Must try harder!

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

I mean i never have an advent calendar but i think this is the year to put that right!

WinterWarrior

Deni_debt-free_dreamer said:

I mean i never have an advent calendar but i think this is the year to put that right!

Oh no, you must have (at least) one of your own. I did miss a few years in my early 20’s when I thought I was a grown up, but I soon grew out of that! Advents are the best! I’m partial to the Lindt ones too 😋
when I was little they only had picture ones and most years we had to share and take turns opening the doors, so now I generally have quite a few, pictures and chocolates and occasionally a Lego one has snuck in. MrWW likes them too 😁 I do like Christmas build up..fa la la la la, la la la la 🎄 

Jellytotts

Your passion for chocolate is impressive.

I did treat myself to an advent calendar last year but not a chocolate one but a lovely reusable slot together Christmas ornament one. It will get years of use and love.

I learnt from experience that if Mr Jellytotts has a chocolate Calendar he eats it all within the first 2 days.  He's got no shame.

carolbee

Well, theres 20 minutes gone looking at slot together advent calendars, aren’t they gorgeous!

waiting in for my candle making supplies to come today, I only make as gifts not to sell.

mum used to buy my 20+ boys an advent calendar every year, the year after she  died they were most put out I didn’t get them one. They solved the problem by moving abroad 😉

Have a good day, full of choc, coffee and books

teafor2

Morning @WinterWarrior. The DC's still have advent calendars but we mainly have advent tubs of chocolates the rate we get through them in December    Have a great day. 

Sun_Addict

The past couple of years I’ve had a gin advent calendar but last year’s was a bit disappointing with quite a few liqueur gins that were too sweet. I came to the conclusion it’s a lot cheaper just to buy a couple of bottles of gin I do like, although the surprise element is taken away. I also used to have beauty advent calendars but stopped as I had too many beauty bits to use up without adding to the pile. I remember when the only advent calendars were the ones where you opened a window and there’d be a little picture inside 😆

CRANKY40

My mum bought us an advent calendar with mini toys once. She could only afford one so my sister and I had to take turns. Someone  may have (it might have been me) taken the tray out of it and switched all the good stuff to their days. 

When people say to me now that I'm a lovely person and I say that I'm not they don't quite understand that on the great chalkboard of life I'm just trying to even up the good stuff to all the awful things that I did in the past 😂

Baileys_Babe

Every year my Mum buys me and my sister a chocolate advent calendar, she would never have dreamed of buying us calendars with chocolate in them when we were children, not that they were a thing. She also buys them for her grandchildren, what double standards 🤣

WinterWarrior

@CRANKY40 I bet you were the oldest! On the picture ones my sister allowed me to open the first door…how kind was that? Until I finally worked out she was making sure she got the big double door at the end ☹️

CRANKY40

I am the oldest...but that meant that I was blamed for everything my sister did wrong. Even when we were living in different houses the comment "What did you let her do that for?" wasn't unusual.