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 random, halfbakery