11 of the weirdest advent calendars

How about an absinthe calendar this year?

Published 24th Nov 2016

Advent calendars have long been a traditional way of counting down to Christmas, but there are a few out there which are even more weird and wonderful than you could imagine.

1. Advent Calendar Jumper with pockets

We're a bit confused by this. Do you hang the jumper up, like a normal advent calendar?

Or do you wear your jumper, ready-packed with gifts and loaded with two risks: all the chocolate melting against your body heat, AND all the gifts falling out when you take the jumper on and off?

© Amazon | Christmas 3D Advent Calendar Knitted Jumper With Pockets

2. Have a Very Horsey Christmas

Packed with horsey treats, because surely your pet horse ordinarily feels very left out of the family festivities.

3. The Enormous One

The World Record for the largest advent calendar currently goes to St Pancras Station, which unveiled its 71m high and 23m wide calendar in 2007!

The one pictured here is in Forchheim, Germany, where they turned their town hall windows into calendar doors at Christmas. Yikes.

© via mentalfloss.com

4. Feeling Owly

Call us lazy, but these look pretty complicated to make if they're then just going to be packed with chocolates and thrown out every day...

© Amazon | DIY Advent Calendar – Christmas owls red

5. Tea For 1

Because nothing says Christmas like a barren tree, sprinkled with teabags.

They could at least be hot chocolate pouches!

© Amazon | Tea Advent Calendar For 1 Person

6. The 'Do Nothing' Calendar

Embrace your lethargic side this festive period, and don't do anything for anybody!

Very in keeping with the Christmas spirit.

© Amazon | Do Nothing... Christmas is Coming: An Advent Calendar with a Difference

7. Weird candle carousel

With this carousel, each day reveals a Yankee tealight candle, bringing you a new candle for every day of advent.

... surely you'd just miss the chocolate?

© Amazon | Yankee Candle Advent Carousel

8. The 'Let's Get Wasted' calendar

So of course, you could just buy a 24-pack of beer. But that would be taking half the fun out of it!

Besides, a beer a day keeps the doctor away, right?!

9. The 'Let's Get Even More Wasted' calendar

If you truly want to forget as much of this year's Christmas as possible, this absinthe-filled calendar is the one for you.

10. The 'We Need Some Food To Go With All This Booze' calendar

CHEESE. In a CALENDAR. Surely... it would all be quite smelly by Christmas day?

11. The DIY calendar

Because... you can never have enough nuts and bolts at Christmas time?

Mind you, you might be able to make a little something for yourself with this by the time Christmas Day comes!

We'll take the lot!