Today's featured Advent calendar is currently available in Costco. Only you have to go to the Costco superstores in Europe in order to buy it and that's even if you can afford it.
The chocolatier Lindt released for 2024 an Advent calendar that is 5 feet tall. Selling for £180 ($228.10 American), this controversial Advent had made quite a buzz on social media. It barely fits inside a standard shopping cart. People who video themselves attempting to buy the kit can barely lift it. And if critics are the be believed, there's hardly any candy inside.
The calendar has 24 offerings. So you don't even get a prize on Christmas! Most of the chocolate are bon bons. There's a couple of Lindy reindeer which appear to use the same mold as the Lindt Easter rabbit candy. (That's the rumor, anyway.) Also included are several signature Lindt chocolate teddy bears and no less than 4 2-inch tall chocolate Father Christmas treats.
Many are calling this Advent calendar a giant scam. The doors hiding the candies are 3 times the size of the chocolates awaiting inside the box. Folks are unhappy with the amount of repeats. Plus one mathematical critic went and compared prices with a store in the UK and found that the goodies found inside had a retail value of just under £90 (that's just over $114 American.) So basically you'll be paying half of the price in just packaging, most of which isn't recyclable!
As inviting as this calendar looked based on shear size alone, I think I'd be better off if I bought 24 random chocolates at the Lindt store at the mall in Greensboro, NC, bagged them up and randomly withdrew a piece each day up until Christmas. I'd go one better and buy an extra piece to enjoy on December 25th. I know it certainly be easier on my wallet doing that way!
For Day 2 of my Batman Advent Calendar, I had to really dig for it. I first thought I got stiffed. I couldn't find any prize! But in reality, it was so thin and the pouch containing it was so small, that the item had just blended in with the inside of the sleeve. I got this Batman sticker. It's of a very early Batman appearance in Detective Comics and was recently used as part of the art for the back cover of a 75-year retrospective on the Dark Knight by Paul Levitz.
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