to not know what a christmas eve hamper is?

[gymboywalton]

well? am i?????

would anyone care to explain??

I have been in a few stockrooms (used to work there) , whats in there that means I must wash my clothes before wearing?

I'd never heard of Christmas Eve hampers until a couple of days ago, on this site. I'd never heard of reindeer food sprinkling until about 10 years ago. ddtwins have had new socks, undies, jimjams etc in stocking almost since the beginning, and normally change into them in the morning for the slob period before getting smartened up for lunch. We're all old enough for midnight mass now so mucking about with hot choc and marshmallow would just slow bedtime down even more.

Never heard of xmas eve hamper either. I thought hampers were supposed to containtraditional foods such as tinned ham and dundee cake?
Anyway narked , new years eve hampers'll be the next thing - as if Christmas wasn't already enough!

For me the new pyjamas thing came about because the photos of the kids opening their presents a few years back were awful!

DS had refused to wear anything for bed so was in his pants and the DDs were both wearing variations on fairy outfits, as I was too drunk tired to argue the night before :o

So I started giving them pj's as a gift on Xmas Eve to ensure that everyone was appropriately dressed the next day!

My parents gave us new pyjamas on Christmas Eve back in the dark ages (well the 1980s and 90s) and took us on Christmas related adventures.

Well, thanks to this thread, I have now spunked spent £50 on pyjamas and a copy of Raymond Briggs' Father Christmas (okay, that's because I secretly love it) for the kids.

I'm all for Christmas traditions though!

Well more fool you.

Pretentious is as pretentious does i guess.

Although we do have them anyway just for the photos/video in the morning.

Actually, I'm much more bothered by all this constant filming and snapping than I am by the idea of Christmas hampers and pyjamas. I'd hate my Christmas morning to be some sort of amateur paparazzi shoot.

To which the only reply is.. Pretentious? Moi?

We dont have constant photos or filming, but we now have 42 years worth of Xmas morning "opening" photos, and its become a tradition in our family. My grandad started it on my eldest cousins first Xmas, she was 9 months old and wide eyed! Every year one photo is added to the album by each branch of the family, and the one with the pants and the fairy outfits made me realise that we should think ahead!

Kids new new pjs so that they look good for pics??

I´ve heard it all now!

The best ones are the bleary eyed bed hair ones!

The best ones are the bleary eyed bed hair ones!

1 of my best photies is dd2 as a nearly 1 year old with weetabix down her front and her little face as she looked in a gift bag and the cat was there cat wasn't a present she just liked to jump in bags Dd2 had a very face she is nearly 15 now and I pull it out every now and then

We've had the awkwardness of photos because of DS just wearing pants situation before now, the DCs love looking back at our photo albums but we have one year where there were no Christmas Day photos of him for that reason and it is a shame. It's not just the DCs, I tend to just wear short nightshirts and I really don't want my white winter legs in the photos either, so PJs for me on Christmas Eve too. It's not a paparazzi shoot, just a few snaps of Christmas morning, nothing wrong with that IMO and why not have new PJs, you have to have new ones sometime.

Each to their own I think. The only worrying thing is that NMs do the hamper. OMG please dont take us all to the dark side......
Mostly go with the flow on Christmas Eve here, dont like it to be too staged!
On the subject of washing new clothes, there IS a VERY rank smell off new clothes. In retail when new stock comes into a shop, when you open the plastic wrapping, it is a gross smell!

"We've had the awkwardness of photos because of DS just wearing pants situation before now,"

Just pants-whats wrong with that?

We´ve got a pic of our two in the garden in the snow in just wellies!

He's 8, he doesn't want people seeing photos of him in his pants. It was fine when he was younger.