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Picture Advent Calendars in the 1980s

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FurForksSake · 23/12/2025 22:19

DH and I have just had a festive discussion : disagreement.

AIBU to ask you - if you had a picture advent calendar as a child, we are mid 40s so perhaps in that era or before or after, did you get a new picture advent calendar every year, or reused the one you were given for years (decades..)

if you remember - what was the scene in your advent calendar / favourite calendar?

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HarbourClankCat · 23/12/2025 22:28

New one every year. No chocolate, just the excitement of what the picture would be - a bell, a robin, a wreath?

Double doors only existed on the door for the 24th.

Londonrach1 · 23/12/2025 22:27

I tried to get one for DD this year but none around I could locate. I had one with glitter and loved it. The robin the best picture. We got a new one every year

Kingscallops · 23/12/2025 22:27

Dinosweetpea · 23/12/2025 22:26

New one every year. I don't know anyone who reused them, they didnt close properly once opened.

Ah yes, remember that.

Turtles4543 · 23/12/2025 22:27

New one

PrincessofEuphrania · 23/12/2025 22:26

My sister and I shared a calendar and had to take turns opening the doors. The calendars were reused for a couple of years before getting a new one.

Dinosweetpea · 23/12/2025 22:26

New one every year. I don't know anyone who reused them, they didnt close properly once opened.

Porcuine20 · 23/12/2025 22:25

We reused one for a few years when money was tight - and I still remember the excitement of being sent a new one by a relative! I think the one we reused had a simple old-fashioned snowy street scene if I remember right. I used to love opening the advent calendar, and was actually disappointed when I got my first chocolate one as a teenager to find that it had no pictures. I was probably a bit of a weird child though.,

MissFancyDay · 23/12/2025 22:24

Yes, we did reuse them, my parents were very frugal. I don't remember the picture on the front but the 24th window was always a nativity scene.

fost · 23/12/2025 22:23

no, we didnt get a new one each year. i think there were 2 or 3 in the house that were reused. i can't remember my favourite picture but i do remember the calender had glitter on.

Kingscallops · 23/12/2025 22:23

Opening the doors to find whatever christmas picture. It was the excitement of not knowing would be behind each door. Sure there used to be little chocolates wrapped in foil.

triggers34 · 23/12/2025 22:22

We had a New one every year and my fave was the 24th as it was a double door.

Vitriolinsanity · 23/12/2025 22:22

Always the robin on a snowy gatepost.