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!

Yeah I remember advent calendars going up to new years eve. I don't think I was ever excited to open it after Xmas eve though.

I was worried about DS having a tantrum tomorrow about not having a chocolate to open. So after he opened it this morning, we looked at all the empty windows together and he helped me throw it in the bin. He understands it won't be there tomorrow. He's 3.

Advent calendar is in the definition of the word!

46 year old here, there's never been chocolate on the 25th in my calendars ,never ever ever!

Advent ends at midnight on Christmas eve. Having a 25th on Advent calendars is a new thing. Surely all those Christmas chocs keep your child happy? Buy some doggy chocs for the dog.

Yep advent calendars have always ended on the 24th!

And yes! I remember the one that went up to NYE! I was gutted they didn't do those every year

In my day you got excited by what the picture might be, behind the door, even though I'm pretty damn sure it was the same advent calendar each year none of this chocolate malarkey! . I really think it was a much more exciting time to be a child.

I can't imagine being in a house with children on Christmas morning and them even giving the advent calendar as much as a passing thought!?
That said, we have the thorntons one this year, which to my mind weirdly!, has a big bit of chocolate for the 25th. Most odd.

But it's not advent tomorrow, it's Christmastime.

Advent calendars go up to 24 December hence the last choc is on Christmas Eve and none on Christmas Day... That is normal

Advent calendars end on the 24th as that i the last day of advent. the 25th is the first day of Christmas.

My boy doesnt like chocolate and i found it impossible to find a picture one!

In my youth (about a million years ago) the 24th window was bigger than the others and showed the Nativity scene.
25th Dec is the Feast of the Nativity, not Advent.

Mine always had a bigger chocolate on Christmas Eve, never had one for Christmas day.

Now it depends on the calendar, some have a small chocolate for Christmas day, some stop on Christmas eve.

My dcs have got a huge chocolate for today in their calendars but I did get them the slightly more expensive maltesers ones as the Kinnerton chocolate is awful.

I think it's the other way round from what a lot of you are saying.

They used to go up to Christmas Day (I can remember them going up to Christmas Day when I was little, 40+ years ago), but I haven't seen one that did in my adulthood.

OTOH, they didn't used to have chocolate in them. In my childhood they just had a picture, and the picture for Christmas Day was bigger and more impressive than all the others, and usually featured Jesus in the manger.

Can you even get a non-chocolate one any more? The last time we had one was 10 years ago (I know because we'd just moved house and had no time to think about getting one until about the 6th) and it came from Past Times, who of course aren't around any more. So it was a consciously old-fashioned one, possibly based on a Victorian design.

Buy a Lindt one, you get a chocolate santa at the end! Worth the fiver or whatever is costs just for that!x

I have seen the non choc ones in card factory