To HATE the whole idea of Christmas Eve boxes

[TeeJay1970]

Don't kids get enough stuff on the 25th?

My nephews and niece now think it's their right to have gifts on the 24th as well.

Where does it end?

Yes I know AIBU!
Yes it's probably been done on here already in the last few weeks!

It’s only a pair of pj’s and a colouring book! Why is it always the trend on Mumsnet to go against these things. I do one because I choose to, it also gives them something to focus on when they are excited. Whatever happened to each to their own. Really nothing to get upset about! You don’t like it, just don’t take part!

I always get DS new pyjamas for Christmas.

I take a lot of pictures on Christmas morning.

So I give him the pyjamas on Christmas Eve so he looks half decent in the pics (ie not wearing last years comfy jammies that are at half-mast on him now).

If boxes had been a thing when he was tiny I would probably have got one and recycled it each year, but as it is he gets his pyjamas wrapped up just as I'm pouring the champagne. It's no biggie.

We don't do a box, but I have got suckered into the pjs on Christmas Eve when it was DC3's first Christmas. Just because they looked cute

DS2 was wearing DS1's penguin pjs from 3 years ago last night, and he's inherited the ones from the year before as well. So they're definitely getting plenty of use. DD will still be wearing them in a few years time in think, she's currently annoyed that she can't fit into any of her old ones, but DS2's are still too big.

Do people really not wear the Christmas pjs all year round?

at all the people moaning about PJs that they think only get worn once. Hilarious.

Maybe try and understand something before you moan about it eh?!

I have a teenager who likes to lounge a fair bit on comfort so his 'Christmas Eve pyjamas' which happen to be a furry wookie onesie this year will be worn for about a week before I can pry them off him and into the wash / he'll then wear them (when not in uniform) until summer so I think we get a good amount of worth out of them, we always buy a size bigger too.

Ours isn’t a box-it’s a bag. We wear the pajamas all year round and the elves ring the bell and it’s there. (Cue lots of running down the back gate). We like it-sometimes a book. We don’t do elf on the shelf as I’m too lazy.

My SIL is a bit past remarkable and her face when DS come downstairs in last Christmas's too short jammies in October was hilarious @KenAdams

Ours definitely get worn year round!

Yuck. What will it be next?

I will be resolutely avoiding Christmas Eve boxes and Elf on the shelf but I can see it'll be tricky when DD is at school and hears that other parents have fallen for these wonderful marketing is ploys.

I will be resolutely avoiding Christmas Eve boxes and Elf on the shelf but I can see it'll be tricky when DD is at school and hears that other parents have fallen for these wonderful marketing is ploys

It’s ok. I’m sure she’ll bask in the glow of her mother’s superiority

I used to give the CEH to get my DC wound down and ready to sleep.
We went out for a walk (feeding reindeer or swans) . I;d always "just check the back door" while they got themselves out the front door with DH, then I'd put the boxes by the fireplace .

PJs (winter ones , plaid usually) , dressing gown, Lush bathbomb, jar of sweets, Annual.

Now they're teens , they have the hamper on Dec 1st . (The PJs are more expensive (DD likes TopShop or VS Pink)

I have just realised how many MN Faux Pas I have commited :

Shouldn't feed swans
Should get DH to check the back door and set the boxes rather than just stand there sparely
Lush - how could I ?
Sweets - ditto
TopShop - Philip Green

D;you what , I give no shits !

I’m 53 and I was given new PJs every Xmas eve, by “Elves”. I carried that in with my Dds. They wear them for the whole winter not just for one night!

It meant we all got ready for bed ASAP, as we knew the elves had left brand new pjs under our pillows. It’s one of the loveliest memories I have of Xmas.

What marketing ploy? Stuff I would get the kids anyway which helps them settle the night before Christmas. What’s not to love?

jacques

I'm from mainland Europe and we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. No need for special boxes in our house 😁
Problem solved!

Christmas day is just like Boxing Day for us

Our dc get new pjs, a book, hot chocolate and a bath bomb. It’s a nice thing to do on Christmas Eve. A nice bath, Christmas film and then a story and bed.

@HolesinTheSoles
other European country here :
All presents under the tree and opened on christmas eve, no santa with reindeers, no elfs, no new pjs, but advent calendar, chocolate in your cleaned boot on the morning of the 6th (the day remembers the day St. Nicolaus of Myrna died), an advent wreath with four candles to light to count the four Sundays to christmas.
And that's it - oh and church (on the 24th, 25th, 26th) if you are that way inclined.

70isaLimitNotaTarget, are you Scottish? If not, it's cultural appropriation to wear plaid.

I don't get the angst over xmas pjs. Mine get them on 1st December. They wear them all year round. They are for sleeping in, noone sees them and is going to laugh at them for wearing xmas pjs in April!! I don't send them to school in them!

We have never done Christmas Eve boxes as we had a family birthday on that day so we always had a gathering/party plenty of fun and excitement so that was enough. If not I am sure a DVD and a comforting night would have been perfect not over the top. And mine have had new PJs on Christmas Day every year into adulthood.
Elf on the Shelf passed us by, we usually fail with advent calendars so would never have the energy to manage an elf

Birds I am actually entitled to wear 3 tartans , one of them being the very lovely Black Watch .

My friend buys for a lot of her friends kids and she made them lovely Christmas eve boxes and give them as her gift. The kids absolutely love them and were in their new jammies at 2pm last year and I think it's a lovely tradition they are going to remember when they are older.

As for the jammies, I don't understand why everyone thinks they only wear them once, my kids have been gifted Christmas jammies before and they wear them throughout the year until they are too small and then get passed on to the next one!!

YANBU
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Dreadful consumerism out of control

(And I bloody love Christmas and spend a fortune on presents but I do think this new pyjamas bollocks is out of control greed)*

Oh absolutely. I for one am still squeezing my toddler into her newborn size sleepsuit and I'm aiming for it to last until she's 18. If that becomes completely untenable I'm sure I can fashion something for her out of stuff I find fishing through bins.

After Brexit there will a customs delay when Father Christmas attempts to cross the channel.

We'll be lucky if anything arrives until New Year.

I have had new pyjamas and a little present on Christmas Eve my whole life and I am in my late 30’s. My dc get the same (Not in a box if that counts for anything!) I am completely confused by the vitriol directed towards the idea by many on mumsnet. I feel the same about elf on the shelf, we dont do it but I certainly don’t judge others that do.

never did them. Never did elf on the shelf. Kids went to visit santa once ever. No lapland trips, no tracking santa. No advent calendars (think we had one once but forgot to open the days).

We had/have lovely magical christmasses though with lots of traditions.

Best bit of xmas eve is clean sheets on the bed and clean pyjamas.