Do you buy new matching family Christmas pj’s every year?

[Doughnuts68]

Do you buy new matching family Christmas pj’s every year?

And the froth inducing responses prove it's easier to wind up a mumsnetter than a clock
god the stupid really is strong on here

No.

No! I do buy vaguely Christmassy (eg tartan) pyjamas for the boys' Christmas Eve boxes (so they can wear them year round) but matching sets for the whole family is so naff. What do you do if you have guests staying? Make them feel like they're not part of the clan, or worse, buy them a pair?

I have the same pairs for DH & I and have just bought bigger sizes for DS second-hand on Vinted.

We’re set for the next 6 years with the same set.

I don’t but I might for a laugh. It would be very funny, my family would laugh. I see nothing wrong in investing in a bit of humour in what is a very dark time.
I spent £40 on a cardboard model of her late Majesty at the jubilee for just such a reason.
Actually, this could be the year, why not? The kids are having a shit time, DH and 17yo DD in matching jimjams could well make our Christmas!

No.

No but they do always get some nice warm winter pyjamas for Christmas. I'm firm believer in filler pressies that are things they desperately need but it makes for a more magical pile of presents. They suffer in last years too small pj's until December!

I think it should be the new equivalent of Eat out to Help out. Pyjama up to Heat up. The government could give each of us £10 pounds of our taxes towards it.

You really don't give a shit about the environment do you?

No. DH doesn't wear pyjamas and DD and I get nice fancy new jammies, but not matching.

I've got 2 short pairs and 3 long pairs but I don't need a new pair every year.

No, so wasteful from an environmental perspective. Fair enough getting new (non Christmas) PJs if actually needed.

Every year, hell no.
But what I did a few years ago is bought our family a matching set (me, DH, DSS), and bought DSS two pairs, one a size up from his current size, and one two sizes up, plus a couple of sets for the (as of then unborn) baby.
The outgrown sets sell on FB marketplace pretty well, and then a family set lasts us 4-5 years. Suits us pretty well!
I love to take a photo every Christmas of us in the set, and it's lovely to see them year on year

What's wrong with getting Christmas PJs if needed? October and my kids are still in reindeer PJs and Santa's Gang PJs. There's nothing inherently bad about Christmas PJs unless you're binning them after two wears

I would consider it but we don't have a matching family.
They are all different shapes and sizes. 😞

Ive just bought myself Christmas pjs

but although my now adult children get pjs on Christmas eve (and dds birthday) they aren’t themed or Christmassy

Me and dd have new (non Christmas) PJs for Christmas Eve each year, we're always ready for new PJs and it's nice to have new ones on Christmas morning.

I used to buy Christmas ones for dd when she was little, but it gets a bit odd when they're wearing snowman PJs in May.

Never ever have I ever.

No we have Christmas Pjs we wear every year. The kids pass theirs down to each other when they outgrow them and then they are passed through nieces and nephews.

No.

The elves bring pyjamas on Christmas Eve but never Christmas ones or matching. I just time it that we all need new pyjamas by Christmas! Like a previous poster though, if I was loaded I'd love to do it to see DD1's face

No never

No we all have different tastes and DP doesn't wear PJs.

Why are people saying it's wasteful?

Our DC wear them year round, they grow out of them by the next year so not really a waste? Plus we normally plan to do a couple of years with the same ones. So older DC hands down to the younger DC for the next year, and I already have the next one up in her size. DH and I of course wear the same ones again as we haven't gone up or down in size.

I don't get the wasteful comments?

(don't tar us all with the same brush as the absolute knobhead up above who tumble dries the fuck out of them then BINS them!!) we would NEVER

Someone else asked who it is for as no one is going to see anyway. Well, we don't care that no one sees as it's for us. No we don't post photos of us in them, why would we? We don't have social media anyway.

Stop assuming everything!

@MoggyMittens23

Because (and you’re clearly not one of them!) lots of people buy the matching Christmas pjs for the whole family including the adults every year purely for the social media pics and then don’t wear them much again.
I know a few of these families and the adults must have at least 5 pairs of these Christmas pjs by now. And they don’t wear them again - and I know this because I’ve asked some of them 😂