This stocking functions as a bag that has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions, roughly 1 foot in diameter at the mouth and 2 feet deep. The stocking can hold up to 250 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 32 cubic feet. The stocking weighs 1 pound, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the stocking requires an action.  The stocking's design is unfit for wear, requiring that it be carried in one hand.

If the stocking is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it ruptures and is destroyed, and its contents are explosively scattered in a 10-foot radius centered on the stocking. A number of creatures equal to the number of items stored in the stocking within 10 feet of the stocking when it ruptures must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or bit hit by an expelled item.  If the number of items stored in the stocking exceeds the number of creatures within 10 feet of it, each additional item targets a creature at random.  A creature that fails its saving throw takes 1d4 bludgeoning damage for each expelled item that targeted it. 

If the stocking is turned upside down or inside out, its contents spill forth, unharmed, but the stocking must be put right before it can be used again. Breathing creatures inside the stocking can survive up to a number of minutes equal to 10 divided by the number of creatures (minimum 1 minute), after which time they begin to suffocate.

Placing a gift stocking inside an extradimensional space created by a bag of holding, handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item or placing such an item inside a gift stocking does not destroy either item and does not open a gate to the Astral Plane as usually described by those items.

Notes: Utility, Container