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.

In fact ours started because there was a pile of stuff that needed to come out of the loft (advent calendars, books, elf etc) before the decorations went up later in December. So just makes sense to keep everything that needs to come out 1 December in one box together.

So glad I was born in 1967. Getting ridiculous now. Christmas Eve boxes, Proms, Baby Showers, Wedding Showers, OTT Hen Dos overseas, Gender Reveal parties. Bah!

What is a Christmas Eve box?

Christmas pj's & dressing gowns, the stash of Christmas books, a new Christmas activity book each, a bendy straw cup each, a Santa letter writing set (more for DS but DD has to have everything her big brother does!) and a festive headband type thing each.
We do it on the first Saturday of December instead though so there's time to play and it spreads it out a bit with the elf and the advent calendar!

I’m too invested in this thread 😂 now I’ve just read people don’t understand the concept of Christmas books?! You’ve never heard of mogs Christmas, the jolly Christmas postman, the dinosaur that pooped Christmas, the christmasaurus?? Yes as they are Christmas themed they go in the loft in January and come back out again 1 Dec!!

You put your New Year’s Eve box inside it, so it doesn’t get spoiled.

Ffs Christmas is on 25th December, anyone who celebrates it gets stuff on that day, the whole Xmas eve, advent chocolate or any other consumerism before that is a load of nonsense as is elf on the shelf and all that, get some perspective people.

That’s not what OP is describing though, is it? She’s bought a load of Christmas-themed tat, toys and sweets and put it in a box…

I hardly think a chocolate advent calendar indicates a loss of perspective!

Well more fool her if she is in fact poor and struggling to afford stuff. The vast majority on this thread who do do the boxes have said it’s mainly the same staff each year. A nice ritual/tradition to dig into the box every 1 December and remember this book, remember that bit of cracker tat that found its way into the box etc etc. we’ve got Christmas glasses (spectacles) that come out every year (I can’t remember where they came from!) that the kids always have a laugh putting on. It’s not always mindless consumerism is what I’m saying.

Ah man, you know what OP, the past couple of years have sucked arse for kids and adults alike. You do what you want to bring something nice into your lives. Enjoy.

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I've never heard of any of that. The Christmasaurus?

Clearly Christmas isn't a religious holiday for a great many people.

To be fair until a couple of years ago I thought I personally invented this when I got my Christmas stuff out of the loft. It was only by reading Mumsnet that I realised plenty of other people do this too!

For a huge, huge amount of people in the UK, Christmas had absolutely nothing to do with Jesus.

why two advent calanders. I would just get the keepsake one

Mine will have 25 little chocolates in all behind little doors aka an advent calender

Seriously what fresh hell is this now

A December the 1st box?????? 😂 😂 😂

I was in SOuth Ken and near the independently owned Medici Gallery that always has fabulous advent calendars so I bought the DC one each. Delighted to say that they are not the chocolate variety. That is quite enough for December - and I have made sure that they know that Advent starts before December this year....

What ! My god it's Christmas soon . I've never heard of this and it's ridiculous .

Yes definetly!,we've been saving up the toilet roll cardboard since summer as dd wants to make her own advent calender this year,she saw something on YouTube where you arrange them in rows to make an Xmas tree shape,fill them with chocs and wrap the whole thing in paper,then number each section for each day,there's loads of videos on yt to make Xmas crafts with stuff we already have round the house,especially toilet roll cardboard ha!

You will be horrified to hear that DS came home from school and proudly announced that Baby Jesus was the God of Suns

I’m absolutely shocked that a poster who was relieved their DD got one hot meal a day at school, who wrapped their baby in blankets when cold as couldn’t afford heating is wasting money on absolute tat and a non event 1st December box. Some advice on financial management is clearly needed @TinyPhotoFrames

Quite.

Ours is just a box of matches to light the advent candles each Sunday. It’s technically a 27th November box this year. Except we’re away. So it’s a 4th December box. No. We’re still away. Might have to be an 11th December box.