Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Adults

Gift cards are great! Batteries for any electronics they may have and for the women, pretty ornaments for their own house. Good luck and happy holidays.

Some ideas I've used:

lotto tickets
gift cards to places you know they shop (like starbucks or hollywood video)
Dvds of TV/Cable series you know they like (The history channel and A&E both have good ones you can buy online)

We do a lot of practical items, such as: chapstick, lotion, deoderant, toothbrushes, socks. You could also do little gift certificates for gas or fast food, mini pictues of grand kids, magnets, etc. Just have fun with it!

101 Easy Stocking Stuffers

1. Aromatic charcoal
2. Bath salts / soaps
3. Batteries (kind of lame but practical)
4. Bendos (these are bendable little characters)
5. CDs/DVDs
6. Calculator
7. Calendar
8. Candles, scented
9. Car air freshener
10. Card Games
11. Cell phone
12. Chea pet
13. Chocolates and candy
14. Christmas ornaments
15. Clip-on book light
16. Coffee sampler
17. Crayons / markers
18. Crystals
19. Cufflinks
20. Darts
21. Diary / journal
22. Disposable camera
23. Donation to favorite charity
24. Electric razor
25. Etch-a-sketch (miniature)
26. Finger Puppets
27. Flashlight (miniature)
28. Flower seeds
29. Fridge magnet kit (the poetry style are cool)
30. Fruit - apple / orange
31. Golf balls
32. Hacky sack
33. Hand warmers
34. Harmonica
35. Headphones, noise canceling?
36. Herbal teas
37. Horoscope handbook
38. iTunes gift certificates
39. Incense
40. Jewelry
41. Jigger (to help mix the holidays merry and bright)
42. Keys to a Ferrari (just checking if you are paying attention and note to girlfriend)
43. Label maker
44. Legos
45. Lip Balm
46. Lump of coal
47. MP3 player
48. Magazine subscription
49. Magic 8 ball
50. Matchbox cars
51. Mints (in tins)
52. Bottles of liquor / wine (miniature - or not)
53. Movie gift certificates (don’t forget the popcorn and sodas)
54. Neck tie
55. Night light
56. Page’Up desktop paper holders
57. Paperback book
58. Pedometer, digital
59. Mug, picture or with clever saying
60. Paperweight
61. Picture frame and photo
62. Plane tickets
63. Pocket dictionary / translator
64. Potpourri
65. Prepaid phone cards
66. Perfume
67. Puzzles
68. Radar detector
69. Restaurant gift certificates
70. Rubik’s Cube
71. Scratch-off lottery tickets
72. Sea monkeys
73. Sewing kit, travel
74. Shot glasses
75. Sidewalk chalk
76. Silly putty
77. Slinky
78. Slippers
79. Snow globes
80. Socks
81. Stationery or note cards
82. Stress ball
83. Swish army knife / multi tool
84. T-shirt
85. Teddy bear / stuffed animal (miniature)
86. Thermal travel mug
87. Tickets to a concert or sports event
88. Tabasco sauce
89. Top / gyroscope
90. Trail mix
91. Travel alarm
92. Travel games
93. Travel kit
94. Two way radios (two stocking stuffers in one)
95. Universal remote control
96. Voice recorder
97. Wallet / money clip
98. Watch
99. Wine opener / cork screw
100. Yo-yo
101. Zippo lighter

Still stuck on ideas for stuffing your Christmas stockings. The best advise is to peruse the isles of your local dollar store.

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D. in milwaukee

What about different types of coffee samples (if they like coffee, of course)or teas or whatever they prefer. Or a pair of warm wooly socks (like the kind that you just wear around the house. Little notepads, or small framed pictures of your children, grandparents always love that sort of thing! Good luck and Merry Christmas!
L.

My MIL gives us stockings every year--I LOVE IT! For guys she'll gives things like small tools, things with thier favorite team's logo on, chap stick. For me I'll get lotion, bath salts, inexpensive earings, measurings spoons, book marks, and I love cozy socks!

Go to the Dollar store and look around they have tons of things!

How Fun:)

Gift certificates are always good. If your parents are travelers, get the travel size toothpastes, hand lotions, shampoos, or bubble baths.

I am an Avon representative, and I know that Avon has a lot of great adult stocking stuffers. A lot of mini bottles and tubes of Avon products. Products can be guaranteed for delivery as long as you order by 12/17. My website is www.youravon.com/tishaheintz. Browse around, see if there's anything that you could use there. If you decide to buy something use the coupon code REPFS to get free shipping. Hope that helps you out!

T.

Hi H.,

I always hang and stuff a stocking for my husband~~LOL For Grandma I suggest maybe a sampler size of perfume that she likes, Small Votive Candle, for both: decks of cards, small pad of "Post-It notes, small pack of recipe cards (for either), Harmonica (just for fun), money clip, stick on car compass (one of those small ones) Car fresheners. If either one of them wear glasses a glasses cleaning kit, Pack of batteries (any size) Book of Stamps, Small Picture frame with picture of you and family, small bag bath salts or beads. That's a few ideas, but I could give you gajillions more~~Merry Christmas

P.

my mom used to stay with us during the holidays when she was divorced. We always gave her bath stuff, lotion, gift cards for dinner or to a store she likes. The kids would pick her out some socks or gloves. and a pomegraneite because they are her favorite.

