To hate Christmas jumpers and pyjamas

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They weren't a thing when I was growing up, so no warm fuzzy memories attached to them. I look at them and all I see is the worst of disposable fashion made for pennies in Bangladeshi sweatshops. FFS, clothes specifically designed to be worn once as a joke? No wonder the world is goung to hell in a handcart.

"GingerbreadMa why can't you wear Christmas themed socks in March? " DH and I both need non novelty socks for work, but mainly because most christmas socks are awful quality with scratchy glittery thread and stupid bit stuck on. They last about 3 washes max.

A nice set of NICE quality functional socks for me please!

Oh no for god sake not Christmas loo roll the ultimate in disposable shite

How about this from John Lewis? DH could wear it all year round for work.

I loved brushed cotton bedding, we use it from October to March and it keeps us nice and warm with lower heating bills. It has a winter theme, I like that.
I wear wool jumpers in cold weather (not at work though); I don't actually have a Christmas themed one, but if I did I would wear it whenever it was cold enough. (Unless it was garish and horrible, in which case I would never wear it.)

DC have Christmas pjs, and wear them all year round.

I have Christmas mugs and use them all year round too. The world doesn't stop turning because I am looking at pictures of santa with my morning cuppa.

I agree it is pointless and wasteful to buy something you don't actually like and only use/wear it once a year. But there isn't actually any reason you can't use Christmassy things whenever you want to.
A mug is a mug, pyjamas are pyjamas, and a woolly jumper is a woolly jumper.

Last year I got the kids jumpers a size up, they didn't look huge last year and still for this year (they're now 5&3) I got both of them unisex ones and sewed some extra bells, bows etc that they chose onto the jumpers. They will both be saved for DS (9months now) when he's older so yep, definitely plenty of wear seeing as the eldests alone will have been used for around 6-7 years

I've two Christmas jumpers and wear them all through December. I actually don't wear them often out of the house but all the time at home as its, you know, cold this time of year. I like the bright jumpers.

I must be very weird Sparkling, I've still got my Halloween hairslides in.

Tat that's infiltrated it's way in as tradition. Eg elf on the fucking shelf. More crap to soon fill landmines

I can't do brushed cotton, I don't like the feel of it.

I am sure I read you can get duvet covers and pillow cases in the teddy bear throw material. I feel boiling hot just thinking about it.

GingerbreadMa all our socks are awful quality, because we're poor.

I've bought dgd 2 pairs of christmas pjs, but she has them on already and will wear them until she grows out of them, then we will pass them down to a friend. I bought a santa throw a couple of years ago, it's used all year because it's nice when you need a snuggle. I even have a christmas t-shirt, new this year, but I will use it every year until it falls apart. Nothing disposable here.

Here it is. I just couldn't sleep in that.

www.dunelm.com/product/teddy-bear-grey-duvet-cover-1000101703

Your DH really should wear that all year round for work Sparkling. It's very tasteful.

Yes very understated and he would get his money's worth. It's £65.

Evil tescos are my favourite quality socks at the mo, they wash well. Their REGULAR packs of socks that is. Their novelty socks are scratchy and shrinky.

It costs LESS to buy the regular socks for Christmas. That way we dont still need to buy work socks as well...

I bought some Xmas pudding knickers one year from M&S.
I took great delight in wearing them in the summer.
Yep, Christmas pants on under my summer dress. 😂

I just bought one of those sheets Sparkling they are heaven.

I like those fluffy sets. But I like brushed cotton.

Teddy bear sheets Honey? I don't know how to feel about that.

I inherited my Christmas tableware

I don’t have Christmas tableware but I have a lovely red table cloth and robin runner/napkins that I’ve bought when DH and I moved in together, 9 years ago.

Yes sheets. I’m seriously considering pillowcases next.....‘‘tis like sleeping on a cuddle.

Ooh like an antique heirloom Honey? You could take it on Dickinsons Real Deal.

GingerbreadMa I admit I've never bought Christmas socks. My aunt bought me some "Best Mum" ones with holly on one year, they were just socks to me.

I buy the jumpers for the DC because of Christmas jumper day, but they're their jumpers and they'll wear them all year round.

Actually I have a marching band that goes on one of the trees. It was passed down from the in laws, as I adore it and they go for an absolute bomb now on eBay but twenty years ago they were sold in Walmart and the Cracker Barrell as pointless tat.

Who knows what my Xmas Asda gnome will be worth in twenty years time?