What do you put in stretched ears before size 8?!

There are smaller plug/tunnel sizes. If you have a normal pierced ear size, it's usually a 20g, but you can start stretching them from 16g, to 14g, to 12g, to 10g, to 8g, and so on.
Here is a website for size information and for buying jewelry.
http://www.kingsbodyjewelry.com/

If you plan on not stretching your ears to a size where they will not close up (to a normal sized ear ring size), then you should stop at 2g or 0g, it depends on the person's body/ear lobes. Do not listen to other people who tell you that you will be forever stuck with the same sized gaping hole that you have stretched your ears to, because it is false information and it is most likely that they do not have stretched ear lobes themselves. The hole shrinks over time, I have a friend who stretched their ears bigger than an inch, and it shrunk to a 4g or a 2g after a few months.

I have 9/16" stretched ears, myself.

They go 14, 12, 10, 8 I believe. Just know from someone who's gaged her ears that it sucks. If you stretch them out too far they won't go back to normal size and you look like an idiot when you're older with big gaping holes in your lobes and surgery is the only thing that will help to get them normal again.

Done it same with a bunch of my friends