hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so i'm here with one of my advent calendar boxes
for 2022. this is the paperchase big stationery advent calendar so this is what the box looks like
we'll have a quick look at the box a quick talk about the price and stuff and then we will unbox
the whole calendar together and we'll decide whether we think it's worth you picking it up
so this is what it looks like inside nice and bright and vibrant and colorful
and here's what the other side looks like so the calendar is on sale now it retails at 45 pounds
and it is said to be worth over 100 pounds
there's also a bit of an exciting element to it if you find a golden pen in here you will get a 200
pound paper chase gift card so let's dive right in day number one number one down here at the bottom
so day number one is a little five pounds to spend in store or online it is valid from the
first of november 2022 to the 31st of january 2023 it's valid in standalone uk stores or online and
is only available on full priced items so a couple of like little restrictions there already so full
price items standalone stores as in not the ones that like concessions in other stores and or you
can use it online and you've got like i said from the 1st of november to the 31st of january
to use that so i kind of like the fact that that comes first because it gives you all that time
to use it rather than it coming right at the end and you've not got long i guess so day number two
so today we've got some sticky notes i actually like the fact that they come in like a little
plasticky wallet that you can actually reuse you can take out your sticky notes and then
reuse this little plasticy wallet i know it's the small things in life sometimes so these are page
markers but they're pretty cool look they're like little fingers pointing in different ways
so these are the ones where you would probably stick them in your book or textbook or something
and then you like have them peeking out the end and then the sticky bit of these is about there
if you see what i mean so that's day number two day number three which seems to be opening itself
so this is a little list it says let's do this it's obviously got a little bit of
almost like candy design to it and okay so is this just me when i do a to-do list
or if i have a to-do list because i'm a bit of a stationary geek usually the bit where you tick
off what you've done would be on the left-hand side not the right-hand side only a small thing
but something i noticed and these are not sticky or anything so you just peel off each one as you
use it but even slightly better if it had been sticky because then you could like stuck it into
a book or something or like a little journal or your purse or something if you're taking it
away and doing a bit of it to do but just a little aside so that's day number three day number four
completely destroying the calendar so that's a little note to mention i did buy this calendar
myself most of the advent calendars i unboxed i purchased myself if they were gifted or anything
obviously i will let you know if you're into your advent calendars by the way hit that subscribe
button there are going to be so many advent calendar unboxings if you watch me for the
last couple of years you'll kind of know what to expect but yeah there's going to be so many
advent calendar unboxings anyway day number four here are some gel pens they are pastel inks four
pack let's see how they write so this is how they write hopefully you can see them unfortunately
when i hold something white towards the camera it just kind of throws everything else into darkness
anyway they do write really well all i would say is they're very wet and what i mean by that is
they don't sort of dry instantly they look like they're gonna need like a minute or two to dry so
the salt but if you were writing quite quickly and you were catching it with your hand you might
smudge them a little bit just be aware of that if you do and get these but they are actually
pretty nice good quality pens by the looks of it like that they come in a little box as well so
first impressions we're only a couple of days in and actually already i'm more impressed with the
calendar than i thought i would be paycheck's been quite open if you look on the website you
can actually see a picture of all the content but actually the way that they've presented it it just
looks like a load of random stationery and doesn't actually look that appealing so i was ominous
about whether to get the calendar and then thought no crystal you've got to get it you've got to
unbox it so people know what's inside but so far i have to say i do think the items that i've had so
far do seem to be fairly decent quality certainly what you would expect from paperchase whereas
sometimes with these calendars i feel like they cheap out a little bit and give you like cheaper
versions of um their items not saying that's paper chase but just sometimes that's something to kind
of be aware of this type of calendar anyway we've only done four days let's carry on day number five
ooh so these are cute these are highlighters again in a little pouch love that but they're
not just like randomly thrown in or anything and they do come in a little pouch but how cute
are these almost like lipstick or kind of a bullet shape these are really hard to hold
but they are in obviously a series of colors so we have got so let's see how do they open
okay so you just pull them open we've got like a chisel tip highlighter so we've got like pink
