With the major Christmas TV ads dropping this week and holiday lights adorning streets up and down the country, we’re ready to be back in full festive mode. Now is the time to get ahead with all your Christmas bits, from presents to home decorations, so we’ve rounded up the best reusable advent calendars that will not only add some festive magic to your home and delight the whole family but can be brought out year after year. Sustainable, money-saving, and oh-so cute, what’s not to love? Here are our favourites…

Contemporary

If your home style errs more on the side of Scandi cool than tartan bows and velvet ribbons come Christmas time, check out our top contemporary advent pics.

Etsy is where it’s at if you’re after something super simple. We love their laid-back linen wall advents with a little pocket for each day. Fill them with candy canes, their favourite chocolates or even decorations to be added to the tree right up until the big day.

Flying Tiger Copenhagen’s sweet set of 24 little gift boxes are an alternative to the usual Christmas advent. Place them on a mantel or under your tree to open a special gift each day.

Traditional

As much as we love a beauty advent or chocolate for breakfast every morning for 24 days, there is something so homely and comforting about a proper traditional Advent calendar. This year, there are so many beautiful options around, from Fortnum’s Christmas Tree Wooden Advent to Cox & Cox’s Gingerbread House.

For kids, the Harrods wooden boxes advent is perfect with its cute, stacked block-style boxes for each day, and for some decorative flair, check out Balsam Hill’s incredible Wooden Mantel Village. Bring it out year after year, and it will become one of the family’s much-loved special traditions.

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