What do you use for "stocking stuffers"?

[Boopster]

List your favorite items to use for stocking stuffers.

Do you use candy?
Do you omit candy all together?
Do you put toys in it?
Do you put personal care products in them?

Make your list here.

[Gisela]

Let me preface this with the "we are kidless, but kids at heart!"

Unusual/special candies or snacks that we don't often buy, like candies from local candy companies or something like Lavendar chocolate bars or even pop rocks, etc.

Cutesy things like those little packets of kleenex with interesting designs, small hand sanitizers, or the homemade soaps from the farmer's market (any HBA stuff that could leak/smell up any candy is put in plastic wrap first!).

Any fun small gifts: golf tees, stamp sheets from zazzle that I can roll up, silly putty, those super-grow pets/towels, a mini-bottle of booze, gift cards, cool pens or pencils, packets of interesting post-its, etc.

If Santa has bought me earrings, those happen to appear in my stocking too!

Of course, the obligatory orange goes in the toe!

[prop chick]

Reece's Peanut Butter Trees, + fun or funny candies (chocolate alligators, Disney World candy, etc)

Books/Notebooks/Journals

"purse" things, like nice/cool pens, calendars, lipstick cases, etc.

Cat Toys. (In the cat stockings, of course, lol.)

There's also always a surprise or two. Mom got all of us last year. My sister and her kids were here, and we tied the stockings to our chairs at the dining room table (Florida -- no fireplace, lol). All night, we all kept sneaking out, thinking everyone else was asleep, and stuffing more into the stockings. Mom got us all in the end with Reece's Peanut Butter Trees. She had hidden them in her room, wrapped them in paper none of us knew she had, then stuck one in her stocking, too, and acted all surprised when she found it, lol. We thought the kids had done it, lol.

[kdwTN]

Always candy.
When I got older (about 12) I would get a ring (real) each year. Gosh, I think I have about 7 rings in my jewelery box I can't wait to give to DD!
Hot wheels, collector cards.
Gift cards.
Anything funny and silly like whoopie cushions......
Personal care items where fun, too!

[tmgieger]

A lot of the same things Gisela mentioned. Also batteries, we do have one child so something always needs AA, AAA, or D batteries.

[Boopster]

I have to fix a stockings for girls at the following ages: 11, 9, 5, and 4 yr old and for boys 9, 7, and 5 yr old. I am going to stick a piece of fruit in the stocking first. Then put in a bunch of candies then I am stuck for ideas for each of them. They are all so different.

[tmgieger]

For girls, chapstick, lip gloss, sample/travel sizes of products. Hannah Montana, High School musical stuff. Often Dollar Tree has some of those things.

[KidsRN]

Most of the items above, and Dollar Tree is great if you really look over the selections and get the good stuff!
My mom always individually wrapped our stocking stuff-candy and all. I realize now all the extra work it took but will def pass on the tradition because it made our stockings so much fun and last longer!

[Flocky]

As my kids got older...I tried harder to make Christmas fun. So we started a tradition of hanging a stocking on their bedroom doors, and we'd play 12 days til xmas. Each morning they would find "something" in their stocking as we counted down the days...and then XMAS morning they would really get a haul.

My kids always liked Gift cards, or movie passes, Gas $, a new toothbrush, a favorite magazine.
I always individually wrapped everything too.

[Mrs. "G"]

I have to fix a stockings for girls at the following ages: 11, 9, 5, and 4 yr old and for boys 9, 7, and 5 yr old. I am going to stick a piece of fruit in the stocking first. Then put in a bunch of candies then I am stuck for ideas for each of them. They are all so different.

For multiples of stocking stuffer "stuff" you can't beat Oriental Trading...they have a lot of different things in the latest catalog, and all are very inexpensive. I order from them even though my kids are older ( 22,19, and 15 this year). There are always people I can surprise with a little treat if I have leftovers You should also be able to find a coupon code if you search the net...

[vegasmom04]

I try to get fun yet practical things for stocking stuffers such as warm socks, hot cocoa mix, candy, mints, small toys for a child, etc.