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To hate the matching PJs trend

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Alysskea · 28/12/2021 10:46

Every post on my social media and messages from friends has featured an entire family, usually of primarily grown adults, wearing matching Christmas pyjamas.

Where did this come from???? Why is it suddenly a thing??? Why do we all have to see the pictures?

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ChannelLightVessel · 28/12/2021 16:35

@Whatwouldscullydo

nerr I've left stuff out before and it's not been taken. Kicked down the road maybe..taken no.

I hadn't thought of face book sites tbh I don't post much I just nose Blush

I could well join up next time I need to get rid. Mostly it's not fit for much these days. With the shocking quality.

A lot of charity shops will take ‘rags’, ie clothes not fit for reselling in the shop, as long as you bag them up separately and label them.
LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:41

We do this BUT

  1. We wear them all year round. We all still have and wear them from last year although DC's one won't fit much longer. I hate waste. Do people really just bin them after Christmas is over?

  2. I would never post anything like this on SM, only we know we do it (it's for us, no one else or for likes) unless we Facetime family on Christmas Day. Because of this reason I don't care what people think....

I do think it's a bit weird posting it on SM but each to their own.

SlashBeef · 28/12/2021 16:41

@Stellaris22

Maybe I'm just remembering an old thread where someone said they bought brand new school uniform as soon as a shirt got a pen mark or stain, and threw the clothes into landfill. That's the attitude towards this trend I worry about.

If the pyjamas are getting worn throughout the year then I don't see the issue. It's a bit of fun and you'd be buying pyjamas anyway. I just worry about the wastefulness of these trends.

We don't buy crackers as I find them pointless, but that's a different issue.

Oh why don't buy crackers either. I know you can get plastic free ones and whatever but I just can't stand them generally. Total tat!
LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:43

@Stellaris22 Get what you mean about crackers but we bought some lovely reusable ones this year. Obviously you don't get the crack etc but still... I wrote my own jokes/quiz question in them and a little gift which suited the person and wouldn't be a waste e.g. new cufflinks for DH. I would have put them in his stocking anyway.

LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:44

And I'll be using them every year from now on!

Stellaris22 · 28/12/2021 16:47

@LuckyAmy1986 those crackers sound like a lovely idea, being able to personalise them is great and keep them to reuse every year.

Frazzled2207 · 28/12/2021 16:48

Buying 4 new pairs of pyjamas that everyone will only wear for a fortnight max - horrendously wasteful.

LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:49

Naff, cheap, chavvy. Thought people had wised up to this nonsense by now. Like we need more poor quality tat going into landfill. Buy mindfully, folks. #those memories will last longer

YANBU just on the grounds of the environmental and social impact of encouraging people to buy cheap poor quality clothing that they don’t really need

What's with all the cheap/tat/poor quality etc?! Ours are usually from M&S or Next which is where we buy our regular pjs from anyway!! Are their normal pjs cheap tat or just the ones that happen to have a polar bear and robin on??!

WouldIBeATwat · 28/12/2021 16:51

@Frazzled2207

Buying 4 new pairs of pyjamas that everyone will only wear for a fortnight max - horrendously wasteful.
We wear ours all year - longer in fact. Last year’s are still going strong. (they aren’t Xmas themed for that reason.)
LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:51

@Stellaris22 they are tin so hoping they will last a very long time. Not as fun, arguably! But saves the waste. I think they will become more popular over the next few years. I hope anyway..

LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 16:52

Buying 4 new pairs of pyjamas that everyone will only wear for a fortnight max - horrendously wasteful

@Frazzled2207 as you may have seen from the thread, most of us who do this wear them year round, ours are treated like all our other pyjamas!

RobinPenguins · 28/12/2021 16:55

@LuckyAmy1986

We do this BUT

  1. We wear them all year round. We all still have and wear them from last year although DC's one won't fit much longer. I hate waste. Do people really just bin them after Christmas is over?

  2. I would never post anything like this on SM, only we know we do it (it's for us, no one else or for likes) unless we Facetime family on Christmas Day. Because of this reason I don't care what people think....

I do think it's a bit weird posting it on SM but each to their own.

I don’t know anyone who bins theirs (or admits to binning them) after just a few wears. Why would they? We wear ours all year round, I have previous years’ pairs on the go too. DD grows like a weed so hers don’t last multiple years but that would be the case whatever pattern they had on them.

I don’t get why new pyjamas for Christmas, which happen to match, is such an epic crime, but I’m sure they do something I find equally cringeworthy so hey ho.

Frazzled2207 · 28/12/2021 16:56

@LuckyAmy1986
Ok fair enough, my kids have had Christmas pyjamas in the past and have refused to wear from January onwards. I can’t imagine wanting to wear reindeer pyjamas in July either but each to their own

As to insisting on a Facebook selfie of everyone wearing them though- sorry but it’s just really tacky. IMO. It looks wasteful even if it is not.

Shebangshebong · 28/12/2021 17:09

Tacky and cringe. YANBU.

LuckyAmy1986 · 28/12/2021 17:13

@Frazzled2207 I don't really know what to say to that, I guess we are lucky that we are all pretty easy going! If you are the type to refuse to wear reindeer pjs mid year then that probably explains why your kids refuse Hmm to as well.

As for your point about FB, I agree that it's tacky. I don't know about wasteful because I really couldn't imagine people buying them just to wear for a week or so. Well until your post!

snapsieplopp · 28/12/2021 17:39

I just thought all these people were lumberjacks??

😂

Whatabambam · 28/12/2021 17:46

I don't get it either. It makes me shudder with almost an equal amount of vigour as I do on teading or hearing the words 'the hubby' or 'hubster'. It's all contrived nonsense and rather worrying; no one sees themselves or each other as individuals any more but simply as each other's possessions or unit. Bleugh.

sussexlife · 28/12/2021 17:58

In case this hasn't already been posted

To hate the matching PJs trend
Lolalovesroses · 28/12/2021 17:59

I'm not on Facebook, so hadn't seen the trend until yesterday when my work friend visited and showed me photos of my male colleagues dressed up in their pjs.
We did comment, that everyone of them were playing "happy families" yet cheating on their partners for the rest of the year!
It's not for me, but neither is social media.

Lolalovesroses · 28/12/2021 18:01

Cross post!

lap90 · 28/12/2021 18:06

It's cheesy but i like it. Did notice an uptick in people this side of the pond doing it this year.
An American social media import and loved by retailers.
I do wonder whether the next American import will have Christmas cards making a comeback, plastered with family photos on the front.
We'll see!

backonceagain79 · 28/12/2021 18:07

YANBU. THey only do it so they can put their pics on Facebook

IWantMoreStationery · 28/12/2021 18:12

As I said earlier we don't but then my DS is a teenager.

I've just looked on Facebook and the families that have put posts on are just normal people having fun with their young children. I don't suspect any one of them cheating or having a dead sex life. They are just young families having fun.

I didn't feel sick or even shudder.

gunnersgold · 28/12/2021 18:21

It's for the likes 🙄.. insecure women trying to prove they are good parents . Crack oh I say ! I work in retail and I had a husband in on Xmas eve hunting down matching pjs . I asked him why and he said his wife needs them to take pics for social media . We had a little laugh together at the fact this cost him £150! 🙈

StatisticallyChallenged · 28/12/2021 18:24

We've had them for the last couple of years but

  1. they get worn year round
  2. there's zero evidence on social media
  3. they're not cheap landfill crap, because I make them myself

Both kids love it so 🤷‍♀️