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Advent calendars (lighthearted)

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SephrinaX · 30/11/2023 20:30

At the ripe old ages of 38 and 36, my mum has decided that my sister and I are 'too old' for her to buy us advent calendars.

Our argument is that we are her children and it is her parental duty to provide us with them still.

Who is BU?

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VenusClapTrap · 30/11/2023 22:55

I can remember chocolate ones arriving on the scene and my mum clutching her pearls about them. It must have been the early 80s. I was so jealous of my friend’s ones, so I nagged and nagged and after a couple of years my mum caved.

I can remember it really vividly; it was that really cheap nasty chocolate that tastes horrible, and the pictures were crap because you couldn’t see them properly behind the plastic moulding for the chocolates. Totally rubbish. I had to eat my way through that whole nasty calendar because “You demanded it, you eat it!”

I asked for a traditional cardboard one the following year and never looked back, because obviously all chocolate advent calendars are equally rubbish.

I have now totally indoctrinated my own kids against them too. No chocolate advent calendars in this house; just lovely picture ones. 😁

Caswallonthefox · 30/11/2023 22:50

I will be the obligatory " you're lucky you have a mum to buy you one". I'd be totally sarcastic though. I couldn't tell you when my mother last got me an advent calendar, I do know it was when they were just pictures behind the door. The saddest part of all is, that my nanna bought the original calendar and it was then produced for years. My parents weren't poor either.
My ds is 18, do I or don't I?

2chocolateoranges · 30/11/2023 22:48

I said I wasn’t buying my 2 an advent calendar as they were too old at 22 and 20 however dd guilt tripped me into buying them one… as she’s always had one!

TokyoSushi · 30/11/2023 22:42

My Mum gets me the M&S beauty advent calendar! 😄 I'm nearly 44!

clowniform · 30/11/2023 22:41

YMIBU. Also in my 30s, and my mum's got me a mince pie one this year. I've actually just set my alarm 10 mins early for it tomorrow 😋

Needmorelego · 30/11/2023 22:38

@SephrinaX chocolate ones were definitely around in the 90s because I worked in a shop then and I had a poor woman dashing in on November 30th desperate for ones because her dog had eaten the ones she had hidden in the wardrobe. Cardboard packaging and all apparently.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 30/11/2023 22:30

My favorite are the whisky ones, me and DH splurge every year. Definitely not sharing that one, we buy one for each of us.

Davros · 30/11/2023 21:13

I once had a lovely pork scratchings one. This year I've got Rituals, DH has got Tony's Chocolonely and DD has got some fancy beauty one. Not bought by my mum, I'm 63!

feelingalittlehorse · 30/11/2023 21:12

LTM (leave the mother)

JudgeJ · 30/11/2023 21:05

SephrinaX · 30/11/2023 20:36

Of course!

Although she said something the other day about advent calendars (chocolate ones) not actually being a thing until the mid 90s. I could have sworn they were about when I was little.

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We were in Germany until mid 80s and I had never been aware of them before then though maybe it was because we then had children. If we came back to the UK for October half term we had to make an effort to find them, not easy as the Germans didn't start Christmas as early as the UK, otherwise we would post them in November.

JellyBabyToManual · 30/11/2023 21:05

She’s not your mum 🤷‍♀️

mine has bought me a kinder bueno one 🥳

I’m 48

AdaColeman · 30/11/2023 21:02

Your Mum is being unreasonable, and failing in her maternal duty.

Tell her you want the Bonne Maman jam one, she's just got time to get you one!

Paperdove87 · 30/11/2023 20:57

I'm 36 and my mum still fills me a wooden one. Blush she only started it after^^ I left home as well. I never get it till at least the 5th though as she never fills it in time.

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 30/11/2023 20:51

I posted my DS his advent calendar yesterday, he's 24.
I hope his flatmates don't take the mick 😁

HoHoHoliday · 30/11/2023 20:48

I'm mid 40s. My mum buys me two every year - one with christmassy pictures and one with chocolate. Never too old!
I did once tell her she needn't bother if she didn't want to, although I love them, and she said she enjoys getting them.

ProvisionsOnTheDock · 30/11/2023 20:47

You know you can divorce your parents, right? Get a shit hot lawyer and they'll get you enough alimony to keep you in advent calendars the rest of your life.

saltinesandcoffeecups · 30/11/2023 20:46

Yes they’ve been around for ages, we’ll before the ‘90s

I started doing the refillable ones with my Godson and God Daughter. Not to brag but they were EPIC They were equal parts fun to put together and a pain in the butt. So we did them until the youngest turned 18. The first Grand Godbaby was just born so we have a few years until they get their first on. So I’ve a few blissful but boring years of being free from them.

I almost caved when the god kids asked for them this summer. I may do a Christmas stocking to them instead but haven’t promised anything.

ShowOfHands · 30/11/2023 20:44

I'm 42 and my Mum still gets me one. I get her one too.

Tiamaria86 · 30/11/2023 20:43

Omg I'm 37, is this my last year getting one? 😳

Ethelswith · 30/11/2023 20:42

It was a bittersweet moment when (my now frail) DMum stopped buying me an Advent Candle, and I started getting her an Advent Calendar

lanthanum · 30/11/2023 20:40

PurBal · 30/11/2023 20:31

Sorry OP, I had to ask mum to stop after I got married. It just became weird. ETA because you can’t share one chocolate between 2.

My dad bought me a rum advent calendar last year and a cheese one this year. Both shareable. 😉

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We only had one advent calendar between four as children - it's perfectly possible to share! (Obviously we didn't get even a share once we left home.)

Ourshoddyhouse · 30/11/2023 20:40

SephrinaX · 30/11/2023 20:36

Of course!

Although she said something the other day about advent calendars (chocolate ones) not actually being a thing until the mid 90s. I could have sworn they were about when I was little.

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Our class defo had a choc one at primary and we all took turns to open it, that would've been 93? Wonder if it sticks out because it was the first choc one I'd had?

Oh your mum is been vvvvvvu btw.

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SephrinaX · 30/11/2023 20:37

minimadgirl · 30/11/2023 20:37

Hahaha. I still get my mum and dad one every year and they are in their late 60s. They don't get me one, but they get the grandkids them.
I always get my husband a grinch one.

I got my other half a Grinch one this year Grin

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minimadgirl · 30/11/2023 20:37

Hahaha. I still get my mum and dad one every year and they are in their late 60s. They don't get me one, but they get the grandkids them.
I always get my husband a grinch one.

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