Today we talk about stocking fillers.
Our family and a lot of other Australian families do large Santa Sacks instead of traditional stockings like those pictured above. Santa sacks are large, larger than a pillow case so therefore we can put quite a lot into them. My family usually get useful items such as tooth paste and brush, a bottle of Coke, deodorant, razors, box of tissues, bubble bath, jar of peanut butter, chocolate bar etc. I get most of my items from the supermarket and I love the challenge of looking for interesting and different items for placing in the "stockings".
We do a combination of wrapped and unwrapped items in our stocking and make sure that we set aside time early in November to wrap the fillers, that way we know if they are full enough and if not we have time to purchase a few more things.
Years ago a new tradition started in our family. We unwrapped our gifts and then had breakfast, we then realised that we had not done our stockings. Nowadays the tradition remains and we always open our stockings after breakfast.
For this wrapping party the reminder is to look at our stockings
Are they still in good condition, will they last another year or do you need to order new ones?
Do your pets get a stocking? (Ours do)
Have you started buying your stocking fillers?, if not make a list and get started.
Do you wrap stocking fillers and have you set aside some time to do this?
Share some of your favourite stocking fillers for
Man,
Lady,
Children,
Pets.
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