What kinds of things were in your Christmas stocking? Me-an orange. a pack of Black Jack Gum. socks a small toy

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[snacker]

1. Always a popcorn ball

along with other candy like gold foil-covered chocolate coins, candy canes, Hershey kisses, Pez dispenser, and gum.

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2. Thank you very much snacker.

[ballardgirl]

3. An orange

We knew it was a good year for dad when we got an orange in our stocking

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6. Thank you ballardgirl.

[johnp3907]

4. Black Jack gum?

You must’ve been on the naughty list!

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5. On no. It was a type of gum they had back then. Very good.

[johnp3907]

7. I've had it.

Not a fan. That’s why I was joking about it.

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9. Thank you johnp3907 For a while I thought I was going goofy.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Hershey's Kisses

Plain Jane's, mini Tootsie Rolls & a couple of small toys or trinkets.
One year, there was a piece of fools gold still in the sedimentary rock. Sounds bad unless you knew I was a rock collector when a little kid.

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10. Thank you very much. ProfessorGAC. So you were a rock hound too.

[fargone]

11. Lifesavers

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12. Thank you fargone. I liked those

[justaprogressive]

13. Mom went to town on our stockings

Mom liked Christmas the best.


Stockings almost 3ft long 10" diameter. (!) They were stuffed to bursting



Gold coin chocolates, ball bearing games, ball of Mercury (it was the 60's!) games.
cookies, other treats, Jesus canes, desk supplies....

[CTyankee]

14. What is a "Jesus cane"?

[justaprogressive]

15. Good question. The Jesus Cane story:

Some people believe the following...YMMV...

A common story of the origin of candy canes says that in 1670, in Cologne, Germany, the choirmaster at Cologne Cathedral, wishing to remedy the noise caused by children in his church during the Living Crèche tradition of Christmas Eve, asked a local candy maker for some "sugar sticks" for them.[8][9][10][11] In order to justify the practice of giving candy to children during Mass, he asked the candy maker to add a crook to the top of each stick, which would help children remember the shepherds who visited the infant Jesus.[8][9][10] In addition, he used the white color of the converted sticks to teach children about the Christian belief in the sinless life of Jesus.[8][9][10] From Germany, candy canes spread to other parts of Europe, where they were handed out during plays reenacting the Nativity.[9][11] The candy cane became associated with Christmastide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_cane

[CTyankee]

16. That makes sense...now i know, after all these years....

[debm55]

17. Wow , you got a lot of stuff in your stockings. Thank you justaprogressive.