@LaVikinga I may or may not have a problem with over-stuffing them to the point that we have had to buy progressively bigger stockings. Silly husband, he seems to think that buying larger ones will somehow mean I can't fill them to bursting. Challenge, accepted.
@jaremelz I made the stockings for my husband and each baby as they came along, and am still using the red felt with white rabbit trim fur my mother made for me when I was little. (I keep it mainly because I can remember her making it.)
I ALWAYS end up buying too much stuff to fit in the stockings, so I wrap the extra things in tissue paper (each person used to have a different tissue paper color because very children fighting over crayons at 4:30 in the morning was never a fun way to begin a Christmas morning), and pile them on top of the bloated stockings which usually end up being left on the hearth. One of the twins has a very small cow bell on the toe of her stocking. When she was younger, Santa always had to be in stealth mode & remember to shove something inside it to silence the early-warning system clapper.
@jaremelz My sister and I began filling my parents' stockings when I was in high school. One year we had WAY too much and had to make a trip to the store to get the stockings that could fit around a man's leg.
Last year I moved 2.5 hours from them and so my sister and I independently purchased stocking stuffers for the parents. My sister used up all the room in their normal stockings and they had left the huge stockings in the basement, so I ended up filling brown paper lunch bags.
@jaremelz I would suggest a large grapefruit in the toe of it. They take up a lot of space. My parents filled up half our stocking with things like oranges and grapefruit.
@pooflady make cloth ones (cut from felt) and glue inside to fix the size. If they are wool wash and dry (carefully so you don't now have 1" scale stockings).
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Well that was a placeholder, then the server decided the die... here is what I wanted it to be:
Will this teach me to not try to grab the first comment? Naw.
One stocking . . . one leg. Two stockings . . . two legs.
@Pavlov Would you laugh if I told you that this is actually what I got my husband for Xmas?
@lilystang No. I'd say you're a keeper.
Is chocolate a number? Because stockings are to filled entirely with chocolate.
It should be fully stuffed so that you cannot conceivably fit more in it.
@PocketBrain Stuff should be spilling out on the side, too.
@LaVikinga I may or may not have a problem with over-stuffing them to the point that we have had to buy progressively bigger stockings. Silly husband, he seems to think that buying larger ones will somehow mean I can't fill them to bursting. Challenge, accepted.
@jaremelz I made the stockings for my husband and each baby as they came along, and am still using the red felt with white rabbit trim fur my mother made for me when I was little. (I keep it mainly because I can remember her making it.)
I ALWAYS end up buying too much stuff to fit in the stockings, so I wrap the extra things in tissue paper (each person used to have a different tissue paper color because very children fighting over crayons at 4:30 in the morning was never a fun way to begin a Christmas morning), and pile them on top of the bloated stockings which usually end up being left on the hearth.
One of the twins has a very small cow bell on the toe of her stocking. When she was younger, Santa always had to be in stealth mode & remember to shove something inside it to silence the early-warning system clapper.
@jaremelz My sister and I began filling my parents' stockings when I was in high school. One year we had WAY too much and had to make a trip to the store to get the stockings that could fit around a man's leg.
Last year I moved 2.5 hours from them and so my sister and I independently purchased stocking stuffers for the parents. My sister used up all the room in their normal stockings and they had left the huge stockings in the basement, so I ended up filling brown paper lunch bags.
This year I told her to take out the big ones.
@jaremelz I would suggest a large grapefruit in the toe of it. They take up a lot of space. My parents filled up half our stocking with things like oranges and grapefruit.
@jaremelz Maybe make one of these to put inside of it?
How much stuff can you stuff in a stuffie till your stuffie's stuffed enough stuff?
@The_Baron thwap
I made the mistake of having someone knit stockings for my kids. They stretched. And stretched. And stretched.
@pooflady make cloth ones (cut from felt) and glue inside to fix the size. If they are wool wash and dry (carefully so you don't now have 1" scale stockings).
@Kidsandliz Thanks, but the "kids" are now in their 40s. I do know that one of their wives said no way, he has to match theirs.