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I am obsessed with finding new and unusual stocking stuffers. Debix3 posted a link months ago to a website and I stumbled across that old post today. They have some of the coolest stocking stuffers!!! Walt is getting a themed stocking this year. Everything in it is bacon-themed.
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Archie McPhee is a great catalog, but man, you should actually see the store! I think I could spend hours in there!!
I love stockings the best, and I scour the stores for must-have trinkets and doo-dads to put into them!
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DH doesn't stuff my stocking, so I never get anything cool. *hmph*
This year, DH is getting little iPod speakers and a Sudoku keychain in his stocking. I'm aiming to get him little things that will be useful, yet small enough, for him to take on the ship when he deploys.
DD usually gets a candy bar and other little things . . . this year she's getting a High School Musical watch and a necklace. Might get her some sunglasses or something like that. I just grab little things as I see them whenever I am shopping.
The kids usually get some little games/puzzle type things, toys, - and some kind of stuffy sticking out the top! The bottom always has one of those chocolate oranges in it - except last year!!! I couldn't find them ANYWHERE - even Chutters, Inc. -- Welcome which is right in Littleton - the worldest longest candy counter - they have EVERYTHING! When I asked - they couldn't get them last year either. This year - they're back - bought them yesterday while out Black Friday shopping - and they were even on sale - WAY cheap - marked down to $3, but they rang up at $2.50 each! I also include a toothbrush for cleaning those pearly whites after all that candy!
Candy, toothbrushes, stuff from Target's Dollar Spot (lots of Tink stuff this year!), as they're getting older, more bath & body type stuff, Webkinz, Littlest Pet Shop. Even if the rest of Christmas is slim, I like for the stockings to have all kinds of fun, cute stuff.
DH gets socks and usually something nifty, but probably not this year. I get whatever I decide to put in mine, sometimes an iTunes gift card.
Oh, and there is always a clementine in the toe...goes back to my childhood.
If anyone knows where I could get some more really nasty bacon stuff for Walt's stocking, send me a PM. Bacon toothpaste, bacon soap, anything like that. There are mentions of it all over the web, but I can't seem to find them - unless I want to stink up my house MAKING soap from bacon. I have to draw the line somewhere. Anything bacon-ish that fits in a stocking is fair game.
OMG Chrissi!! only you would think up a stocking like that!! I'm sitting here laughing my hiney off just thinking of ideas.. LOVE the bacon soap idea .. & honestly soap is VERY easy to make if you can't find it anywhere but I suggest .. Ebay!!! they do have a bacon scented spray on there..
& I definitely want to see pics of Walt's face when he opens all of his gifts
I am filling a stocking for my Dad this year and the kids and DH. If I want something I have to buy and give it to him to do it, this year I won't bother. But I am giving everyone an orange an apple and a Giant chocolate bar. In DS he will probably get a bookmark and a baseball. In DD she will get a mini stuffed animal, and toothtunes toothbrush. Dad will get a CD and a car wash GC.
My sister bought me the Shakespeare action figure from AMP last year - I it! They merchandise is hysterical!
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I do stockings for DH and grandkids. The grandkids get all sorts of stuff. Toothbrush, toothpaste, crayons, markers, stuffed toys, unique pens & pencils, activity books, reading books, paintbrushes & paints, basically anything that will fit. I start shopping right after Christmas and don't finish until Christmas eve. DH gets lottery tickets, socks, etc.
I love to stuff the kids' stockings! Usually it's just candy, gum, little toys etc. some CDs.
As they've gotten older, they've been getting things like pearl earrings, pearl necklaces, gold chains, etc. I sometimes spend more on the stocking than the gifts!
I, like Dawn, love the Target $1 Spot. Also, Jo-Ann's Fabrics has some great deals on stuff!
I just posted about those bacon products in your question of the day! DS gummy bacon....it looks so 'real' too!
Every year I try to come up with new stuff to put in DS' stocking. Sometimes I wrap the gifts in socks using curling ribbon to tie them closed. Certainly makes getting socks a little more fun!
I usually put little travel things in them-last year the kiddos got these neat pens that had Connect 4 at the top. One year they got miniature Etch-A-Sketch's.
I also always get the special holiday-imprinted Hershey chocolate bars and get everyone, including parents, grandparents, brothers, and sister one. They're always a hit!
Must haves for the kids' stockings are mechanical pencils, gum, mints, pocket packs of fancy kleenex and lip stuff (even for Jack ). I pick up other little things as I see them. I may be getting some of those bacon items for my grandma. Her two favorite foods are butter and bacon.
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There are mentions of it all over the web, but I can't seem to find them - unless I want to stink up my house MAKING soap from bacon. I have to draw the line somewhere. 
it! They merchandise is hysterical!
). I pick up other little things as I see them. I may be getting some of those bacon items for my grandma. Her two favorite foods are butter and bacon.
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