To be nostalgic about picture advent calenders?

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The ones from my childhood. They were lovely and simple and non grabby.
We loved looking at the pictures.

I still have one of the first ones I got when I was little. I loved it.
My two kids would be horrified if I have them one now.
I didn't realise they were still sold. I will need to have a look for one to show them.

If you really want a proper although not boring non chocolate advent calendar you need to Google this beauty....I can't do links but if you Google Eric Carle Dream Snow pop up advent calendar you should find it .....
Gorgeous - I've bought it again and again for about 5 years now! It's a real beauty and great for littleys. It just makes Christmas for me

My mum sends me a lovely, traditional one every year...I'm 40 this year 😊

We still buy traditional ones for the DGC. Plenty to choose from eg on Amazon.

I love them! I love having an advent calendar, but I don't eat chocolate so finding ones with just your nativity scene picture behind the door is becoming increasingly hard!
WH Smiths had a great one the other year though so will have to have a look for that one.

this site has beautiful 3D pop up advent calendars. I like the look of the book one Night before xmas

We always used to have an advent candle and I loved it, like this one. Just looking online for one but they’re all extortionate postage unfortunately.

Just ordered my DS’s one each online. Always had traditional.

We also have a fabric one with pockets which I put choc in.

I loved these as a kid in the late 70s and 1980s Always used to end up getting covered in glitter on December mornings.

We usually have a picture advent calendar and a refillable Lindt box advent calendar. Best of both worlds.

We loved ours, we used to have a big one between 4 of us and had to take turns opening a window. My daughter can't quite believe it, but it was hugely exciting.

Oh yes. I found a beautiful Nutcracker one today and may go back and buy it even though DD is too young still at 2 to understand the concept. The chocolate ones are shite IMO.

Forever, that Eric Carle one is lovely! Just one problem though. It has 25 doors! I refuse on principle to buy calendars with 25 doors.

Nah, OP, YABU. My mum and grandmother proclaimed chocolate advent calendars to be the work of the devil. (Less than 20 years ago.) I begged and pleaded for a cadbury one. I cried and screamed that sone friends had five of them. We had to make do with a religious one, painted by the hand and foot society, with the inevitable picture of the baby Jesus for the last photo. They were shit. They still are.

This year I was furious that my M has changed her tune and given my DD a lindt reindeer chocolate one. So furious that I had always denied one I told her to take it back. She cried and bought me one so my DD could have one. (DD would always have had the one I'd already bought.)

Sorry, I am still very very bitter.

I love them, we always had one and I still get them now. It always had to have glitter on it, if it didn't we'd decorate it ourselves!

I'm doing a book advent for my boys this year too.

oooh have come over all nostalgic for a picture one thanks to this thread. The chocolate ones are overrated anyway....always tastes plasticky

I love these. My sister and I used to share one and we’d guess every day what the picture was going to be. As 24th was always a double door, we’d take a door each. No guessing that day as it was always Jesus in his manger. Lovely memories

Many years ago dd was back-packing around Kenya and I popped a cardboard Advent calendar into her rucksack as we always had one at home .
On the 1st December she sent me a text to tell me what was behind the door and to wonder what the next day's would be .
I hotfooted to our local newsagent and bought another the same and when she next texted I said " let me guess what was behind today's door " she was so amazed that I guessed right every day until I confessed I was cheating.

I must get one today to send to dd2 who is coming home for Christmas on the 23rd !
Glitter and pictures all the way in the Trumpton house.

Did anyone else have the dilemma of whether or not to use the perforations to fully take the doors off? My DSis would always leave her doors on but invariably I thought mine would look better without and then end up ripped...😩

Just bought a lovely one for £3.75 from eBay !

My mum always gets me a picture calendar, I loved them growing up. The chocolate ones often dont have a picture and I missed the nostalgic feeling of seeing what festive scene I would get each morning

I saw some in the Bath Abbey gift shop yesterday and it made me wonder if we’d had a paper/chocolate advent calendar thread yet

My dn and dns have asked for these this year from my pil as chocolate ones have been done too much. We have a beautiful one i reuse every year as its 3d and huge (from germany). Theres loads in germany that are stunning. My mil gets her next one when she goes on holiday there. You can still buy them in the uk.

These were wonderful, I always remember us three kids got a day each and fought over who got Christmas Eve because it was always a bigger double door.

You are so right. When I see the £30/40 Smiggle or Lego ones I feel like a cheapskate to my kids thenI feel sad that people don’t seem to be satisfied with simple things anymore.