Did you buy an advent calendar to count down the days until Christmas this year? If so, let us know how much you spent.
Did you start opening doors on an advent calendar from last Wednesday? Having noticed a wide variety of shapes, sizes and content this year I’m curious to know how much you usually spend, and what style of advent calendar you usually opt for, whether it’s for yourself or as a gift.
I’ve seen advent calendars offering everything from the chocolates you’d usually expect, to toys and scented candles – there are even selfie calendars allowing you to take a yuletide inspired snap as a build up to the big day.
Christmas memories
As someone with a daughter who’s just turned five years old I get to experience again what it was like with the build up of an advent calendar and other traditions, such as writing letters to Santa and seeing her make an enormous Christmas present list!
We generally stick to a pretty standard Cadbury-style advent calendar costing between ÂŁ7 and ÂŁ10 – my little one is made up when she gets to see which one we’ve picked out for her each year.
But a quick Google search reveals some calendars costing ÂŁ50 and up! Many of them seem to be aimed at adults with premium/luxury offerings appearing to be quite popular.
But I’ve also seen kids’ advent calendars at the premium end of the scale as well – there’s a Lego Star Wars one on sale on Amazon for more than ÂŁ80!
Which? takes a look at the best kids’ advent calendars
How much is too much?
Everyone celebrates the holidays in different ways, with some going all out while others are more subtle. I’ve been taken aback by some of the prices I’ve seen lately, but how much should an advent calendar cost?
Loading ...Let me know how much you usually spend on an advent calendar each year in the comments, and tell us about your other Christmas traditions and memories of building up to Christmas Day.
