Advent Calendars - Do you? If so which ones?

[icowden]

It's that time of year again. Christmas stuff is appearing in the shops.
Being an organised husband I have started looking at a nice advert calendar for my wife.

I thought it might be a fun thing to compare notes?

Are you are cheap choccy type or an expensive perfumes type? Do you go for alcohol or Lego? Does it really boil your p*** when you see "12 day Advent calendars" and think how the (^&(&(*&(* can that possibly work - are you confusing Advent with the 12 days of Christmas?

Usually I go beauty - quite often Rituals but they got stupidly expensive last year. Haven't decided yet on this year although I note that the Premium Rituals Calendar is £186 and the Deluxe £120. Think I'll be avoiding that again...

Then of course there is the look - I liked the Rituals one because it makes a lovely Christmas decoration...

 

[stephec]

Mrs stephec is a Body Shop at Home consultant and they do three different price levels, usually it works out at something like 65% of the rrp of all the individual items, handy if you like everything that's in there.

I had a beer one a few years ago that didn't turn up until the 11th of December, it was a lovely time playing catch up. 😅🍻

 

[roley poley]

have bought the chocky ones before but found the kids ate them all along with the chocky baubles for the xmas tree and it was only November!

 

[MontyVeda]

A few years back on Xmas eve, i had a very flustered looking customer asking if we had any advent calendars left

 

[Speicher]

I have, on three ocassions, in the past bought myself an Advent calendar from Arran Aromatics.

https://arran.com/products/2023-advent-calendar

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I get given a cheap Cadbury's choccy one every year by Mrs SD.

Annoyingly they do not have a choc' in on the 25th!

Do other calendars have a 25th pressie?

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've got a pork scratchings one the past few years. Thing is you get a bit bored with your daily scratchings after a while and end up with a backlog to munch through.

 

[Slick]

 

[wafter]

Nope.

 

[icowden]

I have, on three ocassions, in the past bought myself an Advent calendar from Arran Aromatics.

https://arran.com/products/2023-advent-calendar

Nice - I quite like the look of that one. Looks to be right up my wife's street! Also tempted by the Lush one (new this year!)

 

[icowden]

Do other calendars have a 25th pressie?

I think it's quite rare now. We do have sort of felt one for the kids with number pockets that you fill yourself. They go up to 25.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Are you are cheap choccy type or an expensive perfumes type? Do you go for alcohol or Lego?

Usually I go beauty - quite often Rituals but they got stupidly expensive last year. Haven't decided yet on this year although I note that the Premium Rituals Calendar is £186 and the Deluxe £120. Think I'll be avoiding that again...

The things one learns on CC!
I honestly didn't know you could get Advent calendars other than chocolate filled
Such expensive stuff too!
I don't buy advent calendars nor do I gift them.
Last time I was given one was probably at the age of 10.

 

[PapaZita]

For those not interested in smellies and chocolate, there are always tools.

e.g. https://products.wera.de/en/new_pro...hristmas_items_2023_adventskalender_2023.html

 

[icowden]

For those not interested in smellies and chocolate, there are always tools.

Indeed. I also had one that was an electronics kit once.

 

[stephec]

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It's got to be Super, not the normal rubbish.