What is in your DC December 1st box?

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I've got DD:
Christmas bedspread
Julia Donaldson book advent
Wooden keepsake advent
Elf on the shelf activities book
Little Miss Christmas book
Reindeer headband
Christmas PJs

Baby DS has got a white chocolate calender, a wooden keepsake advent and PJs.

You gave your baby chocolate?!

Any of our Christmas books are just on the shelf/DC’s floors all year round. DD particularly likes a wretched one about a bear, badger, mole and hedgehog waiting for Father Christmas. I’d quite like to put it in a box and bury it at sea. Not sure why you’d hide books away for 11 months other than because they’re crap.

Either of the Mog Christmas books and Alfie’s Christmas are also popular in our house (DC 9 and 6… DS6 determined never to be too old for picture books, DD9 knows she is but sneaks in to listen!)

Not sure why you’d hide books away for 11 months other than because they’re crap.

because then it’s special when they come out again… I admit it’s not a hill I’d die on though 😆

December 1st is my 50th birthday so someone had better have put diamonds and champagne in my December 1st box or there’ll be merry hell to pay.

Mine are too old for anything like this now (swerved Elf on a shelf thank goodness), but I don't think it's so wild that people need to do all the faux puzzlement.

If it was a thing then I would put a bag of chocolate Brussels sprouts, a box of Xmas cards for them to write to their friends, some sort of paper craft (paper chains, or snowflakes), paper and envelope for them to write to FC, a bendy FC, ginger bread mix, or reindeer cake bits a mince pie, dig out the Raymond Briggs books (Snowman and Father Christmas).
I think it's probably just centralising all the little things we like to do with the kids in the lead up to Xmas.

You know I might actually do it for my 13yo - claw back some of the little kid magic, rather than scrolling through websites of godawful fashion, gaming shite! and football stuff.

faux puzzlement
People have genuinely never heard of this, me included.

There's a what now 😂

Yes, as I've said in my pp, Raymond Briggs' Snowman and Father Christmas would get read over the Christmas period. I never put them away in between but I guess they'd work their way to the back as they wouldn't be chosen to be read at other times.

So a Dec 1st box is now a thing? Plus a Christmas Eve box, plus enough stuff on Christmas Day to stock a toy shop? You realise most of this crap is made in China, a country which oppresses … well everyone that doesn’t toe the line. Think of all the Uyghur women who’ve been raped, the thousands thrown into “retraining” camps before you buy this rubbish, please.

DD particularly likes a wretched one about a bear, badger, mole and hedgehog waiting for Father Christmas. it's not Grumpy Badgers Christmas is it? My dd loves that one and I feel grateful on a regular basis that she can now read it to herself.

No, but the badger IS grumpy! Whatever did badgers do to get this anti-Christmas curmudgeon reputation? Perhaps they didn’t do a 1st December box.

(I’ve just found the book and it’s Waiting for Santa, a strong argument for the pros of book burning imo.)

😂😂😂

Exactly the same stuff as in the Dec 1st box, but two of everything. Obviously.

By Dec 24th they have so many pairs of Christmas pyjamas, Christmas jumpers, Christmas hairbands, Christmas slippers, Christmas socks and Christmas-themed books that they have kind of lost interest, but that’s just what good mums do #makingmemories #whatcostoflivingcrisis #yepthats300pairsofchristmaspyjamasperchild

Exactly, people are being a bit weird about Christmas traditions.
Board games that are only played over Xmas, films that you only watch in Dec, the Bing Crosby CD, dusting off the Harvey's Bristol Cream.
Why not have books that are particularly lovely to enjoy in the lead up to Christmas?

In dds book Grumpy badger has sensibly stocked up for the winter and all he wants to do is hibernate but he keeps being woken by other animals who want him to do stuff. Then he saves a baby who managed to get stuck at the top of the giant Xmas tree and sees the error of his ways, has a massive party where all the other animals eat all of his winter supplies and there is no mention of the fact that he'll probably now have to eat them when he gets hungry later and realises his larder is bare...

We don't do Christmas Eve boxes, but I am going to put all the Christmas bits and pieces that the DC would have got in December anyway into an old picnic hamper box to be unpacked on 1st December. It's just going to have their advent calendars, Christmas jumpers/pj's and a Christmas plate each. Plus all the Christmas books we've collected over the years and a new one for each of them. DC1 is 4 and so excited about Christmas - he'll love being able to open it himself and look at everything.

We're keeping it simple this year. Just a diamond for every day up to Christmas Eve.

In dds book Grumpy badger has sensibly stocked up for the winter and all he wants to do is hibernate but he keeps being woken by other animals who want him to do stuff.

He should team up with the bear in Peace at Last and stage a coup!

I don't put it all inside an actual box but he'll get his advent calendar, some pjs, his reply from Santa & of course the elf comes out.

An advent calendar

Hey Duggee Book Calendar Advent
Chocolate Advent
Christmas Pyjamas and Slipper Socks
Letter from Santa
Matey Bubbles
Christmas Activities Book

Chocolate Advent
Loungewear
PlayStation Gift Card
Tube of Sweets

A lot of people are misunderstanding what a 1st Dec box is- talking about consumerism and landfill. We have in ours fabric advent calendars that get re used each year, an elf that comes out every year, all the Xmas books that come out every year, Xmas blankets that come out every year. Bought new is a candle, maybe one book and chocolates for the calendars and then Christmas pjs once every 2-3 years. One or two crafts do do in December. And that’s it. A lot of you have never even heard of it so have completely misunderstood what’s in most people’s.

In Waiting For Santa, the animals are waiting for Santa. Then, in a shocking plot twist, Santa arrives! Afterwards he goes away again.

Oh FFS a what?! I feel guilty about mine not having a Christmas Eve box and now this!