Hello there! As you might be able to guess from the title of this email, our advent calendars for Christmas (obviously) are now LIVE on the website! I know it’s SUPER early to be listing these, but I’ll explain more why further down in the email.
But I’m guessing you’re going to want to know what’s going to be in them, right? Well ok then…
Christmas Advents are now LIVE
If you want to skip the rest of this email and go straight to the listing, then here’s a cool button for you. But before you do, please don’t use Teddy Points or buy other stuff. I’ll explain more at the bottom of this email.
Moving on…
Basically, they’re going to be the exact same designed advents as last year. Mainly because we bought 500 last year and we’re using the ones that are left over. By that, I mean the actual advents themselves. Not the melts. They’ll all be made new for this year. We’re not that bloody organised. So it’ll look like this…
And you might notice that we don’t use Teddy Pots for this. That’s mainly because they were a little too wide, so we had to go with 1oz pots instead.
Like last year, there will be 24 scents in the calendar and each day will give you a totally different scent. In other words, there won’t be any repeats.
Unlike last year however, we’re going to split it 50/50 and do 12 Christmas scents and 12 normal scents. Although the line between the two is often blurred. Like is Snow Fairy a Christmas scent - since Lush release it for Christmas - or is it a normal scent as we have it on sale every restock?
What’s in the advent calendars?
We’re not 100% sure what’s going to be in the calendars altogether, but think it’ll be pretty similar to last years. This is what last years looked like courtesy of @kjbeautybox via Instagram.
Of course, some things will change slightly, but essentially it’ll be very similar. So something like this:
24 1oz wax melts
Christmas Day Clamshell
Happy New Year’s Clamshell
Some sort of chocolate bar
Other chocolates/sweets/biscuits/hot chocolate [this may vary]
Christmas card with random discount code
How much is the advent calendar?
The price will actually be the exact same as last year and be £34.99 all in. So that’s postage included too. Speaking of price, that’s part of the reason we’re listing these now, as after the July restock we will be looking to get VAT registered. After that, the price of these will have to go up to £39.99. So basically you can save a fiver if you go with one now.
How many are we doing?
We’re going to list 200 of these. We may have more that we’re able to make, but to play it say we’ll go with 200 until we get them all out and actually count them.
In theory, we could order more - 500 more - and make more of these. But after seeing the work that went into these last year, and with a baby due at the beginning of November - when we’ll have to send them out - we’re really cautious about putting too much work on ourselves around that time. Especially when we’ll still be having restocks and subscription boxes to do.
Obviously it also depends on how they sell. If none of them sell then obviously we don’t have to order any more. If they all sell and there are a LOT of people who still want one, then we might go for it.
We were going to do a 12 days of Christmas one with a custom designed advent. But the cost on that would be quite a lot, and the only way to get it down would be to buy 1000 of them. The design fee on making our own would be £680 + £50 art orientation before we even talk about the cost per unit of the advent itself.
In other words, if we did a 12 days of Christmas one it would probably have to be around the £24.99 mark. Since we like trying to provide as much value as we can, I’m not sure £24.99 for a 12 scent calendar, even with the extras, would be that great from the perspective of you lot buying it.
I know £34.99 is a lot to ask for an advent, but I like to think we’re providing as much value as we can for the work that goes into it.
There’s a chance we may order more giant advents, but again, it’s just the amount of work that goes into these. I know we have Jenny now and we’re a lot more organised, but I think we’ll just see how it goes and play it from there.
ALSO…
Please DON’T use Teddy Points when buying the advent to get a discount. Sorry to be a dick, but if everyone did that and knocked £10-15 off then it just wouldn't be worth the work that goes into making these. I can't actually stop you from using them, but we'll simply refund you your order. Sorry about that one.
Oh... and don't order anything else either. That'll get refunded too. So just the advent on it’s own.
That’s about it…
So yeah, they’re not on the website. I know it’s super early to be buying something like this, and sorry we’re not doing a deposit system like we did last year, but it was proper confusing so we’re just going with the “pay in full” approach.
Thank you for reading!
Much love,
Ross & Rachel x
I’ve order and can’t wait I love Christmas and it will give me something to look forward to
Order in, can't frickin wait!! Bloody loves Christmas I do!! xx