To ask what the hell is a Christmas Eve box?

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Is this something people are doing? What is the point?

Can you tell I think they are shite

Nope - wasn't feeling that at all - do try header dear

Hahaha :)

It's a thing which thankfully wasn't around when my dc were small, along with the creepy elf and the interminable fb photos which nobody gives a shit about
Cant get my head round the christmas eve box thing
Give it a couple of years and there'll be a boxing day box too

It's another 'thing' to plan and gather together to take our minds off important stuff. First it's the wedding - lots of things to plan and fuss about often for several years. Then it's babies and the nursery and their stuff to plan and fuss about. Throw holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, Easter, Halloween, prom parties etc etc into the mix and if we're careful, we can spend our whole adult lives doing the fussing and planning and buying.
I like a fuss and a plan and a buy as much as your average person but I'm beginning to feel a bit conned tbh.
Bah humbug.
As you were.

I gave my kids new pyjamas last Xmas eve, after reading about it on here. They were distinctly unimpressed because when I said I had a treat for them they thought it was going to be chocolate coins. I see now that I went wrong by presenting them in boring old Christmas bags instead of special boxes.

I got them new pyjamas again this year, because they need them, but this year they're going under the tree with everything else.

I love it and all mine are teens.... we have one box and it's not personalised....
bollox to you :)

It's not a crazy case of spending gone mad, though. It's stuff from the kitchen cupboard, plus stuff from the bathroom cupboard, with possibly a new bath bomb, plus some pyjamas that you would have bought anyway with a book and/or a DVD that you buy once and reuse each year (or borrow from the library) all packed up in a box left over from some online shopping.

I don't do the box either.

Mine get 1 parcel to open on Xmas eve, their pyjamas. Can't be arsed fannying about making bloody boxes. Don't even start me on that stupid elf thing either. Creepy looking fucker isn't welcome here.

I need new PJs as I have lost weight. DS needs some as he has grown.

I quite fancy nice photos on Christmas morning. So I've bought DH a pair. He doesn't need them. But better than his tatty ones with an embarrassing hole that he'd otherwise no doubt wear.

Then we have some Welsh cream (like baileys but nicer. Only have it at Christmas) for adults and a tub of hot chocolate with marshmallows everyone. I like the idea of a Christmas book and poem but admit that pyjsmas and drink is all that is in ours. We will watch a film but streamed not dvd.

It's an old amazon delivery box. Not even wrapped!

When I was a child I could open one present from my great aunt on Christmas eve. It took me years to realise it was always pyjamas! For probably the same reason I've bought ds some this year. So I see it an extension of that rather than commercial rubbish.

I do like a good box though. So next year may upgrade to a nice wooden one. If I can find a naice enough one

Where are people seeing Christmas Eve boxes on sale? I online shop a lot and I've never seen them.

My whole family will be getting new pyjamas on Christmas Eve. Not Christmas ones, but ones we will wear all year. We will watch a movie, but it will probably be one we've already bought on Amazon prime so it won't be in the box. I don't like ds having hot drinks or popcorn but there will be some kind of snack as a treat. I will probably put our copy of The Night Before Christmas in there and we will read it together. All of this may or may not even be in a box, depending on whether I feel like decorating a box before Saturday. TBH it will probably not be in a box.

I really don't think this is an overly materialistic thing to do. It's a way of spending Christmas Eve together and making it special.

plus some pyjamas that you would have bought anyway

Who says?

There's an Ice Age 11???

We generally do new Christmas pjs. ..I've been so lax this year that I didn't get them any stealthily and now they're with me every day till Christmas. So today I let them choose their own and actually they enjoyed that more than being surprised by a box. I might go for a DVD too as dm will be putting them to bed on Christmas Eve (I always go Carol singing at the hospital ) and it'll make her life easier!

it's yet another fake Xmas tradition that drives mums (always mums) over the edge and sucks all the fun out of Christmas as frazzled mothers work themselves into a frenzy of fucking elves off shelves, menu planning 9 weeks in advance, deep cleaning their vaginas, planning a festive thing a day (steam train, panto, garden centre, mug decoration) so that by the 25th all it needs is one sprout refuser / a recent covert to vegetarianism/the wrong scented candle bought and they EXPLODE AND XMAS IS RUINED

exhales

I apologise for repeating what I'm about to post as no doubt lots have read this from me before...

