I don’t have anything against advent calendars in general. As children my sister and I always had one, and I would have to admit this carried on into later life. Now with children it is a great excuse to carry on this tradition.
Over the years the advent calendar seems to have evolved from the typical 2D nativity scene, which to my sisters disgust was always full of pictures of angels, to 3D glitter encrusted hangings, to some really blatant advertising from the chocolate manufacturers. Most advents these days are chocolate, you are hard pushed to finding a nice one without it. (Unfortunately, heathen that I am, nice means one not depicting a nativity scene.) Some of the Cadbury and Malteser ones don’t even have a proper picture on them, just the company name and a bit of snow chucked on for good measure. Not very Christmassy.
But I think the absolutely worst advance in advent calendars I have seen this year has got to be the 32 window advent. Yep, 32 days of windows to open. For me Christmas Eve always used to be the day you looked forward to the most with the calendar, it tended to always be the biggest window for a start, and was, depending on he nature of the calendar, either a nativity scene (grrr) or a big jolly Father Christmas, reminding you that the next day was the BIG DAY. Now however, you go right past Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with the final door being opened on New Years Day!! New Years Day. How many kids know the relevance of New Years Day? It’s not like many of them stay up to celebrate it, is it?
Like I said earlier, I am not against advent calendars in general, but I think they need to be kept sensible. I am quite happy for both of my children, 24 days of one month to have a small piece of chocolate for their breakfast. But it has to stop somewhere and Christmas Day is the perfect place, given that most people then eat their own weight in turkey, biscuits, chocolate and mince pies. Or is that just me?
Anyway, that’s enough humbuggery from me. Think that possibly made up word will bring a whole host of new blog readers our way, probably not what they were expecting though. Sorry.
Why don’t they make alcoholic advent calendars for adults? Especially those of us who get to work by train
I feel a google search coming on.
Useless info: Our hamster has it’s own advent calendar with yoghurt drops inside. Looks nicer than my “Pirates of The Caribbean” calendar too…
That is such a good idea. A liqueur chocolate advent. Smirnoff one day, JD the next. Now that would be a real surprise every day.
Humbuggery? There are SO many distasteful jokes I could offer here involving Santa and/or bees, but thankfully I haven’t had nearly enough alcohol.