Sometime in early December, I was at Target shopping for stocking stuffers for my family. You know, finger puppets, games, and Hot Wheels for the kid. And really horrendous underwear for my husband. Santa has a sense of humor in our house.
While wandering the aisles, a question popped into my head. “Now that I’m the designated stocking stuffer, who the hell is going to stuff my stocking?”
Then, somewhere in between the tunics and kitchen appliances, the answer came to me.
No one, that’s who!
So, when I got home I decided to take things into my own hands, buying myself something from the beautiful Claudia Lobao collection.
Sometimes you have to stuff your own stocking.
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I’m totally in charge of the holidays. Every single gift, decoration and wrapping. I have been for 30 years and it’s tiring. I always filled stockings and never had one filled for me. I wish I’d had your insight a long time ago and I’d have filled one for myself too! Brilliant.
I am in charge of the holidays – mainly because my husband works retail and the holidays are his busiest time.
It is just the two of us, so we go a little overboard on our tree – we have several sets of ornaments and change up the colour scheme each year. I loathe wrapping, so I ply my SIL with wine and she wraps the gifts for me – they look better than I ever could wrap, even with a bottle or two of shiraz down the hatch!
It’s all me. I think my husband would be cool with just skipping the holidays altogether.
I’m mostly in charge. My husband never buys me stocking stuffers, so I bought myself some this year, and he actually already had some for me. I was shocked!
I’m the only one who does anything holiday related in my home!
It is all me in our house. My husband to be would just ignore the whole season.
I do it all but I enjoy it. I do the stockings for everyone and yes my is empty on Christmas morning. It would be great to win a piece of this beautiful collection.
EVERYTHING, I get to do everything. Next year we are going to have to rearrange responsibilities.
It’s a one woman show it seems. I have to think of everything. My husband did get some brownie points for thinking of something for my stocking…not jewelry though. That would have been awesome!
yup-it’s me. and I stuff my own stocking, too.
I wouldn’t exactly say that it’s a joint effort, but it’s not all me either. We have nicely divided the responsibilities, but I generally do more than my husband.
My mother and I split the bags between the males and the females. I also take care of hers. It works out really well because no one person has to bear the financial burden of stuffing 12 – 15 stockings :-)
Yeah, we have a big family.
I’m a single woman and have lived alone for four years now. I travel home to spend Christmas with my parents, and my sister’s family. My Mother was always the designated stocking stuffer, but my Father never wanted to leave her stocking un-stuffed, so, without fail, every year on Christmas eve, we would be out and about trying to find little trinkets. Because my Father felt bad for procrastinating, and always felt he must make up for it, my Mother gets very expensive trinkets in her stocking. Lucky her!
I do all of it…..and never manage to get myself anything in the process. Any one of these would be great!
I’m the one in charge. I’m pretty sure if I didn’t buy wrapping paper, presents would remain unwrapped.
I’m lucky. We pretty much split up the stocking duties. However, I take care of most of the present buying and wrapping for our families.
Yeah, it’s all up to me and no one ever fills a stocking for me! I will be stealing your idea for next year!! Thank you :))))
It’s all on me baby! But it’s probably best that way.
We are a blended family with his two kids being our main focus of Christmas. So we try to be a team, but I like to get my shopping done early and he likes to do his shopping on Christmas Eve. So I usually buy what I think the kids will like and then run it by him. And I buy for the rest of our families too. I even bought for myself this year to help him out and so I would get some things I had been wanting!
I pretty much do all of it. I have to be careful, because a few years ago I did it all, including my own shopping and wrapping. I thought it was making it easy on my husband, but after Christmas he told me he was bummed that he didn’t get to shop for me. FAIL. So now I take care of everyone else’s and let him do the shopping for me.
I usually take charge and then get all stressed out about what to get everyone!
I am totally the one in charge of the holidays for our household. Though my husband *does* always get me a wonderful Christmas gift… usually in October… that he gives me immediately, unwrapped. It’s become something of a tradition for him to do this, and his excuse is always “but I know you want/need/would like this! And I don’t want you to have to wait!”
Ummm yep….ALLL MEEE! But it’s okay because my stocking gets stuffed with the things I actually want!!
Besides, a girl has got to stuff her own stocking every now and then! ;-)
Single I’m a single parent it’s only me in charge. Of course things weren’t much different when I was married – ha. Oh well. I love doing it.