I first heard of the boxes years ago on MN, it was a 'new' thing to MN back then. The talk was that the elves bought the box as a little treat. I loved the idea and stole it but instead of elves my DS2 brings it. He was stillborn and had a Christmas Day due date.

This was a nice way to bring him into our Christmas celebrations in a happy way. My DS's think their brother borrows some Santa magic to allow him to bring them the box. They talk about this box all year and every time they wear the jammies they get they call them their 'DS2' pyjamas.

I hate all the sneery, snide comments that get thrown the way of Christmas Eve box makers. Even if you're doing it just for the fun well that's a good enough reason as any.

I have been giving my boys new pjs (primary) for Christmas Eve for years. They are getting a new cup (.99p) and some marshmallows too this year.

I love their non suprise at pjs. It was good for when they was excited toddlers. It's turned into a tradition now. I try to get something they like. This year it's Wookie onesie

If it isn't in an actual box, then it doesn't count a box cookie.

I don't think anyone's knocking spending Xmas eve watching a film and drinking hot chocolate.

But why must we buy more and more Stuff to do so? We are all drowning in Stuff.

Zootropolis is released on NOW on Xmas eve. We're gonna watch that while wearing pyjamas we already have, and drinking from mugs that are in the kitchen cupboards.

No new Stuff needed.

saucy, you need matching kids in non washed out pj's for social media...
hot choc out of festive mugs. etc. etc.

Who Says?

I say. We know that the children will get pyjamas at on Christmas Eve, so we get them then rather than at other times. They grow fast enough to need new pyjamas each year. I assume that if you have children who don't wear pyjamas, you just don't include them in the box.

Buying a child new pair of pyjamas once a year is hardly consumerism gone mad.

deep cleaning their vaginas

Shit - ive forgotten to do this!!! Is there anywhere to get it 'done' pay a man??? HELP

We don't call them Christmas Eve boxes but the children do all have a little box that I make for them that has new pyjamas and a few Christmas Eve treats in.

My children get far less than most other children at Christmas in terms of presents. It is just a nice tradition - nothing wrong in trying to create lovely traditions that hopefully your children will loom back and smile about when older.

it's yet another fake Xmas tradition that drives mums (always mums) over the edge and sucks all the fun out of Christmas as frazzled mothers work themselves into a frenzy of fucking elves off shelves, menu planning 9 weeks in advance, deep cleaning their vaginas, planning a festive thing a day (steam train, panto, garden centre, mug decoration) so that by the 25th all it needs is one sprout refuser / a recent covert to vegetarianism/the wrong scented candle bought and they EXPLODE AND XMAS IS RUINED

Or you just order pyjamas online

SaucyJack - most of the stuff in the box isn't new. The children get new PJs because they need them anyway. Adults generally get their nicest pair in the box. The same books come out every year. The hot chocolate is from the cupboard. It's just a way of making normal stuff seem special by wrapping it up and making it feel like a treat.

waits for people to say its a new thing, so she can point out her mum and dad were doing christmas eve pjs, video and hot chocolate 40yrs ago for her older brother, then for her

My mum did a form of Christmas Eve box when we were little. I'm 39

It was new pyjamas, a mug, and a cracker.

on Christmas Eve we would all have baths and put on our new pyjamas, watch a film together and have a cup of hot with squirty cream

It evolved over the years, but always similar sort of things all for us to get cosy on Christmas Eve.

I've made boxes, I will put the same sort of things in and the children can then put their gifts in their boxes on Christmas Day.

I don't understand why people like to be fun sponges about this sort of thing, nobody makes you do it, you don't have to do it - I love doing it and that is as good as reason as any.

as a kind of anti-christmas eve box, AIBU to think giving your kids a new toothbrush and paste as a stocking filler is just a bit shyte?

I heard about this on another forum, and it seems like a very popular thing to do. I never got a toothbrush for Xmas, and doubt I'd have been impressed if I had...