I miss the kind of advent calendars that didn't have chocolate in but instead were covered with silver glitter and had christmas scenes on and cute little mini-pictures (usually of xmas-related characters or critters, IIRC) behind the doors.

My local supermarket has the sort with chocolate in; and bizarrely enough, football-themed advent calendars. Presumably those have pics of the grinning mugs of footie players behind the little doors.