What do/did you usually get/put in your stockings?
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I'm sure some people don't do the stocking thing anymore after they were kids but lots of people still do as well. What do you usually get for stockings? What do you remember being in your stocking as a kid? For me some staples have always been:
Mandarin oranges, always a few of these in there.
Chocolate
Other candy
Dollar store trinkets
Scratch and win lotto tickets
Gift cards
What's in yours?
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He shaves about once a month, but should really do it twice as often, I think. I hate the pube-stache. 
At least he'll get some good candy (and fruit and peanuts) to go along with it.
Couldn't help it.
Would be hard to explain a random severed foot in there. 
finding that my toy was broken by my dad playing with it before I got to it was wrong 
just plain wrong I tell ya!
Actually that's kind of scarring
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They were alcoholics. I was an only child living with my uncle and an invalid aunt. We had a wonderful woman who took care of my aunt and raised me. Georgia May was the closest thing I had to a mother. Until I was 9 (when I was moved back to my father's house) I only saw my father and my first stepmother on holidays.
While living with my uncle, my Christmases were awesome. One year there was a train set with a 4' by 8' platform. My uncle had laid the track out with tunnels, curves, inclines and a figure 8 track. He spoiled me while I was living in his home.
You are one cool mom. 
And a bunch of peanuts, and small stuff (deck of cards, chapstick or lip gloss, little toys).
Our kids get fruit & nuts, too. And they LOVE those Lindt balls, so they get some of those. As I mentioned upthread, our son will get a razor & shaving cream. Our daughter will probably get stuff for her hair - scrunchies, etc.
I love Christmas morning! 
I will be taking my daughter to the airport for her return to Seattle early (very early!) Christmas morning - so we are having Christmas morning on Christmas eve (our younger daughter is needing to show some real flexibility on this one - she is such a traditionalist!)....so we will have two Christmas days this year - eve, and the real one!
It was a family tradition. Back then, my parents had martinis every night so kept jars of olives in the fridge. We'd all steal their olives and sometimes there would be none for the martinis. For some reason we all had salty food cravings - anchovies, blue cheese, olives, pickles, etal.
So Mom & Dad started giving each of us our own jar of olives for Christmas. It was originally a joke, but it became a tradition. It's been decades since we all got together regularly at Christmas and since Mom & Dad had martinis, but the last time we did my sister dug out our Christmas stockings and put a jar of olives in each one.
I think I will buy a jar of olives this year for old times sake, though I really don't eat them anymore. The first Christmas without my Dad deserves some special notice. 
