No as in before Christmas and boxing day. Then there's the dead week before New Year where people don't really do a lot. I imagine they are still catching up from last year though
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Boo I didn't see any in my local boots at the weekend
I've been listening to heart Christmas radio
Christmas Eve boxes are usually given (obviously) only Christmas Eve night and they’ve got stuff like new pyjamas/slippers maybe a bath bomb and a hot chocolate and a new Christmas film. IMO it’s just another cash grab and don’t see the point but think they’d be cute for kids
Christmas Eve boxes are one of the biggest “basic witch” movement of the last ten years.
it just get more and more extra every year,
- Trees go up in October,
- A bleeping ADHD elf bounces around your gaff for 24 days because we don’t have enough to do before Christmas.
- Boxing day sales start on the 5th of December.
- Christmas day and “Santa” now includes Christmas Eve boxes and Pre Santa gifts,
Just what every child needs,
More bleeping presents 12 hours before they get spoilt rotten by a fictitious character designed by Coca-Cola.
roll on January,
Although the January sales probably start a week on Tuesday.
I’m about to go queue for the Black Friday sales,
Black Friday in the uk - because, we haven’t yet adopted thanksgiving but hey,
there’s always 2022.
happy Easter, eggs will be in Tesco in 2 weeks
it just get more and more extra every year,
- Trees go up in October,
- A bleeping ADHD elf bounces around your gaff for 24 days because we don’t have enough to do before Christmas.
- Boxing day sales start on the 5th of December.
- Christmas day and “Santa” now includes Christmas Eve boxes and Pre Santa gifts,
Just what every child needs,
More bleeping presents 12 hours before they get spoilt rotten by a fictitious character designed by Coca-Cola.
roll on January,
Although the January sales probably start a week on Tuesday.
I’m about to go queue for the Black Friday sales,
Black Friday in the uk - because, we haven’t yet adopted thanksgiving but hey,
there’s always 2022.
happy Easter, eggs will be in Tesco in 2 weeks
Nothing annoys me more than elf on the shelf. Every year a woman at work tells me where the elf is each morning for her granddaughter to find, there’s only so many times I can go “ooh that’s nice” before I turn into Scrooge.
I adore Christmas more than Mrs Claus herself but this whole comment has sent meChristmas Eve boxes are one of the biggest “basic witch” movement of the last ten years.
it just get more and more extra every year,
- Trees go up in October,
- A bleeping ADHD elf bounces around your gaff for 24 days because we don’t have enough to do before Christmas.
- Boxing day sales start on the 5th of December.
- Christmas day and “Santa” now includes Christmas Eve boxes and Pre Santa gifts,
Just what every child needs,
More bleeping presents 12 hours before they get spoilt rotten by a fictitious character designed by Coca-Cola.
roll on January,
Although the January sales probably start a week on Tuesday.
I’m about to go queue for the Black Friday sales,
Black Friday in the uk - because, we haven’t yet adopted thanksgiving but hey,
there’s always 2022.
happy Easter, eggs will be in Tesco in 2 weeks
Elf of the shelf can do one he's NEVER coming in my house the naughty little tit. As for Christmas eve box is this another stupid idea from America? I'm all for giving kids Christmas Pj's but not a box of stuff they don't want/need a day before they get a load of toys.
I don’t do Christmas Eve boxes as one of my kids birthdays is Christmas Eve 
I think Christmas is getting out of hand.
Pre-Christmas:
I am being inundated with adverts for advent calendars. In the past, there were chocolate ones for kids.
Now it is all the hype for adults as well:
- A "tea" calendar with 25 tea bags for 15 pounds. I could buy 20 tea bags for 3-4 pounds.
- "Jewellery" calendars for a few hundred quit.
- "Cosmetics" calendars for between fifty and several hundred quit. They are a bargain as they are worth so much more - as if 25 different miniature sized assorted items would be helpful to anyone.
- High end sweets - for three to four times the normal price of the sweets
And now "Christmas boxes"?
Christmas:
- Christmas outfits
- Christmas food
- Piles of presents
Post-Christmas:
- Detox sets
- The sale
Pre-Christmas:
I am being inundated with adverts for advent calendars. In the past, there were chocolate ones for kids.
Now it is all the hype for adults as well:
- A "tea" calendar with 25 tea bags for 15 pounds. I could buy 20 tea bags for 3-4 pounds.
- "Jewellery" calendars for a few hundred quit.
- "Cosmetics" calendars for between fifty and several hundred quit. They are a bargain as they are worth so much more - as if 25 different miniature sized assorted items would be helpful to anyone.
- High end sweets - for three to four times the normal price of the sweets
And now "Christmas boxes"?
Christmas:
- Christmas outfits
- Christmas food
- Piles of presents
Post-Christmas:
- Detox sets
- The sale
My kids asked me why we don't have an elf, so I told them the truth. That it is a wacky game parents with nothing better to do play tricks on their kids and that your mama has enough to do without cleaning up flour a fake elf spilled everywhere. Then they blew the lie wide open in their school and nearly caused ww3.
