Culture Zoella cons children with overpriced advent calendar. - YouTube Capitalism in action!

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Fleshy Sanik said:
When i was young the calendars only contained pictures. No presents or extra value was needed, just opening a box per day and looking at the image was enough.

It is heartening to see that in a world of calendars filled with expensive presents this blogger is taking a stand to make a calendar that is only eorth ad much as the paper it is printed on
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I think someone was eating your calendar chocolates mate.
 
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The non-chocolate thing isn't exactly new when it comes to calendars - advent calendars that contain things like cosmetics, bath products or perfume and the like have become rather popular over the years. They can be a little expensive (I think? I don't really buy cosmetics, what do I know) but I can see why you'd buy someone one.

However, this thing is overpriced bollocks compared to those things. This is like the Alienware of advent calendars.
 
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So I was searching through the reviews and found this
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But yeah, buying these types of advent calendars with candles and shit inside is pretty retarded to be honest, when I was younger the calendars my mum bought only had chocolates in them.
 
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Advent calendars with non-chocolate items in them aren't really new; when I was a wee li'l shitlord, my parents used to get one from (I think) the Metropolitan Museum in New York that had tiny little wooden ornaments in it representing different figures for the Nativity scene. But this one sounds like it's not only ridiculously overpriced, but not even an advent calendar. Advent refers to the lead-in to Christmas, and the Twelve Days come afterwards. So it's not just shit, but mislabeled shit.
 
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Burgers in the ass said:
So I was searching through the reviews and found this
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But yeah, buying these types of advent calendars with candles and shit inside is pretty exceptional to be honest, when I was younger the calendars my mum bought only had chocolates in them.
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Good old chocolates from the advent calendar. Always finished it on the first day.

Back on topic deluded fans are the worst. This calendar has been out since September. If she really cared for her fans, she could of lowered the price, nope. After backlash Boots lowered it to £25 and she states that it wasn't her decision. I can't believe some people would defend this practice. I read she was working on this for a year and she chose what was going in the calendar.

Watching some of her videos just kills me inside. It's like watching a safe British version of the Kardashians, not that I'm a big fan of those tosspots. I'd rather watch paint dry than watch some 'make up' guru showing off a fake fairy tale life. She's also 27 years old. Her bf is pointless.
 
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I have inspected this calendar irl in Boots and it is actually even shitter than people have described.

It looks like if you got it free with a magazine, you'd chuck it out and keep the magazine.

If it had cost a tenner to keep your whiny tween quiet, that would have been about right. Still basically a ripoff as Poundland beautifully illustrate above, but still in the impulse shitty Christmas tat buy price range.

Fifty notes for this is fucking unbelievable.
 
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No surprise that annoying preteens are defending this. They are almost at the peak of that one part of their life, where they will get their shit straight or become an autistic loser that could probably have their lives and names ending up here.
 
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Growing up in the states, advent calendars either had chocolates or those little toys you'd find in christmas crackers, and no one complained. I legit didn't know people across the pond were getting dumber and spoiled with what's in them.
 
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Sexy Times Hitler said:
Growing up in the states, advent calendars either had chocolates or those little toys you'd find in christmas crackers, and no one complained. I legit didn't know people across the pond were getting dumber and spoiled with what's in them.
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I suppose that's just how the way things just happen these days.
 
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