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WIBU to have a nicer advent calendar than the Dc?!

134 replies

CakeNinja · 29/11/2015 17:38

They've got malteaser ones after we went shopping and chose, saying they couldn't all have the £10 Lindt ones - £30 on advent calendars seems ridiculous!
But now I want the Hotel Chocolat one and id feel really mean spending £12.50 on mine now.
This really is a first world problem Grin

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WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 30/11/2015 11:45

Be like getting a babysitter so you could go to see the new Disney Princess film in peace. Weird and mean.

Nothing at all like that really though is it? The children are still getting an advent calendar. The OP is also getting an advent calendar of things that she likes. The children have no real idea how much things cost really.

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 30/11/2015 11:47

Actually, the OP isn't even getting an advent calendar of things she likes as she said in her second post that she's not going to do it! But if she did, it would be nothing like the scenario you describe Saucyjack

SoWhite · 30/11/2015 12:24

I don't think plain, milk chocolate is a product designed for just children, no SaucyJack .

Nor do I think an advent calendar full of candles/bath stuff/nail polish/champagne truffles is an appropriate thing to give a child.

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 30/11/2015 12:58

Yeah, not sure my 2 year old would be thrilled by my Yankee candle advent calendar.

Whatthefoxgoingon · 30/11/2015 13:04

We get whatever advent calendars we want. DH bought the Jo Malone one for me. Kids get the choccy one they chose (hotel chocolate). There's never been any equal spending on advent calendars in this house, nor on anything else. We spend far more on ourselves than the kids, if we spent the same the kids would be thoroughly spoilt.

reni2 · 30/11/2015 14:35

I had no idea about all these grown-up advent calendars. It is too late to order now unfortunately.

Candles, beauty... what next, dry cured ham and beer? jealous of all the adult advent calendar owners

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 30/11/2015 14:36

You can get gin ones reni Wink

reni2 · 30/11/2015 14:38

Gin! I must do this, maybe I can count down to the new year rather than Christmas, since it's too late to order.

SoWhite · 30/11/2015 19:34

Its not too late to order, if anything, you might get a discounted one tomorrow!

reni2 · 30/11/2015 21:16

There should be a MN advent calendar, alternating gin and chocolate, 3.5 million orders in the week after launch.

SoWhite · 30/11/2015 21:52

I'd buy it.

DixieNormas · 30/11/2015 22:15

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RomComPhooey · 30/11/2015 22:21

I'd buy it.

I would too, so long as MN promise not to put any Cadburys in the chocolate windows. Wink

reni2 · 30/11/2015 22:24

Cadbury would be fine, you can wash it down with gin!

Teenagecrisisagain · 30/11/2015 22:28

I don't have one but dcs have two each. One advent house each that I've filled with little presents, earrings, rings, lip balms etc for dd1, Lego mini figures etc for ds1, stickers and shopkins and plastic jewellery for dd2 and shopkins and stickers for ds1 and also a chocolate one each

SanityClause · 30/11/2015 22:35

I am truly a bit flabbergasted by this. If I had any money to spare after food and bills, I would be spending it on things my children needed and wanted - not on a luxury advent calendar for me.

What's that I can smell? Could it be burning martyr?

TheCrowFromBelow · 30/11/2015 22:51

The gin one is £125 from Fortnums. I do not have one Sad

The DCs have maltesers and Mars.

lilyb84 · 30/11/2015 22:59

Reading this with interest and wondering whether it's a generational thing? I'm in my early 30s and chocolate advent calendars were (I think) a fairly new thing when I was small, and I wasn't allowed one until I was a teenager - we just had the picture ones before that. Now I always buy myself a calendar - although would personally never spend more than a couple of quid on it. DH in his late 30s never even considers having one for himself (I used to share mine with him but he's so unbothered I'll just be enjoying it myself this year!) and sees it very much as something for children and our cats. So just wondering if this trend for ' adult' and luxury calendars stems from a generation who got used to having chocolate every day in December?

Idle thoughts for a Monday night Grin

RomComPhooey · 30/11/2015 22:59

I am quite excited about starting my advent calendar at work tomorrow. On the other hand, it means December is upon us & we are massively behind with the Xmas prep.

reni2 · 30/11/2015 23:00

Why don't you have one, if you were aware of them, TheCrow?

NameChange30 · 30/11/2015 23:04

"December is upon us & we are massively behind with the Xmas prep."

I don't actually start until December, I feel it's too early before then Grin

BreakfastAtStephanies · 30/11/2015 23:19

YANBU. Have bought myself a Liberty one. Looks pretty, it has pictures and no chocs or gifts. DC will get choc ones if I can find any tomorrow ( their DGF usually gets them but seems to have forgotten so far this year ) otherwise they can share mine and no choc !

WorldsBiggestGrotbag · 30/11/2015 23:27

So just wondering if this trend for ' adult' and luxury calendars stems from a generation who got used to having chocolate every day in December?

Don't think it stems from anything. I saw one I liked and wanted it. DH doesn't much like chocolate (and couldn't give a shit about Yankee candles!) so doesn't have one. We're the same age and both had chocolate advent calendars growing up.
They're just a product, that exist if you want to buy one.

NameChange30 · 30/11/2015 23:33

The trend stems from consumerism and marketing. Retailers want to make money so they come up with more products to flog, we buy them.

sharonthewaspandthewineywall · 30/11/2015 23:36

So the what we shouldn't do as parents list has now grown

  1. don't have holidays without your kids
  2. don't go out drinking- ever
  3. if you happen to have enough money spare to spend on a nice advent calendar for yourself- don't. Spend it on your kids instead. Hmm
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