Where's my 77 Chocolates?

When I was a kid, regardless of your actual tie to the RELIGIOUS side of them, ADVENT calendars were something every kid in my neighbourhood anxiously looked forward to every December.

25 days of FREE chocolates, sometimes with neat little pictures in a weird “open a door over HERE today” puzzle format? YUSSS PLZ.

Today: They’re a little different.

There’s high end ones with ultra swanky chocolates. Kinder ones my son’s been basically SCREAM crying about for weeks, NON-food edition ones (for those with allergies, brilliant).   HELL, there’s ADULT Versions like WINE Advent Calendars or BREW based ones. Even a How-to on making YOUR OWN!

That’s not where it gets weird though.   “32” is where it gets weird.

The classic ‘$2 for a calendar” has made a switch from the traditional(read: OLD SCHOOL) 25 days… to 32.

Which means, you get a little waxy AWFUL-ANY-OTHER-TIME-OF-THE-YEAR-BUT-UNREAL-DURING-THE-DOOR-OPENING-PERIOD now for 32 STRAIGHT DAYS.

Not the 25 WE got when we were kids.

That’s 7 EXTRA DAYS OF FUN/CHOCOLATE/I’MTRYINGTOMAKEAPOINTHERE.

WHERE’S OUR EXTRA 7 DAYS WORTH?

I demand 77 AWFUL Chocolates, delivered TO THE STUDIO, from the makers of these newfangled 32 days calendars.

That’s 11 years worth of Chocolate Reparations, being ULTRA conservative because: To be 100%Honest, I legit had one every year, up until like… 4 or 5 years ago. I just don’t wanna seem greedy. :D

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DEMAND YOURS, TOO, using those hashtags.