There are some Great Christmas Stockings - Fill them Up with These Stocking Stuffers updated ...

My mother would sew and personalize our Christmas stockings She loved to add that personal touch to our Christmas Stockings. She would actually sew a new one for each of us very year. She would find some nice Christmas material and proceed to cut out a pattern for each stocking and started to sew. She would embroider our name onto each of the stockings. Every Christmas morning, we would get up out of bed and run down to look at all of the cool christmas gifts, look at the decorations on the tree, and then grab our unique personalized christmas stockings that my mother had sewn and rummage through them. We would always have little Disney toys, candy, socks, and other little Christmas stocking stuffers. My father was Irish, so we would always have to be on the look out little gag toys, or practical jokes in our stockings I have had a Christmas Stocking since I can remember. There are  some unique and unusual stockings around these days. Our oldest son has an emmense Christmas stocking or should I say Christmas sack. The other two teenagers have large stockings, but now where near the size of our oldest! Of course our two cats have their own stockings as well - but they are small 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.  Most of us can remember how exciting it was for us to go through our stocking for food, small gifts and other knick knacks. My father was Irish so we always got some funny stuff in our stockings. We were lucky enough that we weren't bad enough to get a lump of coal.    At Fun Cool Collectibles we have several different Christmas Stockings 16" Trick Fairy Stocking The 15" Stewie World Domination Christmas stocking 16" Tinkerbell Christmas Stocking 6"Nightmare before Christmas Sally Christmas Stocking 6" Nightmare before Christmas Jack Christmas Stocking If you can not find a christmas stocking you like at our store - Check out my Christmas Stocking Store