To ask if spending ALL of Christmas Day in your pyjamas appeals to you or

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gives you the ick?

It seems very popular on Mumsnet. Do you stay in the ones you slept in or shower and put on fresh ones?

Of course we are all entitled to a lazy sloth day now and again, no-one is saying that we aren't. I'm retired so most of my days are lazy sloth days - the difference being that I get dressed every single day, unless I am sick enough to be in bed.

I don't know a single person who equates a lazy sloth day with not getting dressed in actual clothing.

I don't live in the UK and find the idea of both Christmas pyjamas and Christmas sweaters a bit ick.

Edited to add I also think the idea of slobbing around at home all day doing absolutely nothing is also weird. Each to their own, but even though I now spend the entire day alone I don't just slob around doing nothing, and didn't even when I worked full time.

Just as a matter of interest, where does the awful term "ick" come from?

Never heard it anywhere apart from MN>

Why do some posters think that by wearing your pyjamas on Christmas Day means that you are going to be lazy and slobbering around? What’s the difference between this and someone wearing anything else?

It's just weird imo. Would you wear pyjamas for any other celebratory event? Or when having people round for lunch/dinner? I don't care what the pyjamas are made of or how luxurious they are. For me, nightwear is nightwear.

I don’t wear the pyjamas I buy for Christmas Day to sleep in. They are day wear not night wear. It’s a special family day so a celebratory event.

I think it’s weird to “dress up” to have Christmas dinner at home - we all have different styles of celebrating.

I don't dress up. I just wear normal smart-casual clothes.

As I said we all have our different styles of celebrating.

The only time I've ever stayed in pjs all day is when I've been extremely sick with proper flu.

Otherwise I can't not get dressed every day. Including Christmas day.

New pjs on Christmas Eve and stay in them all day. We have 11 in total coming over and I tell them to come in their pjs if they want too! It’s a bit of a tradition in our house now and the only day we do it, unless we are sick.

No way, slovenly behaviour to slob in pyjamas all day, supreme ick!!

Why is it slovenly to shower and then dress in clean new pyjamas? Why do you think we would be slobbering around?

I reckon half of the people screaming are living in a fictitious wonderland. The other half are real...which..whatever.

Happy to "slobber" after a shower, in my brand new clean pj's that make games of tick and playing horse so much more comfy. Imagine trying that in sequins!

@Laveritas yes even if I wore jeans and a top or a fancy dress rather than jammies I'd be doing exactly the same stuff on Christmas day (eat, watch a film, build Lego.....).
Not exactly "slobbing around" 🤔

Ooh yes I love a PJ day.

It’s not often on Xmas day though.
If I have guests or go somewhere then I’d change.

I don’t get the MN obsession with having to do things the ‘right’ way.

Your life is yours to live how you want.

Why do some people care that something is ‘slobbish’ when no one can even see them and there’s nothing slobbish about it anyway.

It’s almost like they’re putting on an act for other people all of the time, which must be exhausting!

Either that or they’re very smelly and their PJs would smell after only 1 night.

As long as you’re not hurting anyone, just live your life how you want to and stop worrying about keeping up appearances.
Literally no one gives a shit.

So you are dressing up then if you are wearing special clothes for the day.

I'm intrigued as to what the pyjama wearers are wearing on Boxing Day ( which to me is the whew it's over let's chill day) or Christmas Eve when it's time to settle in, ready for the main event. What are you wearing then?

Christmas Eve we will be travelling and Boxing Day on the ski slopes (we’ll be with family in Colorado).

Pyjamas don't say "celebration" or "festive" do they. Literally the opposite of making an effort.
They also suggest you may have the heating up too high...

Christmas Eve and Boxing Day....... different pairs of jammies 😂😂😂😂
I have LOTS of them.

I spend forever looking for pyjamas for each years theme- lots of effort involved! It’s a special celebration.
What has the heating got to do with it?

For me, it's got nothing to do with not bothering to get dressed - getting dressed, in my mind, exists entirely for leaving the house. I remove my clothes and put on a nightdress (admittedly I have some exquisite nightdresses due to wearing them for much of every day, I would say I spent more on each of my nightdresses on average than my outdoor clothes) immediately after returning home, and I receive family visitors in my nightdress and Call the Midwife-esque bed jacket. I actually feel disgusting sitting on my furniture in the same clothes I wear outside, sitting on the bus/tube, brushing up against other people. So there is no reason why I'd do anything else for Christmas day, unless I was with people who aren't my close family or my husband's - luckily my in-laws are very used to my nightdress lifestyle by now 😂

Would you put candles on a cake and sing "Happy Birthday" at any celebratory event other than a birthday party? Probably not as every event has it's own customs and traditions regarding it that wouldn't apply to any other ones!

Well I agree with you in that as soon as I get home I get changed. But I have house clothes that I specifically keep for use in the home.
If you get changed into your night dress as soon as you come home do you get changed into a different night dress when you actually go to bed? Because I wouldn't like to go to bed in a night dress I'd been wearing round the house for quite a lot of the day.

Best clothes on Christmas Day. New perfume, new outfit, children in new clothes, DH in new jumper. It’s called making an effort. Never in my life could I slouch round in pyjamas all day, especially not on Christmas Day. I’d feel ill. People say they get up and showered and put on new pyjamas…don’t you have normal clothes?? I’d put nice new pyjamas on…but for BED. I couldn’t eat Christmas dinner in pyjamas. I’d feel like I was in hospital.

Maybe I should have mentioned as it's probably relevant to how people who don't like the idea of wearing nightclothes during the day see my behaviour, but I don't actually wear my nightdresses to bed - they are purely for use outside of the warm confines of the duvet. I am very envious of people who can be comfortable lounging in anything other than pyjamas though - I do sometimes get embarassed opening my door at 3pm in a nightie and worrying that the postman thinks I've just left my bed.