The Christian O’Connell ShowAdvent Calendars are one of the best parts of the Christmas countdown.. wait till you hear the Post family alternative
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Just by my daughter's been eighteen and twenty, they still one a Chocolate Advent calendar and this makes me so happy. The little girls they were are still there. They're still alive, the spirit of them Chocolate Advent calendars. As a kid, the Chocolate Advent Canada, opening up the tiny little door, getting the tiny little chocolate was part of the part of Christmas to me, just loved it.
I wasn't allowed to have the chocolate one. We just have the picture one. What do you mean the picture one is just literally that you open the door and you get to look at a new picture each day.
Oh no, child?
And did they wheel that out each year so you knew what was behind it?
Still a new one, same thing made out of.
Mightly one of the saddest things I've heard about a kid.
Christmas were years before I even knew there was chocolate version.
Open it that the old title.
Man, you'd open it and like see picture of a cottage in the snow, Jesus holding a baby Lamb and my brother I still fought over who would open Jealous of your daughters that got the chocolate.
So Patsy, do you what does Ally do? Does she still want the chocolate Advent calendar?
Please? Please please?
So we've graduated from the chocolate one that you get at the supermarket. There's all sorts of retailers that have Advent calendars now. So she loves the sports girl one and it's really cool. They might have like, you know, a hair tie or a lip glass or a scrunchy, something like.
Five.
It is like a month long one jacket's fantastic, So I figure that's probably better.
Three small things.
The hair tie, the scrunchy pretty similar already, the lip glass three weeks to fill.
There's an eye shadow, there's a face mask. It's fantastic. Body do I supposed to say?
This is a this is your Christmas? By the way, you're owning it up each day?
And Rosy the elf? Are you doing the elf yet? With Gordy?
No?
And I didn't have the elf as a kid either.
This is when I moved the elf every night, the elf on the.
Shelves, Elf on the shell I always saw that's a real creepy thing to say to your kid, that there's an old guy watching you online somewhere seeing if you've been.
Good or bad so of Elfie. Rosie normally brings it on December one, I'm sure as.
A kid, no elf no chocolate calendar, no.
Heart actually breaking my heart and perhassly, what about you? Because I I my wife buys me a chocolate advent calendar. I absolutely love it because then when I get up in the morning, you know it cooked bust four and I have little chocolates to treating my cup of tea.
That's my Christmas.
I've never bought one myself, but you can get some brilliant ones like Mecca's got them this.
But what did you have as a kid?
Didn't have them? You know what my mom used.
To do with come on your mum and dad a lovely bit. I bet they did.
Mum did other stuff they weren't around we had. Mum used to get bits.
Of tea around for December, slaughtering ponies obviously the way you paint this black and white sep toned child that never existed of like Uncle's punching men up in the air.
They weren't around twenty We never saw him for Christmas.
I can't remember Mum getting bits of tinsel and she'd thread like life savers on them and she'd make life save in their closes. So that was our version of the Advent calendar. But we'd eat it all at once.
I just love are you getting out in calendar? Yes?
I bought mine, and my parents always used to get us one, and even that smell. I got bought that had been calendar from coals, and I put it up against my nose.
Oh Christmas.
Yes, and then every day you get a little tree, and.
The smallness mates the treat. If it was an entire chocolate bar, you don't enjoy it the same.
But as an adult do you find it difficult to withhold from just opening all the doors? Because how do you not eat one on day one and go? I'll just have to horrifores.
Because a keyword there was because I'm an adult, I have some kind of impulse control.
And also I can just buy chocolate with special.
How good is it though? When you forget one day and then one day you've got like double.
See that's what I like me in a couple of days, and then I just I would I just binge out and have a five door special and then I'll lying on the floor in a sugar heart.
That was but three pictures in one day, century over.
Jesus on a swing was in one of them. Well, I'm going to buy you for Christmas.
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Were you not allowed as a kid or you denied? Poor young Jack? Post toned a chocolate advent calendar? Someone else also the same one that you went with pictures from Debbie. Yes, Jack, we have the same calendar in the nineteen sixties. See it's okay in the nineteen sixties. You're a child of the two thousands, sixties.
Yeah, you get it. The war has ended, you know.
And we had the same But in the nineteen sixties, my nan lived next door and she put it out each year. My brother and I took took a turn to open a day and see the picture.
This was still a cardboard one that was renewed every year, so mom was obviously buying it from somewhere. Someone was selling it, which means there was a market for the picture of vin calendar.
Christian. What was I never allowed as a kid? Listening to you from the Gold Coast today, wanting to Chris my parents this is a shocking one.
Jack.
My parents owned a toy shop when I was a kid and I was denied any new toys. The only toys I was allowed were the ones that have been returned because they were broken.
Chris, No, this is this is Bob Cratchett territory. This is Scrooge.
This is breaking my heart today. No more these ones at Christmas? Right, They're just too sad.
That is so shining. Not for you, young Chris stoic. Can you do more than like a stoic?
Can look at the store you'll get ideas.
Christian, I don't have anything for the show today. I just want to say what the hell's going on with Jack's papers concerns this Christian? Only good Advent Canada is the whiskey one. You'll thank me later, No, Marcus, I won't. Actually, you don't need booze in them.
I can't believe how many alternative to chocolate Advent.
Calendar is there are? The booze ones, naked wines?
Does one so a bottle of wine for the twenty five days of December up until Christmas? At Tiffany's one? Will you get a piece of gold necklaces, earrings, brooches?
Wow, Christian, I had the best Advalent Canada last year I bought the Bilson's Vodka Advalent Canada. It had different a different favorite can of Bilson's vodka behind each window, and there was the added suspense of finding the golden can.
I've got the golden can? Which one you have?
Fully stopped, mini fridge filled with yep, Bilson's vodka, and a tour through the brewery. This was by far the best I find calendar. Let's go to Sarah here. Good morning, Sarah, good morning. So well you denied the chocolate Advent Canada as well as a kid, I think so.
I don't remember having them.
So and what do you do now? Do do you overcorrect?
I absolutely do. Every year I have at least three. You can all get them as well, my children all get them, and my husband.
But this year I've got espresso.
Coffee pods, I've got a perfume calendar, and I've got a Lego calendar.
Well, we three treats every day? Do you one in the morning, one at lunchtime, one in the evening. Do you spread them out?
Sometimes?
Yes?
Sometimes the coffee will obviously be in the morning. In the morning as well, and then.
What's the Lego one break ad day?
No?
No, and you can make your own. Next year's candar made that lego.
No, it makes a Christmas scene. Last year I had.
Harry Pottering more Christmas than Marry Potter.
I also had a cheese Edmund calendar last year and a damn Edmund calendar cheese.
One yes and cheese one's great. Yeah, Sarah, thank you very much.
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