I'm a 69 year old Grandmother and Great Grandmother who tends a 6 month old Great Grandson 3 times a week. Most Grandparents that I know consider time the greatest gift, so try certificates they can redeem for some time with you or the kids. Dry skin is a problem for older folks, so hand cream, shower or bath oil. Pictures of the kids in wallet size and also in acrylic frames with magnets on the back to put on the fridge. Stamps and stationary, phone card, gift certificates for a grocery chain near them or a box store. Merry Christmas

I do ornaments, my husband got a NASCAR one and both grandmas are getting a "I love Grandma" one with a place for a picture of my son.

Menards usually has some fun adult stocking stuffers. I just wander around in there for awhile and fun tons of inexpensive smaller gifts.

A book of postage stamps; some stationa; cross word puzzle books; subscription to a favorite magazine; a f\gift certificate to a favorite restaurant, movie a musical or a play

I do lottery tickets and gift cards to restaurants or thier favorite stores, a movie they might like, or c.d's of thier favorite bands. I also do this for my teenage children, because as we know they can be as difficult as any adult in our lives.

I saw some of those small picture frame keychains, the kind that uses digital photographs at Walgreens, you might want to get a couple of those and put the kids photo on them, or make a picture of all of you and put it on there. Also phone/ grocery/gas cards, coupons for a discounted meal would be nice. Don't forget gloves, hats, etc. Maybe some of those clear plastic shoe covers so they don't get their shoes wet, you can find those at Walmart.

I'm not sure where you live, I'm in Marion, Iowa. The odds of us being close are slim..haha. I sell Avon and a lot of my customers are buying the 99 cent lotions and 99 cent deodorants and 69 cent lip balms for men. For women, all of those are good plus some little perfumes for a couple of bucks, small lip glosses for 99 cents, etc. If you're in my area, I can help you, or you can also order stuff from my website to be shipped to you for free (use code Repfs) or fswer7. My website is www.youravon.com/klong. Hope I can help out some. Have fun with your parents!

K. Long

Something I did for my hubby last year and am doing this year for my father-in-law is a digital tire gauge, my hubby works and and is out and about all the time and rarely has time for luch so I get him gifts cards with $5-10 on them to differents places around town ecspecaially the gas stations that have food incase he is around any of those placesand gets the munchies razor blade refills are always in the stocking, I buy a value pack at Sams club and put some in his stocking and the rest in the bathroom cuppboard. My mom or myself, I really like getting the purse size antibacterial lotions like from bath and body works, the gift cards ecspecially to the coffee shop candles are always wonderful and can get those at dollar tree or dollar general. I also made my husband a MANLY bracelet with our kids names on it. Hope this gives you a few ideas

Not sure if you have a Target in your area, but they had some neat stuff in their dollar bin at the front of the store. They had individual pot sized coffees, in yummy flavors like "Mrs. Smith's Cookie, and Jack Daniels" etc. They also had small boxes of chocolates. I always stick socks, gloves, nail trimmers, etc. into our stockings. This year I found some nice hand held games and card games that came in a tin at Kohl's department store that will nice, too. I have also been known to put a $5 Starbucks gift card in the stocking. Last year, I even did some fruit. It was nice to see them actually eating a banana or apple instead of all that candy! Hope that helped a little. Good luck, and Merry Christmas!

For adult stocking stuffers, try downloading and recording some of their favortie music. Make a refrigerator magnet out of the kids pictures (you can buy adhesive magntic sheets to cut to size at any craft store) How about nuts instead of or along with candy.

instant lottery tickets are always fun....a deck of playing cards....golf balls....nail polish for grandma....breath mints

Christmas sox, lottery tickets, small bottles of hand lotion, shower gel, soaps, small magazines (like the ones at the grocery store check outs - the little books with horoscopes, or mystery stories, puzzles, etc) chap sticks, small bottles of booze (if the drink) any liquor store will have them. Paperback books, magic gloves, not sure just how in expensive you are looking for! Purse size calendar, fancy pen. Hope these help, and good luck!

H.,
Adults are probably the hardest age to shop for and find something that would please them. I heard of a mom who asked for things that were "disposable". What she met by that is something that would disappear with time like a notepads, perfume, foodc etc. so it would not clutter her life. Possibly pictures of grandkids or something that you have put some thought into putting together. As we get older we become more sentimental. I like to put breakfast items into my kids stockings so I have a more relaxed mornung and they have something to enjoy. I hope this helps you out. Good luck.

HI H. - I have the same issue as my parents are coming tomorrow to celebrate the Christmas holiday! So some things that I think might work are-key chain, I got a great one from a local store that was a little cow that mooed a Christmas song(we are from WI-and I have to admit I am a little "cheesy"). I also could suggest small picture frames with your children's photos in. A mug with a hot coco package, tree ornaments that are not glass. A small flashlight or if you are in a climate that gets cold some hand warmers for the car, or vice versa if you are in a warm climate, a little battery fan for the car or purse are great to have as well. I hope these helped! Enjoy your Holiday Celebration!