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A very large calendar, with a little door for every day of the year (including Feb 29) and a treat behind every door.
Chocolate companies would just love to bring these to market.
For the very wealthy it would become de rigeur to have your family jeweller make one each year.
Of course,
if you have more than one child then you''ll need the multigift version or more than one calendar.
The benefit? You have yet another reason to look forward to every day of the year.
From the Obscure Dictionary.
http://dictionary.e...tm#Window%20Washers
Window Washing on the Fly [reensure, Aug 03 2002]
(?) Tori's Calendar
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/
[torigirl55, Oct 05 2004]
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I look forward to every day of the year already. Except for that day, usually about a week after christmas when you realise that all that nice food you bought at huge expense, has gone and you're back to 2 minute noodles and toast.Besides the chocolate in these things is aways a bit grim. Almost as bad as that stuff they make easter eggs out of. |
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That would depend upon how much money you spent on the thing, dear Brian. There's no reason you can't stock one with the very finest of Belgian couverture chocolates. |
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Think outside the egg, man. |
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And damned fine chocolate, too. |
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and extremely BRIGHT street lighting... |
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and very wealthy dentists, who are known worldwide as suckers for any tax evasion based swindle! |
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and the one-manned-balloon wearing window washers maintain a very strong union. (link) |
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Each of the 192 countries in the world could supply up to two different local chocolates in the calender. |
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I love advent calendars but I think they would lose their
appeal if you had a door to open every day. It'd be like
getting easter eggs every weekend, you'd get sick of
them. |
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How would you stop the chocolate going off? Given that most calendars appear in the shops right now (beginning of August) - the chocolate would have to last in an unrefigerated state for 17 months. Or would you have to buy a new calendar for each month? |
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PeterSilly: The calendar could come in 12 separate sections, maybe with a table stand or wall hook. You put all but the month in use in the freezer until its turn comes. |
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Please, please tell me where the shop is .... I will buy two, one for home and one for the office. And as Xmas gifts for all my frineds. (So that's another one). |
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Can we have a doggie version with dog-safe chocolate drop treats as well ? |
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What's that last one, doggie dropping shaped chocolate treats? |
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FarmerJohn: A local joke shop sells those. Great fun. Put one on the sofa. When guests arrive, offer them the seat, when they look disgusted, pick it up and eat it. Brushing the choccy poo with a little sugar syrup to make it glisten makes it even more realistic. BUT: (1) The dog will eat the chocolate if it can get near (very bad for dog), and (2) Be very sure it is chocolate before you bite into it .... |
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<for the ignorant> Chocolate intended for humans is higly toxic to dogs, due to the high caffiene levels. Dogs should never be given human chocolate. That's why there are special chocolate drops made just for dogs. </for the ignorant> |
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Lego made something like this for a December calendar. For every day until Christmas, you would open the door and get a small lego set. |
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Chocolate Lego ? That sounds a good idea .... |
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What makes chocolate go off? would modified (inert?) atmosphere packaging help? or vacuum? It seems a shame to have to keep bits in the freezeer... it would look much better if the whole thing was visible all the time... |
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Sounds brilliant as a daily treat, but what about us non chocolate-eaters? How about vacuum packed frozen strawberries like the spacemen eat? http://www.countdown-creations.com/astronaut_space_food.htm |
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You could make 'carry-sized' ones too a small gobstopper for every day, so you don't necessarily need to be at home to enjoy them! |
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Back to the idea - it would indeed get boring if you just got a chocolate every day, so why not have a random number of chocolates inside - the other windows are empty or filled with a rock or something inedible. The chocolate days will taste soo much sweeter.. |
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You probably couldn't (or at least, shouldn't) call it an advent calendar. Advent is a particular season of the church calendar which begins usually four Sundays prior to Christmas eve. (In some Protestant denomimations, Advent is celebrated wholly separate from Christmas.) |
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You could just call it a 'chocolate calendar' though. |
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How do you keep the food form spoiling? |
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i bet 1 of these would be SO BIG, you could stack them up to make a table (to answer Ebassick15's question). |
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I imagine many people would be late for school/work/university each morning of the early months, given that they'd have spent about half an hour trying to find the tiny square reading '13th March' (or whatever) amongst the other 364/365 scattered around the calender. |
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All the same, it's a great idea. |
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[nimchimpsky]: I think you'd have to have a primary 3x4 month grid, so each month you find the month, and each day of that month you find the day within the month. That or a different color for each month, so you only have to look at the green squares. Then only the color-blind would be late. |
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There could be a variety of treats to keep it interesting, Sometimes chocolate, sometimes fruit sweets, sometimes small toys or other odd things..Maybe there would be seasonal items, Strawberry sweets in strawberry season, Apple in apple season etc... |
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There could be special treats for holidays and special days, eg an icing daffodil for St Davids Day, A mini easter egg for Easter Sunday, On April 1st a nail shoots out and stabs you in the hand, etc... |
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Some days could be empty, to keep things interesting..... |
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This would be a good product for calendar manufacturers and you could have a page per month where the thick pages containing the treats form a square box initially. There could also be a desk-calendar version.... |
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