To think it's a bit manky to spend Xmas Day in your pyjamas

[TheOliphantintheRoom]

Or PJs/jammies as people call them on here.

Are these the new PJs from the Christmas Eve box that you've slept in all night or do you shower and put a fresh pair on?

It's not exactly a John Lewis tableau is it? Parents and children tucking into their turkey/nut roast in their manky nightwear. Have a shower and get dressed you lazy beggars!

How is it manky

No pjs here on Christmas Day. I’ve bought a sequin skirt and cashmere sweater

However, We have new pjs for Christmas Eve Early Evening, which we all wear and eat a candle lit picnic in the sitting room. Pjs removed before bed

Each to their own though. You do what appeals to you & yours.

Merry Christmas 🎄

I'm going to stay in mine now just to be a rebel

Gosh people are very angry about this!

kate I think what makes you uncomfortable is that we seem to be turning into a nation of giant babies.
In babygros.
It is a bit off putting.

When I was a kid, we'd always have to get up, washed and dressed and have breakfast before we could open any presents.
Now I st around in my PJs and dressing gown and slob out.
It's one day, who cares.

I love a pj day. I don’t sleep in pyjamas, but if I am in the house I am pretty much guaranteed to be in “lounge-wear”.

On Christmas Day we’ll be slobbing around until about lunchtime, then showers, nice clothes while guests are here, and lounge-wear as soon as they are gone. (Late Christmas dinner here, about 5pm.)

kate I think what makes you uncomfortable is that we seem to be turning into a nation of giant babies. In babygros. It is a bit off putting.

I think you are on to something there

I'm fairly sure OP was on a wind up but it seems as if our Christmas Day attire really would give some of you a conniption fit.

My flat is small, not conducive to formality and more like a cocoon, so no point in us personally being dressed up in ball gowns and dinner suits rather than being warm and comfortable. We'll all be sitting round, warm and comfortable, in (freshly laundered) onesies of varying ridiculousness (I'll be dressed as Rudolph I'm sure you're all dying to know).

Lounging doesn't have to be grubby and really isn't an indicator of some sort of moral failure.

Think it all you like, I'll still be doing it.

I wear nothing or a nightshirt depending on how cold it is
I get up and get dressed immediately whatever day of the year it is!
On Xmas day I will be very comfortably and elegantly dressed in a stretchy but stylish sweater dress with warm tights
I might go as far as slippers whilst in the house but that is it

I’ve heard it all now 🙄

I don’t get the staying in pyjamas all day either. It’s lazy...there I’ve said it.
Just get dressed.

Disclaimer: it won’t however keep me awake at night so I’m not that bothered.

Plus, I know nobody outside of MN who actually does this.

I don’t shit in my pyjamas. If I sleep in a clean pair of PJs they’re not “manky”.

But I do get dressed on Christmas Day.

I grew up in the dark ages of the 80s/90s

Those are not the dark ages 😂

I remember me and my mum getting changed into "long dresses" for Christmas dinner in the 70s.

It's only nightwear because that's what somebody decided to call it. Nightgown is a description, not an instruction. There's no law that says you can only wear it at night. Pyjamas can be daywear, though I don't think much of wearing them to the supermarket - but then, why should they care what I think? I only judge harshly when it prevents people from taking their children to school properly because they can't get out of the car, not being properly dressed (see many a parking thread). If you think it's unacceptable to go out in pyjamas, don't. If you think it's acceptable, then own your decision, and walk down the road from a sensible parking spot instead of booting your kids out on the crossing.

Showering more than once a day and washing all your clothes every day is terribly environmentally unfriendly, you know.

...myself, I'll dress on Wednesday, because it'll be warmer, safer for cooking, and reduces the likelihood of tripping over my boobs. But I may or may not shower. It's only me and DS4 that day and he won't be saying anything (or, probably, showering). The next day we're going places so we'll both be clean as clean.

I'm still curious why the OP gets so filthy/smelly after a nights sleep....

How manky do they get over night if put on after showered.

Having been forced to wear our very best because we spent every Christmas day with our grandparents it took the fun out of the big day for me so now unless I'm going out and I'm just in the house make way for Wayne and waynetta slob in their pj bests! I don't care

I’d feel slobby and lazy staying in pyjamas all day. The only people I know who do this are actually depressed.

Nope. If it wasn’t for exh coming over that’s what me and dd would be doing. Will just do it Boxing Day instead!

NO idea why you give such a fuck.

YANBU. I don't know anyone in real ife who spends half their life in pyjamas, but it seems to be a thing amongst mumsnsetters.