Advent calendars (lighthearted)

[SephrinaX]

At the ripe old ages of 38 and 36, my mum has decided that my sister and I are 'too old' for her to buy us advent calendars.

Our argument is that we are her children and it is her parental duty to provide us with them still.

Who is BU?

She’s not your mum 🤷‍♀️

mine has bought me a kinder bueno one 🥳

I’m 48

We were in Germany until mid 80s and I had never been aware of them before then though maybe it was because we then had children. If we came back to the UK for October half term we had to make an effort to find them, not easy as the Germans didn't start Christmas as early as the UK, otherwise we would post them in November.

LTM (leave the mother)

I once had a lovely pork scratchings one. This year I've got Rituals, DH has got Tony's Chocolonely and DD has got some fancy beauty one. Not bought by my mum, I'm 63!

My favorite are the whisky ones, me and DH splurge every year. Definitely not sharing that one, we buy one for each of us.

@SephrinaX chocolate ones were definitely around in the 90s because I worked in a shop then and I had a poor woman dashing in on November 30th desperate for ones because her dog had eaten the ones she had hidden in the wardrobe. Cardboard packaging and all apparently.

YMIBU. Also in my 30s, and my mum's got me a mince pie one this year. I've actually just set my alarm 10 mins early for it tomorrow 😋

My Mum gets me the M&S beauty advent calendar! 😄 I'm nearly 44!

I said I wasn’t buying my 2 an advent calendar as they were too old at 22 and 20 however dd guilt tripped me into buying them one… as she’s always had one!

I will be the obligatory " you're lucky you have a mum to buy you one". I'd be totally sarcastic though. I couldn't tell you when my mother last got me an advent calendar, I do know it was when they were just pictures behind the door. The saddest part of all is, that my nanna bought the original calendar and it was then produced for years. My parents weren't poor either.
My ds is 18, do I or don't I?

I can remember chocolate ones arriving on the scene and my mum clutching her pearls about them. It must have been the early 80s. I was so jealous of my friend’s ones, so I nagged and nagged and after a couple of years my mum caved.

I can remember it really vividly; it was that really cheap nasty chocolate that tastes horrible, and the pictures were crap because you couldn’t see them properly behind the plastic moulding for the chocolates. Totally rubbish. I had to eat my way through that whole nasty calendar because “You demanded it, you eat it!”

I asked for a traditional cardboard one the following year and never looked back, because obviously all chocolate advent calendars are equally rubbish.

I have now totally indoctrinated my own kids against them too. No chocolate advent calendars in this house; just lovely picture ones. 😁