Alpo Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 When you was a kid. I've heard and read about people getting small toys. We never got toys. Not IN it. Since we didn't have a fireplace, we hung our stockings on our chairs at the dinner table. Stuff under the tree, wrapped, was from our folks and uncles and aunts and like that. SANTA'S stuff was not wrapped, and he put it on the table at our place (like my older brother's Polaroid Swinger camera in 1967) or on the floor next to it (like my younger brother's bicycle the same year). But IN the stocking was food. Hershey's kisses. A Lifesaver book. Some homemade chocolate chip cookies or fudge. And always - ALWAYS - a huge red delicious apple and a great big navel orange. My folks grew up poor in the 20s. An apple or an orange in the middle of winter was probably a helluva thing. So they did it with us. I grew up thinking a Christmas stocking has an apple and an orange in it. I did it with my kids. They weren't impressed. My wife didn't get it. My grandgirls certainly wouldn't get it, as there is a bowl of fruit sitting on their counter all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 My parents always stuck candy and batteries for the toys in the stockings. Nowadays I just get the socks for Christmas with nothing in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Willie Nelson Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 'bout the same as Alpo... and definitely the same as Sixgun now days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 We always had an orange, but I don't recall apples. We'd also have candy canes and other candies, and usually at least one small gift. I'm pretty sure the fruit was just to fill the stocking. My wife informs me that it's supposed to be tangerines, not oranges. I think that's a british thing. Maybe we did have tangerines, I'm not sure I can remember the difference 30 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 When I was a kid, oranges,candy, candy canes, maybe some Hersey's kisses. Now..................lint! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 I only recall having stockings for a couple of Christmas’ as a kid. We had some nuts and candies and a couple of small cheap toys. We were kind of poor. These days I put jewelry in my wife’s and daughter’s stockings, ammo and gadgets in my Grandson’s and oddball gadgets in my son-in-law’s. And all of them get some chocolate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Candy canes, small Hershey bars and kisses and Torrone (Italian nougat candy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Always an orange and a Hershey, Baby Ruth or Payday candy bar. My folks were poor and we were happy with what we got. Step dad had a sixth grade education and usually worked two jobs, mom had some college but not much. My birthday is close to Christmas so it was usually the same presents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Tracker Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Stockings were for St. Nicholas eve. We usually got the same thing year to year. An apple or orange, nuts, Hershey kisses and a cap gun. If our behavior wasn't up to standards, there was a lump of coal. Back in the 50's our house had a coal furnace in the basement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 I'm hoping for a nice willing leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 12 minutes ago, Noz said: I'm hoping for a nice willing leg. And the memory of what to do with it? Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grenadier Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Hopefully it’s a fishnet with the seam up the back and it’s filled with my wife! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 I'm hoping for a nice Colt SAA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G W Wade Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 My Grandmother always from one apple, one orange and a banana. Each the biggest , most perfect you could hope for. GW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punxsutawneypete Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 I can remember an orange, nuts and Hershey kisses. Pop used to say it was OK if my brother and I got coal in our stockings. Pop said he could use the coal in his forge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashknife Cowboy Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 As a kid, fruit, chocolate and a tube of BB’s. There was also great times with family and friends. Now that I’m bigger my stocking got bigger, this year it’s a new gun leather rig from Old Pueblo Leather In Tucson and a new pair of boots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocWard Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Something I seldom talk about, but since I have discussed religion on here, I decided "why not?" My mother was Baptist, my father, a Jehovah's Witness. And you all wondered why I'm so screw...uh... the way I am... At any rate, Christmas was a very low key thing, done away from my father. No tree, stockings, etc... The reasons were something I never really grasped as a kid. Once my older siblings (I'm the youngest by a considerable margin) moved out, they did trees and the like. I didn't have a stocking hung on the mantle until my in-laws had one with my name on it when Mrs. Doc and I were only engaged. It had small mandarin oranges, an apple, some small chocolates and a small "toy" or doodad or two. We've continued the tradition with our own children. The value of fresh fruit back in the days of the depression and before, and even WWII, is something I had never really considered. At any rate, it does probably help explain why, even though I'm not a Christian, I consider Christmas to be an important cultural holiday, where we can find commonality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 The ubiquitous chocolate Santa, candy canes, Pez, mints and usually a small toy. Nowadays I prefer specific consumables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 13, 2018 Author Share Posted December 13, 2018 These is the consumables I prefer. But nobody ever gives me any. I think the last time I got some, it was a brick of 22s when I was 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramblin Gambler Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 This year I'm getting a trigger pull scale. I know I am because I bought it for myself and I'm going to sneak it in when no one is looking then ask who got it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 16 minutes ago, Ramblin Gambler said: This year I'm getting a trigger pull scale. I know I am because I bought it for myself and I'm going to sneak it in when no one is looking then ask who got it for me. Did that with an AR once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 8 hours ago, Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 said: And the memory of what to do with it? Imis That could be a problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 My younger brother and sister got candy, balls, money, jewelry, and lots of other neat stuff. All I ever got was a lump of coal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted December 13, 2018 Share Posted December 13, 2018 Anybody notice I didnt jump right on this 1 hour ago, Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 said: My younger brother and sister got candy, balls, money, jewelry, and lots of other neat stuff. All I ever got was a lump of coal. Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKFOOT SASS #11947 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 I think I got a pony one time but he must have gotten away! Blackfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Louis Suomi SASS #31905 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 Howdy: In the stocking was walnuts and pecans and hazelnuts (filberts). An orange and a apple was also included. I got one small toy, usually a little metal die cast car or truck. Socks and underwear were the normal gifts and that was what I wanted. Sometimes my great aunt would give me 5 pennies for candy. :-) STL Suomi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 My foot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 We never did the hanging the stockings thing when I was a kid. Did it for my step-kids. Candy, small inexpensive or gag gifts. I remember my mom talking about what a treat it was to get fresh fruit at Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noz Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 23 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: I'm hoping for a nice Colt SAA!!! 23 hours ago, grenadier said: Hopefully it’s a fishnet with the seam up the back and it’s filled with my wife! No thank you. I have my own wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South-Eye Ned Posted December 14, 2018 Share Posted December 14, 2018 On 12/12/2018 at 10:34 AM, Alpo said: When you was a kid. I've heard and read about people getting small toys. We never got toys. Not IN it. Since we didn't have a fireplace, we hung our stockings on our chairs at the dinner table. Stuff under the tree, wrapped, was from our folks and uncles and aunts and like that. SANTA'S stuff was not wrapped, and he put it on the table at our place (like my older brother's Polaroid Swinger camera in 1967) or on the floor next to it (like my younger brother's bicycle the same year). But IN the stocking was food. Hershey's kisses. A Lifesaver book. Some homemade chocolate chip cookies or fudge. And always - ALWAYS - a huge red delicious apple and a great big navel orange. My folks grew up poor in the 20s. An apple or an orange in the middle of winter was probably a helluva thing. So they did it with us. I grew up thinking a Christmas stocking has an apple and an orange in it. I did it with my kids. They weren't impressed. My wife didn't get it. My grandgirls certainly wouldn't get it, as there is a bowl of fruit sitting on their counter all the time. My parents also grew up during the depression. We had stockings hung on the doorknobs in the house. They weren’t the decorative Xmas kind; they were regular long socks filled with the exact same treats as you described, including an orange, which got rarely. It was such a treat to get our stockings filled up by Santa, that I would have savored even spinach if I thought it came from the old elf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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