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To not understand matching pyjamas and Christmas Eve boxes

154 replies

Fatas · 26/12/2020 23:38

I don’t understand where all these new traditions have come from. Whole families wearing matching Christmas pyjamas and Christmas Eve boxes.

Do you do it? Or are you also confused?

Is there anyone that does not dress their baby up either for Christmas, Easter, world book day or Halloween? I mean what enjoyment does the baby gain from drawing up. I just find all these new norms a little odd, or am I just miserable?

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Bixs · 26/12/2020 23:40

Yawn

Meatshake · 26/12/2020 23:42

Goady thread done to death.

Sometimes frivolity can just be, y'know, fun.

KarlKennedysDurianFruit · 26/12/2020 23:45

DS gets a new pair of pyjamas (not Christmas themed or matching anyone else) in his Christmas Eve box, and the same old copy of the night before Christmas, this year he also got a snowman bath bomb for his bedtime bath. When I was his age 34 years ago, I got a new pair of pyjamas on Christmas Eve (so did DB) and we read the same battered old copy of the night before Christmas, sometimes we'd have some nice bubble bath or a hot chocolate and we'd all watch something as a family, often the snowman, after afternoon carol service. What we do with DS is no different, it's just in a box. I'm not sure what's confusing about having some simple family traditions.

Stompythedinosaur · 26/12/2020 23:45

You really don't understand? I mean, they aren't conceptually difficult.

Some families enjoy them, some prefer not to.

Cam2020 · 26/12/2020 23:45

People do it for fun? Just a wild guess.

georgiamackIemore · 26/12/2020 23:45

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stackemhigh · 26/12/2020 23:46

YANBU, I find it all a bit 🤮. Don your hard heart!

stackemhigh · 26/12/2020 23:47

Hat! 😂

Santaisreel · 26/12/2020 23:47

You don't have to understand. Different people like different things, that's just life.

We did Christmas Eve boxes (although it was usually in a wee sack) in the 80s when I was a kid. My siblings had boxes in the 90s. It's not really a new thing.

Matching pjs are a marketing success.

Ohtherewearethen · 26/12/2020 23:49

You are genuinely struggling to understand and are confused by this? Really? How unusual.

HollyGenneroMcClane · 26/12/2020 23:49

What do you mean you dont understand giving gifts? I dont get it. What dont you get? Are you confused by traditions different to yours?

Im in my 40’s and I was getting pyjamas on christmas eve from my parents back in the 90’s.

And we dressed up as a book character at school in the 80’s.

Did you never dress your child in something becuse it looked cute? Or did you only use babygros until they were four?

Seriously? I dont understand what you dont get?????

HangOnToYourself · 26/12/2020 23:50

Its almost like other people like different things than you? Crazy 🙄

Fuckingcrustybread · 26/12/2020 23:51

I'm not confused at all, you seem to be though. Maybe you don't understand that all families are different, that some enjoy the Christmas Eve boxes and matching pyjamas. How do you think Family Christmas traditions start.
I'll explain, family traditions start because different families see things and think Oh what a lovely idea, we'll try that, they enjoy and carry on.

DramaAlpaca · 26/12/2020 23:52

I find it all a bit odd too, but each to their own. Maybe if I'd had small children I might buy into it I doubt it but I suppose it's just a bit of fun.

Batshitcrazy82 · 26/12/2020 23:52

I'm 38 and I always got new pjs, slippers and a Christmas dvd Christmas Eve so it's a tradition I've carried on with my own dd who are 16 and 10.

purplerainox · 26/12/2020 23:53

Well don't do it then if you find it odd.. dunno what's so confusing about it. I never know why people make threads about things they don't like the idea of then want to know who else does it..

BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze · 26/12/2020 23:53

Aw, bless. OP ‘doesn’t understand’ and is ‘confused’.

Let me explain it to you.

Some people do these things because they want to. Others don’t.

HTH. 🙄

LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 26/12/2020 23:53

People who say "I don't understand" confuse me. Just say "I don't like...." have some balls. Or baubles if you prefer.

Bingowin · 26/12/2020 23:54

Yanbu

So much bandwagoning.... like Halloween becoming Americanised

Thehop · 26/12/2020 23:54

It’s for social media.

AlwaysLatte · 26/12/2020 23:55

We don't get matching ones. I get them pjs in their Christmas Eve boxes with hot chocolate etc. but not matching ones, and not too Christmassy -usually soft ones in a fair isle type pattern that can also be worn at other times. M and S had some lovely soft ones in a nice design this year.

Santaisreel · 26/12/2020 23:56

@Thehop

It’s for social media.

Yeah, we did so much of that in the 1980s Confused

stackemhigh · 26/12/2020 23:57

@Bingowin

Yanbu

So much bandwagoning.... like Halloween becoming Americanised

And women end up with the grunt work.
rainbowunicorn · 26/12/2020 23:58

You understand perfectly well I am sure. You must do because if you honestly didn't understand that other people do things differently from you then you would be a bit thick wouldn't you?

You have only posted this to show everyone how much better you are than the people that do the matching jammies, Christmas eve boxes.

It comes across as quite pathetic.

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Fatas · 26/12/2020 23:58

I’ve just searched the web and the articles on Christmas Eve boxes suggest it’s a recent tradition. I lap found I’m not the only one who finds these new ‘traditions’ strange.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/christmas-eve-boxes-belong-bin-12256984.amp

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