The 25th day of advent...

[anonymous-user]

I thought I'd come to Pistonheads to settle this debate, because you're all sane, rational, reasonable people

Advent calendars. I'm 45, a child of the 80s and 90s. I would stake my testicles on the fact that I never once had an advent calendar with 25 doors. It was always 23 doors and a larger or double door for the 24th. There was never anything for Christmas day. A friend insists that there was always a door for the 25th and that I'm a lunatic.

FIGHT.

[LimaDelta]

Concur.

[Alpacaman]

Advent ends on the 24th December, I never remember any advent calendar with 25 doors. I can't comment on if you are a lunatic or not.

[twing]

Always 24 for me, maybe because Germans do the present thing on the 24th?

[Jasandjules]

It's 24.

[NDA]

I saw a Pork Scratching advent calendar with 25 scratchings.

[2xChevrons]

Exasperated said:

I thought I'd come to Pistonheads to settle this debate, because you're all sane, rational, reasonable people

Advent calendars. I'm 45, a child of the 80s and 90s. I would stake my testicles on the fact that I never once had an advent calendar with 25 doors. It was always 23 doors and a larger or double door for the 24th. There was never anything for Christmas day. A friend insists that there was always a door for the 25th and that I'm a lunatic.

FIGHT.

Broadly the same age as you and I agree with you - my advent calendars as a kid all had 24 doors (23 normal ones and one big one for Christmas Eve).

We did always get fairly 'traditional' advent calendars though - just card with Christmassy images behind the doors. Our parents didn't go in for the TV/Film/Chocolate Bar themed ones with treats behind the doors. These seem to go for the 25-door design.

So it probably depends on how close your advent calendar hews to the Victorian/Christian tradition, since the religious Advent season very definitely ends when Christmas Eve becomes Christmas Day (see also those places in Europe where the Christmas celebrations actually happen on the evening of the 24th, not the 25th).

[anonymous-user]

NDA said:

I saw a Pork Scratching advent calendar with 25 scratchings.

And who doesn't want to start the day with a bag of cold, crunchy and far-too-salty pork fat?

[anonymous-user]

2xChevrons said:

We did always get fairly 'traditional' advent calendars though - just card with Christmassy images behind the doors. Our parents didn't go in for the TV/Film/Chocolate Bar themed ones with treats behind the doors. These seem to go for the 25-door design.

I remember the traditional, card ones with mere images behind the doors, [partridge]but then my father received a promotion at work, so we could afford the Mars and Cadbury ones.[/partridge]

[Skodillac]

24 is canon.

All else is aberration unto the Lord.

Chocolates in the things is wrong too, whilst I'm here. It should just be pictures, a mix of secular and religious. And you re-use the same one every year.

Yours, child of the 70s who lived in a house which had wheels.