Stocking Fillers: Minimalist vs. Extravagant – What’s in Your Kids’ Stockings?

We literally just got fruit. A tangerine apple banana pear or whatever. Looking back tho it was lovely, we would wake me mum and dad up (about half 3 4am) and they’d always be like five more minutes, The 4 of us all sit on one bed and eat the fruit while we waited 🤣
Now my girls get little presents in theirs, small gifts like jewellery, bath bombs, little gifts that fit
 
For me - stockings are like appetisers for the main event. Not big gifts
Body shop minis
Popping candy sachet
Lip balm
Chocolate money
Mini craft kits
Hair stuff
The kids love them
 
I always do small 'cheap' gifts.
My girls are 13 & 15. They usually get a Christmas bath bomb, face mask, box of maltesers or chocolate orange, socks. Then anything else small/cheap I come across. Maybe a book. Nothing too pricy
 
I ain for max 10-12 items. Every year we include chocolate coins and rice paper money & some sort of stress ball or fidget. As my kids are older now I've added a £10 gift voucher each plus vaseline pots & nose pore strips for my 16 year old daughter & roblox card game, mario rubix cube & pokemom keyring for my 12 year old son. Other than the gift card I try not to spend more that £2/3 per item. When I was younger we always got a satsuma and chocolate coins plus a few toys, we were allowed to open them and eat the goodies and play with the toys before waking mum & dad.
 
This year my boys each have -
Pyjamas
Socks
Bubble Bath
Book
2x Yoto Cards
3x Small Toys
Chocolate Orange
Chocolate Coins
Then main presents under the tree, Santa can only bring what fits in his sack so nothing large
 
Father Christmas brings our stockings. He brings everything you need (toothbrush, Toothpaste, socks, body spray etc) and 1 thing you would like (has to be small enough to fit in a stocking)
 
Chocolate coins, tube of smarties as fills most of sock, choc orange and something daft (flying reindeer, bottle top firing thing etc) costs no more than a tenner each stocking
 
Stockings I now tend to fill with edibles...no tat so it can be gone and in turn means no need to stress about finding homes for the gifts! 🤭🙉 I never wrap stocking fillers either.
I have a rule, each stocking HAS to have a Terry's chocolate orange and a scratch card in it...the other bits have to fit around these 😆☺️
 
Chocolate Santa
Chocolate coins
Tin of fruit ( they’re always asking for fruit cocktail)
Orange
Chocolate orange
Hair bobbles
Bubble bata cheap posh body spray they like
A book or something to colour with
Scratch card each
£5 greggs card
 
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