Boxing Day Hamper?

[KatoPotato]

Okay, so I already do a pre-xmas shoebox with themed/seasonal Yankee Candle, hot choc and advent calendar skeleton (IYSWIM?) that our Elf on the Shelf 'Delivers' to DS at the start of December.

We also do the CEH filled with the usual, jimjams, hot choc, DVDs etc.

Thinking it might be nice to extend this with a Boxing Day Box? Makes sense with the name and everything, but this is as far as I've got! What could I put in this? and should it be from the Elf saying cheerio?

Just catch the magpie and drape it in tinsel and baubles.

No one will notice that is not a robin

Apps? APPS? No no no. No electronic devices. Christmas is about family time all together. All day long. And it must continue until at least New Year's Day.

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I tried no electrics last year. I was not POPULAR! I think there was maybe too much Hot Choc...

yes magpies and tinsel - it could be the starting point for a new post-xmas carol. Boxing day ballad, if you like.

Oh the magpie and the tinsel
when they are both sprayed well
look so appealing
hanging from your ceiling
and it's boxing day again.

Right. Boxing Day is STILL CHRISTMAS so away with all this talk of easter eggs/no Christmas PJs etc. In our house Christmas lasts until January 2nd!

How about a nice film (not necessarily Christmas based though), a board game, some nibbles/popcorn for the film? With a view to the new year a diary/calandar to start filling in?

Not sure how anyone can be bored by boxing day

If it helps, I can supply a real robin. Unfortunately it is dead and residing in my bin and some of its feathers are in the hoover - the main red bit is still there though..

We normally play games and watch dvds that were given for christmas and then eat christmas leftovers.

Presents on Boxing Day as well?? Isn't Christmas enough?! Sorry to be a Scrooge but I do think you might be taking the whole thing a bit far...bah humbug!

we're off to the in-laws on boxing day for Christmas day number 2

I try to spread Christmas over the whole of December. I don't feel quite as silly as to the amount of effort I put into it then

Soontobeslender

That's serendipitous. Hoik it out of the bin and get yourself some snow in a can.
It's not really Christmas without at least one dead bird so the more the merrier.

Yes Kato
You're taking it you far. You fucking weirdo.

yeah pag, the cat started earlier this year - last year she massacared a Robin on Christmas day in the playroom in the middle of the Lord of the rings Lego battle arena that my boys had set up - only she didn't quite kill it so my OH had to take it outside and finish it off. Merry Christmas to you too Cat!!

The Robin she killed at the weekend was well and truly dead but again she chose the playroom and my son found the body tucked under the sofa - he wondered what the lovely soft thing was he could feel with his hand........eeuugghhh!

My old puss once brought me 5 baby robins (deceased) on my Birthday.

Bless.

HUMBUGS the lot of you!

I'm still no further as to the job description for my ELF. I read on the traditions thread that some ELFs wreck the house and cause mischief?

I can't believe that people are dissing boxing day hampers. It's as if some people want to make baby Jesus cry.

I can't believe the personal attacks on this thread.

Some meanies just need some REINDEER DUST. I put some in my CEH.

reindeer dust, you say?

Yes, you need PINTREST! It's porridge oats and glitter. So Bubs thinks the reindeer have been.

To be honest I lost interest when there was no gin. And when you admitted you didn't actually lay the robin eggs of Advent.

I did that reindeer dust one year, bought a pouch, scattered it all over the garden.
Then it rained like a mofo and washed the glittery miracle of Christmas away.

It's all been a sham really.

People are taking this seriously you know.