Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Christmas Stockings

Not my day to add....but nonetheless....I am getting out all my Christmas stuff and remembering the Christmas stockings...once they were filled up...didn't they just get laid out on the couch? With a big orange in the toe and lots of nuts....don't remember ever getting any little gifts or anything inside...Didn't we just use one of dad's old long socks! Just fruit and nuts is what I remember....then I think we just put everyone's fruit and nuts all back into a big bowl....probably back where they were to begin with! ha ha
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  1. evelynNovember 26, 2009 at 7:44 AM

    We would all go to the 'sock drawer' and choose a sock. We each tried to find the biggest sock we could! I remember getting the fruit and the nuts...but also chocolate kisses, because i would peel all the kisses and then crack a bunch of peanuts and walnuts and eat them all together!

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  2. jwj2November 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM

    All I remember was dad going right for the orange at the bottom of the sock, and finding all kinds of nuts I did not know existed. Our tradition of exchanging socks has limited the amount of nuts that you needed a tool/nutcracker to open.

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  3. Rex and RuthNovember 30, 2009 at 11:56 PM

    My kids can't believe we used mismatched socks for stockings. It's become a funny story...

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  4. Joel and Nikky JohnsonDecember 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM

    We would try and find the biggest sock we could find. I don't remember being too excited about the stocking. I went straight for Santa's gift and only went for the stocking when Mom would insist. Only then could we move on to the rest of the gifts.

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  5. momDecember 10, 2009 at 1:35 AM

    We continued the stocking tradition that our (DE)busby did. No such thing as big felt or fancy ones then. We did choose the biggest stretchiest one we could find. we never got gifts in our stockings
    we were really excited about big naval oranges
    Santa stuffed the stockings full of fruit, nuts,candy of tasty shapes and sizes. We didn't have a mantle to hang them from in my early growing up homes. We did in our own family some times. But when they were stuffed full they were too heavy to thumbtack back up. So we layed them on the couch.




















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