Once you pass the age of eighteen, eating tiny squares of chocolate each morning tends to evoke less excitement and more existential guilt, and so the quiet thrill of normal advent calendars passes you by.
No one tells you, though, that this is replaced by an even greater adult thrill — the discovery of the luxury advent calendar. Yes, it’s about three hundred pounds more expensive and yes, it’s a slightly insane purchasing decision, but it’s often worth it for the thousands of pounds worth of products packed in, at a fraction of the price.
