When you were a kid, what did you get in your Christmas stocking every year?   

My mom is still heavily into that even though I've never liked that tradition. Its a nice thought/gesture, but besides some of the candy most of the rest is all nick nacks and is never used. I wonder where that tradition came from. I think presents under the tree is plenty.

When I was a kid, I always got candy in my stocking. All sorts of different types of candy. Usually my favorites. A lot of years I got those lifesaver 'books' full of lifesavers. Then, I'd have a few small toys or other random items thrown in. Sometimes it would be small jewelry, or small toys that could fit in the stocking that I'd have to wait until later to open.

I remember there was always a 10-pack of gum, Slim Jim's, an orange, new gloves, bath and hair items, and a big candy cane.

I kinda wish we'd done stockings, when I was younger, really. I mean, so what if we didn't have a fireplace? We coulda tacked 'em to the wall, and at least then the candy laying in front of the tree would've been more organized..instead of just randomly laying around, lol. Being tempting in the wee hours of the morningk, before Mom and Dad woke up.

Candy and goodies that would normally go in stockings are still strewn about randomly on christmas morning for the family, heh.

Ah well...goodies are goodies, right?

Anywa, there would always be chocolate gold coins, blueberry flavored candy canes, and Pez..with maybe a few VERY small toys...like marbels, or toy cars the SIZES of marbles.
What was worse was, we couldn't even eat the candy before they woke up lol. We could only play with the non-wrapped presents from Santa lol, and the small toys there for us.
Which was kinda torture sometimes, because there were a ton of other presents just sitting there in their pretty wrapping.

Plus...growing up, we neither had the internet or cable...so it's not like we had anything els to occupy ourselves with on christmas morning *laughs at the memories*

If I ever have kids...or I "adopt" people when I move out, I will have stockings, I think ^_^

i remember getting stuff like books,crayons, stickers,jewelry,candy and stuff animals and hair stuff.i always loved the stocking stuffers.

I got the lifesaver book (OMG, I loved these when I was a kid! :)), a candy cane, a candy necklace, and some other little things I cannot seem to remember (it was so long ago, after all :P LOL).

You mean to say you had a stocking when you were 12? Do you still hang one up now? I think the last one I got was when I was 8 or 9. It was definitely before my parents divorced.

Hmm, I wonder if stores still have those lifesaver books. I haven't seen any in years!

I would usually get 5,10 or 20 peso bills, candies (fruitella's strawberry flavoured chewies), lollipops, mostly sweets... i would then imagine santa's white gloves with white fluffy edge on red sleeves sprinkling them inside my stockings.... merry christmas!

The LifeSaver books seem to have been a pretty popular stocking stuffer. I used to get one, too. Now days my mom fills a stocking for my husband, kids, and I, and I fill one for my mom and dad. These are the only gifts we exchange on Christmas. It makes it fun, yet inexpensive. I'm going to have to go get LifeSaver boxes now for Mom and Dad's stockings!

Each year I would get candy, little things like chap stick, and a coloring book and crayons. The stocking was the thing we were allowed to open while our dad slept in as much as he could until my brother and I would wind up being too loud and waking Dad up.

sounds pretty nice. i would usually get a handful of little toys too. and markers or crayons. then starting in junior high, every year i'd get gum too because i love gum. and, as i got older, perfumes, lotions, nail stuff. and any little things my mom knew i was running low on like make up products.

I got things like books, hair accessories, a CD, and some other stuff.