#itisallalie
#itisallalie
I love you and your kids. I need an update to this story though!! What happened? Were parents knocking your door? Were the school involved? Was your name mud at the gates? I need answers!
This is my new favourite thread with all the Elf hate and Advent Calendar rage
Never heard of these Christmas Eve boxes!
Never heard of these Christmas Eve boxes!
I just got another advent calendar advert: 25 coffee pods for 99 pounds!
Which means that each pod costs me roughly 4 pounds, the same price I would pay at a fancy cafe for a coffee served at my table!
Which means that each pod costs me roughly 4 pounds, the same price I would pay at a fancy cafe for a coffee served at my table!
I did exactly the same although no idea if my children told any of their friends or not but no angry watsapps from other parents. It took ages for one of mine to believe me. He just kept explaining all the exciting things his friend's elves do. The message got through in the end.
Usually I don't bother with Xmas, was never a fan of the crazy shop rush to buy things an having to move everything in the house to put up a tree only for the dog to pull the damn thing down, but now I have a niece an it's opening my eyes into how much extra now goes into making it Xmas, when I was a kid we got a cheap ass chocolate advent calender an we're quite happy with it, now it's like parents want to try outdo one another with who can buy the most expensive calender or the most, I've had family members spend over a hundred just because their kids want these £25 to £50 calanders filled with toys, make up, bath stuff etc it's completly insane an also that damn elf, swear to god if am told to buy this ridiculous thing for her am gonna have its head lobbed off an tomato ketchup everywhere an it will be the end of the elf, who's idea was this, I also find the Xmas eve boxes mad, presents were Xmas day an Xmas day only, I honestly feel like am being a scrooge cause everyone is so excited for Xmas with her now an I do want to enjoy that whole Xmas day excitement with her but jesus it's like a work shift just trying to prepare for the one day
I feel the same way. I love christmas but I really dislike the commercialism of it. I lived in Germany and commercialism is only just catching on there but christmas is a lot more about spending time together and having time off. I was telling my colleagues about how I used to work xmas eve and then boxing day and they were so shocked that we re-opened on Boxing Day. They usually shut and don't re-open until 2 days after new year. Some shops re-open on the 27th like supermarkets but most shops stay shut.
I also don't see the point of buying loads of presents. As a kid I got loads from my parents and then loads from my Nanna and honestly, I can't remember a single toy that I got from either of them now and chances are I was bored of them by Boxing Day. Once they'd be put away I probably forgot about them.
Yeah I totally feel like Xmas has really been taking from what it was for me as a kid, we never got a ton just because we didn't have the money an somtimes my parents would even go out on Xmas eve just because some shops sold things off a little cheaper an they would get us stuff, everything we got we were generally happy with, for me it was mostly art/craft things, pretty cheap an I was super into that, still am but I agree, a lot of things I have no idea what they were an maybe they probably ended up put away days later to collect dust
Now it's more of a trying to outdo other parents just to keep up with their kid not missing out on what other kids will get, I really feel for parents that do struggle with money, so much stuff is heavy on price an they always class them as the "must haves" the price of consoles, tablets, phones, are all so expensive but you feel you have no option to try an get them just to keep your kid the same with other kids, my aunt would spend a fortune on concert tickets for her oldest so she could keep up with her friends demands on going to them all, it's sad that sociaty has really taken away Xmas from what it used to be an turned it into this mess of depts to keep your kids happy
I often wonder if Christmas doesn't feel as magical anymore because I'm an adult, or because of the ridiculous pressure and commercialism of it all. 
My thoughts exactly, am always like am I being a scrooge here because am now the one having to run out to shops an get all this and having to work out who's coming for dinner to prepare for it, an the endless changing of gifts because its not the right one, rather than be a kid an simply miss the behind the scenes of what actually makes a Christmas dayI often wonder if Christmas doesn't feel as magical anymore because I'm an adult, or because of the ridiculous pressure and commercialism of it all.
I think it's the pressure, in particular the pressure to enjoy.I often wonder if Christmas doesn't feel as magical anymore because I'm an adult, or because of the ridiculous pressure and commercialism of it all.
I hated Christmas for around 4 years cause I worked in retail (sold toys
) but last year I wasn't in my retail job anymore and I was living away from my family so was spending it alone and I realised that I actually love Christmas and the build up to Christmas. I love tacky decs, I love the music, I love the cosy feel, I love the tacky clothes, I love the food.It made a major difference to me not being screamed at by people cause their order wasn't in stock despite the fact that they'd ordered it the day before Christmas Eve, not having to spend time with family that I don't like, and generally just not having any pressure on it. I could do what I wanted cause I lived alone. Decorated how I wanted, ate what I wanted, bought myself presents so received what I wanted (my mum is a useless present buyer when it comes to me!). Was brilliant.
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