wait till the kids arrive then you have no choice, your whole front room becomes a shrine to advent calendars!! mind you, i remember how exciting christmas was when i was a kid so i want my kids to have the same memories. We used to go to the midnight church service then when we got home we were allowed to open one present, then bed, we used to get up in the middle of the night and wake up our dad saying "has he been yet" and my dad would go into the front room and say "no, not yet back to bed" until it was at least 6am, then the fun began. My mam would make a massive pile of toast that no-one ate cos we were too busy with selection box "trading", marathons v mars bars! LOL, oh those were the times x