Basically this is an advent-style calendar, but with a small cardboard window you can open for every day of the year. Each window has a different picture behind it.
Similar to a standard format calendar, it's made of 6 dual- sided pages; a side for every month. This format is relatively efficient, because - provided there are no windows opposing each other - each page can be made of two pieces of card glued together. It's pretty clear that we roll out all the cliches - Bunnies, chicks and easter eggs around easter, a heart on Valantine's day, a dragon on St George's day, flowers on Mother's day, a piggy-bank on a bank-holiday, and so on.
All holidays have a larger window, of course.
-- Loris, Oct 18 2015

Taken to its logical extreme... https://xkcd.com/1577/
I wonder if these are either used or put together by actuaries... [RayfordSteele, Oct 18 2015]

Gin advent calendar http://metro.co.uk/...-than-ever-5447908/
[hippo, Oct 20 2015]

I like it. Are these things never randomized, to give you your fortune for the day you've opened?
-- 4and20, Oct 19 2015


//Is opening a small square of hinged paper to reveal a badly drawn picture still exciting as it was before computers ?//

Yes. And somehow still leaps and bounds more exciting than Mondays.
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 19 2015


I think it would be rather big, but I would love to have one. If it would fit in the garage.
-- blissmiss, Oct 19 2015


//I think it would be rather big//

You want the sort that contains chocolates, don't you?
-- Loris, Oct 19 2015


Well I certainly do or I'm not playing!
-- DrBob, Oct 19 2015


Uh...no duh!
-- blissmiss, Oct 19 2015


How about an alcoholic year-long advent calendar? Between each window there's be a bottle of an appropriately seasonal spirit.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 19 2015


I've seen that alcoholic one recently! BTW I had a weird dream last night in which you featured [Ian]
-- po, Oct 20 2015


Are you sure that you weren't just watching his 'Robot Christmas' video, po?
-- DrBob, Oct 20 2015


//You want the sort that contains chocolates, don't you?//

Is there another kind?
-- RayfordSteele, Oct 21 2015


If there was a chocolate behind each little door, we would buy this.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 21 2015


//(sp 'calendar')//

Ugh, fixed. For some reason my internal spell-checker consistently fails on that word.
-- Loris, Oct 21 2015


I like this, but I always forget to open them everyday. Maybe we can combine this with the Alzheimer's idea...+
"Open window 22 now."
-- xandram, Oct 22 2015


Ha!
-- blissmiss, Oct 22 2015


I thought you were meant to open all the doors and eat all the chocolate immediately on receipt. Then discard the now-useless remains.
-- pocmloc, Oct 23 2015


That's a perfectly rational and reasonable hypothesis, [poc}.
-- 8th of 7, Oct 23 2015


My hypotheses are always perfectly rational and reasonable.
-- pocmloc, Oct 23 2015


Hmmm.

We are intrigued to know what motivated you to strip off all your clothes, smear yourself with toothpaste and cranberry sauce, then put a flowerpot on your head and run down the middle of the street with a gladiolus frond in each hand screaming "The Crayfish ! The Crayfish ! They're coming ! Stop them, stop them !"
-- 8th of 7, Oct 23 2015


Please keep your internal inter-collective conversations to yourselves, there's no need to share your embarearseing secrets with the rest of us.
-- pocmloc, Oct 23 2015


<reminder to self: we're out of absinthe; rectify>
-- FlyingToaster, Oct 23 2015



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