I remember the old clean sock. Knee-hi socks were the best. There would be an orange with occasionally a 50 cent piece plus assorted shelled mixed nuts and best of all would be the mixture of Lucky Charms and Fruit Loops cereal in the stocking. Sometimes there would be the gold foil wrapped chocolate coins (pirate's treasure) in with the cereal. The dry cereal and nuts would all be mixed together. DH had essentially the same tradition. I do remember the books of Lifesavers candies that used to be available around Christmas time.
My girls used to get an orange but not any more as neither of them eat oranges but always some special candy and some small present and occasionally some money but usually a gas or I-Tunes gift card. We usually have decks of playing cards in them also because we play card games at the house.