A stocking stuffer is, say, Silly Putty. Or a yo-yo. Or maybe a Snickers bar. Or, in my childhood, apples and oranges and ribbon candy and maybe a candy cane.
But not a diamond ring.
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well if santa wants to put a diamond ring in my stocking... who am i to argue????
Right, I agree. When I was little it was candy and fun pencils and trinkets, maybe hair clips, and that kind of stuff. As my sisters and I got older, it might be a new toothbrush, or other useful things for taking back to the college dorm.
The 'big gifts' were wrapped and under the tree...the years that there were big gifts.
The other day I was thinking how I hadn't yet heard anyone ask me at work for stocking stuffers. This was a common question in years past. Yesterday finally one lady said she was looking for stocking stuffers ideas, and she was the first.
I think perhaps people are cutting out the 'crap' of the stocking stuffing this year because it's unnecessary, and instead just spending money on a main gift.
And while a diamond ring my physically fit in a stocking, that doesn't mean it should be there.
i bought stocking stuffers. i bought little tissue packets, soap, tooth paste, lotions, stickers and some odds and ends that i found through the year that i thought people would like. we got socks and underwear n our stockings until we all moved out. i was sad to see my mom stop that gift, i love new socks.
i wouldn't turn down a diamond ring in my stocking, but i'm not putting anything like that in one myself.
p.s. ribbon candy reminds me of my 86 year olf great grandmother. it was all sticky and dusty in the candy dish that sat on the end table for as long as my parents were alive, and she'd always offer us some (gag). i just can't eat it.
jilly
Please don't buy me a toothbrush for Christmas. Or a diamond ring, either. How about a wooden spoon?
Verb, it is a well known fact of life (on Madison Avenue) that you're not really in love unless you spend a lot of money on the loved one. The natural corollary is that the more money you spend, the more in love you are.
Tree, a wooden spoon? You kinky thing, you!
bert you made me snort. my mom had a set of wooden spoons for each of us kids and when we were bad, that's what they used to hit us. mandolin took a liking to wooden spoons so i bought her some, but i made a promise to myself to never hit her with one. my mom swaers that she still finds wooden spoons hiding around her house.
jilly
I am putting 3 lbs of old keys in Maddie's Christmas stocking (along with the apple and orange and walnuts)... I hope she likes them... they are not skeleton keys which are her favorite, but some are rather interesting.
I don't care for diamonds
Verbie, I really think I'd perfer a Snickers, a yo yo or Silly Putty ( I love the feel of that stuff!!) over a diamond ring
I just got the best word verification ever--
millarse
I think I'm going to make that my new nickname.
Verb, would the "e" in millarse be silent or pronounced?
I was thinking silent--kinda like "million pound arse" or something. :D
That's perfect.
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