2007-12-25 07:39:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
it means that they are giving you and orange..
2007-12-25 07:48:09 · answer #1 · answered by me!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that children in the United States and some other cultures hang on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins, or other small gifts when he arrives." Stocking stuffers can be some of the best gifts to receive when Christmas morning arrives. I'm sure most children who celebrate Christmas have heard that if you misbehave Santa will leave a lump of coal in your stocking. No one wants that, no do they?
The idea of using an orange as a stocking stuffer seems to have become a thing of the past to a lot of people. In this time of technologically advanced children, hectic and busy schedules and families having trouble just carving out time together the simple orange and/or apple as a stocking stuffer just does not appeal to most people. Sure, an orange in the toe of your stocking on Christmas morning may not be as exciting as, say, finding an iPod or a new video game that you have been asking for but it's the symbolization of generosity that an orange represents that should be more important than any high priced gift you could receive.
2007-12-25 07:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by lolalolacherrycola 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very traditional, at least in the UK.
It fills the toe of a stocking very nicely, and if you go back to the 1950's tropical fruit was a scarce and luxury item.
A real present.
2007-12-25 07:53:06 · answer #3 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's an old-school Christmas treat. People in the days before refrigerated shipping used to get a rare treat--an orange--for Christmas.
2007-12-25 08:03:56 · answer #4 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you got an orange be thankful. You could have gotten a lump of coal which means that you were on Santa's bad list.
2007-12-25 07:49:30 · answer #5 · answered by starfire 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nothing!Ppl use oranges to fill the toe of the stocking..just so that parts not all deflated looking thats all..lol..My mother in-law did this and I thought she was nuts til' she told me why!..lol
2007-12-25 07:43:35 · answer #6 · answered by webins1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oranges were really expensive back in the old days so it was a really lovely gift to receive. It's just a tradition, nothing more, nothing less.
2007-12-25 07:44:42 · answer #7 · answered by trinisugar 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Merry Christmas from Santa - my mother got one every year in her stocking
2007-12-25 07:46:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
idk...mayb 'merry christmas, here's a free orange, save a few bucks'. who gav it 2 u anywaz? a relative?
@ least its better than a lump of coal
2007-12-25 07:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by blondE 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't mean anything. my kids get fruit in there stockings all the time. i used to too.
2007-12-25 19:55:12 · answer #10 · answered by ivy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