How much have you spent on Advent Calendars?

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As a child we just had a picture advent calendar to share. Not even a chocolate one.
I have been looking at the threads where you all share what your advent calendar reveals on the day, and feel like I’m missing out.
So I thought I’d treat my self to one (better late than never) but I am shocked by the price of some of them £80! And it may not even contain much that you’d use. And some of you have bought two or three for other family members.
So go on, shock me some more with how much you have spent this year.

£1 for a Trolls chocolate calendar for DS, and £7 for a beautiful Richard Sellmer Little Town paper one "for us to share". It was really meant for me, but he loves it!

We adults don't have them here (eg the gin one's a rip-off, we put a bottle of Bombay sapphire in the freezer instead when it was on offer last week).
Kids:one off purchase of personalised pocket calendars years ago, and we fill them with pound coins in each pocket, so £48 plus the cost of chocolates etc to fill - some Lindt Father Christmasses, candy canes, mini Millions packets etc. Also a Haribo one each and 2 advent calendars for the dog, because she looks sad when they open theirs and they argue over who gives her the treat! 😂

I loved the picture ones when I was a child!

£99 for my L’OCCITANE
£60 for DH Lilley's cider Advent
£40 for DC2 super Mario advent
£10 for DC1 Lynx advent
£3 for two dairy milk chocolate advents for DC

God probably about £60 as I buy then for my daughter £10 it was a book one and I am encouraging reading so money well spent.

Then my mum, dad, nephew, sister, DH, me plus we buy for alder hey hospital also.

About £60 (£20 x 3 hotel chocolat; other 2 children didn't want one)

@Aroundtheworldin80moves can I ask what your mystery calendar is? I would love one where you get to solve something!

£200 on mine, cult beauty one. Launched just after my birthday and thought I’d treat myself.
£12 Reeses one and 2 £1 malteser ones for the dc. They also have a £20 Lego Harry potter one.
They do choose their own advent calendars, they could have had what they wanted but that’s what they chose!

Nothing at all! My DC had a beautiful picture one that we got out each year as a family tradition, but they are grown up now.
My birthday is in late November, and this year, as one of my presents, my DC got me a six foot tall red felt Santa with 24 Advent pockets in his robe. In each pocket they put a chocolate, along with hand written jokes and riddles, and little notes saying what they liked about me!
It was so personal, loving and thoughtful that I have been moved to tears reading the first three so far.
I can’t imagine any expensive commercial version could possibly give more happiness.

I don't know. I bought the Fenwick and the Liberty calendars. What does it matter. I planned to buy them months ago and saved up. It's a large part of my Xmas gift and I absolutely love both of them.
Feels utterly luxurious and I am very grateful. I know what's it's like to have a multipack of knickers as your only gift and I will always appreciate what I have.
Going to reuse them for the kids next year and fill with things they would love

89p for a calendar from Lidl

I bought 2

One for each child

About £120. I buy for DH and 4 DC, at about £20 each. This year DH and DS3 have Lego, DS1 a posh Lindt one, DS2 coffee and DD Schleich horses.

I prefer to get them ones with ‘stuff’ they will keep/play with/enjoy rather than a daily chocolate. DS1 isn’t interested in anything other than food though

I bought them all remotely which pushed up the prices

£27 ish for a mineral and fossil one that hadn’t arrived

£6.50 for a normal Cadbury one from Amazon (should have been much cheaper in the supermarket). DS knows this is what he ikes and isn’t jealous of the spend on others

£40 for revolution beauty one

£10.99 I think for a picture one! This is mine a bit pricy but I am really enjoying it

£8 for a cheese one that I did get in the supermarket.

That’s one each for 5 members of the family. Over £90 it is quite ridiculous. I still think the picture ones are the best.

£1 a cheap peppa pig one for my 3 year old DS, I’m sorry but they all seem like paying over the odds for tat to me and not at all worth the money!

3 x chocolate ones from M&S £6
Filling the reusable one £8
Lego Harry Potter £20

We've got a reusable one that we fill with sweets every year. So 2-3 pounds on 24 sweets each for 5 dc.

£3 I have three children..all in their twenties...that still love a Cadbury advent calendar 🎄🎄

I spent £5 (reduced from £8!) on the 3D dairy milk tower one and my dd 8 isn't impressed at all, it's just basically a selection box in a calendar. I think she prefers the cheap chocolate from a Poundland one to be honest. Chocolate calendars weren't a thing when I was growing up in the 70's!

£7 total - £2 for dd who wanted Cadburys and £5 for ds who is fussy and wanted lindt

£12 on 3 Thornton's personalised advent calendars £6 each (buy 2 get 1 free, it was so worth having that extra child!)

£1 from M&S - as well as a chocolate each day there is also a fact about the solar system

First off, £3 on a catnip treat one for the cat. He —stole and ate— found it November though so I got another one for £3.

Then Sainsburys reduced them to £1.50 so I got another couple either for next year or just so he can have an occasional treat . Use by date is mid 2022.

2.00 on ds ( dairy milk chocolate one )
20.00 on dd - Polly pocket

We are not really in to the whole “ toy “ calendars my DS Always just had a normal one with small chocolate in it.
DD can not eat so she gets a toy one but If she could eat she would get the same as DS.

£3 for two for the kids

?3 for 3