MMC Five Reasons to Skip the Christmas Eve Box

[ElfBot]

Trending over the past several years is the idea of giving kids a “Christmas Eve Box” top open on Christmas Eve morning. The box can be filled with anything but typically they contain the kind of stuff you might find in a Christmas stocking. But now the trend is starting to catch some flak. Some call it just an extension of the commercialization of Christmas – and yet another way to spoil children over the holiday season. Other parents suggest it is “just one more thing” to get done in creating the perfect Christmas for their families. “I did itRead more

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[omalkm]

Honestly, I did not know this was a thing. Personally, we give the kids special Christmas pajamas to wear to bed. Sometimes in the AM, sometimes later

 

[MerryCarey]

I didn't know this was a thing, either! I agree with the points in the article.

 

[michaelmas]

Never heard of a Christmas Eve box. We do new pajamas on Christmas Eve but everybody can always use new pj's and it's a sneaky way to give what we would need any other time of year - it's just special on Christmas Eve.

 

[xmasbug]

First I hear of a Christmas Eve box. We celebrate Christmas with my inlaws on Christmas Eve and the kids receive and open their presents from their aunts/uncles and grandparents on that night. I tend to agree that a Christmas Eve box is commercialization.

 

[SnowflakeMom]

I have never heard of this either...

 

[Holiday]

Never heard of it either! Of course I had to look it up & sure enough they sell special "Christmas Eve Boxes" on Amazon!