What do you do for breakfast on 1st Dec

[Myleakycauldron]

I know some people will go all out with the North Pole breakfast but wondering if there is a toned down version I can do on a Thursday before work?!

I may end up flinging their advent calendars at them in a rush to make it to school on time!

This is madness. Christmas is getting ridiculous and is being ruined by these new things every year. Who invents this shit?

On 1st December, for breakfast, we do absolutely nothing. Because it is not a thing.

I guess it’s a matter of opinion. It’s nice that it’s a special day for you. To me, it isn’t, and it just adds to the multitude of ‘special’ that isn’t really. I don’t think a ‘North Pole breakfast’ to celebrate the first day of a random month is necessary - for others maybe they enjoy it more. I can see a lot of people celebrate the whole month, with the elf on the shelf and things like that, so I suppose it fits with that. But for us December isn’t a whole month taken over by Christmas.

But then we don’t disallow Christmas stories or songs outside of December. They can sing Jingle Bells any time they like!

Do the kids have the same?

I think a lot of it gets invented by insta-influencers looking for attention.

Don't do the elf.....sounds so fun and exciting, until you forget the bastard thing and have to run around the house at midnight trying to think of something vaguely amusing for the thing to be doing.
If you do do it (despite being warned😁)
Then please come back at the end of December and tell us all how you got on😁

Birthday Eve?? I thought half-birthdays were crazy now I find out there’s also birthday Eve! Is there a birthday Boxing Day too 😂

We don't do anything festive before 1 December either but I don't feel the need for an elaborate breakfast to splash all over instagram mark the occasion.

🤣🤣 🤣🤣 comedy gold

It is not a Christmas thing. It is a marketing thing.

This may just be me, but I feel as though the more things you do, the more bits you add, the less special each of those individual bits feels. Less is more.

It's not just you.

I agree too.

North Pole breakfast? God I hate being alive in 2022.

God. I hate instagram moments.

On 1st December the main point of interest is the fact you get to open an advent calendar in the morning.

There are no more significant moments until the Christmas tree goes up (11th this year because it’s a Sunday - and that was when the deliveries to my postcode were anyway). Then little of significance until actual, bloody Christmas is nigh.

They really won't 🤣

Totally agree.

There's such a thing as too much.

I hadn't ever heard of it. I wouldn't mind Christmas tree shaped crumpets but DD doesn't eat them so it'll be the usual toast and fruit instead.

We do kick off all things Christmas on 1st though. We can officially watch Christmas films - good or bad.

What the actual.... I have never heard of this in my life. I'm having a baby next year and like fuck am i doing north pole breakfasts and elf on a shelf and xmas eve boxes. Although by the time baby knows whats happening it will probably be xmas eve eve boxes and xmas eve boxes and xmas day presents and boxing day presents and 27th December breakfast and 28th December lunch presents and then a break before new years eve boxes.... When does it end?!

Genius ❄️🎣😂

Muesli and a cup of tea, same as every other bloody morning. FFS, come on, seriously?

My DD has already experienced more in her 10 years than I did in probably the first 30 years of my life. She’s been to the theatre more, the cinema, the ballet, eaten in more restaurants, travelled to more countries. She’s certainly received more material things than I ever did… she doesn’t need a pile of sugary carbs to commemorate the start of December.

I'm a bit weirded out about the December first stuff cropping up. There's nothing special about Dec 1st. Give an advent calendar and be done man

The same as we have every other day!

Please please no more stupid "traditions"!

It's not even the first official day of advent - that was on Sunday 27th November

All of these moments exist for one reason: to make other people money. Whether that's the shops where you buy all the extra bits targeting their advertising at you or the social media accounts you follow that normalise all these 'traditions'.

You are feeding them your cash.

It isn't tradition to eat a fancy breakfast on Dec 1st. That's bonkers. It has been made to feel like it's tradition by pushing it at us aggressively on social media. Rather like the rehabilitation of a certain politician who recently left the jungle.

We are being spoonfed absolute crap constantly. But we can refuse to eat it!

completely agree. It's too much