Christmas Stockings

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Ivy" <desiivy at y...> wrote:
> 
> Silly Question but I want to know what are some idea's for stocking 
> stuffer. 
> Can you please tell me what you got as a child or what you give to 
> your kids? 

This is not the answer you want, but the thing that I was ever
happiest to find in my Xmas stocking was money -- in those days, a $1
bill was Big Money: it could buy ten candy bars or two paperback books. 

I would have been even happier to find a kitten of my own: my family
always had cats, but they were adults and they loved my mother best
(perhaps because she fed them, or maybe because she wasn't as loud and
active as us kids), so I wanted a kitten Of My Own, but my mother said
we already had enough cats. While 'enough cats' is something like an
oxymoron, a kitten would not have stayed posed prettily in the
stocking like a holiday card photo.