To ask for help! I've ruined advent!!

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Posting for traffic ! Sorry for being over dramatic but I feel terrible. Does anyone know where I can get a malteasers advent calendar tonight or tomorrow?! My mum asked me to get her one on thursday, I said it would be fine as I knew I'd seen them in Iceland. I was at uni all day yesterday so I asked my partner to get one after work and he forgot and came straight home. I've been traipsing the shops today - 8 - to try and find one and they're sold out in all my local shops!!! I'm seeing her tomorrow, she hasn't asked about it but it will be awful if I don't have it!!

We have a local shop called one stop and they had them. Im not sure if its a local chain though

I got one this afternoon in my local Co-op

Tesco had them where I am, do you have one local?

Your mum is presumably an adult. She will live without an advent calendar - just explain what happened. If she was so bothered she should have bought one herself and done it more than 1 day before the start of advent.

Frankly, going to 8 shops looking for an advent calendar for a grown woman is ridiculous. Buy her a box of maltesers and be done with it, she can just eat one per day.

She won't be that bothered I'm sure. Just get her a different chocolate one.

I saw loads today in my local Sainsburys

Just get a big bag of Malteser teasers and give her those! Our Tesco had millions of them in yesterday.

The malteaser truffles are amazing, get her a box of them as a last resort?

She is your Mum. She will still love you if you end up with a galaxy or ripple or whatever.

Untitled, I know she will live but I promised her one and now I don't have it. I am the oldest of my siblings, my mum has lost her parents and my dad and therefore she doesnt really dget anything if I don't buy it. Thanks everyone - I've checked Tesco asda and coop as I have them close but not Sainsbury's. There is a big one 10 mins away that I can drive to in the morning, the only reason I didn't go today is because it's in a shopping centre where you have to pay for parking but I think it's 50p all day on Sundays

Thanks seastar I did see those today and they have 11 in I think so it will be 2 boxes and a box of normal malteasers if I can't find the advent :)

Phone your siblings and get them to look in their local shops too, it shouldn't all be your responsiblity. Cut yourself some slack

Wilkos had LOADS in today OP.

Just wanted to add I was going to the other shops anyway but I looked in all of them for the calender and none to be found. I'm not completely sad 😂

They're 14,12 and 4 unfortunately lol so no money. Thank you Untitled, I just like her to get what she wants as she deserves so much more but I'm bloody useless! I'm not sure where my nearest wilkos is either but I'll check 😁

Op you are absolutely lovely!

I went around every supermarket in a 10 mile radius last night to try and get a haribo calendar for DD. She was in the car with me and kept saying 'mam it's fine, I'll have any advent, it's fine let's go home'
And there was me 'no! I promised you haribo! 😂'
I feel your pain OP!

Thanks Frank, I do my best;)
Did you manage to get one gaggia? They had them in my b&m. Actually all the shops seemed to have a few nice ones - except the one I actually need!!

Try ringing Sainsbury's now and see if they have any.

They will put it to one side for you if you promise to go in first thing.

Hope that helps.

Def had them in m local Sainsburys last night - they'd moved them though somewhere quite out of the way so worth asking a member of staff.

I hope you find one.

I was out at the shops today and saw loads of them...bloody typical isn’t it 😖.

Could you buy a blank calendar eg with little drawers and pop a few malteasers in each drawer. Maybe add a little note now and then to make her laugh or tell her how good a mum she is.

I have a spare one! (And was in exactly your shoes last week - always get my lovely mum one and had left it until the last minute, fortunately found a BOGOHP deal in my local Co-Op) Don't suppose you're in the South-East??

Aldi have maltressers ones in too. Good luck.

No, you haven’t ruined Advent. I love malteasers and had a malteaser calendar one year. It was filled with teasers. I bloody hate them! Just get her 24 boxes of real malteasers instead! 😂 that would make me happy!