Time to Stuff those Christmas Stockings with these Deals…
Looking to get those stockings stuffed without spending too much money, and also without throwing those items in the garbage soon after? In the past, I have purchased items on the junkier side and it’s just not worth it as the items literally end up in the trash.
Here’s a list of stocking stuffers that aren’t too pricey AND will not be thrown in the garbage the next day…
1.) Magazine Subscriptions
Magazine subscriptions make awesome stocking stuffers… especially when you can get them FREE, like LEGO Club Magazine (also more free magazine subscriptions listed here).
You can also check out all of the current Magazine Subscription Deals we’ve posted about HERE, and you may not want to miss this HOT deal on a People magazine subscription!
Just buy the current issue of the magazine subscription you’ll be gifting, then print these adorable Magazine Gift Subscription Tags HERE. Easy peasy and SO not expensive either!
2.) Movies
I always stuff movies in stockings! They are inexpensive, and so many stores this time of year offer up BIG savings! We post movie deals regularly on Hip2Save. Currently, you can score great deals on Best Buy with FREE 2-Day shipping, and Amazon is also offering up some nice savings!
3.) Hats, Gloves & Other Winter Accessories
Winter accessory items make such practical stocking stuffers!
With that said, today only, New York & Company is hosting a Holiday Gift Event and offering up $3.99 Earrings (regularly $12.99), $4.99 Scarf & Gloves Gift Sets (regularly $22.95), $7.99 Scarves (regularly $26.95), $9.99 Each Hats & Gloves (regularly $19.99), $9.99 Each Velour Jackets & Pants (regularly $36.95) and much more!
Even better, if you make a $75 purchase, you’ll get a FREE Buffalo Check Blanket ($49.95 value) automatically added to your cart. Shipping is free on all orders over $50 and they will arrive in time for Christmas!
4.) Jewelry & More
Jewelry tends to be a bit pricier than typical stocking stuffers… however, if you’re planning to fill an adult stocking, this would make an awesome surprise! Just be sure to use a large package and then it will take up more room in the stocking. 😉
Current Jewelry Deals:
For a limited time only, head on over to Zales.com where they are offering up this White Sapphire Double Frame Sterling Silver Pendant for only $24.99 (regularly $99) when you enter promo code WHTSAPPAFF at checkout. PLUS, this deal gets even sweeter, as you’ll score FREE two-day shipping with guaranteed Christmas delivery if you order by 4PM EST on 12/22! Or you can order online and choose free in-store pickup if available in your area.
This sterling silver pendant comes with an 18-inch cable chain that secures with a spring-ring clasp.
Through December 23rd, head over to the Charming Charlie Instagram page and take a screenshot or show the post found here at the register to score $10 off any $10+ in-store purchase! Use this coupon to score FREE or inexpensive stocking stuffers – like hair accessories, jewelry and more!
You may also want to check your Inbox for a possible email from Charming Charlie valid for $10 off any $10+ in-store purchase – valid towards full price and clearance merchandise (also expires 12/23)!
5.) Personal Care/Beauty Products
These make some of the best stocking stuffers since they are practical and usually on the inexpensive side, especially when you pair sales with coupons!
A Few Personal Care Deals:
Be sure to check your local Dollar Tree for various great buys on personal care and beauty products. Often they have brand-name items that cost much more at other stores. For example, my local Dollar Tree has the typically very expensive Essie brand nail stickers priced at just $1!
Through December 24th, head on over to the Target Cartwheel site where they released a new offer good for 20% Off an Arm & Hammer Spinbrush! Even sweeter, through December 24th, Target is offering a FREE $5 Target gift card when you buy 2 Arm & Hammer Spinbrushes, making for a great deal and awesome stocking stuffers!
Target Deal Idea (Thru 12/24):
Buy 2 Arm & Hammer Spinbrushes $7.49 each
Total = $14.98
Use the 20% off Arm & Hammer Spinbrush Target Cartwheel (exp. 12/24)
-will deduct $3
Use the $3/2 Arm & Hammer Spinbrush Battery Toothbrushes printable coupon
Pay $8.98
Get a FREE $5 Target Gift Card
Final Cost $3.98 total – just $1.99 each!
Score cheap oral care products for the kiddos stockings this week at Walgreens! Through 12/24, Walgreens is offering up 2,000 Balance Rewards points ($2 reward) with the purchase of two participating Crest, Colgate and/or Oral-B Children’s dental care products! Combine this promo with coupons and low prices to save BIG!
Walgreens Deal Ideas (Valid through 12/24)
Buy 1 Kid’s Crest Sesame Street Toothbrush $1.99
Buy 1 Kid’s Crest Cavity Protection Toothpaste, 4.2 oz $1.99
Total = $3.98
Use one $0.75/1 Crest Kids, Oral-B Kids, Oral-B Pro-Health Jr. or Oral-B Pro-Health Stages Manual Toothbrush printable coupon
Use one $0.75/1 Crest Pro-Health Stages or Crest Kids Toothpaste 4.2 oz+ printable coupon
Pay $2.48
Get back 2,000 Balance Rewards points ($2 reward)
Final cost ONLY 48¢ for BOTH, just 24¢ each! Awesome!
