Went to walmart and bought up a bunch of $1 candies to use as stocking stuffers. They had a really big selection ..malted milk balls, sweet tarts in a plastic candy cane..bubble gum with christmas design..

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Our Walmart also. But I don't buy the 1.00 candy runs into too much money with 4 kids. This is what I do for my kids stocking stuffer candy.Go to Dollar Tree and buy their lilttle plastic box, jars or what ever they may carry at your store. If there's unwrapped candies I know my kids like I buy the big bag and fill the plastic containers and stuff in their stockings.A lot cheaper if you have more than a couple of kids to do. If I'm doing their classroom treat bags I also do it that way as well. Our dollar Tree had some of the cutest little plastic gift box, Santa and candy cane last week.

Now that the kids are older, I don't really put junk in their stockingss. And I never put a lot of candy in them to begin with. We are dark chocolate fans, so if anything, I put in some good dark chocolate like Lindt balls. Yummy.

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I got some small jars of honey to put in my daughters stocking. (She does not eat candy)
I was thinking of getting some of those small Knotts Jams if I found them.
My grandmother ALWAYS put an orange, an apple, walnuts and my grandfather would add one of those huge peppermint sticks in all of our stockings. That is a good memory!!
We would always have to give her back the fruit for her to make fruit salad though. :-)

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We always fill them with peanuts in the shell -- cheap, somewhat healthy and ensures that the sock looks nice and full...

We always got a pair of inexpensive gloves, some little personal care items such as chapstick and a bag of candy such as holiday M&M's.

Stockings were never a big deal in our family, we don't even do them anymore.

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We always got a large cadbury candybar in our stocking when I was growing up - it was my favorite part of my stocking! I usually get a large bar of Nestle Crunch for my oldest (the only chocolate he eats), My middle one loves lindt balls so I get him a container of those, em gets whatever strikes my fancy when I'm in front of the candy (she's like her mother & loves most chocloate, lol). DH always gets swedish fish.

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I always give each person their favorite candy ( Andes mints for DS, Pecan Delights for DH), small toys and puzzles, playing cards, candy coal , pez dispensers, etc
We have a deal where DS can have at his stocking as soon as he wakes up but must wait until 7am to get us up so the stocking keeps him busy.

*sigh* I remember getting those big peppermint sticks every year. I looked forward to them. I miss being a kid!

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My kids always got to dig in the stockings while I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast.They still do that, but they are not little kids any more. *sniff~sniff*

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I put lip balms, only 2 or 3 Christmas themed type candies (DD, age 7, blasts off on chocolate rocket because she has not mastered moderation yet, books, nail polish, perfume, usually a computer game or learning software, little indulgences that she asks for through the year and I say no to. She has this huge stocking she has always used. This year, she decided to use the Hannah Montana stocking her grandmother got her last year. She also gets a stocking from her grandmother each year and sometimes from her another lady that functions as an extra grandmother. lol

My dh loves andes mints. I bought a box for 99 cents last week at Rite aid.

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When I was a kid, our stocking always had:
- a "book" of lifesavers
- a variety of nuts in their shells (I still love raw nuts. I could eat them all day.)
- chapstick
- some small toy or ornament

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I do a stocking stuffer for my son. I had one when I was growing up and continue to do so for him. It depends on what I put in it, as he is getting older, but this year it will have: toothbrush, toothpaste, some type of candy, a little transformer, and probably whatever else I see that looks like he'd like it!