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The world’s smallest, first world Christmas problem - any ideas...

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OnionsAreNotTheOnlyVeg · 13/12/2018 22:14

We have a Christmas tradition (like lots of other people) to get new PJs on Christmas Eve. We have got PJs for the children but DH and I both don’t need new PJs, we have enough.

Any ideas what Christmas related gift we could exchange on Christmas Eve? We would like to put something under the tree but not PJs.

I told you it was a tiny problem Blush

And yes we do want to do something before the ol’ Scrooges come on and say don’t bother with anything.

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BadgerWithSprouts · 13/12/2018 22:15

New gloves?

Sarge17 · 13/12/2018 22:16

Homemade hot chocolate package?

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OnionsAreNotTheOnlyVeg · 13/12/2018 22:18

Thanks for the speedy replies.

I was trying to think of something we could do each year like the PJs so not just another present if that makes sense!

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milienhaus · 13/12/2018 22:19

New baubles for the tree?

WineIsMyCarb · 13/12/2018 22:19

Sex toy. Open after DC in bed, otherwise cringe!! Grin

BadgerWithSprouts · 13/12/2018 22:20

Something practical that you will always need new of- socks?

Alevel · 13/12/2018 22:21

A bottle of something

Misty9 · 13/12/2018 22:21

A really fancy Xmas decoration? Or a Christmas related book? Could be a challenge to find new ones after a few years Xmas Grin or Christmas pants?

minipie · 13/12/2018 22:21

Something edible - chocolate, cheese, panettone, biscuits...

EnglishRose1320 · 13/12/2018 22:22

We do PJ's for the children, a new decoration for everyone and a game to share.

gaggiagirl · 13/12/2018 22:22

Decent socks?
Slippers?
Car air fresheners (fun!... In our house anyway)
DVD or book.
A mug.. Although if you're an adult human you probably already own eleventy billion of them.

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OnionsAreNotTheOnlyVeg · 13/12/2018 22:24

Sex toy?! Grin I’m thinking of something we can open whilst the kids open their PJs, maybe not!

Socks is the sort of thing! The only thing is, I’ve got DH some for his stocking and I need all the things I have in there already - if I could invent a time machine I’d go back in time to the idiotic moment when dh (world’s most impossible man to buy for) and I decided to do stockings for each other - what a fool I was Angry Grin

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maxelly · 13/12/2018 22:25

How about socks, you can never have too many! DH and I exchange socks every year and have got quite competitive about who can find the best pair for the other one, funny ones, ones with some relevance to the person or just really, really nice socks?

Or I like milienhaus' idea of the bauble as you could make a tradition of hanging them together? Although I suppose if you intend to do this for the next 20 years that would be a lot of baubles!

Or how about films to watch together or with the children over the Christmas period, or a book in the Icelandic tradition 'Jolabokaflod', where families swap books on Christmas Eve and spend Christmas eve evening reading in bed or front of a warm fire?

OrigamiZoo · 13/12/2018 22:25

slippers?

BadgerWithSprouts · 13/12/2018 22:25

Hmm buy each other a new t-shirt?

poppyseed2 · 13/12/2018 22:27

In the same scenario DH asking what he was going to do with yet another pair of PJ trousers when he already has several we expanded to just 'something cosy'. Examples are slipper socks, comfy jumpers / hoodies, lounge trousers.

It works because it takes a few years to get back around to the same item, by which time they are probably starting to look a little worn.

TheRealHousewifeofCheshire · 13/12/2018 22:29

On another thread i suggested a kindness/fsmily task jar. That went down well. Write in it and pick out little acts of kindness for each other

scrappydappydoo · 13/12/2018 22:31

Oh could you pick an ordinary item each year and you have to challenge each other to find the most extraordinary version of it. So this year could be say a toothbrush and you get him one that flashes and sings. That way you still getting something usable but fun at not predictable.

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OnionsAreNotTheOnlyVeg · 13/12/2018 22:36

Love these ideas! Will run them past DH. Will not be mentioning the sex toy Grin

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AwkwardSquad · 14/12/2018 04:43

You could take up an Icelandic tradition, the Jolabokaflod or Christmas book flood. Books are given as gifts and the tradition developed to receive your books on Christmas Eve, and start reading them straight away, with some chocolate to keep you going. So everyone snuggles down with their new books and chocs. Heaven!

AwkwardSquad · 14/12/2018 04:44

Oops, I see now that Maxelly already suggested Jolabokaflod. Great minds Grin

TeeBee · 14/12/2018 06:15

Posh socks or Christmas jumper.

sashh · 14/12/2018 06:25

A tin of something? Soup or beans, something silly like that.

Do you have dressing gowns?

Flip flops for summer?

I know MN hates them but I have, and love, an instax camera, if you got one you could give each other a film pack. There are different films, some have coloured borders or stars, you can get black and white.

Going forward you will then have photos, actual photos not on a phone of Xmas eve.

www.amazon.co.uk/s/?hvlocphy=1007249&hvptwo&hvnetw=g&keywords=film+instax+mini&hvadid=259074524383&index=aps&hvpone&ref=pd_sl_9pju3yqs1n_b&hvlocint&hvpos=1t1&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt=b&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&hvtargid=kwd-296879678144&adgrpid=53515502379&hvrand=8777834681856906777

Valasca · 14/12/2018 07:24

Family board game. Each year a new game (as kids get older). Parents set up the game while kids unwrap & put on their pjs.

Nice bottle of wine/gin/favourite drink. Take turn picking it, so one of you gets a surprise.

Petalflowers · 14/12/2018 07:30

Tickets for a show, for just the two of you.

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