Fucking Christmas duvets??

[sandylion]

I LOVE Christmas, so this is in no way a bah humbug thing, but does anyone else think it's getting way out of hand? Every year there is a new "thing"; Christmas jammies, Christmas eve boxes, advent calendar with actual toys (eg lego ones, playdoh ones etc), elf on the shelf, 24 advent Christmas books and now I see there are bloody Christmas duvet sets! When did these all become "traditions"? Only in the last 5 years? I sound like my mother! Christmas has become over-commercialised! AIBU or is it expensive enough without having to add to the expense! Imagine if you have more than 1 child! Is it competitive parenting? Is it over-compensation for shit parenting? Am I just being an old cow? Sorry I just saw the Christmas duvet tonight and it's proved to be my tipping point.

Banishment to Netmums is the ultimate punishment. Enjoy looking at people's present piles and reindeer poop.

Oh no ZipZap - I couldn't possibly sit on Santa's face

Naice I know the feeling - the whole lot of them would freak me out. Particularly if you were half asleep and went to the loo in the middle of the night - nightmare inducing!

*top tip

I like having a spy at the netmums "look at all the stuff I've bought" thread. It's almost become a Christnas tradition.

I favour the Catalan shitting log!

DS1's been getting lego advent calendars for 6 years, now.

And, if I had somewhere clean and dry to store them for 47 weeks of the year, I'd have Christmas bedding sets and cushions!

I have a lovely thick brushed cotton "christmas" bedding that was from Primark I think and is so cuddly and lovely. It's just red/blue/green tartan and is lovely, I save it for Christmas time as a treat.

I'm also trying to get hold of some nice thick red curtains for our (all neutral/oak/brown) living room.

Next have been selling Christmas bedding for a few years now. I'd love to have some but cannot justify the expense and storage space!
Elf on the shelf is for people who have too much time on their hands! You advent calendars are for those with too much money (or only one child!). Christmas Eve boxes with new pyjamas? Really? Don't get me wrong, my kids et new pj's for Xmas every year. It's a kinda "bulking out the present pile under the tree without having to buy useless plastic tat that won't be looked at within a month" thing. In fact I don't get Christmas Eve presents at all. Soon it will be Boxing Day presents. Then kids will start expecting gifts on the eve of their birthdays, actual birthdays, and then the day after to ease the comedown!
Far too much money gets spent at Xmas

We do Elf on the Shelf but do it to include treat days rather than buying a bazillion presents. We celebrate Christmas TIME rather than Christmas DAY :)
My daughters love it, its a bit of fun ;)

That was ment to say toy advent calendars, not you advent calendars

How about a Mumsnet festive penis beaker?

glad to see it's not only me wondering if the whole Christmas thing isn't getting more ridiculous every year.... I try to blank it all out.
We do Christmas eve presents.... but that's because I'm french and we go over to see my family for Christmas and that's the way we do it there... but there are no more presents the following day unless you see/visit someone who wasn't there the night before!
over than that I like the emphasis on food. In France it's food on xmas eve, more food on xmas days, completely different menu etc. It's all about food, not about gimmicks and that suits me so I have my excuse to not take part in the madness ;)
At the moment I'm trying hard to ignore it, but the kids tv adverts drive me mad..... the pressure to spend and attain perfection is just pathetic. What for? None of us are religious but even then , spending shitloads of cash isn't what Christmas is about?

Ooh thanks for the reminder! I need to dig my Christmas duvet out and pop it on my bed.

Some of these are not new. We had festive toilet and kitchen roll when I was a kid and we always had new pj's for Christmas. We also had a present to open on Christmas Eve. Normally a game or a new VHS to watch while my mum prepped the veg. I'm mid 30's. What's different now is that everyone's traditions are visible because of social media, and people like to adopt them.

i had a Christmas pillow case from when I was tiny until it got donated (my arse did it get donated) to my much younger sister. I'm now 30. Think it will be getting donated (stolen) back for my son now.
We always had fresh bedding for Christmas Eve, Christmas pjs (but not new every year, only if we had grown out of them) and watched the snowman on tv.
Me and Hubby have done a box for Xmas eve for ourselves for a couple of years, which basically has alcohol and naughty food. I like this tradition.
For Christmas Eve, Son will get new pjs (he's only 10 months so will be growing for the next few years) copy of the snowman on DVD (every year as we are out when it's on) and will have fresh bedding with aforementioned Christmas pillow!

Oh, also , for as long as I can remember we always has Xmas loo roll and Xmas kitchen roll. It came out a couple of days before Xmas. I still get both of these, and it comes out around 23 December.

I blame you lot entirely for the fact that I'm now buying a Christmas blankie and Christmas bubble bath for Ds's Christmas eve basket. I kinda want the toilet set, but the Santa's face would scare my DH, he has a nervous disposition. [santa]

For a few years now I've been admiring the Christmas duvets, but have restrained myself.

I think this thread has just tipped me over and now I need one!

The whole point of Christmas Eve pyjamas is that they look nice on Christmas morning. I stopped doing it last year, as DS2 has taken to stripping off for bed, then getting dressed as soon as he gets up and DS1 just trashes all his jammies in about 3 wears!

I love Christmas duvets! I have my eye on one this year for the kids' room: media.dunnesstores.com/pws/client/images/catalogue/products/7506100/large/7506100_red.jpg

I don't care if it's naff. I WANT IT.

I think Christmas the MrsDeVere way sounds great - particularly the cake

I love Christmas. LOVE it. Normally the 1st December is (what I call) Tree Day, but this year I have a 7 month old, who is crawling and into everything, so I'm not sure the tree will survive the month. DS was 10mo when his first tree went up, and he was never bothered by it, but DD is a different kettle of fish. I only started putting my tree up so early because my dad wouldn't let us decorate the house until we broke off from school for the holidays, so once I had my own house I thought I'll put it up for the WHOLE OF DECEMBER and my dad thinks I'm daft.

I like a cosy Christmas. Advent candle, a nativity, a card calendar that has a nativity scene on it (though DS will have his crappy Thomas the Tank chocolate monstrosity). Last year I got coloured lights for the tree and it took me back to my childhood. We don't do Christmas duvets, but we do do PJs - we always got new PJs at Christmas growing up (probably a way to eek out the presents to look like more stuff) and it's stuck.

I used to think chocolate advent calendars were an over-indulgence.

Last year I bought Xmas tea towels

I have Xmas bedding!! It's blue with reindeer on it I will not be ever doing that freaky elf shelf thing lol. Only traditions I had as a kid was driving around Xmas eve eve looking at Christmas lights on peoples houses and driving to Blackpool for Xmas lights. Then we'd get a video each for Xmas eve and watch them before bed. We were such an exciting family

I got some stick on snowflakes for front door but I'm a lazy bitch so they've been on the door for 2 years haha

How do you stop the tree look like something you've found on the skip if you put it up so early? I'd love to have it up longer than we do, but it looks so dead and dishevelled after 2 weeks, so 24th or so- 6th of January is all I can really imagine to have.

Inspired by this thread I have just bought two Christmas duvets - red and cream snowflakes for DS and grey and ivory snowflakes for us.

Lovely!

Thanks OP.