Five in our household, and everyone thinks I’m mad for tearing the doors off my advent calendar.

The door “hinges” are serrated, therefore it’s engineered for the doors to be removed. But, seemingly, oh no, this is just a fold, to keep the doors on when opened. My answer, if it is was meant to be a hinge, that it would be scored, not serrated.

Mrs R, bizarrely, not only leaves the doors on, but closes them after snaffling the chocolate, so the calendar looks the same every day!

The kids leave the doors on, but slightly ajar at a jaunty angle. Looks messy.

I submit I have this right, that the imminence of the big day is visual, as the snowman loses his eye, the deer a hoof, etc as the month goes on. Also backed up by how the calendar is built.

So, remove, close or ajar?

Close. Then you re-use the advent calendar for over a decade, like my family did…

The serrations are clearly to allow the doors to hinge, and you’re a monster.

Ajar. Ripping the doors off shows… tendencies.

Serrations are normally an invite to rip/tear. In my view.

Close. As above you are a monster.

What would happen if you had a calendar that didn’t have serrations at the hinge? Would you still rip them off?

Be gone with your reasoned arguments northernmatt.

Maybe take a knife to them, or a careful tear? I’ve always torn doors off.

Now I’m thinking I might not have the backing I hoped for…………..

Definitely ajar. Are you mad?

You’re meant to use explosives to remove them, apparently.

I like to close them… But perfectly. So each day is a right bastard to find the next one.

The kids leave the doors on, but slightly ajar at a jaunty angle. Looks messy.

As the Who once said, The Kids Are Alright. I think the drummer held this view with most conviction out of the lot of them, however I digress.

The angle however, has to be the same for each door.

My daughters frankly looks like it’s been attacked by bears, and there’s only about 3 chocolates left.

Leave them open so you can see the pictures.

But my Colin the Caterpillar advent calendar is slowly gaining his mobility, I kind of hope he will realise during Christmas Eve that with his full compliment of legs he should make a run for it, as on the 25th I will rip his face off.

Now that I’ve written this it sounds a bit dystopian.

I’m with OP on this one. Doors straight off and in the bin. Life is too busy to be trying to find the right door each morning and it gets more efficient as the month goes on. I must have my December morning fix of tiny chocolate ASAP!
The children all leave them in a combination of closed/ajar/off/generally ripped to shreds as we get closer to Christmas and the remaining cardboard framework can’t handle the daily abuse.

I bought a dog one from Aldi for the mutt.
I opened day 1 and there was nowt there.
Must have lost the bond and the treat fell down the gap to another date.

Might have to rip the doors off to find it.
Buy cheap buy twice innit.

Oh, and leave the doors on. What kind of lunatic rips the doors off?
Do you go around your house ripping the doors off their hinges as you walk through?

Shove ’em inside. Visual guide without flappy messiness or borderline psychopathic tendencies.

I think all civilised nations are In agreement that advent doors should remain open only on their day. All other doors, past and future should be firmly closed and secured.

Closed. Unless of course, you were born in a cave.

On ours ,we mark all the opened doors with a tiny Plague Cross in red 😉

Left ajar.

Another year (that went quick) and day one, they family still have the OPEN doors on their calendars. I wonder if they have worked out my username and realise they have the support of STW.

Oddly enough, I wasn’t bought one this year. I “may” have sulked about doors issue last year. Or it may have been that I wanted the Wera one, which is pricey.

Ajar. Ripping the doors off shows… tendencies.

Wanting to close the doors too to retain a neat look also implies … tendencies.

I’m with the OP.

Remove the doors. You wouldn’t put an empty bag of KP back on the card in the pub would you? You’d never get to see the underboob.

Does not the opener have the final choice? This way you gradually build up a display that please no one. Surely a true reflectio of a modern Christmas.
Thankfully this year I am in charge of the class advent calender so things will be left as I want. Stuff the teacher. She is a messy bint anyway.

Leave the door ajar of course.

OP – what happens if the calendar is one of those with a foil cover behind the door? Do you rip the door off but leave ragged foil edges, or spend ages neatly trimming them back?

Ah subconsciously you know you are doing a wrong un as you use the term ‘Door’
Doors are open or closed.

If it was supposed to be ripped off it would have a little tab to aid removal and no hinge and wouldn’t be called a door.

Oddly enough, I wasn’t bought one this year

That’s because you’re bloody mental