When Eartha Kitt sultrily sang her Christmas wish list in Santa Baby – a 1954 convertible (in light blue), a yacht, a ring, Christmas tree decorations from Tiffany’s, a duplex, the deed to a mine, among other things – most people deemed her expectations of what she might find underneath her tree as pretty optimistic.

Fast forward to the modern era, though, and you don’t need to wait for December 25 any more. Now, you can find most of Kitt’s desired items inside an Advent calendar.

Jim Carrey stars as the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.Credit: AP/Universal Studios

Where once Advent calendars were little more than 24 tiny perforated cardboard doors with middle-of-the-road chocolate inside, over the past few years, they have taken things up a notch – or 10.

Take Tiffany & Co’s 2021 calendar, for example. While it didn’t include decorations, it did offer up various pieces of jewellery on Kitt’s wish list across 24 days for the cool price of $200,000. Thankfully, Swarovski has come to the rescue for those wanting tree ornaments, with its advent calendar retailing at $1700.

If you don’t have a spare thousand (or hundred thousand), fear not. Among those coming in for under $100 this year: Mecca’s beauty Advent calendar, which includes........

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