Christmas Eve Box

[CazMcD]

Anyone doing Christmas Eve boxes? If so, what’s in them?

Probably not what you’re after but no.

I find it a lot when there’s the day itself, if it’s anything more than a book and pyjamas but each to their own.

Just so anyone else who feels this way knows it’s not just them!

No we don’t do

Yes. I’ve done them since the kids were little and they still love it at 16 and 18 😆

Mike just has new pjs in, nice hot chocolate and a snack. It used to have a Christmas DVD for us to watch together but that hasn’t aged well and now I usually buy a new board game and we all sit and play that after tea.

No. I do a December 1st box. Traditionally it was a pair of pajamas and a new ornament.

That way Christmas pajamas and any other Christmas themed items get maximum in-season use.

We still use Christmas pajamas all winter, but they are just more festive in December.

From reading a bazillion threads on MN -
pjs
fluffy socks
hot chocolate
a book

Yes we do. Pyjamas, hot chocolate, Christmas book, night time activity (colouring)! We going to open them just after dinner

My OH & I have just received our first ever Christmas Eve box (to share).
We are retired!😆🎄

Yes my 2 love them! The elves leave them before they head back to the North Pole. They usually include an annual (gaming, football etc) a Christmas cuddly toy, mini Lego pack and some chocolate.

They have them waiting for when we get in from the panto.

They each get:
Pyjamas
An annual
A Yoto card
A selection box

They share:
A board game
A story to read before bed
A bath bomb

(I’ve done dressing gowns and slippers in the past but they never wear them so I’ve stopped)

We don’t do them here, we just drink a hot chocolate together and watch a film.

if I did I would put in

• pyjamas
• book
• hot chocolate
• Christmas film

Our children are older but we still all have one. Pyjamas, slippers, shower gel, face masks, favourite snacks and drinks to watch a film with, a book, slippers, a scratch card and board games

Ah, that’s nice. Enjoy. 🎄

It's roughly the same every year but there's a bit of a twist this year as we'll be in Lapland when they are opened.

• PJs (matching for whole family, which we've never done before)
• Hot water bottle
• Mini flask bottle for taking a hot chocolate out and about
• Nice book
• Beanie Boo teddy

Kids are 16 and 5.

Mine get some Christmas PJs, a festive gonk (I know, but they love them), a little tube of sweets and a hot chocolate bomb.

When they were younger I'd put in a Christmas story book and some bubble bath /bath bombs too.

My DS is 20, by the time he was 4 I had heard of some parents giving new pjs on Christmas Eve - basically just for the photographs. I don't think I ever heard about Christmas Eve Boxes until he was in secondary school, ie too old to be necessary to feel the need to buy into some new cash grab tradition.

So my thought is that they have around for less than 10 years.

My son is 22 and we did Xmas eve boxes from when he was 2.

No but they do get new Christmas PJs to wear Christmas Eve.

Pajama’s, chocolates, maybe a hot chocolate reindeer

We don't do a Christmas eve box but we always wear the younger dc out at the park and we watch a Christmas film with the older ones with a takeaway curry. We started off just me and dh and the dc have gradually joined us as they get older. The older 2 have also started a tradition of watching the Christmas lunch episode of the vicar of dibley the day dc2 breaks up from college.

PJs, book, bath bombs or shower gel (preference of child to bath/shower) and a hot chocolate sachet (just because we have some left over from being away).

@Denim4ever I’m in my 40s and always got new PJs for Christmas.

For people that do pyjamas- are they xmas ones? In which case do you wear them into the new year? I never wear xmas pjs beyond new year so never understood giving xmas pjs on xmas eve. But maybe others wear them for longer?

Yes.

simple tho

xmas pjs
hot Chocolate mix
Christmas book /colouring Xmas book
chocolate coins

Christmas PJs, worn all year round.

We’ve morphed from opening pyjamas on Christmas Eve, to Christmas Eve boxes in the evening with hot chocolate etc in.
This year I’m putting a few things in a family basket to enjoy Christmas Eve - so far I’ve got a lovely cookie baking mix in a jar, a little Lego set to make 4 Lego decorations and I’ll add squirty cream and hot chocolate.