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To ask what advent calendar you’re getting?

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MzGG · 18/11/2025 21:22

I’ve just bought myself a Malteasers Truffle one. What about you?

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P00hsticks · 18/11/2025 22:30

Thames &Kosmos EXIT Escape room one - we get one every year. Only the first door is numbered and each day has some sort of puzzle to solve that tells you which door to open next.

Dolphinnoises · 18/11/2025 22:24

I will be buying a cardboard one with glitter on it. This is the only proper way of doing things. My family all think I am mad but they are more interested in my picture than their own chocolate…

IdentifyingAsAWoollyMammoth · 18/11/2025 22:24

I have an advent candle rather than a calendar.

ToadRage · 18/11/2025 22:21

My lovely husband surprised me with cadburys one.

Fluffydas · 18/11/2025 22:20

I got hawkstone for the men in my life. They are huge

JaceLancs · 18/11/2025 22:19

Hotel Chocolat
We also have a Lego one which I will fill up with min figures

ScorchingEgg · 18/11/2025 22:17

I have a Lakrids liquorice one this year. I went through a phase of loving the beauty advents but they are so similar each year that I got bored of them (I still think they’re beautiful and great if you’ve not had them for a few years/before).

AliTheMinx · 18/11/2025 22:12

For DS (14), a Taskmaster calendar and a Kinder Bueno one.

I will probably buy myself one - maybe Dairy Milk - yum!

Bagsintheboot · 18/11/2025 22:09

OrangesCinammonIvy · 18/11/2025 22:05

@Bagsintheboot that sounds beautiful .

Cadbury are so utterly crap now aren't they
Unfortunately DD saw it and wanted it so I had to get the strange triangle one.
DH a toblerone one.

They are lovely! This is the one I bought this year: https://www.lovechristmas.christmas/products/nostalgic-christmas-advent-calendar-with-milk-chocolates?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=551020abe&pr_rec_pid=8742407110876&pr_ref_pid=7927076028636&pr_seq=uniform

They're a bit more than a Cadburys one but then they do have to be imported and they're not always easy to find although one year I lucked out and found some in a random farm shop. Now I just order online in October / November.

They're still significantly cheaper than most advent calendars out there nowadays...!

Nostalgic Christmas Advent Calendar with Milk Chocolates

Get ready for the countdown to the most magical day of the year with this gorgeous traditional German chocolate advent calendar. This beautiful calendar depicts a Christmas scene of Santa arriving on a horse with gifts for all as the children have wond...

https://www.lovechristmas.christmas/products/nostalgic-christmas-advent-calendar-with-milk-chocolates?pr_prod_strat=e5_desc&pr_rec_id=551020abe&pr_rec_pid=8742407110876&pr_ref_pid=7927076028636&pr_seq=uniform

OrangesCinammonIvy · 18/11/2025 22:05

@Bagsintheboot that sounds beautiful .

Cadbury are so utterly crap now aren't they
Unfortunately DD saw it and wanted it so I had to get the strange triangle one.
DH a toblerone one.

Maybeishouldcrochet · 18/11/2025 21:58

This weekend the job is making the homemade advent calendar
We cut out cardboard wreaths and decorate with the small ones. Hole punch and attach a ribbon. Then with pegs attach 24 different treats- crisps, chocolate, sweets etc
After seeing the price of the one the child wants I am being mean......

SliceofTosst · 18/11/2025 21:55

My DH and MiL buy me one each.

Not sure what they will be but think one will be Lindt.

MrsTulip · 18/11/2025 21:55

Don’t buy myself one as I’m not that fussed about them to be honest.
DS, 12 has asked for a Cadbury heroes one

CluelessAboutBiology · 18/11/2025 21:54

I want one of the Boots No 7 advent calendars, but I can’t justify the price. (Am trying hard to learn the difference between “want” and “need”) I’m on a diet so I won’t get myself a chocolate calendar, as once I get the taste for chocolate I won’t stop!

I’ve got DP one from Home Bargains with packets of crisps and other snacks in it.

BrightSpark10 · 18/11/2025 21:51

Kinder bueno 🤤

loveawineloveacrisp · 18/11/2025 21:51

MzGG · 18/11/2025 21:45

I didn’t know the White Company sold them!

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Yep they do them every year, bit of a treat. It's sold out now though.

Bagsintheboot · 18/11/2025 21:47

I bought myself a nice Heidel chocolate one, it's a German brand but there's a few UK stockists. They have proper old-fashioned pictures on the front and the chocolate in shapes I remember like stars, bells, logs, presents, trees, robins etc.

Unlike Cadburys who have resorted to the same simplistic cartoon design since forever and have about four cartoon chocolate shapes..!

XenoBitch · 18/11/2025 21:45

A chocolate orange one.

A few years back, Lidl did cheese ones. I picked one up a few days into December for half the price. It was bloody amazing but they have not done one since.

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MzGG · 18/11/2025 21:45

loveawineloveacrisp · 18/11/2025 21:30

I've got a White Company one.

I didn’t know the White Company sold them!

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mondaytosunday · 18/11/2025 21:39

I don’t get edible ones. This year I got a beautiful 3D German illustrated one based on the Nutcracker. Last year it was a Dutch street scene. Both off Amazon https://amzn.eu/d/3BtncIo

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PurpleYarnivore · 18/11/2025 21:37

A marshmallow one with different flavours every day , it comes with a little burner and sticks to toast your marshmallow every day .

AlloaintheMiddle · 18/11/2025 21:37

Naked marshmallows

RunningNananananananananana · 18/11/2025 21:35

Yawn coffee beans one ☕

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