I meant to say “Since I’m a single parent”…Since. Duh
As a single mom, it’s all me. I’m the one that has to bear the burden of re-hiding that damned Elf every single night in a super creative and witty location that will delight my child. I’m the one that has to remember where I’ve hidden those stocking stuffers as I’m on my third glass of wine on Christmas Eve. And I’m the one that gets to enjoy every single second of the pure bliss that comes during Christmas time – I get it all to myself. Every last little smile, and it’s so worth it.
I usually do the planning but I get a lot of help from the whole family to actually get things done.
The only thing I really do by myself is the cooking (lots and lots of Christmas cookis for friends, collegues, family members + christmas eve dinner)
I think I’m pretty lucky.
We don’t stuff stockings in Italy, but I do get a lot of very nice presents. ;P
My husband and I tag team it. We designate one day when we will both do all the Christmas shopping. We usually leave our kids with his parents and then we head out to our local mall and other stores around town. Both my husband and I hate shopping around this time of the year so we stick to our game plan. Once we get to a store, we spread out and tackle the store for our specific lists. We keep our cells on so we can call each other and let each other know how far we are on our lists. This plan has always worked out and we always finish all of our Christmas shopping within 4 hours!
Unfortunately, it’s just me. From gift buying, to wrapping, stockings and cards. Boo. It’s not that bad really but sometimes I think about it and how easy my husband has it.
We split it pretty much. David loves Christmas so that helps. He buys for me, I buy for him, we both do the kids, I do my family and he does his.
My hubs and I share the decorating duty, but I am always in charge of the stockings… but I’ve always just put in gum and candy.
I do it all. I really should buy myself more stuff. In addition to the stuff I buy myself on a regular basis, because DAMMIT, I deserve it!
The holidays are all mine, although when I delegate to my husband he does nicely… And this year he bought me the most fabulous purse!
I live alone, so it’s all me!!
I’m mostly in charge of the holidays, but Hubby actually does get me a gift & a stocking stuffer. He even sometimes employs the help of our daughter {with some……interesting results =P}
He’s a keeper. Thanks so much for the chance to enter!
i do it almost all of it! I make the lists, do the black friday shopping, buy everything, wrap everything, write out all the cards, take all the pictures, keep schedules, write thank yous, decorate BUT, my hubby does the thing I HATE the most- COOK! So, I am fine with doing all of that as long as he keeps up the cooking :)
Love the jewelry pieces. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’m definitely not in charge of Christmas, cause I’m just 19, but I am in charge of gift-giving in a way. This year, all of the adults in my family decided that they weren’t going to exchange gifts, but I thought that Christmas should DEFINITELY be about more than showering the 19 year old with presents. So I bought everyone gifts. And they liked them, or at least pretended to. Christmas success!
I am completely in charge of the holidays!! As a single parent of a teenager, it all falls to me…but I truly enjoy it!! I even started a side business making Victorian-style Christmas ornaments last year…I enjoy the holidays so much!! This is the second year in a row that I haven’t mailed holiday cards. NEXT year, I vow to be more on top of things!
As a single mom I am so in charge of the holidasy. My ex will pay me half for the “santa” stuff but its all me. Even when the kids are at his house on christmas morning, I buy, wrap and deliver to him all the gifts and stocking stuffers
I do all of the shopping, including the stockings. However, since my kids are now grown, my daughter and niece have always given me cool things for my stocking. That is my favorite thing to open!
What beautiful earring.
The person in charge of the holidays at my house is me!
I am in charge of most of the gift giving, but my mom does a very good job of making sure my stocking is stuffed!
I am mostly in charge, but that’s my own doing!! My husband isn’t as in tune with our girls as I am. I know exactly what will make them happy, whereas my husband just wanders around Canadian Tire looking for girl stuff!
I am and always have been the stuffer, wrapper, gift buying, etc person in my house!! At one point I had 2 little helpers, Allison & Kristen, but they have become their own stuffers now!! I live this job even more that I have Luca and Leo in my life!! I’m a granny stuffer now!!
My husband and I share gift-buying duties in our household. He’s pretty good at finding quirky presents actually. Sometimes I puchase a few little extras for my mother-in-law though, just to keep her sweet!
I am completely in charge. My husband gets involved on christmas eve when he puts gifts like bikes and wagons together. He does love black friday so I will admit that he did some of the shopping. So hope I win as i’m slowly rebuilding my jewelry collection after it was all stolen a couple of years ago when our house was broken into.
