What’s Your Perfect Stocking Stuffer?
Your stockings are hung by the chimney with care. But here’s the deal: I’m curious about what you’re hoping Santa slips into yours this year. In fact, I think it would be really fun for us to all share some ideas for stocking stuffers with one another – the type of stocking stuffers that others on Making This Home might find intriguing. What do you say?
What’s something you’re hoping for?
What’s something you can’t live without and think more of us might love to find in our stockings?
For the sake of discussion, let’s say a stocking stuffer is something that costs $20 or less. I can’t wait to hear your ideas.
December 3rd, 2009 at 4:40 am
My husband always puts a lottery scratcher ticket in each stocking. A little excitement as each person reveals their card. Is that tacky on Christmas morning?
December 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 am
Lottery tickets are great! I also love See’s Toffeettes. Never heard of them? Google them and I’m SURE you’d love them! Small books of sudoku for me, and gummi bears for matt. Hmm what else? Books, and little toys for the nephews. I can’t wait to see what everyone else uses for stuffers!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:31 am
Swedish fish, gummy bacon (I know!), hankies, playing cards, chocolate gelt (had no idea that was a Channukah thing growing up), and brain teaser puzzles are going in stockings this year.
There will also be an orange in the toe. Very traditional in our house, four generations.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 am
Love the idea of brain puzzle books.
If I were doing stockings
-those little reusable shopping bags that tuck into little sacks for ease of carrying
-reusable glass straws from Glass Dharma
-reusble cloth veggie and fruit shopping bags from Ecobags
-maple sugar candy, because it’s a family tradition
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 am
I always get an orange in the toe like Sprout. I also like getting a large candy cane. Useful things like toothpaste and toothbrushes are always great.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:10 am
Bath & Body items… this year I asked for several things from the Aromatherapy Stress Collection. Candles, bath salts, etc…
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:32 am
A good nail polish and a pair of inexpensive earrings from Target, Kohls, etc. You can accessorize any outfit with those two things and – on days when I’m running on little sleep and high stress – it’s the little things that help a lot!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:04 am
I love and enjoy all year round receiving some special and yet essential
quality cooking utensils in my stocking!!
The rest of the family…I think enjoys getting car wash gift cards!
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:06 am
Bars of wonderfully scented french soap would be at the top of my stocking-stuffer list. For my husband, probably a DVD or two. Yes, it is possible to stuff a DVD in a stocking, I have done it before. :0)
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Satsumas are always in there, a Niederegger Marzipan (the best!!) makes my eye light up. I got an awesome New Belguim bike bell last year and a red flasher so cars can see me at night. Lip balm is nice too. One year my husband made a CD with this wonderful story NPR used to play every Christmas.
Some things I’ve put in my husbands stocking are: shaving soap, flashlight, chocolate covered cherries, homemade coupons, socks, flies (for fishing) I love finding stocking stuffers!
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
here’s a link to the story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5028755
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
Aveda shampoo! It’s under $20 but a bit of a “luxury” item. And one that slips perfectly into a stocking. :-)
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Stocking stuffers are my all-time favorite Christmas gifts! I hope for things like a dark chocolate orange, velvet ribbons, eco-friendly nail polish, little vintage baubles, gourmet hot chocolate mixes, jingle bells, craft supplies…anything tiny and unexpected!
December 3rd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Just bought stocking stuffers today, actually. My one year old daughter got some Gerber yogurt melts, girl colored sippee cups, girl colored eating utensils, hair bows and a small board book. My four year old son got a lollipop candy cane, Schleich animals (mama and calf cows, alligator- he’s working on entire ark!), finger puppet craft kit, punching balloons, kaleidoscope. My husband got wasabi soy almonds, Ritter Sport chocolate, fancy M&M’s, Godiva coffee. I would love some really good lip gloss, Aveda products, chocolate and quality kitchen utensils as well. I plan to add an ornament and some sort of round thing for the toe. Maybe an orange for the husband, super bouncey ball for my son and an apple for my daughter?
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
We always get an orange or two in the toe, and a Cadbury Fruit & Nut Bar (or a Symphony bar, for those who don’t like the Cadbury). There’s usually a CD of some kind, whether homemade or picked up secondhand or at the dollar store. I really like getting small books, earrings, and useful things of the type that I always want but never buy for myself, like scarves or gloves.
December 4th, 2009 at 5:09 am
We also do useful but fun in stockings… gift cards, chapsticks, new hairbrushes in the girls favorite colors, new mascara, hand stamped artisan jewlery…
December 4th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Penny candy is what I usually purchase for our stockings. All those different types of candy we had when we were little…candy necklaces, ring pops, candy dots, ect. My husband loves it.
December 5th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I loved getting a small potted ivy in the top of my stocking one year… and always an orange in the toe!
December 6th, 2009 at 7:06 am
My grown adult children choose stocking stuffers as their gift. Orange in the toe, chocolate orange in there somewhere. Earrings, luxury bath items, kitchen gadgets, dental floss, picture frames, pocket books, candles, christmas ornament, wallet/change purse, homemade apron, toque/scarf, cd, socks, reusable shopping bags, reusable lunch sacks, travel mug with coffee shop coupon, scrapbook supplies,….. so much fun.
December 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
I remember when I was little we’d get stockings from our church filled with a large apple, orange, a HUGE candy cane, and nuts. Can’t you just imagine the smells?!
December 11th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
When I was younger I would put a can of Diet Coke or Tab in my mom’s stocking (and Easter basket, haha) because she drank so much of them!
Now I give her Guylian chocolate shells and her favorite fine-tip pens in fun colors.
And everyone in the family gets some chocolate coins!