Matching Christmas pajamas

[Anonymous]

I wasn't aware this was a thing. We have never done it.

[Anonymous]

No matching pjs. Every few years I buy Christmas pajamas for myself and that’s about it. Some over the top onesie that I wear in the house when I make cookies etc. until it wears out.

A couple of years ago we bought a light up Christmas suit on sale for my teen son as a joke and surprise, he loves and wears it.

[Anonymous]

We have a bunch of black and red buffalo plaid pajamas in a bunch of sizes and sometimes the kids all want to match. I also got my little ones matching fleece footies from Carters at their request but they don’t have anything in my teenager’s size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware this was a thing. We have never done it.

I'm curious how you could not have been aware this was a thing. I feel like I see advertisements for matching PJs everywhere.

No judgement for not doing it. It's a fun and totally unnecessary thing. I don't think any family could do all the things, so we're all picking and choosing.

[Anonymous]

My teen daughters just picked out a pair for all of us. DH does not participate - he has a pair of flannel pants from years ago he will wear occasionally - he doesn’t wear PJs normally.
College age son will wear coordinating flannels when we get together ever other year with younger cousins (while giving me a very dramatic eye roll).

When younger we would wear all year. Usually purchases every other year with extended family Christmas.

[Anonymous]

This is a silly UMC exercise for social media. It’s juvenile.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Including the now employed 20 something. They'd be disappointed if I didn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wasn't aware this was a thing. We have never done it.

I'm curious how you could not have been aware this was a thing. I feel like I see advertisements for matching PJs everywhere.

No judgement for not doing it. It's a fun and totally unnecessary thing. I don't think any family could do all the things, so we're all picking and choosing.

Same. Every Old Navy ad : TV, print, online has these ad nauseam starting in October

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a silly UMC exercise for social media. It’s juvenile.

It's more practical than Elf on the Shelf.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

One of our family traditions is that everybody gets a new set of PJs, and we open them on Christmas Eve.

We've never done the family matchy-matchy ones, but I used to get coordinating -- not necessarily matching -- ones for the kids, when they were little. They're teens now, and I just get them Christmas/holiday/winter-themed jammies that I think they'd like (a dark-toned set for my kid who wears all black, something colorful for my kid who loves bright colors. DH gets some kind of outdoorsy-winter print like bears or moose.).

It's only in the last couple of years that the kids aren't outgrowing them every year. We don't get the super heavy-weight stuff, and we all wear the PJs all year round. Nobody is fashion-policing my 12-days-of-Christmas pajama pants if I wear them to bed and it isn't December.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a silly UMC exercise for social media. It’s juvenile.

I opened Christmas PJs every year on Christmas Eve when I was a kid in the 1980s. It's not new and pre-dates social media by decades. We're just continuing the tradition from my childhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a silly UMC exercise for social media. It’s juvenile.

I opened Christmas PJs every year on Christmas Eve when I was a kid in the 1980s. It's not new and pre-dates social media by decades. We're just continuing the tradition from my childhood.

As did I. The difference was that my parents, aunts and uncles were dressed like adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a silly UMC exercise for social media. It’s juvenile.

I opened Christmas PJs every year on Christmas Eve when I was a kid in the 1980s. It's not new and pre-dates social media by decades. We're just continuing the tradition from my childhood.

My mom also did this in the 1990s...now she only does it so she can post the family photo on facebook. I do think social media has warped the tradition for us, unfortunately.

[Anonymous]

We never really did the matching thing, but still get our kids PJs, even DD (19) and DS (16). I doubt they actually sleep in them anymore, but they look forward to a new pair each year to relax in around the house and would probably be disappointed if the tradition were to end.