Stocking stuffers.

[eveled]

Just curious what stocking stuffers you could count on getting every year. Or any good memorable stocking stuffers from your childhood.

For me, I always got a slinky, a yo-yo, and one of those pens with 4 color inks.

 

[sfhogman]

Brick of .22 from my son.

 

[muzzleloader]

A "book" of Lifesavers, cherry cordials and an orange.

 

[JFB]

couple oranges, couple pepperment sticks and about 10 "brazil nuts"

 

[Merle1948]

Ammo is always a good choice! :mrgreen:

 

[WAYNO]

As a kid, I remember getting an orange and popcorn in my Christmas stocking.



Now, I always get licorice. I always get Trident Sugarfree Gum. And I always get ammo. And every year I'm ecstatic with surprise. :mrgreen:


WAYNO.

 

[Fox Mike]

A bag of M&Ms.

 

[powder smoke]

M&M peanuts were always one of my favorites as a young boy. My mother never let me down. ps

 

[Skidboot]

When I was a kid, we were very poor. Coal (when we could afford it) was for heating, not for stocking stuffing. One Christmas, all I got in my stocking was a piece of paper with the word "coal" written on it.

 

[pruger45]

Never had a stocking as a kid.

 

[David LaPell]

Hot Wheels or Matchbox Cars, the occasional Hershey's Kisses. Once I got past 8 or so and my parents split up there wasn't more of that. My mother couldn't really afford it and when she remarried the guy she ended up with didn't think too highly of us kids. Now I get my son the little cars.

 

[Ka6otm]

A few thousand primers from the wife and Gunner the dog.

 

[GunnyGene]

Here's one that might interest a few folks:

It's a pocket knife for when you're sitting around waiting for a fish to bite or a deer to show up, or just plain bored and need something to do.

These come in both left hand and right hand versions. Makes a great stocking stuffer. About $100.

http://www.woodcraft.com/product/145445/flexcut-carvin-jack-right-hand.aspx

 

[Mike Armstrong]

My favorite was a Case "Finn 3" with a bone handle that my Grandma McFarlane gave me in 1950 when I was seven. She always said "What kind of a man is a Scotsman without a sticker in his sock?" Of course we never carried them in our socks, but I still have that little sticker and the blade has developed a kind of reverse curved edge from so many sharpenings of the carbon steel. No better fish/bird/bunny knife was ever made, IMO.
Mine's gone thru three sheaths.

The next year I got a "Dinkytoys" die cast model of a Gloster "Meteor" that I kept for many years until it was lost in a move.

This year my wife, my kid, and his novia are getting some pebbles of Wyoming jade I picked up on a rock hunting trip with my brother this summer. They are pocket sized and feel even better than they look. (Cheap tranquilizers--I carry a stream-polished chunk of fossil ivory for its calming feel....).

 

[callshot]

Peanuts, but one year I got styrofoam peanuts as a joke!

 

[mistermills357]

Just curious what stocking stuffers you could count on getting every year. Or any good memorable stocking stuffers from your childhood.

For me, I always got a slinky, a yo-yo, and one of those pens with 4 color inks.

My childhood sucked, and my mother made me use cardboard for a sled. So this year, I bought a Santa hat with blinky lights at The Dollar Tree.
I am still in therapy about the cardboard sled, but I am dealing with it. I need to start a Go Fudge Me page.