To ask if spending ALL of Christmas Day in your pyjamas appeals to you or

I spend forever looking for pyjamas for each years theme- lots of effort involved! It’s a special celebration.
What has the heating got to do with it?

Christmas Eve and Boxing Day....... different pairs of jammies 😂😂😂😂
I have LOTS of them.

Pyjamas don't say "celebration" or "festive" do they. Literally the opposite of making an effort.
They also suggest you may have the heating up too high...

Christmas Eve we will be travelling and Boxing Day on the ski slopes (we’ll be with family in Colorado).

So you are dressing up then if you are wearing special clothes for the day.

I'm intrigued as to what the pyjama wearers are wearing on Boxing Day ( which to me is the whew it's over let's chill day) or Christmas Eve when it's time to settle in, ready for the main event. What are you wearing then?

Ooh yes I love a PJ day.

It’s not often on Xmas day though.
If I have guests or go somewhere then I’d change.

I don’t get the MN obsession with having to do things the ‘right’ way.

Your life is yours to live how you want.

Why do some people care that something is ‘slobbish’ when no one can even see them and there’s nothing slobbish about it anyway.

It’s almost like they’re putting on an act for other people all of the time, which must be exhausting!

Either that or they’re very smelly and their PJs would smell after only 1 night.

As long as you’re not hurting anyone, just live your life how you want to and stop worrying about keeping up appearances.
Literally no one gives a shit.

@Laveritas yes even if I wore jeans and a top or a fancy dress rather than jammies I'd be doing exactly the same stuff on Christmas day (eat, watch a film, build Lego.....).
Not exactly "slobbing around" 🤔

I reckon half of the people screaming are living in a fictitious wonderland. The other half are real...which..whatever.

Happy to "slobber" after a shower, in my brand new clean pj's that make games of tick and playing horse so much more comfy. Imagine trying that in sequins!

Why is it slovenly to shower and then dress in clean new pyjamas? Why do you think we would be slobbering around?

No way, slovenly behaviour to slob in pyjamas all day, supreme ick!!

New pjs on Christmas Eve and stay in them all day. We have 11 in total coming over and I tell them to come in their pjs if they want too! It’s a bit of a tradition in our house now and the only day we do it, unless we are sick.

The only time I've ever stayed in pjs all day is when I've been extremely sick with proper flu.

Otherwise I can't not get dressed every day. Including Christmas day.

As I said we all have our different styles of celebrating.

I don't dress up. I just wear normal smart-casual clothes.

I don’t wear the pyjamas I buy for Christmas Day to sleep in. They are day wear not night wear. It’s a special family day so a celebratory event.

I think it’s weird to “dress up” to have Christmas dinner at home - we all have different styles of celebrating.

It's just weird imo. Would you wear pyjamas for any other celebratory event? Or when having people round for lunch/dinner? I don't care what the pyjamas are made of or how luxurious they are. For me, nightwear is nightwear.

Why do some posters think that by wearing your pyjamas on Christmas Day means that you are going to be lazy and slobbering around? What’s the difference between this and someone wearing anything else?

Just as a matter of interest, where does the awful term "ick" come from?

Never heard it anywhere apart from MN>

I don't live in the UK and find the idea of both Christmas pyjamas and Christmas sweaters a bit ick.

Edited to add I also think the idea of slobbing around at home all day doing absolutely nothing is also weird. Each to their own, but even though I now spend the entire day alone I don't just slob around doing nothing, and didn't even when I worked full time.

Of course we are all entitled to a lazy sloth day now and again, no-one is saying that we aren't. I'm retired so most of my days are lazy sloth days - the difference being that I get dressed every single day, unless I am sick enough to be in bed.

I don't know a single person who equates a lazy sloth day with not getting dressed in actual clothing.

😂😂😂😂😂

it's a long running family joke about how about an hour after Christmas dinner, I always say I'm going to have a lie down in front of the fire (usually cuddling the dog for a bit) then almost invariably fall asleep in a food coma face down, and they all balance things on me and take photographs.
about an hour later, I wake up and have a second wind.
but yeah, my face down fireside floor naps are a Christmas tradition now, I suppose 😂

@FierceQuiet when I worked my uniform was a formal blouse made out of stiff material and a straight skirt made from thick rough material and we were required to wear tights.
They then allowed us to wear trousers which were formal cut ones - again out of rough material and they were fairly tight around even slim tummies and tight on thighs.
That is why I would strip it off the second I got home. There was absolutely no way I could relax and chill with that horrible outfit on.
Pjs/loungewear/leggings/trackies went straight on.

Xmas jumper and leggings. Comfortable but feeling festive!

oh, I DO get dressed. I sleep naked. PJs, to me, are for wearing around the house and being comfortable. If I'm out, I'm looking forward to getting into my PJs the way some people look forward to taking their bra off. it's the first thing I do when I get home, and I only change out of them for bath, bed, or leaving the house.

I never sleep in them, unless I'm staying at someone else's house.