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The Legend of Hanging Stockings and How the Tradition Began

celticeagle @celticeagle (189917) • Boise, Idaho 15 Dec 24

Have you ever wondered why we hang up stockings during the holiday season? And how do we wake up on Christmas morning to find them filled with tiny gifts and candy? One of the most popular legends about the tradition's origins is...

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My midnight question

Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (44560) • United States 8 Dec 21

"Santa" has always filled our Christmas stockings on Christmas Eve after everyone's gone to bed. It's usually candy, maybe fruit, and a small stocking stuffer. For the last few years, Santa has come to the conclusion that none...

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Question For Today- Favorite Stocking Stuffers

DB @dgobucks226 (37621) 24 Dec 19

It's the holiday season and time to buy gifts for those special people in your life. I like getting and buying a stocking stuffer. They are neat little gifts, inexpensive, and most times very useful. So what kind of stocking...

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Making mini Christmas stockings....

****DANIELLE**** @VivaLaDani13 (60812) • Perth, Australia 24 Dec 19

Hello! I really hope everyone is doing well! I wanted to show you what I have been making my family and some of my friends. I wanted to make bigger Christmas stockings for everyone but I couldn't afford enough...

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The Stockings Were Hung By the Chimney With Care

Susan @HazySue (39265) • Gouverneur, New York 22 Dec 18

Do you hang stockings out for Santa every year? We still do even though we no longer have children living in our home. It is something we do for all of our children, grandchildren, husbands. and animals. It just seems to be one...

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Christmas Cards & Stockings

Teresa Trotter @teresatrotter (4073) • Jacksonville, Florida 20 Nov 18

I love receiving Christmas Cards. And the little girl in me loves the Christmas Stocking too. Before my mom passed away, she always made sure I had one. No matter how old I get, there is nothing more fun that receiving a...

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What does Father Christmas/Santa Claus bring to your household?

Fleur @Fleura (35065) • United Kingdom 26 Dec 17

In the week or two after Christmas, adults trying to be friendly often ask the girls ‘What did Father Christmas bring you?’ and the girls, trying to be polite, will tell them what they found in their stockings – usually little...

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Stocking stuffers.

April @thislittlepennyearns (68246) • Defuniak Springs, Florida 17 Dec 16

At some point over the next few days I need to go get the misters stocking stuffers and stocking so that he has that to open on Christmas day. What kind of things do you put in stockings?

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Mini stockings

C @ShyBear88 (59342) • Sterling, Virginia 4 Dec 16

I found how to make mini stockings and I thought they would be cute to give to my daughters teachers and her bus drivers. It was very easy to make and supper cute I have to say as well. I'm going to put a few little goodies in...

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Stockings For My Furbabies

Sharon @simone10 (54180) • Louisville, Kentucky 4 Dec 16

The picture above is the stockings my brother bought for Daisy and Bella. They are just the cutest things. He either bought them at Home Depot or Lowes...can't remember which one. They have buttons on their ears and when you...

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Decorations Hung by the Chimney with Care

Jeff Moffitt @moffittjc (128837) • Gainesville, Florida 7 Dec 15

As I was getting ready to head into work tonight, my boss texted me and said she wanted me to finish decorating the office with the holiday decorations, because we are expecting visitors from our corporate office tomorrow...

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Fun and Thrifty Christmas Ideas

Sherry @norcal (4889) • Franklinton, North Carolina 4 Dec 15

I usually don't go overboard too much with the Holiday spending. My siblings and I have pretty much always agreed that we don't give each other gifts for Christmas. Also, we all focus on our own kids. It would get really out of...

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With Thanksgiving upon us & Christmas just around the corner, are you ready?

RescueLady @bizness (866) • United States 21 Nov 12

I still don't have everything for my Thanksgiving dinner! Hee hee! But I'm working on it...as for Christmas, I have a few stocking stuffers but that's about it. I'm bad at waiting til the last minute, partly due to lack of funds!...

do you believe that wearing stockings look sexy if not in fashion also ?

aweins @aweins (4198) • India 10 Jul 11

i love stockings and i wear them since childhood. when i use to be in school then we had stockings which we use to wear under skirt .our uniform was a skirt and shirt , a tie with skin color socks and school socks over them. in...

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Knitting things for christmas

jugsjugs @jugsjugs (12967) 14 Nov 10

I can remember knitting mini stockings, for a few people and adding a few sweets,so that they could hang them on their tree for their children, also i did them one year for all the children in my sons class,that took ages.I was...

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suspenders or no suspenders

benny128 @benny128 (3615) 16 Apr 10

hey all I am a typical guy I would guess and love to see women in nice undies and stockings and suspenders and knee boots. To the Guys am I a typical male do you guys share my views To the Women would you wear them and do...

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Holiday Gifts for Pets

Winona Morris @nonersays (3344) • United States 24 Dec 09

Do you buy Christmas gifts for your pets? Do they get their own stockings? This year we bought the dogs new frisbees for christmas, and they got a bag of Beggin Strips in their stocking. They even get to open their own...

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Christmas Socks/Stockings: Do you hang one?

meembuh @meembuh (78) • Philippines 1 Dec 09

Its December already and Christmas is just around the bend. 24 days to count down... Me and my sister had a tradition on hanging christmas socks/stockings during our younger days. When we were kids, we used to hang stockings on...

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Have you put up your Christmas decorations yet?

puttycat1 @puttycat1 (58) 30 Nov 09

So have you put up your Christmas trees? Hung up your stockings? Put tinsel everywhere possible? Blinded your neighbours with outside lights? Set up your crib? Put flashing antlers on your dog or cat for comedy purposes?:-P So...

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How do you keep your stockings in a good condition?

paulakool17 @paulakool17 (123) • Philippines 10 Jun 09

To all ladies, how do you keep your stockings in a good condition and keep it from running?

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