Buy 1 Colgate Sponge Bob Kid’s Toothpaste, 4.6 oz $1.99
Buy 1 Kid’s Crest Cavity Protection Toothpaste, 4.2 oz $1.99
Total = $3.98
Use one $0.50/1 Colgate Kids Toothpaste Kids including Colgate My First 4.6 oz+ printable coupon
Use one $0.75/1 Crest Pro-Health Stages or Crest Kids Toothpaste 4.2 oz+ printable coupon
Pay $2.73
Get back 2,000 Balance Rewards points ($2 reward)
Final cost ONLY 73¢ for BOTH toothpastes!
In addition to the deals above, you may want to check your local T.J.Maxx for great savings on high-end beauty products. I spotted lots of great deals on popular brands like O.P.I. and more.6.) Coffee Mugs
Coffee mugs make great stocking stuffers and take up lots of room! 👍
Coffee Mug Deals:
Head on over to Amazon where you can score TWO Officially Licensed National Lampoons Christmas Vacation Glass Moose Mugs for just $16.95! Each mug comes individually packaged in a colorful gift box and holds about 4 ounces of liquid. Get free shipping on a $49 order, a $25 Book order OR snag free 2-day shipping on ANY size order with Amazon Prime (you can sign up for a FREE 30-day trial here).
These coffee mugs ROCK. lol 😂
Also, next time you’re at Dollar Tree, be sure to keep your eyes peeled for CUTE coffee mugs priced at just a buck. I spotted a nice selection at my local Dollar Tree!
7.) Socks
Socks, socks, and more socks! I tend to fill stockings with quite a few pairs!
I was surprised to find some nice quality athletic socks (batman & superman) at my local Dollar Tree for just a buck!
8.) Headphones
I don’t know about you, but my kids are constantly losing their headphones! With that said, every Christmas I buy a few budget-friendly options to throw in their stockings.
Headphone Deals:
Head on over to Amazon.com where they are offering up these Ailihen Stereo Headphones for just $9.99 (regularly $19.98+) when you enter promo code C2DEC999 at checkout.
These lightweight headphones have an in-line microphone and volume control that allows you to easily stay connected with hands free calling and the headband is adjustable to create a custom fit.
You may also be able to find inexpensive yet still nice quality earbuds and headphones at stores like T.J.Maxx!
9.) Candy & Gum
Need I say more? I always throws candy and gum in stockings when I am at that wonderful final stage of getting those stockings filled to the brim. 😊
Candy & Gum Deals:
Hop on over to Amazon where you can score a 12-pack of Trident Sugar-Free Gum in Original for $6.82 shipped OR Spearmint for only $5.12 shipped when you opt to Subscribe & Save (on the right). That makes each pack as low as just 43¢!
NOTE, if you have 5 or more subscriptions arriving in a month, you’ll save a whopping 15% off this order instead of the regular 5% – which will sweeten this deal! Remember, when you sign up for Subscribe and Save, you are under NO obligation whatsoever and can cancel at anytime. To cancel or modify your Subscribe and Save items, just click on “my account” and then “subscriptions” and then you can cancel and/or modify anything you want.
Head to Target where you can score nice buys on M&M’s chocolate candies and Skittles (perfect to stuff in those stockings)…
Target Deals:
Buy 2 M&M’s Holiday Boxes, 3.1 oz $1 each
Use the $1/2 Mars Holiday M&M’s, Milky Way, Dove, Minis Mix, Twix, 3 Musketeers or Snickers 3 oz or larger coupon
Final cost $1, just 50¢ each!
Buy 2 Skittles Holiday Mix, 3.5 oz $1 each
Total = $2
Use the 25% Off Skittles Holiday Boxes Cartwheel Offer (exp. 12/24)
-will deduct 50¢
Use the $0.50/2 Skittles, Hubba Bubba, Juicy Fruit, Doublemint and/or Wrigley’s Spearmint Holiday Products coupon found in the 12/4 RP
Final cost $1, just 50¢ each!
Target Deal (Thru 12/24 Only):
Buy 2 M&M’s Holiday Canes, 3 oz $1.67
Total = $3.34
Use the $1/2 Mars Holiday M&M’s, Milky Way, Dove, Minis Mix, Twix, 3 Musketeers or Snickers 3 oz or larger coupon
Final cost $2.34 total, just $1.17 each!
10.) And for a miscellaneous deal (I scored this one for my hubby’s stocking):
Neat Stocking Stuffer!
