I'm not sure about "greedy" Brengirl, twas Santa decided what could be afforded in our house, not the children and there were 8 of us, so we never got to write a list!
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Do you know, I have a good answer for you, Brengirl! The stocking was hung at the end of the bed to keep over-excited young 'uns occupied in their bedrooms a bit longer on Christmas morning!!! A very good scheme too! Mine was always an old army sock.
The main pressies were under the tree for later!Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?
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Originally posted by Jeanied View PostDo you know, I have a good answer for you, Brengirl! The stocking was hung at the end of the bed to keep over-excited young 'uns occupied in their bedrooms a bit longer on Christmas morning!!! A very good scheme too! Mine was always an old army sock.
The main pressies were under the tree for later!
Flum has provided an answer but it is still to be completely resolved.
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Originally posted by Jeanied View PostWell the google answer says that St Nick put the gold coins in the stockings that the three girls had washed out and hung up to dry overnight. Makes sense to me...Granny on the Game in Sheffield
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Originally posted by Jeanied View PostWell the google answer says that St Nick put the gold coins in the stockings that the three girls had washed out and hung up to dry overnight. Makes sense to me...
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That's MY job!!!!
...nope- I'm going to resist!!!
...apparently...from my very anient recollections... a rich person threw money in through the window of a needy, kind family and the money landed in the daughters' stockings???"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
Location....Normandy France
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Throw money through my daughters windows and it'd get lost in the pile of carp that's all over the floor........S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber
You can't beat a bit of garden porn
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Originally posted by Flummery View PostTraditionally it was a shoe or slipper. St Nicholas was a bishop if my memory hasn't completely done a runner, and heard 3 young girls talking about the fact that were so destitute that they might, to use the modern parlance, have to go 'on the game' to stay alive. He passed by their cottage and threw some money down the chimney as an anonymous gift and it landed in their shoes by the fireside, saving them from a fate worse than death (taxes?)
So we hang up shoes or stockings by the fireside to collect any gift thrown there by a passing generous bishop. Or Santa.
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so...without google..and relying on my stupid brain...
Was it something to do with a goodly person throwing gold coins into peoples houses- one day some landed in a young girls stocking that were drying by the fire.
Hence gifts in stockings... ???Last edited by Headfry; 23-12-2010, 03:50 PM.
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