To think advent calendars waste too much plastic

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I would have made one out of something reusable, but we've had some as gifts. The plastic seems pretty damn thick and the stuff can be hard to get out.

Never had a choccy plastic one.

Always have a traditional cardboard one.

Here is mine.

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We’ve got a fabric one into which I put the fabric figures that came with it. No choccies, no presents — that’s for Christmas.

My children appear to be coping with the deprivation.

@TinyBarmaid Amazing.

Tiny

Tiny
Perfect advent calendar! Now I just need to invent find the dice with initials to decide who opens the windows

This is the cardboard one I got from John Lewis for Gdcs. I love it! They're only 2.7 and 1.4 so a bit little to understand yet, but the elder loved opening the first window yesterday (and a couple more, but what the hell, can just close them again).

Love day 2 tiny!

A real labour of love, Tiny

Your calendar wins most environmentally friendly of the thread, and biggest bringer of joy, midgetbarmaid. . No trees chopped down for the making of etc

Christmas is generally a waste of plastic!

We have a material one with pockets that you can put sweets in, and DH has a traditional one with pictures that he brings out every year :)

I saw a great idea on Pinterest - a reverse advent calendar. You put one item a day into a box throughout December and at the end donate it to a food bank. Great to do with kids and balances out all the consumerism a bit.

Fucks me off. MIL buys the DC one each every year. This year she bought a Lego friends one so DP got them chocolate ones as well .

Ironically on DD’s first Christmas she got us a fabric one, which I was perfectly happy with, it never sees the light of day now...

@TinyBarmaid that is the highlight of my Christmas

I'll re word my previous post that was deleted. I'm confused about Crumbs1 post on this thread as they've said on other threads that the children are Doctors/GPS/live in the city and are adults and don't live at home. It's all very odd!

We have a large dice that goes with it that has each child’s initials to decide who gets to open the flap or pocket each day.

If Crumbs1's children are all grown up and don't live at home (was stated on other threads) how can they roll a dice to,open an advent calendar?

Strange post deletions

Very sorry tinybarmaid! I've just noticed I called you midgetbarmaid. I blame autocorrect.

Crispy - with imagination, anything is possible

they roll it over a webcam.

duh.

any more silly questions?

they roll it over a webcam.

Is this at the same time that they decide which sheep is going to be adorned in Christmas lights?

How does the daily lucky winner (s) receive their tasteful, seasonally appropriate, environmentally friendly, non tacky, joyous gift?

If Crumbs1's children are all grown up and don't live at home (was stated on other threads) how can they roll a dice to,open an advent calendar

Maybe they have really long arms from all that rugger they play and gammon they eat? Except no. 6, who doesn't have long arms at all

Maybe they have really long arms from all that rugger they play and gammon they eat

Do you mean the gammon cooked in the aga that's served with Cumberland sauce in the winter dining room after carols around the piano in the hallway?

Yes crispy that's the one. Gammon and all those prawn filled aga cooked jacket potatoes. Good source of protein, see.