Picture Advent Calendars in the 1980s

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DH and I have just had a festive discussion : disagreement.

AIBU to ask you - if you had a picture advent calendar as a child, we are mid 40s so perhaps in that era or before or after, did you get a new picture advent calendar every year, or reused the one you were given for years (decades..)

if you remember - what was the scene in your advent calendar / favourite calendar?

Same one every year !

@muddyford I’m sorry for your loss, I hope your first Christmas wasn’t too difficult. I’m considering buying myself a beautiful picture calendar that I can open every year. Merry Christmas.

Thank you so much. MN can be such a kind place. The weeks before were actually worse . But Advent calendars will always remind me of Mum.

I got a new one every year. Mum ordered it from the Webb Ivory catalogue I’d bring home from school.

Why on earth does it ruin advent calendars? No one is forcing you to buy a chocolate one. They aren’t that new either. I’m 41 and most of my advent calendars contained chocolate.

Gosh Webb Ivory! They went on to be studio j think. I completely forgot about that. Much excitement, we also had a Christian book fair where I’d buy lots of stickers and Christmas bits. Very nostalgic!

I'm in my 50s and they weren't around in my childhood. It's ruined them because picture ones are almost impossible to find nowadays. Chocolate ones have taken over.

This!

Born 1978 and generally had a new one every year I think, though we sometimes reused them. My absolute favourite was one where you removed each square door and carefully turned it over and there was a numbered sheet above the calendar to stick each square to gradually build up a nativity picture. I had this one at least 2 years running in the mid 80s.

My two younger DBs pleaded strongly for chocolate ones when they became mainstream (? Late 80s?) and I was pretty horrified that DM allowed this. I was a very moralistic child, despite not being religious, and felt strongly that these detracted from the meaning of Christmas and lowered the tone, as well as encouraging excessive chocolate consumption.

Reused. Then a shared chocolate one between four of us. One chocolate every four days.

ours was a glittery one with pictures behind every window, reused every year (through the 80s) - we never ever had chocolate advent calendars.

We still have these and love them. No one ever asks for chocolate.