Advent Calendars! Do you think you are too old?

[Rose and Thorn]

It is that time of the year, in ten days it is December first and for many that will be the first chocolate out of their advent calendar. Some might look at me and call me too old to have one, but I enjoy them and always have. I feel the calendar helps get me in the holiday spirit!

For those of you who do not know what an advent calendar is, it is a special calendar that has chocolate bits inside of it. Every day has a different chocolate inside, and the idea is to eat one chocolate every day like a sort of count down to the 24th. Which is usually the biggest chocolate.

I go all out and get the fancy calenders, no fake plastic tasting all-mart calenders for me.

Question is do you still get one? Do you think someone can be too old for one? Do you think YOU are told old for one. How old is too old?

 

[Marter]

My grandparents have gotten one for me and my sister for as long as I can remember. At this point, it would be weird for them not to do it, you know?

I'm sure at some point there will be an age (reached either by me, as the oldest, or my grandparents, as they get too old to do that kind of thing) that is reached and the tradition will stop, but it's not this year.

 

[madwarper]

Growing up, my family has 2 "advent" calendars.

One where you moved a mini stuffed bear around his house while he searched for Christmas, eventually ending in his family room with tree and presents. And, one that was a Christmas tree with little velcro ornaments you'd attach until the 25, when the baby was put on the top of the tree.

I doubt they would really be considered proper "advent" calendars, since they lacked any biblical verses you'd find on the doors of the ones hiding the chocolates.

 

[Esotera]

We have an advent calendar at work where each day there is a free bottle of wine for someone in our department. So no, I'm never too old

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Growing up, my family has 2 "advent" calendars.

One where you moved a mini stuffed bear around his house while he searched for Christmas, eventually ending in his family room with tree and presents. And, one that was a Christmas tree with little velcro ornaments you'd attach until the 25, when the baby was put on the top of the tree.

I doubt they would really be considered proper "advent" calendars, since they lacked any biblical verses you'd find on the doors of the ones hiding the chocolates.

Thats actually interesting, I have never heard of traditions like those ones. Creative! Those sound like traditions that have been in the family for a long time. My Advent Calander is from Lindt, so no biblical verses on mine.

We have an advent calendar at work where each day there is a free bottle of wine for someone in our department. So no, I'm never too old

Hmmmm, sounds like my advent calender tradition could use an upgrade. Good idea.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I stop getting those many years ago. I already know I'm too old for them seeing how these days I had less sweet compared to my former self during the high school years (I'm taken care of my teeth).

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

One where you moved a mini stuffed bear around his house while he searched for Christmas, eventually ending in his family room with tree and presents.

We actually had one very similar to that.

When I was little my parents had one with a little stuffed mouse wearing pajamas and a Santa hat that you would move each day. My sister and I would take turns moving the mouse each morning before school.

We never kept advent calendars with chocolate in them because my dad had a reputation as both a late night snacker and a forager. If there wasn't anything in the kitchen that he was in the mood to snack on, he'd look elsewhere in the house, and regularly ate things that didn't belong to him. One year we tried to do advent calendars with chocolate, and he ended up eating all of the chocolates out of them after the first week.

This was nothing new for him. We used to have to actually hide the Halloween candy each year to prevent him from eating it all before Halloween. One year we thought we were being clever by hiding it inside the base of a grandfather clock. Somehow he managed to find it and eat all of it over the course of a few weeks, leaving just the empty bags for us to find on Halloween morning.

He always made a point to replace the things he ate (often giving back double what he took), but it was still best to avoid the issue all together and not have the snack foods in the house to begin with.