[GreenLantern]

The Holiday Tradition thread got me membering back to my days as a kid and how much I loved opening up my stocking because it was just a treasure trove of trinkets. As you get older those trinkets seem to be replaced with deodorant, tooth brushes and socks. Got me thinking, what is everyone's favorite stocking stuffer to both give and receive?

As a kid I would love to get micro machines or the really small lego sets in there, just made my day. It was usually a hint to the bigger present I was getting as the small lego would be the same theme (pirates, Knights etc..). The one year though they put a copy of Legend of Zelda in there and I was like what the heck, we don't even have a Nintendo yet? And the look on my parents face as it clicked in my head that our big present this year was a Nintendo is something I won't ever forget and I am sure they never forgot the look on my face either.

For my partner I tend to put in some bathroom and hair products, Christmas orange, all the regular stuff, but then take a page out of my parents book and hide one good item in the bottom like a piece of not to expensive jewelry or tickets to something. Always seems to get a good reaction and she seems to forget every year something big is coming in the stocking, or plays dumb for my sake.