scrubbedexpat094

This is about nothing but I just found and and wanted to use them


Pathetic, I know

j19fmm

No no not pathetic see, I'll join you x

Stormer999

Bet the kids have to hide their toys with you two around.....

scrubbedexpat094

The only two kids in our household is the OH & myself . We still have Christmas stockings . We said we'd stop when we had kids but as we couldn't have children we haven't!

I hope we are still doing the stocking thing when we are 90

Until then :xmaspressi e:

florabundi

Good for you! My OH still gets a stocking and sulks if there are no chocolate coins in it. He also likes his own selection box! Tis only once a year ~ enjoy

Stormer999

Ha ha...I still get a stocking, fancy one now, used to be one of my dad's (clean) rugby socks, always had an apple, orange and walnut in the foot!....Ahh them were the days... We lived in a prefab in Llanelli, bit like a Kiwi house with dangerous walls...

j19fmm

My stocking was my dads rugby sock too ! Now it's one of OH's kilt socks.
Would be mad if Santa forgot to fill my stocking

scrubbedexpat094

Mine used to be a school sock but was quite generous & sometimes filled two. I remember putting out about 10 school socks one Christmas but only got 2.5 filled

We always had a tangerine in the toe of ours....happy memories

Stormer999

Posh...... I don't think they had invented them in my young days....

MrsFychan

we used to have a small pillow case with a few toys in and when they came in we always got a Terrys Orange. I get Terry's oranges for mine now and we have Christmas stockings hanging from the fireplace mantle which I put the orange and other sweets in.

chippy64

Mine still expect chocolate gold coins and a selection box.

love30stm

and mine still get them got two galaxy selection boxes

love30stm

my stocking was a actual mylon stocking, i get my kids bought pretty ones now

BEVS

I love the stocking concept.

Mine was a sort of crepe paper and string affair .It was edged with red crepe paper but the rest was string netting. I think Mum may have bought them from Woolies . My first memory of them was at 4 years old.
You went to bed and in the morning you could move your feet under the bedding and hear the rustle at the bottom of the bed. Would be pitch dark of course but sooooo exciting.
We weren't allowed to just get up and jump around making noise. M'Dad would have worked very late on Christmas Eve & be working Christmas Day morning also most years. So we'd wait for Mum .
Mine would have things like a snow globe. A kaleidoscope. Join the dots book.

The Christmas tree wouldn't appear in it's dazzling, tinsel ,glory until Christmas Day . Christmas eve was for story telling and family board games.

Pure magic.

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scrubbedexpat094

That's me, I'm dead posh . I have a feeling that I'm older than you, so they must have been invented then.

Of course, it could be a case of "Me being, considerably richer than yow"