Advent calendars are no longer your simple holiday countdown with chocolate behind each door. Nowadays, many are full of luxury goods — and can set you back thousands of dollars. Advent ...

Advent calendars have come a long way. Whatever your interests, there’s an advent calendar out there made for you. Here are some of the most interesting ones we could find. This series will help ...

Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Episcopalians, Lutherans and many other Protestant churches mark the roughly month-long period with special observance. Advent calendars were adopted at some point in ...

With the holiday season in full swing, advent calendar season is officially upon us. What began as a simple Cadbury chocolate-a-day countdown until Christmas now offers the likes of everything ...

one of Sephora’s advent calendars has some of its most loyal customers sounding downright angry. Advent is a religious season, the period of anticipation in the run-up to Christmas Day ...

Until recently, Advent calendars were predictable – a basic cardboard box with a piece of barely passable chocolate behind each numbered flap. How did this quiet holiday tradition explode into a ...

I was never allowed a chocolate advent calendar growing up, my mother insisted on the paper variety (now fashionable again). Eight-year-old me would have preferred sugar to tasteful drawings of ...

While tradition dictates that you should start an Advent Calendar on Dec. 1 and continue ... Advent is a four-week period intended to be a time of preparation for the arrival of Jesus Christ.

How do Advent calendars work? Advent calendars are traditionally used to count down the days until Christmas. Advent is the reflective period of time leading up to the celebrated birthday of ...

Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Yes, it’s advent calendar time — a time to have some fun by indulging in a countdown to the holidays and ...