"Stocking Stuffers"

[Curvigirl]

Okay, am I just cheap, or is $25-35-50 an unreasonable price for a "stocking stuffer"?

Gum is a stocking stuffer. Pez is a stocking stuffer. A cute little pair of novelty socks. Maybe a SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM lip gloss or two. In Laura Ingalls Wilder's day, an orange and a shiny new penny.

If QVC got its way, Santa would need to trade in his sleigh for a Brinks truck.

[Hellfire]

Unless you're Trump, Oprah, or Gates. I would say yeah, that price range is too high for stocking stuffers. LOL!

[sam king cat]

Generally, the stocking is for the drug-store variety of stuff but one year I found a very pricey gift nestled in mine. (I guess it depends if Santa thought you were really "naughty" or "nice" ....)

[Hellfire]

I'm always naughty so I better find something pricey in mine! LOL!

Other than that, I find the Dollar Store to be an endless supply of stocking stuffers.

[sam king cat]

I guess it will just have to be left to the perspective of the giver who defines if it is "nice" or "naughty" that gets the $$$$ gift.

[amber]

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Curvigirl:
Okay, am I just cheap, or is $25-35-50 an unreasonable price for a "stocking stuffer"?

Gum is a stocking stuffer. Pez is a stocking stuffer. A cute little pair of novelty socks. Maybe a SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM lip gloss or two. In Laura Ingalls Wilder's day, an orange and a shiny new penny.

If QVC got its way, Santa would need to trade in his sleigh for a Brinks truck.
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I would say it was cheap...that's why I go in that price range.

wow...didnt know I was living the high life lol

[Sparks]

Jill Bauer is a great one for suggesting ridiculous items as "token" gifts for people........like :"Oh, this $40 bracelet would be a nice gift for your child's bus driver...."

Uh-huh........

[teena]

ROTFLMAO at the PEZ, gum, etc! My sentiments exactly! They'll be showing some $50 item and say it makes a great stocking stuffer. I'm glad I'm not the only one - I was beginning to think I was cheap lol.

[PIA]

When I was little we got stuff like storybook lifesavers, bubble bath beads in a candy cane, lipglosses in a candy cane, McDonalds gift certificates.

For my son now I do the storybook lifesavers, bathfoam, candy canes.

[Rebel_Mom]

When my kids were younger, I used to love the dollar store for stocking stuffers. It didn't matter really what was in the stockings as long as they were full!

[Hershey]

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PIA:
For my son now I do the storybook lifesavers, bathfoam, candy canes.
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Pia, bathfoam for a boy? That surprises me somehow!! I didn't know sons would be into that!

[sam king cat]

My nephews go crazy for bath products. Any fun while in bath ... they'll take it. They especially love those fizzy bath balls that colour the water or anything that spritzes, foams, gels that transform ...in other words .. anything that turns into a mess it right up their alley ...

[sam king cat]

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amber:
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Curvigirl:
Okay, am I just cheap, or is $25-35-50 an unreasonable price for a "stocking stuffer"?

Gum is a stocking stuffer. Pez is a stocking stuffer. A cute little pair of novelty socks. Maybe a SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM lip gloss or two. In Laura Ingalls Wilder's day, an orange and a shiny new penny.

If QVC got its way, Santa would need to trade in his sleigh for a Brinks truck.
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I would say it was cheap...that's why I go in that price range.

wow...didnt know I was living the high life lol
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Amber, if you are buying Manolo's ... u r livin' the high life....

[KaliChris]

I put lottery tickets, pens, batteries, gum, candy and stuff like that. One year I got my son his own house keys with his favorite football and baseball team on them. To me, expensive stuff is for under the tree. That's the way it was when I was growing up too.

[amber]

to some standards sam king cat, but I grew up in chicago...there it's normal

in the burbs they call it rich LOL

some of you are cheap geez, glad I'm not in your family lol

[sam king cat]

Amber, I am not saying that all your 100 pairs are Manolo's.

[KaliChris]

lol Amber. My gifts for under the tree aren't cheap though. I'm one to overspend on Christmas.

[sam king cat]

Lucky Barney & Winnie!!!

[amber]

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KaliChris:
lol Amber. My gifts for under the tree aren't cheap though. I'm one to overspend on Christmas.
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yeah I can see that about you Kali

thank me and you don't go shopping together, we'd be broke in an hour lol

[KaliChris]

LOL Sam. Yes, even Barney and Winnie have their own stockings and presents under the tree.

Amber, that's for sure. You and me Christmas shopping together would be REALLY dangerous. lolol

[sam king cat]

Wow! Barney & Winnie must live in the kind of 'hood that me as an ol' Alley Cat would dream of having gifts +++ a stocking !! I look forward to climbing into the empty gift bags and rustling through the torn shreds of wrapping paper.

[Tinker]

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amber:
to some standards sam king cat, but I grew up in chicago...there it's normal

in the burbs they call it rich LOL

some of you are cheap geez, glad I'm not in your family lol
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Amber-I have to say, I am glad you aren't in my family too! I would never be able to afford you! I am more like Pia or Curvi. My kids are used to getting "fun" things in their stockings while the "good ones" are under the tree!

