Q Talk

[Shanus]

What an overused expression!  I hear this from all the hosts and vendors!!! Since when did $50-$75 items get stuffed in a stocking as an "extra"? Growing up, I joined many friends on Christmas morning and their stockings were filled w/ candy, lipgloss, $5 trinkets, and other small inexpensive treats. When did the anti get so high that cell phones, expensive jewelry, $30 & over shadow palettes, etc. become the norm? At HANUKKAH, a small gift each night was sufficient....focusing more on the holiday which  has nothing to do w/ gifts, but an effort to appease our kids who felt left out of Christmas. Help me out on that one, fellow Jewish posters. I've heard my non-Jewish friends say that Christmas has become so commercial that folks have forgotten the true meaning of the holiday. Perhaps the over spending, expensive toys, peer pressure & enticing offers from retailers are to blame. When my kids became teens, they received 1 reasonably priced gift on the 1st night. The other nights of HANUKKAH, we also lit candles & sang holiday songs. Not only were we giving them a taste of latkes, but the story of HANUKKAH not the gifts. 

[Trix]

In my family if you are given something like the $50 IT Holiday palette, it certainly is not considered to be a stocking stuffer.  For us stocking stuffer means a movie tickets, gourmet candy, cookies, or perhaps a couple pairs of socks.  

[wvumountiefan]

ITA. My son is in college, and he still loves the scratch off lottery tix I put in his stocking every year. I put some gas cards and other little gift cards. 

[Sooner]

Families are different.  Different people make different amounts of money.  Different people have different giving habits. . . 

I'm sure some people would view what any of us give as "extravagant and wasteful."  My mother loved to give people gifts and she went way overboard.  She did it because she loved us and was way more excited about giving something than getting something.

As ALWAYS, DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE BY $$$.  LOOK INTO SOMEONE"S HEART NOT THEIR WALLET OR BANK ACCOUNT.  Generosity, when given out of love, is never a bad thing.  Love is what it is all about!  

You can give your kids and loved ones nothing and they will be rotten; you can give them everything and they will be wonderful.  It depends on what is given and why and how.  

The important gift is L O V E!  

[queendiva]

Stocking stuffers in my house for DSs: candy, shower gel, toothbrush, Lotto scratch off tickets, socks,chapstick, a small toy, flash drive.

[stevieb]

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@Sooner wrote:

Families are different.  Different people make different amounts of money.  Different people have different giving habits. . . 

I'm sure some people would view what any of us give as "extravagant and wasteful."  My mother loved to give people gifts and she went way overboard.  She did it because she loved us and was way more excited about giving something than getting something.

As ALWAYS, DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE BY $$$.  LOOK INTO SOMEONE"S HEART NOT THEIR WALLET OR BANK ACCOUNT.  Generosity, when given out of love, is never a bad thing.  Love is what it is all about!  

You can give your kids and loved ones nothing and they will be rotten; you can give them everything and they will be wonderful.  It depends on what is given and why and how.  

The important gift is L O V E!  

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This...

And in addition, I'd add that growing up, I was just as likely to find a 'major' gift of money, jewelry, whatever... in my stocking as among the larger wrapped presents under the tree. Different people do things different ways. Likewise, there have been times when I 'hid' someone's 'big' gift in their stocking or even on the tree... There is no right or wrong as to how to gift others nor about how more significant gifts 'should' be presented.

[QVCkitty1]

It's a selling tactic, of course they want you to stuff your stockings with bigger ticket items. If that is what is done in your family, great, but keep in mind why QVC suggests it-- the sale !🎄

[Mz iMac]

[Krimpette]

We usually got an orange, a popcorn ball, a candy cane and maybe a couple of small goodies.  Nothing in the over $10 range for sure!!!

[PINKdogWOOD]

@Shanus  Bravo to you Ms Shanus!  Your last sentence says it all - whether of the Jewish faith, Catholic, Christian, Hindu, it doesn'ta matter, the true story and meaning of the season is not of buying & giving gifts.  Not at all.

I stopped buying 'stuff' for other people years ago.  It saddens me this time of year that few 'get' what this season is about.