Gifting The Best Stocking Stuffers

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Gifting the best stocking stuffers? Is that a promise?

I cannot promise you’ll be impressed with my stocking gift guide selections, but I can say that I will try….I’ll really, really try.

Tik Tok recently had a calm debate on what to gift in stockings, and I really agree that stockings are supposed to be for the practical.

Growing up in my family, my mom always went all-out for Christmas (she still does), and I think finally as a family we are agreeing to not be so over-zealous over the holiday because we are all at the age that if we need anything, we will buy it for ourselves.

Also, who has the room? Honestly. I cannot add much more to my home without seriously clearing out items and I finally feel like my home is at the manageable level of stuff.

Everything has a place, but for Christmas, stocking stuffers are totally fun and a must if that is something you’re into.

I am totally into stockings.

What Goes into Stockings?

Honestly, I have always been of the mindset that stockings are for items, like socks and underwear.

Each family has their own traditions, but I really feel like my mom has stocking stuffers down.

She’s really good at them and I think Christmas cheer is one of her special talents.

Layering in practical items, with an expensive or mid-level gift (but also, if you do not want mid-level, just focus on practical and thoughtful).

The Best Stocking Stuffers- The Too Big Prop

This is a cute base for a stocking stuffer.

The base can be a cute mug with cocoa or coffee, a calendar, a planner, a puzzle, a movie, book or a game.

These stocking stuffer gifts always sit outside of the stocking and are always wrapped (we wrap them, but you don’t have to). I think it makes for a really fun stocking experience.

What Goes Inside the Stocking?

Growing up, we always had one ornament, new socks, new underwear, gift cards, makeup/personal hygiene products.

My brother was really into video games and Pokémon, so stuff like that works great in stockings.

Some years, my mom and my childhood best friend’s late mother would plan concerts for us to go to together, or Playbill shows, so those tickets would sometimes be a stocking stuffer.

As we’ve gotten older, my mom loves to put cute, festive kitchen and mini items in our stockings.

Basically, Christmas themed anything that is practical (think a gingerbread spatula or dishtowels), just things that we can use all year around.

Sometimes a piece of jewelry (not anything obscenely priced) and as kids, sometimes she would leave a hint to the Santa gift in our stockings.

Santa always had different wrapping paper (I’ve never been able to find where Santa buys it) and has different handwriting from anyone in the family.

Santa also left wet footprints in our living room when we were kids and one year I heard his sleigh land on the roof (was I delirious? I don’t know..).

My mom was able to keep this (Santa) jig up until I was ten (a pretty good record for her but embarrassing for me… because I was always team Santa in classroom debates).

If I have kids, I don’t know how I will explain Santa. It’s a huge trust thing (because you have to lie to pull it off), but it is also a lot of fun and exciting for kids, so who knows?

She tops with a clementine orange and some chocolate and a candy cane.

As a fully grown woman, I appreciate how special my mom does the holidays (especially Christmas).

Stocking Stuffer’s for Her

Bumble and Bumble have the best hair heat and UV ray spray hair protectant, and this mini is perfect for a stocking.

Clinique also has a ten dollar Take the Day Away balm as a mini, which is such a great stocking stuffer idea.

A mini pocket bible is always a good gifting idea if this is appropriate to gift a family member and will not upset them (it’s important to gift people things within their moral code and not force your morals and beliefs onto the gift recipient).

For the lip kit loving girly, this one from Nars is the perfect holiday berry pink.

The Ordinary Caffeine Eye Solution. The best morning under-eye depuffer there is.

Some boot socks to keep her feet warm.

Some local coffee beans. The white coffee from Thomas Hammer is what a lot of locals want when they come home after moving away from where I grew up, so while this is not the original white coffee–French Roast girlies will understand this recommendation.

Every woman wants sexy comfy underwear, and this pack of underwear is perfect.

A great book. This one Memphis looks promising.

Stocking Stuffers for Him

Crew socks are great, and these are versatile enough that they can be worn in casual and dressy situations.

Boxers are a practical stocking stuffer.

A spa gift set for men is a great gift/stocking stuffer that would be outside of the stocking.

These ceramic mugs are perfect stocking stuffers for both mom and dad’s alike.

Keep the men in your life organized with this vintage looking planner.

These hot chocolate bombs would be perfect to gift into each stocking.

How about some windproof winter gloves?

Some Cere Ve moisturizing cream is both a his and her’s selection, but I think men need reminders that skincare is for them as well.

One thing my mom also does well is gifting inspirational and self-help books. Love this one for black men and mental health.

Thus concludes the best stocking stuffers blog post. I hope you found this helpful and inspiring. These are of course, just suggestions and you can spend as high or as low as you would like.

Christmas is not about gifts, it’s about celebrating the birth of Jesus and to other’s it represents something else entirely.

But for myself it is about Jesus, so gifts or not, I am thankful for the life I have been given, the opportunities I have had and for the people in my life.

I hope the same for you as well.

xx