To Find Christmas Jumpers Morally Abhorrent?

[MitziK]

Why has this become a thing? Spend twenty-plus quid so everybody can see you're 'doing it for charity', when what you are actually doing is spunking cash on something you will wear for between 1 and 5 days in a year before dumping it in the back of the wardrobe or binning it to buy another one next year?

People who can't afford that twenty pound feel under pressure/disapproval for 'not joining in, it's FOR CHARITY'. Somebody makes a hell of a lot of money for the jumpers and chucks a couple of quid at most to a charity. You've just given them TWO QUID, that's all. The seller still has eighteen quid of your money and you still look like a twat.

If somebody wants to do something for charity, wear your usual jumper, take that twenty quid you would have wasted on some synthetic monstrosity with bells or reindeer ears and buy some food to shove in the collection bins for the local foodbank, don't take fucking photos with all your mates wearing disposable jumpers, thinking you're Really Making a Difference.

Erm, what?

Xmas jumpers are just seasonal wear. Why would you only wear them once?

We bought the DC fair isle jumpers this year. They will get them on Dec 1st and wear them at least weekly until the weather warms up. In fact, petite DD1 is still wearing her Xmas 2018 one - she wore it this weekend.

What is wrong with that?

YANBU. At all.

I absolutely refuse to spend money on an item of clothing that will get worn once or twice a year which is either decent quality but relatively expensive (I love clothes but don't buy that many, so what I do buy has to last and be worn a lot), or which is cheap and contributing not only to low wages so an item of clothing could be made as cheaply as possible, but also contributing to landfill as it doesn't last.

Has anyone else got an add for Xmas jumpers on this thread

Had mine 5 yrs. Plenty of use from it. It just happens to keep me warm.. Which is the exact bloody purpose of a jumper!!

Hate them.

Especially now they have Xmas jumper day at school!!! So you have to buy them for the kids and costs a fortune 😡

I've had the same Xmas jumper for around 7 years, and I bought it in the January sale 😇

Hear, hear OP

I bought my first ever one this year, from a charity shop. Will probably keep it for many years to come.

YANBU
spend £10-£20 for a children’s jumper, probably made by other children, they wear it 1-4 times in the Christmas period and donate £1 to charity. It’s disgusting really.

If parents donated £5 and didn’t buy more fast fashion crap, a lot more children could be helped.

I wear a Christmas jumper every day in December... I just realllly love Christmas!!! But I have bought second hand ones for my children and they too will wear them every day :)

They're not wasteful if you keep them for years and wear them from mid-November until mid January, as many seem to.

But schools asking children to wear Christmas jumpers and give £1 to charity is wasteful. I bought one on ebay for my DC to not further contribute to landfill!

I got mine from a charity shop and have worn it for three christmases so far.

How does that sit with your special moral barometer?

But WHY are people only wearing them once? I mean, that is insane.

But surely you need to buy your dc jumpers anyhow as it is bloody freezing out so why not have seasonal ones that can be used at school jumper day?

YABU and slightly neurotic.

Most people I know where theirs throughout December and use the same one year after year. Really don’t see the issue here

I have a fine collection and have worn them plenty of times, year in and year out. I also have Christmas socks, pyjamas and bedlinen. I am a terrible person, clearly.

Have had mine years (although tops not jumpers, I run too hot) and I work in a school so they get lots of outings, and the dds' ones have been handed down and worn for multiple years from 1st December. They don't just wear them for one or two days.

So about 10-12 times then, @JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff? Assuming they are actually wearing them into February/March, rather than the more likely 4 times?

Seems a fairly environmentally unfriendly type of clothing, doesn't it?

Don't know about you, maybe you have oodles to cash to chuck around, but I expect a jumper to last years, being worn regularly in that time (say 2-3 times a week for months, depending upon its thickness/suitability for slightly cooler Spring, Summer and Autumn days as well as the depths of winter).

But surely you wear them more than once and then just wear the same one every year. Just like any other piece of seasonal clothing..

PS: I find the use of capitals in headings morally abhorrent. Guess we're all different!

I use jumpers I already own which have a hole/stain and turn them into Christmas jumpers myself, so I don't buy new, I also keep them and wear them a few years (until they fall apart) so I don't think that Christmas jumpers are inherently morally abhorrent as you put it.

But I do see where you are coming from, the throwaway fashion culture which exists now is vile, wasteful, exploitative and damaging to the environment in so many ways and the Christmas Jumper fanaticism is one symptom of this.

Said by the person who capitalises all constituent parts of their user name.

Could have sworn it was a title/heading, which are generally capitalised in standard English usage, though - and I'm not doing it FOR CHARITY! LOOK AT MEEE!, in any case.

To be fair I’ve had the same Christmas jumper for 5 years and it cost £12. I wear it a couple of times each December.

School Facebook busy with parents off loading outgrown jumpers to younger children for no charge so that’s something I guess