About stocking stuffers
#233485 - 12/22/05 09:51 PM
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Snorkie
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Loc: Northern Illinois, USA
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So, I used to think my Mom & Dad are kind of nuts because some years, they wrap EVERYTHING for the stockings. I've unwrapped packs of gum and individual candy bars and tubes of Chapstick.
Tonight, surpassed that.
Yes, folks, I just wrapped
TOILET PAPER!!!
 
BUT WAIT!! THERE'S MORE...
It's not an entire roll of toilet paper, it's....
Charmin to Go!!
I found it at Hunt Fish Kill (um, Gander Mountain) when I was picking up gift cards for my Dad. It's supposed to be for hunters. It's a small roll that would fit amongst hunting gear or in a pocket. Dad hunts. He also has "stomach problems" and my sister has IBS as well. So I figured it would make a useful stocking stuffer.
And now I've gone so far as to wrap it in pretty paper!
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LOL! You'll have to share his reaction with us.
Hey, if I found something like a wrapped package of Imodium in my stocking, I'd be happy!
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That sounds like a wonderful gift - I'd love some in my stocking for road trips and the like. (I can't believe I just wrote that, but it's true. ) And of course you wrap all the stocking stuffers - Santa expects no less of his helpers.
And I second Maria - do let us know the reaction!
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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there are definitely times when having it would come in handy!
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Dietetics Student (anticipating RD exam in Aug 2010)
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ROFL!!!
#233521 - 12/23/05 08:06 AM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
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Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
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First of all, that's pretty funny all on its own. Second, I'm cracking up because my darling wonderful boyfriend insists on doing the SAME DARN THING with stockings! I have a hard enough time thinking of things to PUT in the stocking... and now he wants me to *wrap* it all too?!
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Although I was never a Boy Scout (and never wanted to be, 'cause those hats are seriously dorky), I still believe in being prepared, so I have a plastic box in my car equipped with:
toothbrush
toothpaste
floss
paper toilet seat covers
toilet paper
liquid soap
antibacterial hand gel
lotion
tampons/pads/liners
I also have stick deodorant but it doesn't hold up well in the car as it ends up sort of melting, but can still be used in an emergency. (It can get really cold here so I'm not sure if spray deodorant would be safe.) I abandoned having wet wipes because I've found that after a couple months in the car you tear open the package and they are actually dry stiff wipes, which are never any fun.
I also keep lots of napkins and Kleenex in the glove compartment.
UGH I feel like someone's neurotic mother now.
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jen
"It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off." -- LC
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What do other people do for stocking stuffers for significant others? I always have a really hard time thinking of stuff for my husband, so I typically just get him candy. Appreciated, but uninteresting. I'd like to get small stuff that ISN'T edible, but I can't think of anything. I am pretty miserly so I'm thinking items $3 or less that can actually be used. (I hate gag gifts, unless they are really cheap (under $1). Yeah, maybe you get a smile out of them, but then you are left with something totally useless that cost perfectly good money!!!) Most years I also get him a few Hot Wheel cars (the $.79 kind) because he likes them. But I also kinda hate buying these, because he never actually plays with them. Since he is 32, I guess some people would think that was a good thing. Although on occasion I still take out my childhood Barbies and -- uh -- carefully inventory them.
Where was I?
Oh. Stocking stuffers. This year I'm getting him -- surprise! -- candy. I'm also getting him a bottle of massage oil, which was a little pricey for a stocking stuffer (ugh I hate having to keep typing that out, but saying "stuffer" alone just sounds weird and sort of wrong), but I just couldn't think of anything else. He has expensive tastes I guess.
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jen
"It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off." -- LC
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Those are all really interesting things to keep in your car. I only keep 3 things: at least 2 bottles of water, a box of kleenex and a pack of supersize Wet Ones (oh also the portable DVD player for the kids). I never have the same pack around long enough for them to dry out. I am a germ freak so we all wipe our hands off after going to the store or library or school, etc. They do freeze in the winter if you don't keep them in the glove box though.
Laura
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Jen,
I have found one thing that always works well for men/boys. A roll of duct tape! Maybe the guys in my family are weird, but they usually seem to love this gift.
Laura
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It has been a long standing tradition at my house that everyone gets a present from our dog(now it's Annie)and the tropical fish (we have several aquariums). I always buy silly stuff for those gifts and believe it or not my family looks forward to opening gifts from " The fish"... It has been lots of fun throughout the years.
Merry Christmas
Barbie
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I always end up sticking with really generic things, for the most part - mostly candy & gum, keychains, dumb little toys he can keep on his desk at work. Usually I stick in a single issue or two of a magazine I know he'll like - not cheap, but it's better than spending that money on a gag gift. This year, the most thought-out and personal thing in the stocking is a bottle of the aftershave-kinda-stuff he likes.
I don't know. I don't think people tend to have huge expectations out of stocking stuffers, so candy really does work pretty well for most people. 
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my husband labeled on of my stocking stuffer gifts as being from "Santa and the Elvis". I loved it - still have the gift tag saved.
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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Yep!
#233596 - 12/23/05 02:41 PM
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atomic rose
Reged: 06/01/04
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Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
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We give gifts to and from our cats. It's one of my family's only long-standing traditions: Mom's dog "gives" gifts, and sometimes my dad's cats send their "own" card. It's silly, but I love it.
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get them to take up golf. Then there are all kinds of little doohickeys you can get them: tees, golf balls, ball markers, golf towels with witty sayings or pictures of St. Andrews.
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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She can't seem to figure out that dumping her food bowl into her litter pan every moring is not a good idea, but she buys some very nice gifts!
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#233649 - 12/24/05 04:45 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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I love them in different colors or with pictures and/or messages on them. I thought of them because I just realized I'm running out of my favorite, which says:
Out of confusion comes chaos.
Out of chaos comes anarchy & fear.
Then comes lunch.
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[Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]
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no fish.. when they had 3 it was the m,m&m gang, now its the m&m gang (motley died)
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Dietetics Student (anticipating RD exam in Aug 2010)
IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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For my husband's stocking so far I have his favorite candy bar, some Krazy Glue, and some miniatures he can paint up for some game. Oh yes, and a bag of glow in the dark zombies. I don't think he'd like hotwheels unless they were the right scale.
I need to get a pair of underwear for the toe of his stocking, too. This is a tradition I've swiped from my Mom. Every year for I don't know how long, she puts a pair of underwear in the bottom of my sister's and my stockings. Sometimes they're granny pants and sometimes they're racier.
I married an overgrown kid. The man will be 38 next month. He still reads & collects comics, plays miniatures and role playing games, loves Batman, has a light saber that actually lights up (you should see his face when he plays with it...that sounds kinky...but it's really just geeky), and used to collect Legos. 
But he treats me like gold, I love him to pieces and I consider myself lucky that no one snapped him up first.
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So Dad and my sister both thought the Charmin to go was pretty cool actually, but didn't find it as funny as I did...but then, they didn't wrap it, either.
And, apparently it's not just for hunters. I found it at Target yesterday with all the sample stuff. There is now a roll residing in my glovebox.
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I was at Target over the holidays when I visited family in the US and I bought a Charmin roll to go and wipes to go to keep in my glovebox. I thought it was great and it would have been hilarious if someone would have put them in my stocking.
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Microscopic Colitis, IBS-A, GERD, Hiatal Hernia
Bethany, Ontario, Canada
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