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!

Because the cold-eyed calculation has been made that parents will do anything to ensure that their children don't miss out at Christmas and have a good time; so another 'tradition' is invented to make money.

🤣 poor skink, I don't think they like toast. Maybe it's crickets on toast? Mmm insects, they'd make a lovely Dec 1st breakfast.

Aww he sounds like a lovely skink!

Totally

Maybe it’s people kicking back against the constant pressure to MAKE CHRISTMAS BETTER, by doing more things that take time and imagination, and start Christmas almost a month before Christmas Day?

It feels relentless.

I worry that the longer and more intense the build up, the more massive the drop the day after. It must make some people really depressed, particularly if they’ve spent money they can’t afford on lots of this stuff.

It feels like we all want a distraction from the crap that real life throws us for as long as possible, but the more we do that, the bigger the comedown. Like that first day back at work when you have to face all the stuff you cheerily put off ‘till after Christmas’.

"Please please can I get off now?"

Off the Christmas boards? Yes, gladly.

"Blimey the vitriol aimed at people that just want to have a bit of extra at breakfast time for one day is unbelievable"

Isn't it? I've done it for over a decade (in fact for 8 years before it was trademarked) and as I said, my mum did similar for us in the 80s. We also had new pyjamas on Christmas Eve and sweets in a (cardboard) box that was wrapped in shiny Christmas paper 😊.

I have so many happy memories of Christmas and will do it for my children too. Christmas Day is absolutely special and joyous here, nothing is taken away from it. Should I also not take them to the carols at church in case it takes something away from the big day itself?

What about wreaths? We make our own and usually crack open the quality street in the middle of the table. Am I allowed to do that or should I stop because the marketing execs at hobby craft are rubbing their hands together in glee that I'm such a fool?

I don't post it (or even have) Instagram (except for my work account). It isn't "causing myself hard work" it's breakfast not fucking master chef.

The irony of you "cool" mums coming onto the Christmas boards to mock others for eating a fucking pancake and chocolate milk. Desperate to join the race to the bottom and see who can be the busiest, slummiest, "oh I'm running out of the door at 7am with my hair stuck up and toast crumbs trailing, throwing porridge at children and screaming at them that it's not fucking Christmas" Mum 🙄🤣.

Honestly can't roll my eyes hard enough. Tragic. I put it down to insecurity

I've experienced 40 something Christmases and I've never heard of it!

If you are doing "north pole" breakfast then that sounds authentic.

Maybe send the kids out to kill the puffins and hollow out the seal carcasses. If they don't fancy it then I guess it will have to be Weetabix.

If you are that triggered by people making a special breakfast for one day in December - maybe don't go on a thread specifically about that to point out how sad it is? How about that?

I don't get the whole breakfast with Santa thing. Surely he's far too busy ?!

"I've experienced 40 something Christmases and I've never heard of it!"

Yes, lots of people haven't heard of the term "North Pole Breakfast". That's irrelevant.

I've also experienced that many Christmases and December 1st has always come with something a little fun and different for breakfast here. It's a nice thing to do with children.

It's DC's birthday and a school and work day so it will be a rushed bowl of cereal as usual and some presents

I don't do it, it sounds like it might be fun, no I won't be doing it, no other people doing it dosent feel like a relentless pressure at all, and if it did, I would simply avoid threads about it within a topic called "Christmas"

Why are you lot hanging around the Christmas board anyway? Surely you should only venture on during the advent.

As it's a normal working day, then toast....like every normal working day.

I hadn't noticed it was in Christmas! I clicked on it specifically because I couldn't think why breakfast on 1 December was a subject for discussion.

Nope! Not me and no one I know. Never heard if it

Nope! Not me and no one I know. Never heard if it

"Nope! Not me and no one I know."

Eh, how would you know? Do you tell everyone that you know what you've had for breakfast? 🤣

Desperate to join the race to the bottom and see who can be the busiest, slummiest, "oh I'm running out of the door at 7am with my hair stuck up and toast crumbs trailing, throwing porridge at children and screaming at them that it's not fucking Christmas" Mum

What are you on about? Nobody is screaming at their children. And yes, squeezed breakfast times are a reality for busy families - there's nothing slummy about it. This seems more like an AIBU tactic - to create a false other to your idealised self.

Because I talk to my friends and colleagues and it would be all over their FB or insta and it isn't

What ON EARTH is a North Pole breakfast??? Ice and fish? Starving polar bears?

Is op the one who was posting about the December 1st box.

seriously i don’t get it. For me Christmas memories don’t focus around getting tat all over the month but on the things that we went and did at that time.

going to the Christmas market, Carolling with the church choir, light switch ons etc

"Because I talk to my friends and colleagues and it would be all over their FB or insta and it isn't"

I talk to my friends but can't remember mentioning this and I don't put it on social media.

This is the Christmas board but seems to have been taken over by AIBU wankers absolutely desperate to make parents feel shit for giving their kids anything other than gruel

Aah - you posted in Christmas' but it comes up on active threads -
That's why people are all 'WTF?'!

Clearly you have a morally superior defender then to someone who's eaten a Nutella pancake on Thursday the horror