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To have never bought nor worn Christmas pyjamas?

62 replies

tethersjinglebellend · 02/12/2011 10:17

...will I be shunned?

People are talking about Christmas hampers too. Are they a thing?

I'm confused and frightened.

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HexagonalQueenOfTheSummer · 02/12/2011 10:17

YANBU

I've never "got" the idea of Xmas Pjs or Xmas hampers either...

pictish · 02/12/2011 10:22

Yanbu - the pj thing is a sweet tradition if you can be bothered....but unfortunately I can't so that's that.

As for the hampers - well, I haven't got the cash to do all the Christmas stuff and throw some more at Christmas Eve as well. So I don't.

We are such a consumerist society. SPEND SPEND SPEND!

Trills · 02/12/2011 10:25

Are you really asking if you are being unreasonable? Hmm It seems unlikely.

Do you mean "please explain to me about Christmas pyjamas"? In that case I'd be happy to :)

Some people have a tradition that on Christmas Eve their children get new pyjamas. This has the very good side-effect of encouraging them to go to bed.

These people posted about their tradition on MN, and many MNers said "how lovely, I will do that too".

You are neither reasonable nor unreasonable to not follow this tradition.

HTH

Birdsgottafly · 02/12/2011 10:28

It's personal choice.

I have always given my DD's a gift bag on Christmas eve which has pj's in, as well as other bits, we all have baths, then settle down for the night to watch a dvd, in our new pj's and have snacky bits.

My DD at 26 living in her own home, still expects Christmas pj's from me.

oldraver · 02/12/2011 10:28

I buy DS new pyjamas for Christmas so he doesn't have any half mast faded ones on the photos. I dont do the hamper thing.

DS likes getting (and now choosing) his Christmas PJ's and for some people, the tradition is more important than the money spent (as it doesn't have to cost ££££'s)

ViviPrudolf · 02/12/2011 10:34

YABU. I design pyjamas. Get yourself to your nearest supermarket which shall remain nameless (that rhymes with presto) and purchase Christmas pyjamas this very instant. Feel a warm fuzzy feeling inside that you have:

  1. Created a new tradition for the kiddywinks chez Tethersend
and
  1. Indirectly contributed to VPs OTT Xmas Decor Fund 2011.

Many Thanks.

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tethersjinglebellend · 02/12/2011 10:36

"Do you mean "please explain to me about Christmas pyjamas"? In that case I'd be happy to"

I sort of mean that, Trills- but perhaps with more WTAFs in it.

I'm not rejecting the tradition- I've never even heard of it; that's what scares me. I thought I was worldy-wise. At the age of 34, I find out that there's all this other stuff people do that I had no idea about.

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WeThreeKingsOfMardyBra · 02/12/2011 10:37

I've never heard of this tradition either.

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tethersjinglebellend · 02/12/2011 10:37

Grin VP

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LittleEmanuel · 02/12/2011 10:39

I buy the kids christmas pjs. It's just something that ended up becomming an accidental tradition. I bought them one year thinking it would be nice to wake up in new pjs on crimbo morning and then it went on to become a yearly thing.

JaneRustle · 02/12/2011 10:41

I had never heard of the Christmas pyjama thing before MN but there you go, I'd never heard of the no-shoe-house, loo-paper-facing-the-right-way-out, or brandy-and-Baileys and tons of other things.

I don't do the pj thing but I don't go WTAF at people who do - I mean I can see what it is about, it just requires a little imagination - not everyone does things as you do, and it ought not to come as a bolt from the blue that some people do things at Christmas that you don't.

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tethersjinglebellend · 02/12/2011 10:47

Not WTAF at people who do it, just WTAF that this tradition exists and nobody told me. It's not even my first Christmas on MN. Did nobody mention it last year?

What other stuff do people do that I don't know about?

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CandyCaner · 02/12/2011 10:49

We have had Christmas PJs on Christmas Eve since I was a kid and I get them for my kids, too (I draw the line at wearing them myself, though).

The hamper thing seems OTT to me, though, especially all the fannying about with porridge oats and tinkling of Elves bells. But hey, each to their own!

CiderwithBuda · 02/12/2011 10:56

Well I do new pjs for DS and sometimes me but not xmasy ones. Used to buy a nice xmassy book too but gave that up.

ViviPrudolf · 02/12/2011 11:07

"What other stuff do people do that I don't know about?"

Acorn Throwing and The Bum Slap Dance, if LittleEmmanuel's thread is anything to go by Xmas Confused

coraltoes · 02/12/2011 11:13

What is the hamper??? Not fortnums?

thefurryone · 02/12/2011 11:45

I also only heard about this on mn but I quite like the idea, particularly if it can be used to help children go to bed. However, as DS will only be 7 months old at chiristmas so I may have to settle for just buying myself some this year Xmas Smile

I do however think that PJs with a christmas design are a bit pointless as you can only wear them once a year, as I assume the same rule applies to them as it does for christmas decorations.

somewherewest · 02/12/2011 11:49

I'd never heard of the Christmas PJs thing until I joined Mumsnet.

NinkyNonker · 02/12/2011 12:03

I bought some lovely PJs for Dd in 'Presto' the other day Vivi...I was feeling bad for being so 'consumerist' but no longer!

GirlWithALlamaTattoo · 02/12/2011 12:10

Thefurryone - I respectfully disagree. I've been wearing my festive penguins-in-santa-hats pants all year, since buying them half price in February. (They have been washed, I hasten to add).

TroublesomeEx · 02/12/2011 12:12

We get new pjs on xmas eve. I'm not a huge consumer, but it's the only time we have new 'nice' one rather than Asda ones!

We have them for 2 reasons:

  1. If I'm going to have photos of me in my jimjams taken on xmas day, they are going to be nice jimjams!

  2. Xmas day is often a jarmy day in our house so I want to have nice new jammies to wear.

I make small hampers of home made stuff for friends and family who like and appreciate that sort of thing. Don't know what other people's include but ours are full of home made jams, marmalades and chutneys that we have made.

DS wanted to make soap this year, but I didn't get organised soon enough for that! Sad

DH and I open our presents on xmas eve when the guests have gone and the children are sleeping, with a glass of mulled wine and QI or something on iplayer.

Xmas eve is my favourite day of the year!

TroublesomeEx · 02/12/2011 12:13

But they're NEVER christmas themed pyjamas.

NinkyNonker · 02/12/2011 12:15

I love Christmas Eve too, the anticipation etc.

ExitPursuedBySanta · 02/12/2011 12:19

Tethers - I am 52 and had never heard of this until my first Christmas on MN last year. Felt slightly uncomfortable that my DD had missed out. Discovered that my SIL does this for hers (and they are in their late 20s).

However, I do still have my very battered copy of Rudolph from when I was a child which I always read to my DD on Christmas Eve. I get tearful. She doesn't.

I have bought her some new jim jams from that store Vivi so may start the tradition this year.