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Quirky traditions enliven these families’ Christmas mornings John Kelly According to legend, the tradition of the Christmas stocking grew from a happy accident involving wet laundry that was drying by the fireplace.
St. Nicholas supposedly threw some gold coins down the chimney of an impoverished family’s house. The coins landed in some socks and presto! everyone started hanging stockings. Our mantles would look a lot different today if the coins had landed in the underpants instead. Of course, even within the Christmas stocking tradition, there are different practices, as readers illustrated. When
Renee Shields-Doyle was growing up and during her first marriage her family dug into the stockings at the end of the morning, after all of the other presents had been opened. When she remarried, she discovered her new husband and his sons opened their stockings first.