To tink that my DD and the dog have been shortchanged becuase there is no chocolate in the Advent calendar for Christmas Day?

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Advent calendars always used to have the biggest and best chocolate for Christmas Day, but not now - zilch, nothing, de nada! Another way of the manufacturers increasing their profits, I suppose - but it does seem a bit Scrooge like!

Yabu.

Proper advent calendars used to stop on Christmas eve.

All this big chocolate on Christmas day is a new fangled thing IMO.

YABU advent calendars have never had anything on 25th Dec in my memory. You get plenty of other things to open that day.

I don't ever remember an advent calendar going up to the 25th. In all my years, every calendar has stopped at 24th.

On Xmas day there will be chocolate in stockings, so no need for another door.

(Although someone gave me a Thornton's one with a small bar of chocolate for tomorrow and I didn't turn it down or anything)

I agree that advent calendars have pretty much only ever gone up to the 24th and that one on the 25th is new-fangled/a bonus.

That said, I do wish DS1's calendar had a 25th, as I'm not looking forward the the Christmas day tantrum when he doesn't get his daily chocolate.

It's an advent calendar. Advent stops on 24th. Calendars that include 25th are very rare, and have been as long as I've been alive, because 25th is not part of advent. There's plenty of other chocolate available before breakfast on 25th.

He's 2.7yo, BTW, just in case you're envisioning a prostrate and squalling teenager

I remember chocolate advert calenders finishing on 24tg too. Yabu

Short changed?

Hahahahaha. If your house is like ours then there will be a lot of chocolate flying around tomorrow.

The clue' s in the name. It's not advent any more on 25th December.

Yabu
You don't get one on the 25th

Ok, thanks for your replies - I will be able to explain it to my DD, not sure about the dog though!

You know chocolate is poisonous for dogs...

Who bought the advent calander? Surely you have had 24 other day to notice this sneaky trick by the manufacturer

Don't worry, the dog has his own 'dog friendly' advent calendar!

I bought the Advent calendars a while ago, so no excuse; my DD has drawn my attention to the omission this morning.

And yes, there is plenty of other chocolate to eat here......

Christmas morning you get the chocolate coins in the stocking to guzzle first thing, nobody is missing out on chocolate!

I am baffled. Advent calendars have always ended on 24th haven't they?

Advent calendars end on the 24th because advent ends on the 24th.

I'm sure your dog will understand OP, if you need to start a new thread for support we'll be here to hold their paw

No, they've always stopped on the 24th!

I have seen some that continue to the 25th but that seems wrong to me.

My dogs one has an extra big bonus treat for today

Yanbu it's always been the way but it's always annoyed me!

Advent is from advenire / adventus meaning coming or a thing about to happen. By the 25th it has happened.

Do I remember than in 1999 quite a few of them extended to New Year, or did I dream that?

You did used to get a bigger chocolate on 24th but now ot's same size :(