JFF - Who Buys the Goodies for Mom's Stocking?

OH my goodness....the things that my husband has put into my stocking!!!
A bright red bra...unfortunately about 6 sizes too small
Perfume that I wouldnt wear if you paid me a million dollars!!!
A sweet little necklace with a cross on it that he just knew I would love...he was right...except it was made for a little girl about 5 years old...no WAY it was fitting around my neck
And the real piece de resistance...... AN ELECTRIC NOSE HAIR TRIMMER!!!! I mean REALLY...who buys that for their WIFE!!!! lol I asked him if he thought I needed to trim my nose hairs...he said no he thought I could use it to tweeze the "witches" hairs that I am always tweezing on my throat!!! ROFL You just gotta love the man!!!
It is always a treat to open my Christmas Stocking....lol

LOL! The same one who buys for all the stockings. Hmm, who would that be? MOM!

Funny post!
Dawn

my husband and I don't have stockings, just the kids. We told the kids when they were little, that Santa fills children's stockings. Now they are old enough, they know the real truth, and they don't care, as long as they have beef jerky in their stocking.

I tell him and he buys it for me, and usually before christmas, and never wrapped... just once I want to be surprised nicely.

kansasmom I know your pain, my husband brought home a needle nose pliers once and put it in my beauty box, when I looked at him with chagrin like what the HEck ola is this... he said it was for those stubborn ones on the chin. He about got stabbed with it.

My husband buys stuff for mine. Although one year I did buy some candy for each person (M&Ms that came in a round M&M shaped container...I got each person their favorite color and got my daughter the purple "girl" figurine).

My MIL sends over a stocking filled with misc candy (like whole bags), toothbrush, and toothpaste for all of us.

Isn't it funny how the person that typically does the most for the family (coordinating, transporting, cleaning, cooking, shopping, caregiving, etc) doesn't seem to get taken care of by "Santa"? Just how good do we have to be????

Nothing, it's empty :(

'Bout time he steps it up....

I buy the items for all of our stockings...mine included. That way I get everything I truly want :)

WHY would a mom let her stocking go empty??? I'm a good wife and a good mom, and no way am I going to let my precocious kid think "mommy must be bad" because there's nothing in my stocking, lol!
I fill everyone's stockings, including my own. We all get the nuts, tangerine, and apple. The boys get a little kid candy and small stuff, I put a Toblerone with fruits and nuts in my husband's, and I put the chocolate liqueurs in mine. Everyone also gets a chocolate orange and candy cane. We all get little surprise gifts (mine aren't necessarily a surprise b/c I put them in there), and we all get one hot wheels vehicle, lol. Now if daddy wants to surprise mom with something in her stocking, awesome, but I'm not going to have an empty stocking because he failed to do so, lol!
I grew up with stockings for the parents as well (and the cat). We have a couple little cat toys for the cat, a giant bone and pull toy for the dog, and yes mom and dad have stockings too.And one gift from Santa.

My husband does. Once in a while if I see something perfect I'll buy it & give it to him to go in my stocking, but that's rare.

ETA--My mom also makes me a stellar stocking every year even though every year she says she's not doing it anymore. She does one for my sister also. Our husbands try & honestly, they're getting better at it, but nothing compares to a stocking made by mom!

I do...otherwise it's empty.

I buy myself little thing's here and there, and to justify it, I save them for my stocking :) I hosted a jewelry party MONTHS ago, and got some free stuff, it's been killing me to have to save it for Christmas!!

But as Beth said... Santa fills it ;)

Usually I put the candy in there. My husband, has, on occasion, added some small items. It was quite a surprise! :)

My husband and daughter, we also all fill up each others and have no idea what we are all giving. Most years it is overflowing and since we do not have a Fireplace our stockings are on the chair or sofas where we each sit in the living room! Pretty funny..

NO one, my husband dosn't even take the time to buy a gift. But it's going to start to backfire on him for being so selfish for all these years. the kids are older now and see how I do everything and dad does nothing. Their making up for it and my daughters have let their SO know under NO UNCERTAIN TERMS is this the way the will be treated. Oh and last year was the last year I'm buying my husband a gift. I'm shopping for myself this year Shoes on the other foot.

My husband does! I told him before we ever got married that stockings were my favorite part of all the gift-giving and Santa stuff, and that until I died, I wanted a stocking! I fill one for him too, of course. I think they're so much fun! At our house the grandparents get one filled by me as well on Christmas morning.

My kids do. I tell them it doesn't matter how much they spend, they can fill my stocking with handwritten notes if they have no money, as long as I don't wake up to an empty stocking. Last year their older sister took them shopping and they gave me lots of chocolates and a couple of beanie baby ornaments. Made my day!

Good for your husband! He's a keeper!

My children learned rather quickly how to participate in the Santa game, and they would pick up little things for Mama's stocking while Mama was picking up little things for theirs. Everybody was surprised, and everybody had fun.

My first though.... Santa.

I buy a few items and hubby buys a few.

You mean there is suppose to be something for me on Christmas morning?!?!?!?!

We only do stockings for the kids, but I never have a present under the tree. I hope that when the kids get older, my hubby helps them get me sorted out.

Mom's stocking? What's that? Only the kids have stockings in our house. They're older now and don't believe in Santa anymore, but even when they were little, they never questioned why the adults never had stockings or presents from "Santa" like they did. I also grew up with only the kids having stockings. To be honest, this post is actually the FIRST time it's even occurred to me that grown-ups can have stockings, too. Maybe it's time to institute a new tradition in my home...

