to have got DS an advent calender complete with his name iced onto it....

[DudeInaTutu]

despite the fact he is 21 next week.

I got DD one aswell, she is 15. i couldnt get one without the other they are naice thorntons chocolate ones.

DH thinks im a loon.

My local Thorntons ran out of icing yesterday for the advent calendars so you're obviously not the only one buying them

Yanbu,

you sound like a lovely mum :)

My mum greeted me with a Cadbury's advent calendar when I arrived home from work. She fucking rocks.

Why didn't I know about this.

Op Yanbu, if they are going to have one may as well be a nice one

they are nice. he got it today!

I'm 24 and my mum also got me and my dp an advent calendar each too!

fair. this is the first year i haven't offered daughter and her husband advent calendars. they're 30 and 29, with a one year old daughter. she really ought to have an advent calendar - but no chocolate...

My mum only stopped getting me one when I got married, aged 29. Now I buy my own. This year, I have a Hotel Chocolat affair [sgrin] whilst DH has got himself the Star Wars Lego one.

Dammit.

I got DSs a Lindt one each last year but as they just opened the doors all at once to get at the chocolate I haven't bothered getting them one this year. I went a bit mad and got DD a lego friends one (half price on Amazon). As I bought her the lego friends vet set for her birthday I'm justifying the expense by pretending it was part of her birthday present.

I really want one for me now. I haven't had one for years. When I lived at home we had the same picture one year after year. My brothers and I still used to argue about whose turn it was to open it!

I bought my husband a Lego one!

My mum bought DP one but not me as I have GD and she knew I couldn't eat it. She bought him an extra big one with the money she saved on mine

I haven't had an advent calendar for years :-( kids have their spiderman and Mario ones but I have none.

And I'm only thirty.

Is it bad to buy my own?!

I wasn't allowed an advent calendar as a kid. So I damn well have one now :o on our first Xmas together DH bought me 2.

I got all 4 of us the thorntons one this year - couldn't find any other nice ones anywhere! Didn't have time to get them iced as I was in a rush, but today I bought some of those little coloured writing icing tubes and did our names myself - turned out surprisingly well!

Ha, no, YANBU. I'm 24 and DM still gets me one of these and does my Christmas stocking. She gets one for DH too and he's pushing 30.

There's advent calenders with gin and beer in y'know.

I only found this out about ten minutes ago, I am now annoyed I went all the way into town and didn't get at least one! for myself