We recently made the executive decision of investing in office advent calenders for all. I personally thought it would bring 3 potential benefits to the office aside from enjoying some additional chocolate during the festive season:
1) Ensure people know what the date is in December through a yummy visual reference
2) Potentially re-asses the level of mess on their desks after deciding where to put their calenders
3) Get to work on time with the added incentive of chocolate in the morning
All well and good but could we find Advent Calenders anywhere in town? No is the answer, well actually I lie, the card shop in town had one left and our favorite corner shop had two left, slightly battered and £4 in price.
Feeling defeated, we turned to the internet and purchased them online. I guess being a Creative and Digitally based media company you would think this could have been the first port of call but there is no real adventure in that. The only option left was to purchase ‘Hello Kitty’ Calenders online for all no personalised selection or team allocated choices allowed in the digital age.
All well in good – however, upon the delivery yesterday we were informed that ‘one item had been updated in the order’ – no longer did we have 24 Hello Kitty Calenders but instead Peppa Pig had intruded and Kitty was pushed aside to just the two.
The Result of the great advent calender hunt of circa 2011 has resulted in pure happiness (plus 6 days of chocolate in one day in the making of this) :
Pure advent calender happiness
Now on to the Christmas trees 
