Reminds me to eat my chocolate for today…
Got mine in the grocery store sometime in late November. There was a pile of them back then.
We still have the one my godmother made us in the seventies. It’s in remarkably good shape for being 40+ years old. I’m the even days this year. 
Goddamn! That must be some stale-ass chocolate!
Check Aldi or Cost Plus World Market. I saw them for sure at Aldi and I know I’ve seen them at CPWM past years.
I saw them at our grocery store (not a chain store) and at Fleet Farm in November.
I have one, but I think someone messed with it. All it has in it is candy corn and aspirin.
Well, yeah, once you don’t eat it the first year, you might as well leave it for 40 years.
Fleet Farm! Damn. I was there in Nov. Made a special trip to Wisconsin. Didn’t see 'em in the store. I did get my chocolate stars, though, so that was worth it.
Greatest store in the world. If they don’t have it, you don’t need it.
I’ve heard that somewhere before… 
Several varieties in varying quality from cheap grocery store chocolate to Lindt to Jacek ( A chocolatier in Edmonton), not to mention several different beer calendars and, if I’m a good boy next year, one with 25 little bottles of scotch! http://www.scotchwhiskyadvent.com/
They stole it from FF.
Glad to see it’s just us here. I was beginning to wonder what changed, that no one here carries them. We checked Walgreens, CVS, Albertsons, Walmart, Fry’s, Michael’s and Big Lots. I really really wanted one.
I’m currently enjoying a jam advent calendar. It’s very nice.
Slightly off-topic, but I somehow managed to go without ever having heard of an advent calendar (or the concept of the period of advent) until 3 or 4 years ago. It it is only since then that I’ve been noticing cultural references to them. (Same goes with the concept of “Ash Wednesday”, which I think I was in my 20s before noticing.)
I’m wondering how long they’ve been so commercial, moving from a religious observance to a countdown to Christmas.
They can’t all be winners.
To be fair, the primary religious observance of Advent is a countdown to Christmas.
Darren_Garrison, were you raised religious? What religion? Did you have religious family or friends? Not knowing either of those seems inconceivable to me, but then, my family’s Catholic, and I think we put more emphasis on both of those than most Protestants.
Southern Baptist in rural South Carolina. Along with Advent and Ash Wednesday, there was no concept of “giving things up for Lent”, or “Lent” itself. Though I may have been somewhat familiar with that concept from TV mentions early on (or then again, maybe not.) I recall some of the pastors having a distinctly Jack Chickian view on Catholicism.