[sam king cat]

Amber ... you see if you were in our family .. we could only afford to give you either the left or right shoe ... but not both....you would have to wait until June to get the matching one.

[KaliChris]

Sam, Barney and Winnie like the boxes and wrapping too. lol

[amber]

Gee

I guess I'm annie now...no family wants to take me in lol

[sam king cat]

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amber:
Gee

I guess I'm annie now...no family wants to take me in lol
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Amber, don't worry ...."the sun will come up tomorrow......."

[Garnet333]

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amber:
Gee

I guess I'm annie now...no family wants to take me in lol
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Amber, I will take you :) I am used to it, my daughter is so much like you with her Manolo's and her Fendi bags, its nothing for her to spend $900 + for a bag. Somehow the lifesaver candy books just dont cut it anymore. Its really tough finding her xmas gifts but I manage :)

[amber]

Hey garnett :)

sounds like your daughter has good tase, nothing wrong with that right ?

[Garnet333]

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amber:
Hey garnett :)

sounds like your daughter has good tase, nothing wrong with that right ?
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Nothing wrong with it at all. She can afford it, she can buy it. LOL Now if I can only get her to send me her cast offs, I would be all set :)

[amber]

I would love to have a mom like you :)

[Garnet333]

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amber:
I would love to have a mom like you :)
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Thanks Amber, I can be one of your many adopted moms here on TVT. I already have one high maintenance daughter, I have plenty of room for another :)

[amber]

lololol

I am so spoiled when it comes to having mothers around this place

[beekeeper]

I guess I was spoiled. My stocking growing up always had jewelry in them (probably where I learned to love the good stuff! lol). It always had the pez, and gum and fruit and candy too ...

Today my stocking (yes, I still get one, my Mom insists) typically has a Joan bee pin, or money, or gift cards, along with the candy, etc.

[amber]

That's how mine are as well.

Thing of it is though, I could careless if I get stocking stuffers or not these days, infact I never did care for them when I was little.....who knew I was so lucky in that area lol

[Curvigirl]

Stockings are still my kids' (18 and 21) favorite thing. Come to think of it, they're what I remember most from being a kid myself. We actually used my mom's real nylon stockings (this was before pantyhose)--we'd hang them up and they'd be all dark and short, hanging there on the wall (we didn't have a fireplace), and on Christmas morning they'd be all bulging and transparent and stretched to the floor.

[kitten4762]

When we were little, my brother and I always got tangerines and walnuts in our stockings. The thing was... we always kept a big bowl of tangerines and walnuts sitting on our fireplace..they just took some and dumped in our stockings...what a gyp!
With my kids, every year I'd end up putting the stockings off 'til the last minute and then on Christmas Eve after they were in bed..I'd run to the only thing still open..the truck stop..and buy candy.
One year I got the stocking stuff way before Christmas and just went ahead and put it in their stockings..thinking they wouldn't check them 'til Christmas. Wrong! We still laugh about that. They're not kids anymore and get stuff like lighters and lip gloss, but they still check their stockings before Christmas, just in case.

[sam king cat]

Question: Should the stuff be wrapped? ... or not ?

[KaliChris]

That WAS a gyp, Kitten.

Sam, I don't wrap stocking stuffers.

I think stockings are fun.

[Skeeter]

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sam king cat:
Question: Should the stuff be wrapped? ... or not ?
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Ah, the age old question at our house, too......

It usually comes down to how much time "Santa" has to wrap whether or not things get wrapped.... LOL

:)

Skeeter

[kitten4762]

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sam king cat:
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No, because it was always just candy and trinkets for my kids...or the tired old tangerines for me.

[sam king cat]

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sam king cat:
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Ah, the age old question at our house, too......

It usually comes down to how much time "Santa" has to wrap whether or not things get wrapped.... LOL

:)

Skeeter
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ITA. Wonder if Bee is finished all hers tonight ... ? ( Wow!!) We might entice Bee to wrap all our gifts but ...we need to come up with a good incentive plan to persuade her.... What would she prefer:

A) QVC gift card
B) Movie & Theatre tickets
C) SPA vacation
D)Designer shoe & matching bag
E)Exotic Cruise
F)All of the above

?

[beekeeper]

lol ... DUH?!? That isn't a tough question now is it Sam?!? ;-)

I did wrap all my gifts last night (not sure where I posted that Sam, you're good). Sigh ... just sittin' back to enjoy the Holidays now ... ahhhh .... ;-)

[Sparks]

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beekeeper:
lol ... DUH?!? That isn't a tough question now is it Sam?!? ;-)

I did wrap all my gifts last night (not sure where I posted that Sam, you're good). Sigh ... just sittin' back to enjoy the Holidays now ... ahhhh .... ;-)
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Bee, that's brilliant! I thought I was ahead until I read your post. Enjoy the Season!

[Curvigirl]

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YIKES! No. I'd go nuts picking the bits of paper and ribbon out of my bed. The kids still go downstairs and grab their stockings, run back up and jump in with DH and me to open them. (Well, the older one has her own apartment this year, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear her key in the front door at 6:00 a.m. Christmas morning.)