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.

The elf’s head in a box. End it now.

@j712adrian

I'm in America and I have never heard of December 1st boxes.

And Christmas Eve boxes are really not a thing in America either. They are very British.

Some families celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas, an old Dutch tradition. Children leave shoes outside bedroom doors on the night of the 5th December and find candy in them the next morning, which is the feast day.

Never heard of it.....but...it's my birthday on Dec 1st so I usually get pressies then anyway.😁 When my dc were little my birthday was usually the day the tree went up but no boxes given.

I've given myself a November 24th box. Red wine, Indian takeaway and chocolate

We've got a Ferrari.
A small out house, with faberge eggs.
24 carat gold bracelet.

What about you?

Now what 🫨🫣😵‍💫

The Advent candle and calendars come out on 1 Dec

I've never heard of a 1 December box

We have fish on 6 December (St Nicholas Day) plus chocolate sardines (if I can find any)

And the next event is the overnight arrival of Father Christmas

I wonder if my cat would appreciate this?
Catnip mouse
Dreamies
Cardboard box
Bra (his favourite thing to nick off the clothes horse)
Plate of tuna.

Wtf is a December 1st box!? I do give my kids a Christmas Eve box (pjs, a book and some sweets so it’s pretty basic) but I think a December 1st box is taking it too far, there is already so much pressure felt by parents to do all these wonderful gestures for their children but many don’t have the time nor the money for it.
Every year new things seem to pop up, no problem if you have the time and money but I wish everything could stop becoming a trend!

I dont do one but they most definately ARE a thing OP and peoples logic for them is fine.

I do advent calander on the 1st.

St nick on the 6th (xmas jumper and chocolate).

Xmas eve box (hot chocolate, gingerbread, PJs, book, toothbrush, something for the bath like a bathbomb and something for supper).

We dont have xmas specific bedspreads, books or PJs and dont really do xmas specific crafts as part of our traditions so a 1st box is not much use to us but if others choose to do one its no harm to anyone else so people should just mind their own if they don't like it.

No, I don't know "exactly what they are"

I can guess roughly what they must be.

But when do they appear - first thing in the morning? Just before bedtime? Where do Advent Calendars fit in to this - do they go in the box? Would I be right in assuming it's done within nuclear family only, or do you give/receive with friends/neighbours?

Its actually quite shocking the amount claiming they never heard of it, have you not been on the 'christmas forum' before?

Its just basically a box on the 1st where people bring out their reusable xmas stuff (books, film, bedding if they have it) and add in that years xmas PJs and jumpers and use the stuff all month instead of doing a xmas eve box.

A rolex
a faberge egg
one of princess Diana’s old tiaras x

Mine have ended up w two advent calendars. Will put them in a box maybe to be trendy

So now we have advent calendars, Elf on the Shelf, Christmas Eve boxes AND now 1st December boxes?

[shakes head]

If people want to do something interesting beyond an advent calendar they could import the German tradition of a few sweets on 6th December, but really, other than that, can the kids not wait until Christmas Day?

This is first I’ve ever heard of it

Its actually quite shocking the amount claiming they never heard of it, have you not been on the 'christmas forum' before

Nope.

It’s just an excuse to be superior and go on about the environment well people need to stop giving so much plastic (and non-plastic) tat. And clearly energy costs aren't bothering people that much, as loads of people have already for Christmas light up outside their houses.

Its the opposit of consumerist given the other option would be to not store the stuff there for you would be throwing it out and rebuying it every year.

I suprised at people hatred for storage lol.

Is this a thing? 🙈🙈🙈

got Christmas lights up outside their houses.

Is this a joke? Is having a Christmas eve box and elf on the shelf not enough?

Why does the elf need to arrive in a special box? Park him in the fireplace with a carrier bag parachute. Say that santa just dropped him off.

An advent calendar. That's it. I'm not doing elf on the shelf either. We're going for an Xmas day at a drive through experience on 20th and then will have Xmas day. This is enough.

We went for a day put to celebrate Halloween at a farm / tractor ride / carve a pumpkin.

We went out to a big bonfire event with a fair etc

She's a very lucky child to have so many great things.

It's enough for us.

I did do a lot more when she was younger I thought I had to capture every memory, soon got real 😂

Gifting your kid their xmas jumper on xmas day would be a bit ridiculous wouldnt it since all the things you need it for occur before xmas.

I do a 1st December box for DC(4) rather than Xmas eve.

This year its got his advent calendar (chocolate one & a lego one), 2 x Xmas pjs, Xmas bedspread, little crackers (he is constantly asking for these), a Xmas book, the bloody elf!, paperchain set to make, Xmas cookie cutters and some small Xmas craft sets & bits (decorate a bauble, father Christmas wind up toy etc). It will also include reindeer food & Xmas eve choc set for the 24th.

I love Christmas & it makes sense to me to do it on the 1st December as it gives him time to enjoy it and use the things in it over the month, not rushing on the 24th.

Well I don't "gift" things anyway, I give them.

My Christmas jumper is in the cupboard with the rest of the jumpers. If I need it, I get it out.