A door costs about $1.87 at the median. Under $50 buys a real toy calendar or a real chocolate one and a first beauty calendar; it does not buy a multi-brand beauty box, which start in the next band. Seventeen of the forty-one print their lists; the value multiples here are the drugstore beauty's two-times, not the retailer boxes' five.
Step 01
Decide what you will spend first
Set the number before you browse, because it decides the shelf more than anything else here. Of the 102 priced in dollars, 102 come in under $50 — the range runs $13 to $50, and half are above $34. Compare the price bands →
Step 02
Match the doors to the days
251 of the 279 here have 24 doors — a 24-door box opens one a day from 1 December to Christmas Eve. The others run 7, 10, 12, 25 and 31, and the shorter ones start partway through the month: a 12-door box opens on 13 December. For someone who will not open one every day, or a gift that will arrive late, fewer doors is the better fit, not the lesser calendar. Every start date →
Step 03
Know which season you are buying
167 of the 279 here are 2026 editions, and 47 are last season's — still sold, often discounted, and with the contents already on the page. The 65 older than that are listed for the record, not for buying. A brand's page keeps every edition together, so check whether the box you are looking at is this year's before you compare prices.
Step 04
Start from the ones we have opened
47 of the 279 here carry an editors' pick — the chip above the grid narrows the shelf to those — and 212 have a written score. Those are the boxes somebody on this site has actually judged. The rest are listed because they exist, not because we are recommending them; being on this page is not a verdict. How we review →