To ask what the hell is a Christmas Eve box?

[tallulahturtle]

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

Like how most things they start as good ideas but the downward pressure on those with little is always huge. There will be people reading this were PJs, books and DVDs are their children's main presents not some add ons that do not cost much.

We don't have a Christmas Eve box but the Christmas fairy has always visited Dd since she was tiny (she's 14 now and still wants it to happen) when we visit my parents on Christmas Eve. She brings a gift bag which normally contains new PJs (which she wears most of the afternoon and home in the car!), some chocolate and sometimes a small treat like a soft toy or similar. When she was smaller - and this year for my nephew - reindeer food and things to leave out for Father Christmas.

**Today 08:48 Zoflorabore

My first time doing them this year, I have oval wicker baskets though not boxes.

Dd who is 5 has

Pajamas
DVD-nativity
Chocolate coins
Magic key for santa
Christmas activity set
Christmas rubbers
Letter from santa
Reindeer food
Christmas craft
Tickets to a trampoline place

Ds 13 will be thrilled grin

Lounge pants
Imperial leather foamburst for men
DVD- problem child 2 ( his favoritechildhood film )
Chocolate
A letter from santa haha
Voucher for a visit to his favoritechicken establishment onChristmas Eve evening*

Who knows if I will do it again.

Good for you

We have new pjs because my mum and mil always done new pjs so we have plus a board game for us to play on Xmas eve it calms ds down and we enjoy it. Its not a box though I just wrap it in the same paper as everything else.

We dont do Christmas Eve boxes but we have always had new PJ's hot chocolate etc on xmas eve I assume someone just thought sure why not put it in a box and make money out of it

I'm 39 and we always had new pyjamas for
Christmas Eve, my photos will not be going on fb.

I hadn't heard of LOADS of stuff until I joined Mnet. That's why I like it.

And snarking about things on social media on the medium of social media that you wouldn't know existed unless you were on social media is brilliant. Sure, one logical solution would be to expect everyone else to stop posting about trivial things their families do, but there is another solution to making it go away

It's a thing that done, and has been done in various formats for decades. Small local enterprise got wind of it via the growth of social media as a business tool and made a few extra bob selling ready made bits that saved parents the time of doing it themselves. That's called enterprise. Bigger businesses notice stuff like this and get in on it, and make the premise widely known. That's called capitalism. People like it and buy the stuff or dislike it, or moan a bit about commercialism/consumerism and don't. That's called freedom of choice and using your brain. At no point has anyone been forced, coerced or threatened into buying a Christmas box/bag/whatever.

Now all of you stop pissing about and get your flamingos before they've sold out!

I remember getting new PJs on Christmas Eve when I was small, and is all sitting down together to watch a film. I'm 43y so the concept of a Christmas Eve treat isn't new.

Astro- what's with the sarcasm? Any need?

The thread is about Christmas Eve boxes- my thread was about said boxes.

Bah humbug

This year ours has got:
New pjs for everyone
Christmas book
Christmas DVD
Lots of chocolate coins

The kids love it!

Sorry should have said post not thread

And why take the time to Americanise my words- weirdo.

We use edible glitter and cake sprinkles/stars in our reindeer food rather than craft sequins. TBH was invade the children ate it (I work in a school and we've made this before)

Our high light of the 24 th is uht squirty cream for hot chocolate after a long walk.

I'm not buying anything else or we'll end of having Christmas Eve Eve boxes!

No Christmas themed PJs here. Just normal every day PJs. Infact teen Dd likes character ones so they normally come from primark. So not an expensive addition to the whole of Christmas - and she's likely to want/need PJs at some point round this time anyway.

And we don't have Christmas themed bedding or crockery extras either.

HoHo

Well!

Thank you VERY much!

After the 5 Star treatment Santa gets at your house, he's just going to turn up his nose at the crap homemade mince pie and cheap-- sherry he gets offered here. All we'll get is coal!

(However I am an animal lover so we have an assortment of those multi-coloured organic carrots for the reindeer, and some hand-knitted antler warmers - perhaps we'll get credit for that.)

Those Christmas Eve boxes especially the personalised ones that cost ££££ set my teeth on edge, another commercial opportunity. We just sit down in the evening and watch a nice Christmas movie with a hot drink, in our comfy clothes, then we put out a mince pie, carrot and glass of milk for Santa and his reindeers and read a bed time story and go to bed. No need for a 'Christmas Eve' box.

We've always done new pyjamas on Christmas eve for Santa coming - since I was a child (I'm 35 now) so in our family it's not a new thing. In fact my mum insists on buying the new PJs for her grandchildren as she used to buy them for my sister and me. All we've added is a game to play now we have our own children as we're big on board games so will spend the evening playing together and singing carols round the piano, whilst we drink our hot chocolate. A fairly calm evening in (no screens!) before the madness that is Christmas day.

Ah see Slaughter

No multicoloured carrots here so maybe you will pip is to the post

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.

The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in our house, too Loser.

Come over and we'll hit the Bailey's together and paint some double-yellow lines on the roof

we took photos of them on them and realised they looked like a red cross appeal in half mast, washed out pj's

Yep - the Christmas photos always made our kids look like flood victims, too.

Now all of you stop pissing about and get your flamingos before they've sold out!

Oh SHit!

Is that what the cognoscenti are eating this year? And we've just got a frigging turkey!!!

Good for those that do it, but we only have a stocking which gets filled by Father Christmas when everyone is in bed. We are doing the milk, biscuit, carrot and reindeer food set up in front of the fire though. No pre presents to "calm the little one down" though.

Reindeer food has been around for donkeys years

Nah, that's Donkey food.

*Can I introduce you to Google.

And such esoteric sources of news such as the BBC news website

Hth*

This is the first year I'm doing a Christmas Eve hamper for my children. I've put it together myself. I got a small plastic box and put Xmas pyjamas inside, slipper socks, chocolate, mad blanket, Xmas soft toy, blind bag. Few little other treats. I think they will love it!

I don't need validation and I don't take it personally when people don't want to do it themselves.

I do get annoyed when people post about how sucked in to consumerist shit we are. Or how we are diluting the magic of Christmas. Or other negative shit people like to heap on us.

I'm sure I could heap scorn on what other families do for Christmas. But why they hell would I?