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.

I don't like waste any more than the next person, but find Christmas jumpers difficult to get as worked up as the OP about.

Either re- wear the same one every year, or sell/gift/donate it. There's plenty of second hand ones on eBay, especially for kids.

Just don't send unwanted Christmas jumpers to landfill. Simples.

Eh?

I didn't pay £20 for a jumper or buy it for charity. I wear mine all through December and whip them back out the next year.

Just like I wear my bikini for a few weeks on holiday and pack it away with the holiday stuff.

Just like I wear party dresses only at parties

And wellies only on the beach.

Very odd post

Don’t mind a festive jumper that much but definitely feel nauseous when I see “family jumpers” advertised on the likes of Next with a smug mum, dad and kids all wearing matching ones (yep, missing point of thread).

Hate hate hate christmas jumpers...tacky trash.My daughter is at primary school and they have a christmas jumper day every year.I do of course buy her one every year but they look so shite.I dont mind the money its not that its just that they look common and bloody awful and so cheap! I am with you OP!

I know OP

My kids have never owned a Christmas jumper, they take the pound to school and just wear a normal hoodie. I ask every year if they want one, but they don't.

For my work I bought one for £2 in the charity shop

It is not an unsolvable dilemma, no need to spend £20

Christmas jumpers are the spawn of the devil. End of.

Abhorrent is a bit strong.

Eh there are worse thing to get het up about. I bought my jumper for £3 because it was in the sale, have worn it 10+ times a year for the last five years. That's not a bad average, is it? It isn't harming the environment while it's sitting in the wardrobe.

To be honest, I find the whole 'but think of the environment!1!!' thing to be tiresome because it tends to get trotted out to justify someone's unpopular opinion and there's actually very little concern about the environment, that's just the excuse to have a rant about whatever subject the person doesn't like.

if People want to spend money on a jumper and wear it, so what

If people feel under pressure to get a jumper and are short of money then go to the charity shops where everyone is dumping their twice worn jumpers

Do all of you who hate Christmas jumpers as they are only worn for a short period also hate bikinis and beach wear as they are mainly bought for use on a week or fortnight holiday in the sun?

Or is there something special about moaning about Christmas

My little one wears his Christmas jumpers to nursery on any day of the year cold enough for a jumper. He’s not fussed what he wears so neither am I. He grows slowly so most of his jumpers have fitted him for a couple of years now. When he out grows them I’ll give them to a local kids charity shop (which is where I buy most of his clothes!).

Do all of you who hate Christmas jumpers as they are only worn for a short period also hate bikinis and beach wear as they are mainly bought for use on a week or fortnight holiday in the sun?

This has been covered. Nobody is having an annual "wear your swimmie to school" day each June.

I bought mine from a charity shop 3 years ago. DS needed one for school, got one from eBay.
Not too morally bad I think

This has been covered. Nobody is having an annual "wear your swimmie to school" day each June.
This. ^^

I knitted one for my foster child, they are wearing Christmas jumpers from 1st Dec and when I read out that bit of the last newsletter to FC the response from them was "I know! You can make one". So I have.

If you buy a jumper and rewear as a normal item of clothing over the years, fine. Time spent wearing the Christmas jumper is conserving some other jumper from wearing out.

Buying a new jumper just for jumper day is a daft economy.

DS2 likes festive clothes, and wears them happily long beyond the season so they are worth getting for him as a normal item of clothing. I buy big enough to get a couple of years out of them.

DS1 it's not worth it as he is very particular about what he will wear. He will wear a t-shirt, so that's fine. It'll get less wear than DS2, but it passes on to DS2 in the end anyway.

Disposable fashion is a bad thing anyway. Occasional wear like party wear gets worn less than a Christmas jumper. I'll rotate dresses around different events and every few years buy an update. The concept of wear once and discard baffles me, but that's not limited to a Christmas jumper.

🙄 wondered how long it would be before someone trotted out the "wear your swimmie who even calls it that to school day"

No, but they have book day, spotty day, wear red day, pj day etc etc. The OP is livid because she's claiming everyone is spending £20 on a Xmas jumper. The kids Xmas t-shirts are 50p in the charity shop and can be reused. They are £1.30 in primark, loads on eBay and marketplace. Also nothing stopping anyone putting Xmas stickers on an ordinary jumper instead.

Talk about blowing things out of proportion

With schools there can be umpteen reasons to obtain clothing with limited use. The school swimming lesson is the same afternoon as my DC's lesson, so I've ended up getting duplicate kits as one kit doesn't work on a 15 minute turn around to get home re-organise and get out again. PE kits get little wear time, about 30 hours per year, yet that requires a seperate set of clothes to leave in school.

I've had the same Christmas jumper for about 10 years. Is that morally abhorrent OP?!

I really dislike it. 2yo DD goes to a nursery targeting hugely deprived kids, and they have a xmas jumper day coming up. These are children aged 2-5 whose parents are battling to keep food in the fridge and the lights on, and who now need to buy something from a retailer, seek out a charity shop bargain, make their own, ask friends or have their kids go without. What is the point?

I'd love a UK non-profit manufacturer of child labour-free xmas jumpers, proceeds going to a relevant charity.

Actually all those school days bring the same problems if it’s one off tat. Fine if you can hustle an outfit out of what you’ve got.

No, but they have book day, spotty day, wear red day, pj day etc etc.

And our school in recent years has really pulled back on all of this because they can't claim to be an eco-school when you have parents sending their children in cheap Amazon costumes or buying cheap products to fit in. It's always just a bog standard non-uniform day.

And what's wrong with swimmies? That's what we call them here. That or "dookers" but you sassenach lot wouldn't understand that with your bathing suits.

Also...Unless every item in your wardrobe is bought second hand, worn until it disintegrates and is absolutely necessary and solely functional, you OP are also paying into the morally abhorrent fashion and textiles industry.
Christmas jumpers are the least of our problem.

No, but they have book day, spotty day, wear red day, pj day etc etc. The OP is livid because she's claiming everyone is spending £20 on a Xmas jumper. The kids Xmas t-shirts are 50p in the charity shop and can be reused. They are £1.30 in primark, loads on eBay and marketplace. Also nothing stopping anyone putting Xmas stickers on an ordinary jumper instead.
I have an issue with loads of those types of days too.
Getting to your local charity shop relies on a parent:
Having time to get there when most close at 5pm
Hoping they have one in which is pot luck in the run up to Christmas as most get donated after
Hoping one of the ones they have in is in the right size for your child, or multiple children if that's appropriate.
If not then hoping there's other charity shops close by
If not then one child has a charity shop one and another a new one

Equally, fine saying just go to Primark for t shirts for wear red day etc for a family near me would mean:
Trip to the next town with a Primark
Half an hour minimum on the bus
Adult return is £6-7ish
All to buy a £1.50 t shirt because school have decided the children should wear red for charity.

There's no need.

I wear my Christmas jumper from December 1st till January 1st. It's silly and obnoxiously noticeable and it makes myself and people smile.