Fucking Christmas Jumper Day

[SkateAway]

AIBU and a scrooge?

My work are having a Christmas jumper day. We are a small team so it will be noticed if I don't join in and it has been implied I will be making my team look bad if I refuse.

I don't own a Christmas jumper and I don't want to waste money on something I'll never wear again. The idea is that we bring in a monetary donation and also have a donation tin for clients to donate. I have suggested a local charity for disadvantaged children.

I'd rather put an extra tenner in the donation bucket than spend it on a hideous piece of glittery landfill. I've asked around and nobody has one I can borrow, can't make it round the charity shops before the day and I'm told wearing a festive colour with some tinsel in my hair isn't in the spirit of things.

I don't like Christmas but I'm not outwardly scroogey about it. Unsure if I'm being a total bore and "that person" or if I'm justified in not being arsed with it.

I don't buy my children new ones every year, they have got one each that others have bought them and they wear those a few times over the holidays until they don't fit.

[gingerbiscuits]

I LOVE Christmas but I hate this enforced workplace/school crap! I'm menopausal, permanently boiling hot & would rather donate the entire cost of a stupid 'never to be worn again' jumper to a children's charity instead of suffering all day because some twat arbitrarily decides it must be done!!

[StCharlotte]

Make one of those reindeer ones where you cut a hole on the jumper for your boob and stick a red glittery Pom Pom on your nipple for its nose. Tell everyone how excited you are about wearing it.

Genius!

[DonPablo]

Raid the Christmas tree and stick some baubles where you boobs go. If anyone looks at you, says anything about your jumper, shame them by asking: 'you looking at my baubles?' and tut. No one will say another word.

[ScreamingValenta]

My office is like a sauna so I never wear jumpers, Christmas or otherwise, or else I'd spend the day having a succession of hot flushes. Is that excuse any good to you, OP?

[GloGirl]

Can you safety pin tinsel to an old jumper in the shape of a tree squiggle? Not as many squiggles but this is the sort of thing I mean.

At least that way you can union and still wear your jumper

[NearlyOutedMyself]

I have a Christmas t--shirt which says 'HoHoHo' which I love for the passive aggressive statement.... although I love Christmas really! It is a wasteful 'occasion', we should be reusing and repurposing clothes, not purchasing new fot one occasion. I dread to think of the environmental waste caused by a cheap Christmas jumper .

[DollyPomPoms]

I haven’t read the full the thread but just wanted to say that Save the Children Christmas Jumper Day is growing in popularity year on year. If you do get a jumper this year you will be able to use it next year and the year after etc...Aldi had some nice ones for £7.99.

[rookiemere]

Jeez what has annoyed me immensely is that some people seem unable to read the thread before posting. OP has said - at least twice - that she cannot make it to a charity shop because of her shifts. She has also said she does not want to decorate an existing jumper.

[PineappleDanish]

I completely get where you're coming from.

The whole concept of going out to buy some cheap acrylic (plastic) jumper to have the privilege of giving money to charity is so skewed. Just give the tenner and don't buy the jumper!

All the "oh it's an investment piece" or "you'll wear it every year" - no she won't. She doesn't like Christmas and doesn't WANT a Christmas jumper.

[MargotB7]

I've had the same jumper for years. It just comes out with the decorations. If fact I wore it last Friday because I can't be bothered to iron anything. I love Christmas though.

If you don't want to buy one don't. Just stick a few baubles on an old jumper or t-shirt.

[Trewser]

If you'd been to some of the factories that make these cheap jumpers you would never buy ir wear one. I just wouldn't do it OP.

[MargotB7]

rookiemere - oh, I see.

OP, just don't wear one but unfortunately your colleagues want to

[MargotB7]

I'm wondering if I can make one with a passive agressive slogan of some sort that wont get me into trouble grin

Do this as you suggested earlier.

[Siameasy]

I find it annoying too. DD’s school are doing it and I refuse to buy a new one and didn’t find any in the charity shop. I found an old Xmas jumper dress of hers age 4 so she is now wearing that with trousers. Otherwise I would’ve made her wear a funky sweatshirt she has
“Broadening the definition of Xmas patterns to include leopard print”
I would wear a louder than usual top OP

[Queenie8]

@pinkyyy
A £1 santa hat sewn onto a red/green top?
I did this for my dc in reception when I left was skint. I used a white tee. My dc got lots of lovely comments because it was original and no one else had one the same.

I also buy next years christmas top in the Christmas / January sales.

[Queenie8]

*left it too late and was skint

[Luckylassiam]

I’ve had the same jumper for years. I wear it every year as the event is every year so I don’t get these people who say you wear it once then throw it away. Maybe you do, but millions don’t. Stop being a Scrooge.
If you walk in without one, you’ll get noticed. Up to you if that bothers you

[Jillyhilly]

Nothing says Christmas spirit more than bullying your coworkers, friends or family into spending £15 on a sweatshop jumper, in order to raise £1 for people who probably work in the same bloody sweatshop

Now there’s the slogan for a Christmas jumper!

[nicelyneurotic]

You should have gone along happily and on the day 'forgot', oops, silly you.
Just wear some tinsel on something you already have and no one (normal) will care

[jellybeanteaparty]

Pin humbugs to a jumper or just one as a lovely broach

[Morgan12]

I'd not wear one and put a tenner in the collection instead. Just say that's what you would have spent on a jumper and would rather donate the money than waste it on clothing. No-one could possibly say anything about this without looking like an uncharitable arsehole.

[YourOpinionIsNoted]

Plain t shirt and a Sharpie, "Ho Ho Ho, I donated the £15 instead of buying a jumper"

[cookiemonster5]

"I ordered a jumper online but what with it being royal mails busy season it got delayed. I just got an email saying it's being delivered tomorrow. Just my luck eh? Where do I put my donation?"

[JoyceJames]

But a red or green plain jumper?

[JoyceJames]

Buy