chocolate advent calendars epitomize everything that is wrong with the world today

[emkana]

bit OTT non?

Ill get me goat.

And choc advent calendars are right at the top of the list when it comes to Bad Things aren't they?

I do have strongish feelings on advent calendars, oddly enough. Daft but fun

Advent calendars represent Lurking Evil.

I particularly like a Simpsons Advent calendar. It's a nice shade of yellow and red which will be my Christmas colour theme this year.

I saw that article and I agreed with every word. I even read it to DH.

Chocolate advent calendars are my pet hate of hates.

But it's chocolate! for children! It makes them happy! It's probably half the size of what they might usually get!

If you worry about This Kind Of Thing then surely, surely, there are bigger villains in the Commercialization of Christmas Hall of Shame?

yeah i see your point, i find it a strange thing to be represenative of what is wrong with society though or more accurately epitomizing what is wrong. I do believe constant analysing can be negtive though and this is one instance where i feel it is too simplistic. We could all sit and attribute problems with society with something we feel strongly about but i just find it bizarre i guess.

oh twinklr, you are marverlarse

advent calendars are a perfect pocket-sized example of the commercialisation of christmas

good grief

har - one of the presents is batteries

pocket-sized can be very handy, though.

You know, advent calendars are in themselves freakish. It's turning the baby cheezarse into a game for kids. i think that's fine, with or without choc, but I think it is stretching things to say that non-choc calendars are 'the true meaning etc' but choc ones are the devil's sweetmeat.

m,y advent calender does not fit in my pocket
My children are not slaves to the commercial side of xmas, in fact my dd's xmas list was so humble, she wanted a snow globe, a pad to write music on, anew camping chair as her old one is broken and a high school muiscal dress up doll... that is it.

A chocolate advent calendar is all about "instant gratification" isn't it? The advent calendar should be about the gradual build up of excitement from door 1 to door 24 (no door 25 in this house either lol). Now if the chocolate just came at door 24 that would be OK IMO. Except that's Christmas Eve and I'm sure a solitary choc wouldn't add much to a child's excitement on that day.

No. it's the total opposite of instant gratification. you have to wait till a certain time every day. Then you have one at a time, until you reach the end.

I'm sorry to say that dd has been given 4 advent calendars this year. Half of them contain chocolates. I can't even begin to think where this puts us in the catalogue of things that are wrong with the world today. But she is learning her numbers beautifully.

Whatever the calnedar it serves the same purpose IMO.

Hello, onebat, by the way. You are looking very festive.

hello Iorek! You need some snow in there, m'dear.
or IorekByrnisonOnIce? It's a vivid picture, no?

Actually, had this article appeared a year or so ago, in the midst of the excesses of the noughties boom, I might have been quite sympathetic. But now that the end of the commercial world is nigh, I am full of apocalyptic thoughts, and have the idea that chocolate advent calendars are a luxury belonging to a world that is fast disappearing. We should cherish the chocolate advent calendar while we can. Perhaps soon they will exist only as a memory of better times, like marrons glaces or bananas in wartime.

IorekByrnisOnIce?

Iorek: Do what I do and go down to Poundstretcher the second week of January - you can buy tons for about 30p each and eat the chocolates when DC are in bed save them for the crueller harsher future of midwinters yet to come.

YES! Iorek, do it now!

Stockpiling, sgb? What else is in your cellar? (she will be profiteering this time next year, you mark my words..)

IMO if the we'd all not bought Advent Calendars this year we would have caused a run on the pound and eventually brought the country to its knees. it was our patriotic duty.