Stocking filler ideas

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Chris

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My wife is wanting ideas for stocking fillers for me (so relatively cheap little bits) and losing the plot because I always end up just buying bits and pieces, so apparently I am hard to shop for!

Do people have ideas for bushcraft themed stocking fillers? With practical uses rather than just stuff that’ll end up in a drawer.
 
Not really bushcrafty, but I bought these for the menfolks stockings.




Liked them enough that I bought duplicates to put into other parcels. The screwdriver has a most useful torch built in, as well at fine heads inside a screwed bar.....for under a fiver.
 
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Can't have enough mini carabiner, s binas, or the odd nitize 9(which I use for my ridgeline)
A nice big 6 by half inch ferro rod.
Bankline,
Parracord,
Work gloves
Hand and/or foot warmers
Chem lightsticks.
 
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Just looked at the bestsellers on Amazon's camping & hiking section.
Seems everyone is getting handwarmers, lights or bottles.

If have a sweet tooth, tins of travel sweets.
https://traditionalsweets.com/ (or on Amazon if want to avoid the min spend)
 
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Nothing off the top of my head for you; but you could apply the sort of logic my boss uses when doing it for me... she just looks at what I use-up, break and / or lose most regularly... :banghead:

And then adds some other things that she thinks may amuse me, and chocolate.
 
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If carabinas are a good idea then take a look at quick release shackles. I have the impression that they would be unusual for many folk but perhaps I’m wrong. I use them on my beer mug lanyard, my main key ring is one and I hang kit by them. A quick pull on a tag and it releases. They vary considerably in price and quality. My mug shackle will take two tonnes!!!!! That’s a lot of beer.

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Most of them have a solid lower ring like the key ring here. Some have a swivel but they look weak.

I like the simplicity of the bollard type but you need to know how to splice an eye.
 
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Small Heat/fire mat
Fold up sit pad
Tyvek or silnylon ground cloth
Hammero Fire card
FSC field guides/cards
 
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