Head on over to Amazon.com where they are offering up this highly rated LifeStraw Personal Water Filter for only $13.99 – regularly $19.99!
LifeStraws remove 99.99% of waterborne bacteria and parasites from water making it safe for you to drink almost anywhere. Consider grabbing the personal water filter for the hiking and camping lover on your Christmas list!
NY & Co has free 2 day shipping with Shoprunner! Thanks for posting the scarf/gloves deal!
You’re welcome Jessica!
I got the New York and Company gloves sets. They are really pretty and a nice for just $5. Looks like they cost more!
Thank you! I just got the Lifestraw water filter for my husband :).
Awesome! You’re so welcome!
If I pay 4,000 points for toothpaste and brush do I get points back?
No you can’t earn points when you redeem points.
Yes you will earn the points back. Casey they changed it where points are rollable on certain deals like this.
Collin, Did you find those Batman and Superman socks at Dollar Tree recently or describing a good deal you have gotten in the past? My son loves those kind! I need to know if I need to make a mad dash to town! Lol! 🙂
Yes! I spotted them today at the Dollar Tree and they seem pretty high quality for just a buck! 😉
What happened to the simplicity of fruit and nuts in stockings? I was always thankful and enjoyed the oranges in my stocking as a child.
I still put an orange in my girls’ stockings!
I know, we always got oranges, candy canes & nuts. Loved it!
What ever happened? 2016 is what happened lol. Times change and so do people’s preferences.
We totally do nuts and clementines in th stockings, but also lip balm, pen/pad of stationary, star wars keychain for the kids’ backpacks, giant candy cane and couple other things. My kids get one gift from mom/dad, one from Santa, and one Hannukah gift (we are inter-religious)
And our kids totally LOVE the orange and nuts-they would miss them if they weren’t in the stocking!
Yes! We do the fruit in the stocking too and just a few little gifts. We do a giant apple, giant orange and banana.
As a kid we got a grapefruit in addition, which was my favorite, and also a variety of nuts still in the shell. We also got a candy cane and a Christmas coloring book, and maybe batteries if a gift needed them.
Well at our house we are total fruit nuts so putting fruit in there stockings wouldn’t be a treat… My daughter had several friends over for the weekend once and a couple of the girls said they couldn’t remember the last time they had fresh fruit… I try to serve fruit with every meal… Growing up I did get fruit and whole nuts in my stocking…
Wow! We always have fresh fruit in our house, too. I spend the bulk of our grocery budget on fresh fruit and vegetables. It’s a pain trying to get reasonably good deals (and having to run out a couple times each week to do so) but we always have fresh options at meals. Poor kid!
Regarding stocking stuffers, I think the original poster is just reminding us not to overcomplicate the holidays. Personally, I don’t even worry about stocking stuffers, and I always end up with gifts for them (especially with young kids). And even if I didn’t, I wouldn’t care or go out of my way (or budget) just to stuff a stocking. Better to get one thing that you really want, need, or can use than a stocking full of unnecessary, unwanted, or unneeded stuff. (Or stuff that I have to pick up, manage, dust, or otherwise deal with! 😉 ) I have some well-meaning but IMO misguided relatives who overbuy stocking stuffer type items from “junk stores” (Dollar Tree, Five Below, etc.), which drives me crazy because they end up spending way too much on stuff that doesn’t last or that isn’t used. Overbuying just sets the bar higher and higher each year, and who needs that kind of stress?
That said, I think some of these are great gift ideas for the hard-to-buy-for. We are overwhelmed with mugs, toothbrushes, and candy, but I love the idea of magazine subscriptions (especially for kids or older relatives) and earphones or earbuds (I go through them like underwear!). Some other ideas: scratchers (who couldn’t use some extra $ after the holidays?) and specialty or locally produced foods (beef jerky, condiments, spices/rubs, soaps, etc.). Gotta love consumables for adults who don’t want or need more stuff.
thank you all for all your efforts and great suggestions!!! as always awesome ideas!!! Just one point though…people who work with ceramics will tell you to I be very careful about buying mugs (and generally ceramics for eating-drinking) from places (like Dollar stores and even Walmart) who are cheaply made in China…the glazes used are filled with chemicals and if they start “crackling” which they do often they ll release bad stuff in your food. particularly careful with darker glazes.
I had no idea. Any suggestions on where to buy safer mugs? Thanks
Yes but if you buy disney licensed ones those are left over from stores like kmart that went out of business and are generally higher quality
I love the sapphire necklace! I bought one for myself and one for my mom. I also went through ebates for 10%cashback! Thank you!!
You’re very welcome! 🙂
The batman and superman socks are at 99 cent only store not Dollar Tree l.
Anybody try the Essie nail stickers from Dollar Tree?
I can’t seem to print the Arm & Hammer Spinbrush coupons, anyone else having trouble?
Bummer! Have you been able to try it in a different browser?