I cannot believe there is a Fortnite Advent calendar. We usually do one of the ALDI chocolate ones, but always end up squabbling over who gets to eat the chocolate, haha. My favorite calendar was the LEGO one we did a few years back, where you got to build a tiny LEGO set every day!
@PooltoyWolf I went to Aldi looking for the Advent calendars a few weeks back. Even the cheap chocolate one was sold out. I was disappointed. Last year I managed to buy three for my family right before December.
@PooltoyWolf Clearly you need to buy each person in your family a chocolate Aldi’s advent calendar. And one for me too since there isn’t an Aldi’s within (or trader joes for that matter) 400 miles of here
As kids we had the ones with the little pictures behind the doors. As there were 4 of us kids, we’d take turns opening the door each day. Of course we’d sneak opening, and then closing again, all the doors when no one else was around. I am surprised the doors even stayed shut until the appointed day with all of that going on.
@duodec@f00l@stolicat - ours always had pictures behind the doors - some years religious stuff, other years santa stuff. Always sparkle stuff rimming the doors, in the sky, on the snow…
@duodec@f00l@Kidsandliz@stolicat Yeah - that’s what I thought they only were. Boy am I behind the “times”. Not the exact one I had but this is way more what it was like.
@duodec I actually had the box in my hand and decided to put it back. I’ve regretted that decision. I saw them on the Target website, but they are not available to ship or store pickup. Don’t want one bad enough to pay eBay prices.
I’m still looking for a good but cheap or decent priced beauty advent calendar. Anybody see any that has caught their attention. Or just a really fun one for adults.
@star2236 Target has one for $20. I don’t know if I’d call it “good” but it’s decently priced and right now they have a buy $30 worth of beauty items and get a $10 digital gift card…
QVC’s calendar is showing $39.95 marked down from $69.75.
The fun one I have been enjoying is the Aldi cheese advent calendar and their chocolate truffles one is really fun as well.
I hope you can find a good one!
Our squishy animal calendar has been interesting. It started as just animals and then we got a curve ball of a big snowman followed by a rainbow poo emoji. Today was a snail.
I pulled out a Frozen advent calendar since I’m stuck here. I remember buying it for $5 at Toys-R-Us. Now I’m kinda sad. Hopefully there will be an Olaf to cheer me up.
I want the chocolate ones I have seen on line and experience it first hand
Target has Funko Pop advent calendars on sale plus buy two get one free. Guess who is getting the Fortnight calendar in the mail next week?
@sammydog01 Um…your son?
@therealjrn Wrong!
@sammydog01 @therealjrn you should always buy something fun for yourself!!
@sammydog01 Let’s see…your daughter?
@therealjrn Maybe. We’ll see.
@therealjrn @tinamarie1974 I have a stack to pick from. Maybe Olaf. I need to decide by midnight.
@sammydog01 Ashens hates Funko pops, so I’m more amused. They just look so goofy.
Whisky Advent calendars from Drinks by the Dram.
Too bad they no longer ship to the U.S.
@zachdecker
spiritco does
as does flavier (if i’m spelling that right)
We have four running this year. Aldi Truffles, Aldi Cheese, Aldi Wine, and an actual religious calendar (the reason for the season).
The Atlantic is running a Hubble image Advent calendar.
https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/photo/602827/
@mike808 That will be an interesting site to follow for the next month.
@mike808 nice.
@mike808 @RiotDemon
I have a thing for that mag.
Thx.
@f00l @RiotDemon @kidzandliz @duodec @stolicat @therealjrn @mehcuda67
Day 2. M100
@duodec @f00l @mehcuda67 @RiotDemon @stolicat @therealjrn
Day 3. Saturn
@duodec @f00l @mehcuda67 @RiotDemon @stolicat @therealjrn
Day 4. Mystic Mountain nebula in Carinae.
It’s a stunner.
@duodec @f00l @mehcuda67 @RiotDemon @stolicat @therealjrn
Day 5. Messier 28 globular cluster in Sagittarius.
@duodec @f00l @mehcuda67 @RiotDemon @stolicat @therealjrn
Day 6. The shell of glowing gas from a star exploding.
Day 7. A galaxy, edge on. With a twist.
Day 8. The Red Spider nebula.
Day 9. Double Vision.
Day 10. The Lagoon Nebula.
Another stunner.
Day 11. A bigger, more intense whirlpool than Day 2’s Whirlpool Galaxy (M100).
Day 12. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
“My god, it’s full of … galaxies”.
Day 13. A cosmic smiley face.
Day 14. Twas a dark and stormy night.
Day 15. There’s a light, shining in the darkness…
Do pet Advent Calendars count?
@MrHappypants Only if we get photos of your pets opening them.
I cannot believe there is a Fortnite Advent calendar. We usually do one of the ALDI chocolate ones, but always end up squabbling over who gets to eat the chocolate, haha. My favorite calendar was the LEGO one we did a few years back, where you got to build a tiny LEGO set every day!
@PooltoyWolf I have the lego star wars one this year. Two spaceships so far.
@sammydog01 Awesome!! SPACESHIP!!!
POPSOCKETS! ROAD ROCKETS! SONNY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
@mediocrebot EXACTLY, BOT
@PooltoyWolf I went to Aldi looking for the Advent calendars a few weeks back. Even the cheap chocolate one was sold out. I was disappointed. Last year I managed to buy three for my family right before December.
@PooltoyWolf Clearly you need to buy each person in your family a chocolate Aldi’s advent calendar. And one for me too since there isn’t an Aldi’s within (or trader joes for that matter) 400 miles of here
@PooltoyWolf @RiotDemon They had so many available at the Aldi’s I was at the other day.
