Hot Chocolate Stations - how does it work?

[DiamondBright]

I'm not criticising anyone, I just don't understand how they fit into Christmas.

If you have one is hot chocolate with marshmallows and candy canes etc. a regular thing in your house in the winter anyway, so it makes sense to keep all the fixings on display? Is it a daily treat?

I get maybe setting one up for a party or maybe on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day if you have guests but I gather they go up with the tree and stay up all December in some homes.

I don't have snacks out all December either and I know people have Christmas snack baskets, in the world of Instagram and YouTube anyway. Maybe I'm just the wrong demographic, I'd like to be eating treats and drinking hot chocolate all December but i already have a weight problem and wouldn't trust myself.

I bake and put out chocolates but not usually until around the 22nd or 23rd.

@Birdsnesting

The idea of a hot chocolate station is almost as annoyingly 'for show' as the stunt pineapples of Regency legend, and a deeply weird thread I remember from on here from some years back, from a poster who had a staged 'washing up area' -- with expensive wooden-handled washing up brushes stored in a ceramic canister, expensive washing-up liquid (or it might have been cheap washing up liquid in an expensive washing up liquid bottle) etc.

🤣 oh god I love that.

What is difficult to ‘get’ is why leaving stuff out on a worktop constitutes some kind of Insta statement.

Like forgetting to put away the tins from your supermarket delivery being a Baked Bean Station.

No, it's just like how a lot of people who have their tea coffee sugar out. They're just making it 'festive'. But go ahead and pat yourself on the back for not making 'insta statements'.

@Chikapu, there was also (possibly on the same thread, or one akin to it about having your house 'visitor-ready'?) about 'staging' your downstairs loo for guests, with an expensive handtowels, flowers and high-liquid soap in a ceramic dispenser, or little dishes of mini-soaps. As soon as your visitors left, the family went back to drying their hands on old sacks/their trousers after washing them with that cheap pink handwash you get in public loos.

[quote Birdsnesting]@Chikapu, there was also (possibly on the same thread, or one akin to it about having your house 'visitor-ready'?) about 'staging' your downstairs loo for guests, with an expensive handtowels, flowers and high-liquid soap in a ceramic dispenser, or little dishes of mini-soaps. As soon as your visitors left, the family went back to drying their hands on old sacks/their trousers after washing them with that cheap pink handwash you get in public loos. [/quote]
Excellent

@Bluntness100

To be fair, I have tea and coffee in canisters, next to the kettle and then mugs in the cupboard above. I reckon I shall start calling it the tea and coffee station.

“Just off to the tea and coffee station darling to make my morning coffee, would you like anything?”

😂

We've been doing that for more years than either of us can remember. Never thought to give it a fancy name, though.

@Bluntness100

To be fair, I have tea and coffee in canisters, next to the kettle and then mugs in the cupboard above. I reckon I shall start calling it the tea and coffee station.

“Just off to the tea and coffee station darling to make my morning coffee, would you like anything?”

😂

"Like forgetting to put away the tins from your supermarket delivery being a Baked Bean Station"

Now that we do have - basically because we haven't got a cupboard big enough for 6-packs!