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Fun Christmas Socks Gift Idea ~ Keeping the Mistle “Toes” Warm

December 7, 2015 by Laura 8 Comments

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I picked up several pairs of fun Christmas socks before Thanksgiving, so as expected, I bought some toothpaste and pencils to go with them. This is the obvious action to take when gifting Christmas socks. Everything I do is normal.

What actually happened is that I bought the fun Christmas socks with our adopted college students in mind. I figured I would package them up with some other goodies and put them in their campus mail. But then I came across the fun idea on Pinterest to fill the socks with treats and little gifts, and before I knew it (which really translates to several days and hours later) – I had six sets of these:

Christmas Sock Gift

These gifts were terrifically fun to put together! I went with basic wool socks for our three male adopted students, as you’ll see below. Since I’d gotten so many pairs of fun girly Christmas socks on sale, I decided to mix theirs up a bit. While it looks like they’re receiving mis-matched pairs, I actually rolled up the second sock of each pair and stuck it down inside the toes. So the girls are getting two pairs of cute socks. Sorry boys – yours are much more practical!

Christmas Sock Gifts

Speaking of practical – I included a few other practical items inside the guy’s socks. What college student wants to actually spend money on toothpaste and soap? Not to worry, I’m here to help. Their socks included soap, toothpaste, pens, candy cane chapstick, a small flashlight, gum, and candy (because not everything must be practical and at least I included toothpaste to brush away the sugar).

The girl’s socks were a little more on the fru-fru side because my inner girl rarely gets to come out in this household of men and all that I’d been holding back exploded in the dazzling Christmas aisles at Walmart. I got the girls sparkly lip balm and glittery nail polish, Christmas nail files, snowman pencils, face scrub, gum, and candy.

Our family then worked together to come up with a punny gift tag idea to attach to our socks. Our gift tag creativity hadn’t woken up yet that morning, however, so all we came up with was “Hope your Christmas doesn’t sock.” (Get it? Don’t try too hard.) Since that idea didn’t come close to making the cut, I searched online and came up with this:

mistle toes4

Yes. That’s better.

I then created a generic tag for all of you in case you’d like to steal this idea.

Mistle Toe Socks Gift Tag

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As I’m writing this, I realize that this would be a very good idea for those of you who live in a community with a large homeless population. Filling wool socks with practical items and turning them into fun gifts like this would surely be a blessing to the recipients. In my town, we don’t have many homeless, but we do have many low-income individuals and families. I’m working on putting together packages for several people we’ve met and become friends with this year while volunteering at our local mission. I’ll write more about this experience sometime. :)

This time of year is so much fun!

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Filed Under: Just for Fun Tagged With: blessing, christmas, gifts, homeless, socks, toes

Comments

  1. Elizabeth says

    December 7, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    What a fun idea! I am going to have to do this!

    Reply
  2. Shelby says

    December 8, 2015 at 9:33 am

    LOVE this idea! I think your students will really appreciate the thoughtfulness!

    Reply
  3. Nathana Clay says

    December 8, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    I love this idea! I am totally going to do this! This is the perfect gift for encouraging college students. :)

    Reply
  4. Karen says

    July 12, 2018 at 2:45 pm

    What a cute idea! I’ll definitely be doing this for my kids this Christmas.

    Reply
  5. Carrie F. Crowl says

    December 9, 2021 at 12:49 pm

    What a great idea! I love this and I love your tag. Adorable!!! Thanks for giving us great ideas on gifts and games. You’re a blessing to me and so many!

    Reply
  6. Joyce says

    December 14, 2022 at 11:41 am

    I did this for my family last year and it was a great hit at our family Christmas gathering.

    Reply

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