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.

Can someone send me the number for SS please? Cos my kids are clearly missing out.... They get a measly (Kinder) advent calendar for December. Fuck more boxes - Xmas is stressful enough without people adding more shite.

What about a box on the first day of each month throughout the year? Or a 'halfway to Xmas' box that we give on 1st July?

I hope you gave your hard hat and an adult nappy OP, cos you're full of shit - either your previous post was a crock, or this one is. Can't have it both ways you know.

I don't do them, or Christmas eve boxes - but I do think December 1st boxes are better than Christmas Eve boxes, because at least they can use whatever is in the for a whole month.

Although OP - you really don't need to do them, your kiddos will be perfectly happy with an advent calendar, I promise, reduce your spending and the pressure on yourself 💐

Nothing about my previous thread suggests I'm poor.

Im sorry @TinyPhotoFrames but your other thread - titled "Being poor" - and your 3 posts on it, absolutely do!

What fresh hell is this?
No one needs this. No wonder so many people are struggling or get into debt if they feel pressurised into taking part in shit like this.

Surely this year, of all years, there must be something better to spend your money on.

To be fair I think a Dec 1st box makes more sense than a Christmas eve box.

Why give new Christmas pjs, books etc the night before. I give dd new Christmas pjs at the begging of Dec so she gets to wear them in the run up to Christmas........

There were 3 of us. I accepted that, as youngest, I should be last to start opening our shared calendar... in other news, I was better at maths than my brothers 😂

I was always taught (many many years ago) that Advent was a time of reflecting on your sins and atoning/doing without (a bit like Lent) rather than a time of excess and Christmas activities. Having said that I do recall that a lot of December was spent doing Christmas activites - mainly cross stitching motifs onto endless amounts of gingham fabric to make napkin and tray cloth sets for a swathe of aunts and other relatives. Always seemed unfair as my brother got to make pen pots out of loo roll and cream cheese lids. Once that was over and done with we made equally endless paper chains out of newspaper and paint. No one reported my mother to Social Services either.....

I was always taught (many many years ago) that Advent was a time of reflecting on your sins and atoning/doing without (a bit like Lent) rather than a time of excess and Christmas activities.

It's not really "a bit like Lent", but more about preparation for the great arrival. A time not to be distracted by the cares of the world, but to get ready for The Lord's birth. So, an Advent box (rather than a Dec 1st box) would absolutely do that. I don't mean the PJs and bedding, but the colouring, the books, the paper chains, the card writing.

@SoupDragon

Another pointless thing to organise that bemefits nobody. No wonder so many people are stressed out, skint and anxious. Are men worrying about this shit too?

Exactly my kindle books come out each year at this time next year I’ll have red or dark green bedding for December red jus etc will be used over Christmas. Once brought used each year. I’ll save and buy quality as well will last me years. I don’t want Father Christmas etc over it I want just the colours. Holly themed Christmas mug etc.

Christians also enjoy 12 days of big celebration and then up to another 5 weeks (depending on the denomination) of more low-key celebration. It's just that we start on December 25th rather than ending then. We use Advent as a different season, separate from Christmas.

I’m trying to do that this year no Christmas music until Christmas Eve then 12 days of fun. A treat each day might only be chocolate but it’s still a treat.

We spread presents out rather than opening everything on Christmas Day, then the kids can actually appreciate (play with/ read/ wear) what they get rather than it going in a big heap where they don't remember half of it.

And we do all the Christmas activities during Christmas rather than Advent - panto, ice skating etc.

Actually Advent is a penitential season like Lent in the Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran chirches (hence vestments and frontals etc being purple as is also the case in Lent). In the case of Advent the penance is reflecting on the Day of Judgement and the need to account for your sins at that point.

Omg really? This has to be made up

I'm gobsmacked at all of this. Why not start the Xmas celebrations on 2nd January?

Fuck me, are peoples' lives so empty?

Lots of people do plan for Christmas ALL YEAR.

I just don't understand it at all. Why can't people just celebrate the present, enjoy February, or June or August without constantly planning for a very short period at the end of the year.

Because I love Christmas, I love advent and I enjoy planning. It has been my "happy place".

In a time of year that is also very heavily mixed in with some quite serious trauma and grief. For the last two years, if I hadn't started planning, buying, booking in July, Christmas wouldn't have happened.

People plan and save and prepare for other holidays, a week in Greece, a fortnight in Israel or whatever. I see it as the same thing.

You don't need to understand it unless it's affecting you in some way,
It was quite clear from the title what the thread was about, so why bother coming on just to have a dig?

Plenty of people do : grab the bargains in the sales, start paying into a Christmas club.

I don't think the OP is worrying, just sharing.
I don't think anyone on this thread feels at all worried about a Dec 1 box.
Lots of people have sneered at the OP, other have faux misunderstanding, others have concluded that the OP is singularly responsible for global warming, others are looking down from their glitter free soap boxes telling us we should all be playing organic parlour games because "don't the children have enough stuff".