Aside from all the obvious stuff – the food, the gifts, the sparkly Christmas songs – there’s one thing we really love about the festive season: getting the best advent calendar.
As a child, being allowed to eat chocolate every single day for seemingly no reason was utterly thrilling – even better if we were getting something like Lego with it, too.
And while the thrill of scoffing a chocolate at 8am is still just as good in adulthood, there are also more and more options out there if you’re looking for something a little bit more grown up.
From make-up to booze, there’s an ever-expanding variety of advent calendars designed to make every day of December a little bit more special.
Here’s our guide to the best of the bunch.
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