I am a bad bad Mother!

MrSmartprice

Many years ago I made my daughter a really rubbish advent calendar for a joke. I used a boxtop, an insert from a box of chocolates, and cut little doors over the spaces it created when taped to the inside of the box.

I branded it as a 'Smartprice Advent Calendar' and even stuck little pictures of SP products and bits of SP labels on it. It was lashed up with sellotape and each door had a square of SP chocolate in it.

The thing is, years later it is still fondly remembered, unlike any other ones she had over the years. Same principle as my Smartprice crackers which are just as dreadful.

pogofish

WantToBeSE wrote: »

I forgot to get my children an advent calender each :eek: and now i cant find any in the shops!!

Nonsense! You are a very good mother.

Advent is rooted in the spirit of sacrifice - So by forgoing calendars, you and your kids are celebrating it perfectly!

theoretica

And if they want one they can make it themselves - from string, pegs and envelopes and you will maybe put whatever you feel like in the envelopes!

dizziblonde

If you've got any of the little local or express versions of the supermarkets near you try there - our Sainsburys Local had tonnes of 'em the other day.

I haven't got my kids them either - didn't get a dairy free one tracked down early enough for the one with allergies so it didn't seem fair to get the one who is easier to get one for one and not the other child. Planning on making a garland one of little stockings to go along the fireplace and just be refilled each year for next Christmas (got bogged down making present requests this year).

CH27

Matalan had loads yesterday.

Lunar_Eclipse

There were still some in Poundland, Sainsburys and Wilkinsons around here yesterday.

Tesco, Superdrug, Argos?

Failing that, make one? An old cereal box covered in a festive image would work.

In previous years, I have bought a very small card size advent calendar and placed a bowl of treats next to it to open each day. Could be edible, but can also be nice festive pictures, an activity/game to do together etc.

lau_dicker

I'm 29 next week and my mum still buys me one every year, and my OH, and my son gets one from my mum and one from mil my mantelpiece is full!

neneromanova

don't forget yourself

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DD1 got an advent calendar from me in her first year at university.

Apparently, her halls thought it was awesome and a couple got a bit sad and even teared up a bit that they hadn't got one for the first time.


However, I can be a bad mum as much as anybody else: I left it too late to get a real Christmas tree one year, and the only fake tree I could find was a pink feather Barbie one. I still get stick over that a decade later.

I now have a jet black artificial tree in the loft. I'm never getting caught like that again.

DeeDee74

barbiedoll wrote: »

I bought one for our granddaughter, weeks ago. I didn't bother getting one for our 15 yr old son as I thought he wouldn't want to bother this year on account of
a) he hardly ever eats the chocs anyway, and
b) he's 15!

You'd think that I had written him out of our will by the way he went on and on about it. I bought him a "Hello Kitty" calendar by way of revenge! :rotfl::rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: love it...
Ds was the same didn't want one he's 17 gave dd her's and ww3 broke out... Kids Ay....