Christmas is about 95% up to me. I make my husband give some input on the gifts for his relatives, and he takes care of my presents, but that’s about it. He does a good job with me, though, so I can’t complain too much! :-)
My Dad was always good about putting something in my Mom’s stocking, even if it was just small, like candy or some earrings. As we got older, my brothers and I would always buy my Mom’s favorite candy for her. My fiance is from Ireland and they didn’t do stocking growing up, so I had to tell him what kind of things to put in mine. He did a good job, got me some candy, some cute slipper socks and a little stuffed dog. I hope he keeps it up!
OMG those crochet earrings are gorgeous!
It’s just me and my dog in our house, and while I don’t doubt he’d love to go crazy with some online shopping while I’m at work, I took away his credit cards, so stocking stuffing is my job. However, he somehow manages to sneak a gift for mom under the tree. I suspect his grammy takes him shopping.
I have always been in charge of the stockings, my husband always put one gift down in the bottom of my stocking but the rest was all me. This year no husband – so I bought myself the things I really wanted. Honestly it was kind of a blast!
We pretty much split the duties, though we don’t do a lot of stocking stuffing… at least not in all of the years we’ve been married. I think it’s a tradition we need to start, though…
I thought holidays were a joint effort in our house, until this year! I had all of my shopping done and thought my fiance was on the same page, but somehow we found ourselves fighting the crowds on Dec 23…thanks for the opportunity at the giveaway!
My mother is still taking charge of the holidays. But my sister and I are working hard to make sure that she has help and that we stuff her stocking good and full!
My husband and I sort of split the duties. We both stuff the kids stockings, and I do his, and he does mine. We usually get a sitter to do our shopping so we can go and get a good chunk done w/o the kids fighting the whole time. Then each of us will sneak out at some point to shop for the other.
Cookies? My department. Putting up the tree and lights? His. Decorating? A family affair. It’s all good. I hate the taking down stuff part though – it’s just a pain in the butt. :)
Its just me so Christmas is 100% my domain. Luckily I know how to do it just the way I like it!
Ummm, yeah. I really like earrings but we are FB friends so you saw enough bitching to know that it is ALL ME in my house. And even though it is only January, December will come again entirely too soon. Also, I really like earrings.
I’m in charge. Yes it can be stressful at times, but I love it. I can’t even imagine what Christmas would be like if my husband were in charge!
All me. I do most everything. I usually set up the decorations, do all the holiday shopping, send out the holiday cards and do any baking. I allow my hubby to “help” by making him set up the tree and string the lights. :)
It is all me. My husband puts up the (fake, pre-lit) tree and helps me get decorations down from the attic, but I do all the shopping, wrapping and planning. It doesn’t bother me because I like to get it done earlier than he does, and it is fun!
I am solely responsible for ALL holiday activities. Except for moving the 8ft tree onto the house. My husband does that. I do everything else including buying and wrapping not only our girls’ and husbands presents but my own presents as well. I love the decorating and seeing how happy my girls are so it’s worth every second and ounce of energy (though it’d be nice if my husband would wrap some gifts too. :-)
It’s all me, baby! :)
Always me!
Just me! Hubby actually mentioned to me on the way to our family’s “we” should have gotten our sons a gift I had already bought and wrapped for each of our boys. Would have been fun to jump down his throat to bring up that he should have taken care of it, but instead I just said, “that’s such a great idea, maybe we could do that for a birthday or something else soon.” 24 hours later the look on his face was priceless, he totally knew I rocked after the boys opened the gifts! Doubt it will get me any assistance next year, but was a good feeling! Would be fun to enjoy a fun stocking stuffer of my own now!!
Santa is in charge at my house…..at least that is what he grown-up people that live here think.
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I’m definitely in charge at my house. When I first got married, I made my husband buy for his family since we had a whirlwind courtship and I didn’t know them that well. I ended up being so embarrassed by his choices, that now I do everything!
My husband is in charge of decorating the house … I am in charge of the gift list and purchasing, and holiday event plans.
Beautiful earrings!
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How sad is it that our SO or DHs are unable to go to the store and buy something for our stockings.
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It’s all on me, especially this year.
My husband used to help, and go shopping with me. But he’s been slowly pulling back and helping with less and less every year… That crafty guy!