In our house, I have a reasonably strong cardboard storage box with a lid, which has Christmas-style decoration on it, that we use.
Most of the year, it holds the Christmas DVDs and books, in storage. These all get put into the sitting room around 1st Dec to enjoy throughout the month.
I keep DD's stocking, and the family copy of "Twas the night before Christmas" with the other decorations, as they stay in storage for longer. I use the same box to put the stocking and TTNBC together, and add in the PJs for all, bath bombs for DD and I, (possibly nice manly shower gel for DH), Christmas beer for DH and posh hot chocolate for DD and I, (DD's plastic Santa plate and glass and her snowman covered hot water bottle also go in there on Christmas Eve as they have normally been in use generally in December/winter) and anything else I've got (only rarely is there more than that - maybe some slippers or something small).
DD has always known that I organise this. (She even bought DH's pjs one year, with money from her first holy communion in the summer sales 
).
Around 5ish, we have dinner - a mix of lovely luxurious tapas type things that we all enjoy picking from the middle of the table. It's a slow, relaxed meal.
After that, we go into the sitting room and the youngest in the family (DD in this instance) lights the Christmas Candle. According to tradition, it sits in the front window of the house to show any weary travellers that there is room in this Inn if they need shelter. We put it on the mantlepiece. But we have a few minutes of family quiet as we light it, thinking of the good and bad things of the year just finishing, and remembering family and friends no longer with us.
Then the Hamper comes out, and DD lays out her stocking and gets a cookie she's baked that afternoon and some milk from the kitchen for the plate and glass. She heads off for her festive bath and into new PJs, back down for hot chocolate snuggled up, and then I read the book to her in bed. (Well, except last year when she decided she was too old for the book to be read to her - she had asked for it the previous year, but is now 14 so decided to read it to herself, or at least, bring it up herself and tell me that!! 
). But she still wanted everything else done as it always was - even if she was asking pointedly what would be in the stocking, and would Daddy prefer another beer rather than milk!! (We have an open policy of "if you don't believe, you won't receive", and she likes the stocking even if the big present now comes later under the tree, so she "believes" and we believe that she believes 
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