About Us

We sell one thing, and we try to do it properly: a Christmas countdown calendar with twenty-four numbered doors and a soft mini dumpling squishy behind every one of them.

The idea came from a small complaint about advent calendars generally. The chocolate ones are gone by the 26th. The novelty ones are usually one good day and twenty-three pieces of plastic that end up in a drawer. We wanted a countdown where the thing behind the door is still on somebody's desk in March — small enough to keep, soft enough to fidget with, and cheerful enough that opening door seventeen is still worth getting up for.

So: twenty-four doors, numbered 1 to 24, running from the 1st of December to Christmas Eve. Behind each one is a mini dumpling character — Santa hats, reindeer antlers, small pleased faces. They are slow-rebound squishies, so they squash flat and take their time coming back. The whole box is 28 × 18 × 4.2 cm and weighs about 430 g, which means it stands on a shelf or lies flat on a desk without taking the desk over.

It works as one calendar for a household, and it works as several — one each so nobody argues about whose turn it is, or a set for a classroom or a team. That is why we sell it in packs.

We are a small operation. If you email us, a person reads it and a person answers. If something arrives wrong, we would rather fix it than argue about it — the Refund Policy says exactly what we will do.

Questions, or ordering for a date you need to hit? Write to support@squishyadventcalendar.com before you order and we will tell you honestly whether we can make it.