottle of shower gel or something like that. I always had a satsuma in my stocking as a kid, something which my kids didn’t want to carry on.
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Always chocolate coins, pants, socks and a tangerine! Thanks for making me smile with this one on the #DreamTeam