Advent Calendars 2018 - delight or disappointment

[FelicityLemon]

Due to having a birthday not long before Advent starts I now have two calendars.
Yankee Candle - Day one - green tealight and holder - pine scented. I wouldnt usually buy a pine candle but it's quite pleasant.
Joe and Seph's popcorn - today was salted caramel, quite nice, not so exciting I'd buy a full size bag.

I couldn't find an agent calendar I liked within my budget so a friend and I did an advent swap. So this morning I got a lovely travel size bottle of molton brown pink pepper corn shower gel..... very happy with that

Advent not agent

I have a stationery one from tinc. Off to a good start with a giant highlighter!

I gave in and bought the soap and glory one today (half price )
I had a star shaped body wash in mine .
Looking forward to tomorrow.

@crazyhairbear Agent calendar sounds very exciting, shame you corrected it as I was thing what an agent calendar would have in , maybe secret spy things 😁

Thinking not thing ☹️

My DC were delighted to find mini Lindor balls in their refillable calendar. Apparently I have gone upmarket from the usual supermarket chocolate, but they fear it will go downhill as the month goes on. They may be correct - tomorrow has a Wilko’s chocolate coin

I have the Lindt one - was quite disappointed with the mini Lindt snowball inside! It was so tiny!!! I’m hoping it gets better than this

Oh dear Sparkling I didn't think the mini Lindor could get any smaller than the usual ones.

I bought myself the Boots No 7 and got a facial scrub.
I actually for the first time EVER got bought one as a surprise.
The rather luxurious Molton Brown one - gold shimmery Christmas Bauble of bubble bath

I have a Lindt calendar, and was very happy with a mini Lindt reindeer

I have three....

M&S - L'occitane shower gel - pleased as I've never used the brand before
Rituals - a handwash. I feel this could have been more exciting but it's a decent size
Elle - a small Nars blush. It is tiny, but it's Nars afterall.

Poppy, you never know it could have secret agent spy gadgets in... there was no rules on the contents

Ds loves his quality street one , he was expecting plain chocolate and was surprised when it was an individual quality street
I have the glossybox calendar and today I got a nars lipgloss. I just love the actual packaging of the calendar.

I too have 3:
Glossybox - Nars lip gloss, not my colour but felt nice to wear!

Body Shop (Deer one) - Peppermint candy cane shower gel, smelt nice but when I actually used it I felt like I'd washed with mouthwash

Nivea - original lip balm stick, handy for my handbag!

I feel like I may have gone overboard with 3 this year but it's the first year I've been able to afford to treat myself so hey ho!

I was v excited to open my yankee candle one today. Cant wait to get the macaroon one

@JustLurkingAway Good for you , I'm sure you deserve and why not treat yourself .
I got the soap and glory calendar and the sanctuary Xmas box both half price today in boots and shop assistant said presents ??? I said no all for me because I work hard and so deserve it 😁

Mil bought DH and I an advent calendar each and wrapped then for us to open this morning. It sounds so ungrateful as we were really disappointed, one was a Lindt and the other a Green and Black's but both calendars were 70% chocolate ones and neither if us like 70%!! So, so disappointed! If I'd known I'd have bought my own.

I didn't get one this year I might see what's on offer. Ive had m&s and Selfridges ones before and loved them.
Someone in the know has warned me that you need to keep the Yankee candle ones quite cool, there's something in the candles that reacts with the box to cause the box to get damaged but they're supposed to have some really good treats inside this year.

The boys smiggle 🐬 went down well this morning

DH got a mcvities biscuit one. Great start. He loves it.

DS got Haribo. Happy enough.

I got a decleor instead of marks and spencer this year. It’s been completely opened as I needed travel sizes for work. I know it’s not the point but I can’t tell you how disappointed I am with it. Complete waste of money.

WWYD, why was it a disappointment?

I don't have one!

My daughter has the Whittard's tea one, which she is very happy with. English Rose tea this morning, apparently.

I got the Kelloggs one. I got a full size chocolate rice crispy square this morning which I was absolutely delighted with. I can't wait to see what's in tomorrow's. It might be a pop tart!

Enjoying my M&S one so far! Got it for the first time last year and it was a delight. I have high hopes of a repeat.