Christmas Stockings

Have you ever thought about where this Stocking came from? It seems that most countries lay claim to this tradition, but most experts claim that the Dutch came up with this custom almost 400 years ago. Children placed their shoes next to hearth on December 5, the night mostly associated with St Nicholas. The children would fill their shoes with straw for the white horse that was carrying the gifts and for the food for St Nicholas. Stockings, pillows, or commercial Santa sacks would replace the wooden shoes in Britian, Europe, America and the rest of the world in the 20th Century.

This is where we got the idea for Christmas Stockings. Now we have small Christmas Stockings for Gift Certificates to large Stockings that you can almost fit a car. I have always enjoyed my Christmas stocking, it always has nice small gifts in it as well as too much candy, but it is Christmas and I can always work it off in the new year! Christmas Stocking stuffers usually consists of small interesting little gifts, ie, CD compilations, DVDs, small toys for children and men. There was lots of little gag toys in my stocking, my father was Irish, and we always had to be on our toes.