Regarding £10 plus advent calendar with presents in them?

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Why would anyone buy these massively indulgent calendars? I think there's a Barbie and Lego one. Each window has a small gift. IMO presents are for Christmas Day and a small gift each day ruins the build up.
The chocolate ones are fine. I quite liked the old fashioned ones with pictures.

Dd is getting Playmobil for Christmas but we havent got the advent calendar as at three I think she is a bit young. However her advent calendar is felt numbered cones hung on the tree so some cones have chocolate (a coin or a mini milky way), and others have a little Playmobil child or kitten and cat Paymobil. All in preparation for her school and house for her birthday and christmas.

My Mum buys all her children / grandchildren / a few random kids / adults the Jacqui Laws online one which is completely cheesy always goes down well.

Lego ones are cool, I'd love one as a kind of early Christmas pressie. I do know someone who's mum has made an advent calendar with an individual present every day until Christmas, gradually getting bigger and bigger until Christmas Eve. She then gets a pile of presents on Christmas day. I thought this was a bit spoilt when she was ten, but she still has one now and is 22!! I need new friends.

top tip: buy them in the sales - look now for next year

or sellotape coal to a picture

i am going to start labelling my whiskey glass - thanks for that tip too

arf at Waitingonasunnyday

the Jo Malone & Liberty ones...WANT.

Caravanoflove that made me laugh my arse off! coal? COAL? how indulgent!

Belgian Sinterklass would send children who'd been naughty not nice to Spain! Oh, the awfulness of that!

• may not be Sinterklass... maybe Black Pete? General knowledge around Christmas is a bit vague

You would hate our house then. We used to have the lego advent calendars - they were fab (and I say 'we' as I had them too hehe)

For the last two years we've done advent gifts instead. So dd gets a little (£5ish) gift each day. Don't see how this ruins the build up at all?!

If you don't like them then don't buy them. Simples.

I'll see your cheap advents and raise you a £12,000 Wedgwood one

www.stokesentinel.co.uk/Wedgwood-creates-limited-addition-12-500-pottery/story-24982785-detail/story.html

I bought my GS one, so what?

I got the Benefit one as a gift for my SIL who looks after my DC. She lives Benefit, loves Christmassy things, and loves a gimmick too . She really, really liked it.

DS1 has the playmobil Santa workshop one with the presents and elves. It is fab. He had the woodland Playmobil one last year and played with it at length. The little animals have been played with all year and are now making themselves at home in the Santa workshop.

DS2 has a chocolates one from M and S.

I am delighted with them all

I bought DH the Lego Star Wars one. .

I have a hotel chocolat one.

Dd has a thorntons one.

We're enjoying the indulgence.

DS has a lego star wars one, also had one last year. I don't care that it cost £20 I think its well worth it (sticks tongue out!)

I had no idea about these beauty advent calendars though, I'll be getting one next year!

YABU. My 3 DSs have a chocolate one each and share a lego one between them. They are so excited every morning for a tiny bit of chocolate (they can't wait to see what shape it is) and they play absolutely loads with the Lego - teaches them to take turns as well.

I couldn't afford to buy them one each though.

DS1's birthday is December 1st.

He gets a lego advent calendar for his birthday, every year.

Even if it wasn't his birthday, I'd probably get him one, anyhow, and count it as part of his Christmas.

YAB really bloody U. It's none of your business how people spend their money. If it is, then I hope you're mumsnetting from the cheapest, most basic Intenet enabled device possible because anything more would be over-indulgent, wouldn't it?

Oh, and if you'd like me to justify my own spending further, OP, chocolate ones aren't at all fine, as they make DS1 ill.

Have you seen the price of coal, these days? Tut tut.

A sugar rush?! From a tiny piece of chocolate? Really?

DS had a Lego one a few years ago. I counted it as part of his Christmas presents. He liked it and still plays with the figures but prefers a chocolate calendar, so (evil parent that I am) that's what I buy him.

I got myself the No7 one this year, which has been marvellous so far.

If you're religious, Advent is a period of contemplation and reflection for many Christians, a bit like Lent. A preparation for Christmas. In Catholic churches, sober vestments and altar coverings are used. Lego calendars don't really come into it.

If you spend £5 a day during Advent on presents for your children, that's £120 you've spent before the actual day!

Ooo I want a hotel Chocolat one for me. Runs out the door, taxi

My DP bought me a £25 Moomin advent calendar that has a little figurine behind each window. It's lovely. I'm from Finland originally and he wanted me to have a little piece of home for Christmas.

My children have a playmobil one to share. I don't get them chocolate ones as in my experience the chocolate in advent calendars is rank unless you go really expensive. I have a picture one. Maybe I had a sheltered 70s upbringing, but I have fond memories of glittery advent calendars, and going into school and comparing what picture we had got that day.

The daily 'gifts' are not like a full toy - they are small accessories that build a larger scene. And can then be used throughout the year with all the other small bits of playmobil. Considering that I have in the past spent over a tenner on a good sized card advent calendar (there is a shop near my work that sells amazing German ones - traditional designs, ) I don't see how spending a few pounds more on playmobil that will be used many times over is so terribly shocking. Personally, I wouldn't spend loads on cosmetics or candles, but I understand that other people like them. Similarly some people think I am weird that I ask for books for Christmas. We're all different, and we spend our money on different things.

I don't have children but this my first year with an advent calendar!

I got a jewellery one from primark for £5! I know the contents are 12 pairs earrings, 4 rings, 4 braclets and 4 necklaces.

I love wearing a new bit of jewellery everyday its great.

Your idea of 'massively indulgent' and mine are poles apart...and I'm quite ok with that.

Amazon have the colouring advent calendars

I am obviously uber-tight as we have one Playmobil calendar that we bought when DD1 was 1 (she is going to be 10 this month) - and all 3 DC now share it! They play with the scene or look at it through December then we put all the bits away in the box after Christmas and I refill it each year - they love it as part of the recurring tradition

They do also get a choc calendar each every year - my mum used to buy them but now we live too far away so I have to buy 3 of those each year which I think is quite enough expense along with the rest of the shopping!