Three 'beauty' advent calendars for a grown woman?

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I've just seen someone posting that she's got three beauty advent calendars to open this year.

When did this become a thing? Surely it's wasteful, expensive and completely unnecessary?

Call me Scrooge

FWIW, my parents gave me one last year with tea.
I enjoy tea and enjoyed ‘discovering’ a new tea each day. And I went to buy some tea with them in January. Only to be quite quite disappointed with it so I stopped 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

But … it worked…

This year, they did the same thing with another brand and so far it’s crap… because actually some of them are just there for show (nice box etc…) and have crap in them too. Basic rip off.

I must be odd but I don’t like using masses of products on my skin, especially my face. I do react badly sometimes so I tend to use my trusted products. So these advent calendars are not for me.

@icedcoffees

How is it wasteful if the products are going to be used?

Tiny bottles, tubes etc=more packaging. That's why it's wasteful.

@SexyNeckbeard

The thing about being an adult is that you can do whatever you want and whatever makes you happy. Did you not get a decent advent calandar this year? Are you jealous?

Ofgs. Always the ' just jealous' poster. Yes, if I think it's crazy I'm just jealous. Never mind that in my case all those products would bring me out in a rash that would take weeks to clear. No-one can criticise anything except through jealousy.🙄🙄🙄🙄

Things traditionally for women - beauty, bags, nails etc are all ridiculed as unnecessary and flippant and a waste. It is misogyny. It's no more of a waste that items men buy. I remember once my dad ridiculing DM's silly 'lotions and potions' whilst carefully organising his hundreds of mad expensive fishing lures and floats. Even at 10 the hypocrisy wasn't lost on me.

@festivefuschias

If the products get used then what’s the issue? I have two and they both include full sized products that I use anyway, so it was a cheaper way of getting those with some new products to try. I don’t post about them on social media though.

Beauty products are my thing. Clothes and shoes aren’t; I only buy clothes and shoes when I actually need them, so if a jumper gets a hole that’s behind repair then I’ll replace it and I have clothes that are many years old. I think fast fashion is far more wasteful.

Because actually there is no way to know if the person is going to use them.

The product might be crap or nit to the taste of the person. It seems my tea advent calendar will go in the bin because if that.
It might just not be the taste of the person.
And the person might well already have plenty of said product or at least some of them.

It’s basic consumerism.

And yes it might be enjoyable. But the bottom line is that it might also not be iyswim, esp when you have 3 of the same.

I mean I see your point about the environmental impact. Especially considering most are made up of both cardboard and plastic. Saying that though, how much difference is it going to make when year round we're buying so much one use plastic in the supermarkets? We should start there if we're serious about waste.

But you're welcome to judge my house OP because I've even bought the dog her own advent calendar

@ThePoisonousMushroom

I actually love the idea of someone sat with their pursed lips judging while I merrily consume the gin that came in my advent calendar. Makes it taste all the sweeter!

At 9.00am?

I've never been interested in them. To me there's no point in having loads of all sized products that I didn't pick myself. But we're all different and some people will like them. Why does anyone like anything?

@TheMirrorReflects

Scrooge

hahahaha yes

I get them every year as a gift from my MIL.

I love them personally

If she enjoys them and can afford them, where's the harm? There'll be plenty of adults that don't have any advent calendars. The balance is there.

At 9.00am?

Well, no. But I assume that those judging it at 9am won’t have had a big change of heart by 8pm, and will still be judging 🤷🏻‍♀️.

I don’t like things like beauty boxes and beauty advent calendars because I’ve got very sensitive skin and because some of the products might be tested on animals. But I suppose if people like them then that’s up to them.

Just come on here to say please stop being such a Scrooge. If you want to judge others, do it quietly not on a public forum. Just because it's not your thing....Whatever happened to #bekind

@Bigassbeebuzzbuzz

I wondered this yesterday when everyone posted their families advent calendars on Facebook. My dc must feel hard done by because they only got 1 £2 chocolate advent calendar each. Some dc had 5 advent calendars! Personally I wouldn't have one (maybe a chocolate one) but if that's what people want to buy it's got nothing to do with me.

I must admit, this blew my mind a little, I saw quite a few kids who had 3/4/5 advent calendars! I got my daughter just a dairy milk one and she's happy enough with that. As you say though, each to their own with that sort of thing.

I’m with you op, but I also think gift wrapped toiletries in general is a waste of money. I’m very specific about what I chose and hate cluttered bathroom. Pretty beauty sets is my Christmas nightmare

I would be really surprised if every single item just happened to be something that the person was definitely going to buy anyway.

I suspect half the items will be unused or used once and will end up in landfill.

Things traditionally for women - beauty, bags, nails etc are all ridiculed as unnecessary and flippant and a waste. It is misogyny.

I actually see more threads on here complaining about men and their stupid wasteful hobbies, than about women and their beauty products!

@ThePoisonousMushroom

I actually love the idea of someone sat with their pursed lips judging while I merrily consume the gin that came in my advent calendar. Makes it taste all the sweeter!

See....a Gin one I could get behind A wine would do too!

@knittingaddict

I can't bring myself to conden them despite having no interest in one myself. However a hand dyed yarn advent is a whole other story and I would love one. I mean really really love one. Maybe soon. 🧶

Jodyri designs do a hand dyed thread (for cross stitch etc) advent so a hand dyed yarn one isn’t outside the realms of possibility

@toconclude begrudging someone else a little bit of daily joy because you have bad skin is very odd. You know you can get all sorts, from socks, to whisky, chocolate etc - it's not all face creams you know.

Like someone else said maybe focus on making yourself happier so you don't feel the need to judge others for what makes them happy.

@ThePoisonousMushroom

*At 9.00am?*

Well, no. But I assume that those judging it at 9am won’t have had a big change of heart by 8pm, and will still be judging 🤷🏻‍♀️.

Ah, tell them you started at 9am. By 8pm they'll be desperate for something new to have a moralistic flap over, they'll be delighted to have more fodder. It'll be the perfect Christmas gift for them, no waste or capitalism. Tell them you gave it to your four year old as well. Tell them you bathe in the stuff when you're out of ass's milk.

My Mum bought me a tea one, it's a brand of tea that I already buy and it's a nice way of getting to sample different ones. Yes, it's a marketing ploy, but it works for me too, as I don't have to buy a box of each flavour. There's no extra plastic, as the calendar is a piece of card.

Ah, tell them you started at 9am. By 8pm they'll be desperate for something new to have a moralistic flap over, they'll be delighted to have more fodder. It'll be the perfect Christmas gift for them, no waste or capitalism. Tell them you gave it to your four year old as well. Tell them you bathe in the stuff when you're out of ass's milk

I did actually debate replying ‘yeah why not? It’s Christmas after all ’, but I thought MN might implode with self righteousness.
I wonder what gin is like in coffee?

@Kokeshi123

I would be really surprised if every single item just happened to be something that the person was definitely going to buy anyway.

I suspect half the items will be unused or used once and will end up in landfill.

Things traditionally for women - beauty, bags, nails etc are all ridiculed as unnecessary and flippant and a waste. It is misogyny.

I actually see more threads on here complaining about men and their stupid wasteful hobbies, than about women and their beauty products!

They're more about men doing their hobbies for far longer than women get to do anything fun. As you know.