I bought my cat a treat Advent calendar from Trader Joe’s.
@ChompyGator I did not see those at TJs. That is such a cute idea. How is your cat enjoying its treats?
@cf1 He likes them as long as I year them I to small bites.
@cf1 @ChompyGator
@cf1 @ChompyGator @sammydog01 lol.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/12/21/mum-realises-daughters-advent-calendar-is-meant-for-cats-far-too-late-8274085/
@cf1 @ChompyGator @sammydog01 it even says Advent calendar for cats on the front.
@cf1 @ChompyGator @RiotDemon @sammydog01 “Mum? This candy tastes funny”
/youtube Ashens 2019 Advent calendar day 2
@RiotDemon I’m disappointed in the loser prize since it seems to be just flavored salt.
@sammydog01 yeah it’s kind of a bummer. I like the years where they had other stupid items.
@RiotDemon Ok today was better.
@sammydog01 oooh, pepper instead!
As kids we had the ones with the little pictures behind the doors. As there were 4 of us kids, we’d take turns opening the door each day. Of course we’d sneak opening, and then closing again, all the doors when no one else was around. I am surprised the doors even stayed shut until the appointed day with all of that going on.
@Kidsandliz
Yeah I don’t quite understand the ones with stuff in them. I’ve never seen one.
I’m going to have to visit Aldi’s or TJ’s to take a look.
@f00l @Kidsandliz ours were just the little cardboard doors with little poems or biblical scenes - the fancy ones had little candy pieces or tiny toys as well. Now they seem to just be marketing vehicles for branded products, like this that came up a couple weeks ago:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/bite-me-in-the-caprine-nethers---november-2019-blame-thread#5dc321b0ff5b130b14ce3c1d
@f00l @Kidsandliz Our religious one just has the cardboard flaps with snippets of scripture behind them. Its this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018BKSFCU/
@duodec @f00l @stolicat - ours always had pictures behind the doors - some years religious stuff, other years santa stuff. Always sparkle stuff rimming the doors, in the sky, on the snow…
@duodec @f00l @Kidsandliz @stolicat Yeah - that’s what I thought they only were. Boy am I behind the “times”. Not the exact one I had but this is way more what it was like.
We have one with lil squishy animals in each door.
@medz sounds cute!!
@medz @tinamarie1974
Making one for SWMBO with selfies and squishy animals.
@mike808 What a coincidence! (the pic) Today’s squishy was a bear.
@medz @mike808 linky to the dad bod calendar here…I like June. Puppy is soooo cute!!
https://www.boredpanda.com/dad-bods-rescue-dogs-2020-calendar/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
I missed out on the Barbie advent calendar when it was available at Aldi
@heartny I saw those; they were available for a few days at one Aldi but sold out at mine the first day.
@duodec I actually had the box in my hand and decided to put it back. I’ve regretted that decision. I saw them on the Target website, but they are not available to ship or store pickup. Don’t want one bad enough to pay eBay prices.
@duodec @heartny ancient religious observances celebrating the potential redemption of all humankind always make me think of Barbie …
@duodec @heartny @stolicat I can see why…
@heartny I snagged one for my niece and she is loving it…that and the book one (Golden Books??)
@chienfou @duodec @heartny Barbie is sort of messianic …
@chienfou @duodec @heartny @stolicat
I’m still looking for a good but cheap or decent priced beauty advent calendar. Anybody see any that has caught their attention. Or just a really fun one for adults.
@star2236 The beauty calendars I have seen have all been really expensive. I just use the kids’ ones.
@star2236 the good ones are all crazy expensive. Check TJ Maxx, they have a few
@tinamarie1974
Thanks
@star2236 Target has one for $20. I don’t know if I’d call it “good” but it’s decently priced and right now they have a buy $30 worth of beauty items and get a $10 digital gift card…
QVC’s calendar is showing $39.95 marked down from $69.75.
The fun one I have been enjoying is the Aldi cheese advent calendar and their chocolate truffles one is really fun as well.
I hope you can find a good one!
@qwerty82
Thanks, I’m gonna check all them out.
My Lego Star Wars advent calendar had Chewbacca cooking a porg leg today. How freaking awesome is that?
@sammydog01 pretty freaking awesome!
VAN MURALS! GROUND SQUIRRELS! SPIT CURLS! AWESOME!
BORG EGGS! PORG LEGS! AWESOME!
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@sammydog01 pics?
@CaptAmehrican My camera sucks so here-
@thismyusername Next year.
For all you booze lovers out there:
https://thespiritco.com/collections/advent-calendars
yes, they ship to the US
The one I bought my son in law is sold out
Our squishy animal calendar has been interesting. It started as just animals and then we got a curve ball of a big snowman followed by a rainbow poo emoji. Today was a snail.
I’m jealous of the cereal calendar.
@sammydog01 I’m so happy they added that in. Nice surprise!
I’m kind of sad it’s over.
@sammydog01 It isn’t over until the Epiphany, or even Candlemas. I had one last small chocolate advent calendar and we are opening door # 2 tonight.
@RiotDemon I got a funko Pop Marvel advent calendar on clearance and just started it. It’s fun too. (I have a spare- are you a Marvel fan?)
@sammydog01 I love marvel, but like Ashens, I’m not a Funko fan.
@RiotDemon But how freaking adorable is tiny little Thor with his tiny little hammer?
@sammydog01 but his face is so weird!
@RiotDemon (Shhh- he’s watching me.)
I pulled out a Frozen advent calendar since I’m stuck here. I remember buying it for $5 at Toys-R-Us. Now I’m kinda sad. Hopefully there will be an Olaf to cheer me up.