Ringing bells on Christmas Eve

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Have you heard about thus the plan is to ring bells outside at 6pm on Christmas Eve fb.me/e/2ZmVN5A8h

Oh I've just realised it's worldwide but just for Santa. Well that sucks for all the other gift bearers

I probably won’t do it but I think it’s quite a nice idea.

I like Christmas bells but it seems to me this could be a little weird on a household basis.

I think it's lovely

If my daughter was older then I'd probably do it with her. It's not my cup of tea and I didn't go out clapping for the NHS, but I think kids would love this so why not? I probably would have loved it when I was little and at least it's not an annoying weekly event.

Who owns a bell? Where do you buy one? Amazon?
When else would I use it?

Who owns a bell? Where do you buy one?

I'm planning on using the one from my cat's collar. I will take the collar off the cat first though - I'm not planning on shaking the whole cat. 😂

Lindy shake the cat 😂

Great sales ploy for bell makers!

Won’t be joining in, done with all this crap, but it’s cute for kids I guess.

"We will be at my husband’s sister’s grave. She died on Christmas Eve."

All day and night? Or do you mean kids shouldn't have 2 minutes of cheer because you have a sad anniversary to deal with?

"Great sales ploy for bell makers!"

You're a genius! I missed the boat with masks and sanitiser. Bells, the bells!!!

@myhobbyisouting

"We will be at my husband’s sister’s grave. She died on Christmas Eve."

All day and night? Or do you mean kids shouldn't have 2 minutes of cheer because you have a sad anniversary to deal with?

What a pointlessly nasty response?

The poster didn’t say no one else should do it, just what they would be doing instead.

I’ll be at church where the bells are rung every year. Nativity, carols and then Mass at 6:30pm.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
The old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Peace on Earth and good will to men (and women, and children) .

Not sure most people have a bell handy these days, but isn’t it calling back to an old English tradition?

"The poster didn’t say no one else should do it, just what they would be doing instead."

Fair enough. I read it as being a pointless and nasty response to have a dig at how pathetic and thoughtless these people are ringing their bells. But they'll clarify that I'm wrong now I'm sure

Aw, I think it's a lovely idea, then again I've always loved everything Christmas and not been a complete Grinch
Ring bells or don't ring bells, that's up to you.
When we've got all these crappy restrictions on, such as no pantomimes, concerts,Christmas markets etc, any little thing to spread a bit of Christmas Cheer is good in my book

No we’ll track Sleigh progress on NORAD and the only bells will be the church bells for the crib service, if we have one this year.

Well we have at least one children's tambourine in the house...

Who owns a bell? Where do you buy one?

I'll have to dig through the now teen's toybox, but we got "Santa Bells" when we visited Santa as a toddler.
Put them out and jingle on Christmas Eve and he'll come
Failing that, just jangle keys or something, all is jingly lol, I'm sure he won't notice or care

No we’ll track Sleigh progress on NORAD

We still do that! Even though kids are now early teens and I still keep tracking even after they've gone to bed to see if he's got any nearer

All I can think is my youngest would have been asleep at that time when she was 5/6/7ish (she was an early to bed, early to rise kind of kid: it almost killed me ) and I’d have been liable to murder anyone who woke her with bells.

The first thing I thought was migraine. Not for me I don't think. :/

I’m not interested in doing it, and just find it odd.

The NHS clapping... it was a moment every week where I was reminded to pause for thought about keyworkers, and I liked that it was a celebration of actual people.

The bell ringing... for Santa. Who isn’t real. I get that it’s actually “for” children, but I figure most are having a perfectly fine Xmas anyway (even if with less people than some would have) or if they’re having a shit Xmas, ringing a bell isn’t going to make any difference at all.

I’m not the Grinch, I shan’t scowl if I hear people do it. It’s just not something that has engaged me at all.

I have no idea how this is meant to be pleasurable for dc. My dc have bells, they can wave them around any time they like. I imagine we'll have more fun doing our usual Christmas stuff on the 24th, we normally decorate a gingerbread house.

For some reason, my first thought when I saw the thread title was church bells. I thought it was going to be a thread where a bellringer was moaning that they weren't going to be allowed to ring the church bells inside this year so they were having to do it outside. I spent a moment or two wondering out how you'd get the bells outside...🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️