For the big kids who do have advent calendars..

Open, for the same reasons as you. And it makes it harder to find the next number if all the doors are closed. Which means waiting longer for my choccie...

I leave my doors open so I can see the pictures inside!!! I didn't get an advent calendar last year for the first time but hopefully will get on this year!!

I rip the doors off, they have perforated edges...

Mooey, that is a whole other option I hadnt even considered!!! that is tidy enough for OH, but still shows the exciting stuff!! I may go for tthat option this year!!!!

Oooh i rip them off too mooey i loooooove christmas my fav time of yea,r my sister always used to eat all the chocs out of them screw up the foil and put it back in then shut the door little minx needless to say i get my revenge every now and then by eating a whole choc orange or other of her fav chocs and re-wrap in their wrappers and give it too her as part of her crimbo present last year was the choc orange option and i put a real orange inside she hates fruit lol x

Just be careful when you rip that you don't go too far, no one likes blank bits between windows. ?

Gosh, you really are an advent calendar expert Mooey! Lol, Ta much

My daughter does that Mooey and it drives me mad!

My daughter always ends up with a dud calendar where the windows open on their own, before their day has arrived...

Ive had them before tho Mooey - and sometimes the doors come open on their own and there isnt even a choccy behind the door!!! ?

I remember once when I was younger (pre-foil) I opened most of the windows and ate all the chocolate straight away so when it came to the day to open them there was nothing there!! My mum was really mad coz she thought she had bought a dud calender!!