sandbox stocking stuffer idea thread

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The kids are easy to do; it's my husband's stocking that is difficult.

I usually put in lots of dark chocolate stuff, maybe a jar of blackberry preserves, a cd or a DVD set...

Other ideas?

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, that would be enough for me, can I be your new husband?

― Chap (chap), Saturday, 16 December 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha, I think A. might object to that. Besides, I'm a very crabby person.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Entire box of mechanical pencils/favorite pens - so many some can get lost and there will still be some hanging around in mid-summer. A fancy old-fashioned letter opener. An excellent penknife or leatherman. Some small, but exceptional thing that supports his favorite hobby (ex. when I was cross-stitching all the time, I was given a platinum needle.) Something incredibly, but subtly, sexy (only you will know what this might be), that will make him blush with delight.

― jaq (jaq), Saturday, 16 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Shaving oil, gift certificate for a massage or for a little spree at his favorite shop, little sampler bottles of good single malts if he likes that sort of thing.

I knew a woman who would gradually build up a massive stash of regular toiletry things and wrap them all because her husband absolutely loved having a big pile of gifts to open. A pair of socks wrapped with a bow was enough to make him happy, so it can really depend on the guy!

― patita (patita), Saturday, 16 December 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

factors for forgiveness of crabby in ascending order:

a gift certificate to his favorite restaurant
airline tickets to, hmmm, Acapulco
keys to a Porsche Boxster
Donald Trump's American Express card

― Wench (jim wentworth), Saturday, 16 December 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

What great ideas! He has a thing about fountain pens; I should get a little jar of an ink color he'd enjoy and stash it in his stocking. Hmmmm.

I don't want to think about what I'd have to do to get Donald Trump's AmEx card. Blech.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't have enough needlenose pliers!
Nips
scratch tickets
The general store down the street has band-aids that look like strips of bacon! Disgusting!
maple sugar
silly xmas boxer shorts

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

you can't go wrong with small precious foodstuffs, like caviar, saffron, truffle oil, chocolate-covered espresso beans etc, etc.
a nice cigarette tin filled with joints, if he's into it.
opium! A nice drug for the holidays!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I must find those bacon/band-aids! A. is a runner, so he uses tons of band-aids.

Mmmmmmm chocolate covered espresso beans...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

The bacon band-aid company has a website—
www.accoutrements.com

also, as many little vintage Golden Guides as you can find in your used bookstore.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Goldenguides.jpg

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad server response. Hmm.
I can pop some in the mail to you if you want. That's my real email.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/baconbandaids.jpg

They cost 3.99.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

kiss my face sample/travel products!

― AiLien (AMD), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm off to buy stocking stuffers. I will report back.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Have fun shopping Beth!

Re: bacon band-aids. I am terrified by the "free toy inside!" label. What could that mean?! Maybe I will email you about them, Beth - is there any hope of finding them locally, do you think? (You don't need to go out of your way for me...)

Toiletry/Kiss My Face stuff also a great idea... I'd like to find him some hand lotion because his hands always crack in winter, but he's super picky about what kind. He complains that everything is "too greasy." The one that he likes that I can actually find smells horrible to me. I always walk into the room and wonder to myself if he's secretly been out digging up graves when he uses it. (It's some help hand lotion thing from The Body Shop. Yuck.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Forget the band-aids get gummi bacon!
http://www.perpetualkid.com/productimages/lg/GUMM-1605.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Saturday, 16 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

at radio shack, and i had to ask my BF AND the manager to make sure of the price, i bought eight personal organizers for $1.97 each! i bought one for myself to try them out and see if they weren't just crap, but they aren't! it's a good gadget to back up stored phone numbers from a cell phone JUST IN CASE. other features include a memo and schedule function, english/spanish translator, games, calculator, and currency conversions.

brand: SHARP
model: YO-P5B
price: $1.97

― AiLien (AMD), Saturday, 16 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

too, they don't look shoddy, you can give them to the postman, the doorman @ work, WHOMEVER and they'll think you just paid too much!

― AiLien (AMD), Saturday, 16 December 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I need about 100 of those personal organizers!

Gummi bacon?! OMG, it's so clear that I need to get out more. Wow.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

The Gardener's Hand Recovery Cream from Crabtree and Evelyn is very not greasy, as I recall! It goes on very light & powdery.

http://store.crabtree-evelyn.com/hands-and-feet-treatments.html

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I take that back: skip the recovery cream, it's an exfoliant. Get the Hand Therapy Cream, instead, and damn their similar names.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 16 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm back. I didn't get much—a flipbook so you can watch Marilyn Monroe's skirt blow up over and over, a jumbo pack of regular band-aids and jumbo bottle of ibuprofen because my older son is always taking mine, USA map fridge magnets, other non-stuffer items.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 16 December 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I might try and get all bacon related gifts...here's some bacon tape...
http://www.electricfetus.com/images/bmh/24/73904811524.jpg

And a bacon in-car air freshener thingy...
http://www.spilsbury.com/wcsstore/Spilsbury/images/products/large/15909.jpg

― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Sunday, 17 December 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Beth, I love the ibuprofen idea! I want some.

Who knew there were so many bacon-themed products on the market? The things you learn at ILX/sandbox...

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Sunday, 17 December 2006 07:44 (seventeen years ago) link

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