To hate Christmas jumpers and pyjamas

[GaucheCaviar]

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.

Even knowing some poor sod in Bangladesh is being exploited to make it? That's the bit I can't get my head around.

I find that really odd. Some poor sod in Bangladesh is being exploited so you can buy your John Lewis/ Tesco/ harrods/ whatever articles all year round. Why does a Xmas jumper make all the difference?!

I’ll have you know I’ve been wearing the same Christmas Jumper for the last 5 Years. It’s get’s two outings a year, Christmas Jumper day at work and Christmas Day (apart from 3 years ago when I flew to NY and wore it then too) but’s it’s kind of a classy one.

It's an extension of the same thing, I grant you that. But buying clothes you need is one thing (though I do try to shop ethically), buying extraneous feelgood clothes you don't need with that in the background just smacks of cognitive dissonance to me.

I mean, the message of Christmas is goodwill to all men, and buying unsustainable stuff made in shit conditions to celebrate that message is just a bit strange, I think.

Well then you're complaining about the whole fashion/ retail industry, a very different thing to Xmas jumpers. You just fancied some Scrooge attention didn't you?

Well yes, and Xmas jumpers are a particularly unsavoury manifestation of what's wrong with the wider industry, hence the thread.

Quite Bubble, the OP makes no sense.

Sorry, YABU. But only because I'm supremely happy with my Christmas jumper and plan on wearing it every Christmas. Merry Gothmas to me

I have a jumper I wear every year - at my work Xmas do, the day itself etc. It’s just a bit of fun. Also xmas jumper day raises a lot of £££ for charity.

buying extraneous feelgood clothes you don't need

So you only buy stuff you absolutely need? Never a pretty top to wear on a night out? A party dress? Just basic, ethically sourced cotton t-shirts and trousers, whose sole function is to protect your body from the elements?

Saw christmas toilet paper in waitrose today - just why?

I have that toilet paper Creambun2, i thought the teens might find it funny. I also have the tissues.
They will get used the same as the normal stuff which I would have bought anyway.

Waitrose had Christmas loo cleaner last year.

Gauche, I reiterate: my DC need jumpers. They need Christmas jumpers if they don't want their peers to take the piss out of them on Christmas jumper day. Ergo, I buy them Christmas jumpers as this year's jumpers. No poor sod is being exploited any more than usual because of me. I buy Christmas jumpers in lieu of other jumpers. My DC only have one jumper each, apart from school jumpers.

It's very tasteful.

I buy that loo paper! Why not?

I have only bought one pack, once it's gone we are back to the Charmin.

Why not christmas sanpro ffs

Waitrose don't sell that AFAIK Creambun2, but you could make these slippers...

My 2 dds have Xmas jumper each and pyjamas, but they will wear them a lot - they got them on 1 Dec. We buy a lot of clothes from charity shops and five hours when finished with them. I must admit now dd1 is 6, it's harder to find charity shop clothes so I do buy brand new and feel guilty about it.

I do sort of get your point op about extra clothes. It's very easily done when clothes are so cheap. As a family we do try to use charity shops as much as possible but still probably have more clothes than we need.

I bought a Christmas jumper from the charity shop because I’d like to join in when the kids at school are wearing theirs.

It’s quite a tame one though (snowflakes) and it’s cotton knit, not acrylic.

At £8, I think I’ve bagged myself a bargain, plus the Air Ambulance benefits.

There’s a roaring trade in second hand Christmas jumpers, they aren’t “single use” at all. Get a unisex second hand one and it can be passed down from child to child. Better in that sense than “fashion” stuff that goes out of date fast.

I don’t have them, but Bedding/adult PJs etc can at least be used for a month or so every year.

Think there are worse excesses out there to get upset about

They need Christmas jumpers if they don't want their peers to take the piss out of them on Christmas jumper day. Ergo, I buy them Christmas jumpers as this year's jumpers. No poor sod is being exploited any more than usual because of me. I buy Christmas jumpers in lieu of other jumpers. My DC only have one jumper each, apart from school jumpers.

These piss taking peers: they dont take the piss when your LOs wear christmas jumpers to mufti days in October or May....yet you think they would do a damaging amound of piss taking on xmas jumper day if your LOs wore a regular jumper....

That makes NO sense whatsoever.

gingerbread you can get second hand Xmas jumpers for £2 ish; similar for non Xmas jumpers...

Xmas jumpers aren't my thing but I don't see the point of the ones that say "merry Xmas 2016"