Who brings Advent Calender's?

[nickdrakeslovechild]

DD is nearly 5 so fully into Christmas this year. She is asking about the advent calenders. I am tempted to bring them out tomorrow ready to open on Thursday but OH says no they just appear on the 1st. Is that the general thing to do? and if so, who brings / buys the Advent Calender's and do your LO see them before the 1st?

No one

Me. I don't make advent calendars a thing.

I bought mine in the supermarket yesterday. The dcs chose them.

Great, thank you for your replies.

We have an elf, and I did think they should bring it, but they do funny stuff each day and Santa brings all the presents so wanted to check what the "norm" was.

I put a lot of work into the advent calenders so wanted a bit of credit for something

I don't think there is any "norm".

It wasn't the norm to have an Elf until fairly recently.

We put up the calendar together (a thing I made when pregnant with DS, a Christmas baby). We don't do elf, don't have a Christmas Eve hamper, don't visit a store/garden centre FC, don't do ice skating/Christmas market, don't have Christmas bedding, don't have a North Pole breakfast.

I don't want to come across as bashong anyone who does do some or all of the above, I just think our Christmas is magical enough. Plus I don't have either the spare cadh for all that or the will power to organise so much - and neither does DH.

We have the tree, the lights, thevdecs (soooooo many decs!), dvds, biccy-making, crafts, walks in the woods in the evening with a torch collecting pine cones etc, hot chocolate, candy cane reindeer....

My daughter picked her own in the shops last week, I always did the same when I was a child. I would have been gutted if I had got one with a picture on that I didn't want lol!

We put up the calendar together (a thing I made when pregnant with DS, a Christmas baby). We don't do elf, don't have a Christmas Eve hamper, don't visit a store/garden centre FC, don't do ice skating/Christmas market, don't have Christmas bedding, don't have a North Pole breakfast.

Nor do we. Never have never will. It sounds utterly knackering. Mind you, I am so retro that we even go to church on Xmas day!