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.

Next year red or green bedding for December pjs red ones will be stored away for use each year.

FFS. An orgy of conspicuous consumption as the world burns.

We do this rather than Christmas eve box as stuff was barely used.

Christmas PJs
New Christmas book each
Chocolates for the tree
Crafts to make decorations for the tree in the lead-up to Christmas

We also re-use Christmas bedding from previous years. All were bought in the January sales years ago.

Nothing wrong with trying to make Chrostmas special for the kids. However I don't post these things on social media as everyone does things differently not one should feel guilty or less.

Hope you have a lovely Christmas OP

Fuck off back to Instagram.

You can tell this is not a British thing.

if it was, it would be called a “1st of December box”.

it’s conspicuous consumerism and setting up expectations of an endless stream of goodies for kids.

A chocolate in their advent calendar?

@JaneJeffer nope never heard of them , take your decs down and maybe your xmas duvets
But not present your kids with a box of new bits on the 1st
Advent calendar yes but not a dec 1st box

We also re-use use the Christmas books, and made crafts every year. It doesn't have to be wasteful.

Nothing, because it'll be the fourth day of Advent, which is an odd time to randomly have a load of presents, unless we're going all in in the ancient Roman thing.

Actually, we keep Advent as a separate season from Christmas, a time of preparation. So there'll be small presents for St Nicholas's day on the 6th December, and apart from that it's a time of fasting.

We do presents every day of the 12 days of Christmas, so it's not like anyone is deprived by not having presents all through Advent too.

@mam0918 no never been in the xmas forum and wouldn't in November either
A box you bring out the attic with your xmas stuff is called getting the xmas stuff out the attic , which takes you several days to be bothered

I've not heard of this either but our elves do normally bring some paper chains.

We have a box of random Xmas stuff (story books, colouring books, tat from Xmas crackers from previous years) that comes out on 1 December, but definitely not specially bought stuff, they get enough on actual Xmas! The fact all this stuff has been in the loft for a year means they get excited about it coming out every year. And if someone gets them a Xmas book etc for Xmas this year, that will get added to the box too.

Someone has a lot of time and money on their hands. How ridiculous! It’s a wind up surely.

I think mnetters have frightened OP away 🤣

Oh dear. Nothing. Ridiculous

Some of us are slatternly enough that our Christmas stuff never quite gets back up to the loft but sits forlornly below the hatch all year. So in that sense it is a Christmas box that is there on 1st December. No Christmas duvet in it though; Christmas bedding a bit more of a horrifying thought than the box itself, tbh.

That’s so sad, just relax and enjoy it!

We have a Christmas box for the 1st December! I don't see the point on doing one on Christmas Eve! We just put in new PJ's, advent calender, a new Christmas book and chocolate!

I much prefer it as it then means they get lots of wear out of the PJ's through December!

We do a December 1st box rather than Christmas Eve boxes too! And they contain new Christmas PJs, our wooden advent calendars (so same every year just have new things added), Christmas craft kit (e.g. card making bits) and Christmas books (that get put in the box every year). Lovely to be able to enjoy these bits together in the run up to Christmas 🎄

that's my kind of box. It would have to be a bloody big one for my great bahoofering teenage boys but at least the fridge would have some food in it for the duration of December.

Is that all?
Hardly worth the bother

At least pad it out with a pony or something

@RampantIvy that sounds much more sensible than our arrangements.

We always left shoes outside the front door, were sent upstairs, and then my dad, wearing some sort of not at all elaborate disguise would come to the front door and speak to my mum in a loud deep voice and we'd come down to find shoes full of chocolate and a satsuma. I don't actually remember ever not being fooled by this, even though I must have twigged at some point.

I should really have thought it through before blindly carrying on the tradition with my dc, and like a bloody simpleton I didn't seize my chance to make it a 'leave it overnight' thing. Now I'm stuck with outside the front door for 30 mins or so and 4 dc on my own 😐😐😐. Ah well. 😂

December 1st box? You mean their chocolate advent calendars, right?
are we also to have a December 12th box to mark halfway between the December 1st and Christmas Eve boxes?

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we don't do boxes as such , but they get an advent calendar, Christmas pjs come out and all the old Christmas books we have collected over the year as I find it a bit strange in summer for Christmas books to be in the bookcase

Before kids my DH and I would start a jigsaw on the 1st in the aim to have it finished by Christmas. This is on hold again until we can trust our youngest not to get hold of it.