I even got my own Christmas present "from" my husband for him to wrap up this year. I don't think it would ever occur to him to do a stocking for me!

I do and hubby does.
Get yourself some cute littel things you want or need & throw them in there. ;)

Good question.
No one buys for my stocking.
But, I do it myself... so that the kids don't wonder WHY Mommy... gets nothing!
I'm going to tell my Husband!
He's not one to think of those 'minor' details.
LOL

Ummm, no one. Boooo! I sort of refuse to buy my own stocking, I mean I buy EVERYTHING else for Christmas and it's kind of an issue for me. ;) I have told my husband straight up, gee it would be nice to get some stuff for my stocking some time...so what did he do? He went out on Christmas Eve and bought like 2 or 3 bags of small, wrapped chocolate candies and dumped them into my stocking. Gee, thanks.

would never occur to my husband to fill a stocking - mine or the kids - so I get stuff for the kids stocking and well, nothing in mine. maybe as other people have said the kids will call my husband out on it!

My sister does her own, i used to throw MAJOR hints of what I wanted and the kids and ex got them and filled it ; )

I do all of them :).

My husband and I actually did a lot of Christmas shopping together this year (first time we've been able to) but I'll still handle the stockings :).

<grin> I do!

And my son.

We have a family holiday tradition that "everyone" sneaks in one present into everyone else's stockings at some point during the night. You're NOT allowed to claim those, although we sometimes do guessing games. My son has never known his dad doesn't participate in this tradition.

Hubby fills mine up. :)

wow K. you are a genius. i totally need to have that conversation with my hubby!

i do, otherwise, as others have said, it is empty and that is sooo wrong lol. i don't get much, this year some cute kitchen towels, and hubby is getting boxers lol (that's something he actually asked for believe it or not!). the cat is getting a new collar and the dog is getting a new bone. just so there is SOMEthing. of course the kid gets the good haul! :)

I've never heard of a stocking for mom and dad.

We always have a filled a stocking for daughter.

It has never been questioned because Santa has always been associated with children around here.

I've not had a stocking since I was a kid and I really don't feel like I am missing out on anything.

i do all of it... husband and kids do nothingggggggggggggggggggg

*pft* Ah yah, I do it myself in this house! If it weren't for me my children wouldn't have a tree or decorated or yard or house decor. Yah, I buy my own candy to fill, just enough look like Santa stopped by and never as big as the kids. Course, I don't go hog wild on hubby either. He's not one for eating candy anyway but I'm not giving him more than I give myself. And I have had the kids wonder why Santa didn't give as much to Mommy. I tell them that Santa knows I shouldn't have too much candy at my age and weight, lol.

K. B
mom to 5 including triplets

my husband and I have always done our stockings we do them when we wrap our gifts usually it is perfume some sock or jewelry or a cd his is usually the same accept the Christmas eve gift in his stocking that is only for him.

In our house, the stockings are just for children, hubby and I don't have them for ourselves, so it wasn't an issue here.

My mom (single parent) bought for herself, but my sister and I contributed after we outgrew Santa. Our family stockings are hung already and the family will stick little things in each other's stockings, though DH and I fill each other's. It's nice to realize that SD bought me some new nail polish and tucked it in there, or a candy bar or whatever. I don't know if she peeks, but SD isn't supposed to look before Christmas. DD doesn't really notice yet. Bulk of the stuff goes in on the 24th.

That's how we exchange gifts to each other (hubs and I). He fills mine and I fill the rest.

This year with the oldest being 4, we will each take them shopping to buy for the rest of the family. Hubby does a great job at doing this. Of couse I do the rest of the shopping and keep asking him what he thinks of each purchase or proposed purchase for the girls.

We even have a stocking for the dog and our DD mentioned the dog in her letter to Santa. Dang it! There's another $5-10! Good thing we are getting low on treats!

Santa fills the kids stockings. Mom and dad fill each others :) It would be so sad to fill my own. I love the surprises, like blue eye shadow and yellow nail polish...eek! He also does some really cute things too. My husband and i open our stockings and gifts to each other on christmas eve. This way it does not interfere with santa, and it is our special moment.

My hubby always buys my "big" gift from Santa...usually diamonds. =) And he adds in a few small things. Sometimes I add something if I find something little that I would like while Im shopping for everyone else. I like to see hubby surprised at what Santa brings me too. =)

We've always told our kids that Santa only brings gifts for the children, adults don't get their stockings filled. We hang them to decorate but my kids never questioned that part?? A couple of years ago, my girls got the idea to start putting a "gag" gift in daddy's stocking and it has become a funny Christmas morning tradition. They arrange the full deal. For me, the stocking remains empty :( Maybe one day I will get something!

I bought stuff for my own till the kids were old enough to notice. then hubby did it for a few years til they knew there was no santa. have had a lot of years with nothing in my stocking lol. If I don't buy stuff and put in there would be nothing in it. I do stockings for hubby and kids still. once in a while the kids will remember hey better put something in moms stocking.

What a great question. My then 5 yo daughter put the screws to my husband last year: "Why didn't mama get anything in her stocking, but you and I did, Daddy?" Dad looked stumped. And embarrassed. We'll see what happens this year!