Need a Christmas stocking filler idea?

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I had to laugh, I follow lots of travel agencies and holiday companies on Facebook, this morning a local independent agency opened their post with:*** Stocking Filler Idea.**** This was a coach trip to London, two nights in a hotel and tickets for Abba Voyage, from £249pp! Of course they couldn’t go on their own so you’d have to buy two tickets! That beats the tangerine, bag of walnuts, packet of sweets and the small toy or book I used to get! If that’s a stocking filler what the heck is the main present? 😱 :confused:
What did you get in your Christmas stockings?
 
eggyg said:
I had to laugh, I follow lots of travel agencies and holiday companies on Facebook, this morning a local independent agency opened their post with:*** Stocking Filler Idea.**** This was a coach trip to London, two nights in a hotel and tickets for Abba Voyage, from £249pp! Of course they couldn’t go on their own so you’d have to buy two tickets! That beats the tangerine, bag of walnuts, packet of sweets and the small toy or book I used to get! If that’s a stocking filler what the heck is the main present? 😱 :confused:
What did you get in your Christmas stockings?
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Yes, more or less the same as you: a small toy, a few sweets, a tangerine etc. Having said that, the magic wasn't quite there for me: I was aware that the tangerine was simply taken from the dish full of them on the sideboard 🙄. I guess that the concept was important for people of my mother's generation though (she was a child during the War): a tangerine would have been a rare treat.
 
I never had stockings until I grew up and met my partner. My MIL always gives us stockings. They usually contain enough shampoo, shower gel, deodorant, etc. to last the next year. Not special stuff just the stuff I would buy if she hadn’t. Or rather the stuff she thinks I would buy which has caused a few issues - like a very sore face when she bought cheap moisturiser.
It also contains an apple, a satsuma and a coin.
My partner also gets underwear but I feel it’s a bit too personal for her to buy me. But it does mean my 50 year old partner has never bought his own undies.
 
eggyg said:
I had to laugh, I follow lots of travel agencies and holiday companies on Facebook, this morning a local independent agency opened their post with:*** Stocking Filler Idea.**** This was a coach trip to London, two nights in a hotel and tickets for Abba Voyage, from £249pp! Of course they couldn’t go on their own so you’d have to buy two tickets! That beats the tangerine, bag of walnuts, packet of sweets and the small toy or book I used to get! If that’s a stocking filler what the heck is the main present? 😱 :confused:
What did you get in your Christmas stockings?
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Wow, that’s some size stocking, with a coach, a hotel and a whole London theatre inside!
We got very much the same as you, tangerine, nuts (taken from the fruit bowl and returned thence afterwards) any presents given to me by aunts and uncles that were small enough to fit in, and some small coppers in the toe (pennies and halfpennies, the odd three penny bit, and a sixpence if you see really lucky). It’s not that my parents couldn’t afford presents, we were lucky in that respect, but that they just couldn’t see the point of them. So I never got anything wrapped, and when I was old enough, I got money to go out and spend on what I wanted. I remember once, when I’d just left home, just to test her, I told my mother exactly what I wanted (Delia Smith's complete cookery course) and told her WH Smith had it in stock, knowing that she passed it on the way to Sainsbury’s every week. Just to see what she’d do. Sure enough, as the big day approached, she sidled up to me with cash, saying, you know exactly what you want, so you might as well go and get it..
 
Mixed nuts in their shells including brazils, hazelnuts and walnuts and monkey nuts, a pouch of chocolate money, an apple and an orange and a sugar mouse with a string tail (either pink or white).
 
Yes, back when I was a kid, you would get one main Xmas present that cost what for my Mum and Dad would have been serious money, I had two brothers, and the stocking fillers consisted of the cheaper stuff that our parents and our more peripheral relatives would buy for us. Because, back in the day, Xmas and birthdays were the only time that we ever got new stuff, Xmas was always really magical even though the presents were relatively modest. Even back then the adverts would be describing the main present stuff as stocking fillers, presumably to guilt trip gullible parents into spending more than they could afford.

Abba Voyage is totally worth seeing though, but as a main present obviously.

Chris Hobson

Thread 'Abba Voyage.'

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C Clarke.

I don't know the context of this quote. When I first heard it I imagined demonstrating a microwave oven to a 1930s housewife and imagining what her reaction might be. Having always had a fascination with technology and a reasonable idea about how stuff works, I was left feeling like that hypothetical housewife as the Abba Voyage show got under way. I'm quite an oldie now and I've been to a great many rock and pop gigs but I have to say that this is one of the most amazing things that I have ever...
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