My kids and their spouses and their kids and my husband expect filled stockings Christmas morning! When our son brought his girlfriend home, she got a tote bag with stuff in on the mantle. The next Christmas I crocheted her a stocking in the same pattern as our son's but different colors. Our daughter's stocking was crocheted by my mother for her first Christmas. It is smaller than all the other stockings on the mantle but it was made by Grandma and my daughter won't change it for the world. When her soon to be husband came the first Christmas, I took a pair of hubby's new white socks and stuffed it. He had to have something and he teased everyone that he got to wear his Christmas stocking! Then the granddaughter came and I crocheted her one also. Hubby and I have stockings also and I fill everyone's stockings. They used to get toothbrushes and toothpaste but the dentist gives them out each visit. Granola bars, cocoa packets, snickers, 'stuff'!!
None of them have mantles so I imagine their stockings will always stay at home!