pretty standard highlights this is so cute though these are so good in my pencil case my inner child
is just going crazy i would have loved this as a child i mean don't get me wrong i love it now but
i always say i've got quite a strong inner child that gets like excited for this kind of stuff
and stationary is definitely one of them i'm not highlighting very well because i'm like holding it
on a bit of a slant so it's not the fault of the highlighter it's the user i'm not going to blame
the tools they seem pretty decent to be fair um but these are just ridiculously cute i mean
these are the sort of thing actually that i would see them in the store and totally buy them which
is always a good sign isn't it see when i hold it properly it does perform well that's a little like
if you twist off the bottom they almost look like it'd be refillable um but i'm not certain on that
so there we are some highlighted lines you came here to watch a video on highlighted
lines of course you did but it does say on the packaging four pack colored inks chisel tip
a little joy every day reusable packaging for
storing and sorting i will definitely be reusing this super cute little pouch day number six
the trickiest bit of unboxing advent calendar is finding where the door is it's also half the
joy i guess isn't it next up then we've got some sticky notes this is what they look like they've
got dots on and they are sticky from about here so they'll always be pretty sticky doesn't tell
me how many are in here if i had to guess i'd say about 25 but they are a pretty cute little size
so that's another advantage for me anyway that they're not all huge so the sort of thing that
you can just like throw in a pencil case or like a little folder or something and they're not going
to take up too much room so of course they've got to fit in the calendar as well day number seven
so today we've got a little 20 23 diary so we did know that there were going to be certain items in
here it actually tells you on the back of the box that they've been the five pound gift card
2023 diary and a few other bits and bobs and but it's a cute little one so when you open it
up it's got like a yellow interior it's got this kind of plasticky cover on so you could kind of
slip things in the cover if you needed to or you could even take this cover off if you didn't want
it on for whatever reason and then you open it says paperchase personal data it's got things
like important dates religious festivals 2023 and 2024 and dates and stuff in there it's got a year
planner and that is for the whole of 2023 and then you jump in and obviously start towards the end of
december and into that first week of january i like the fact that at the bottom corner it's got
these little bits you can peel off so basically when you get to wherever the i don't know the
current date is or whatever you can tear them all off then when you open it you will just be able to
see straight to where you're going to so i guess i've chosen to do that instead of putting like a
ribbon in or anything then at the back of the book when you've finished your diary you then go into
world times and conversion factors international dialing codes and a couple of notes pages
then name address telephone email www so i guess like website addresses or whatever
you want to put there and two lots of those pages so yeah it is a super cute little diary
not gonna suit everyone because it is quite small i like it but i like i'm always torn
between having a big enough diary that i can write down everything i want and having something super
possible but i like it it's fun it's colorful i do think it's something i'll enjoy using day number
eight up here and it is the teeniest tiniest door we've seen so far it is a little rose
gold sharpener so it's one of those it's also got two holes for two different size pencils
there we go day number nine we've got a pack of fine liner pens so there's three
of them they are black ink and again they're in the packaging and stuff so it feels like
how they would look if you actually went and bought them instead of just three random pens
this is what they look like as i said all are black ink and they are little clicky pens i'm sure
there's a proper name for them not just clicky pens but they are just a ball point black pen
so a pretty handy kind of standard day-to-day pen most of us need black ink and things for work
so pretty practical they feel well made as well they kind of look
on screen and in pictures i think a little bit cheap but actually they're not heavy but they're
not like flimsy like you're going to click it and the bit falls off the end and it's a loaded jungle
that goes straight in the bin they actually seem to be pretty decent kind of usable products so
happy with that day number 10. this is probably the biggest door we've had so far
today we get a notebook and this is kind of long and thin more like a list book
than anything like a shopping list book or something nothing too exciting it's just
simple lined it's got that design again on the back and again probably about 25
30 pages something like that but handy little kind of list book all the same day number 11.
definitely destroyed that door so it is a kind of multi-pen and it looks like it's in a kind
of similar design to the little notebook we just got so it's one of those where it's got different
pens as you push them down so it's got black it's got red what else have we got here like um
a blue it looks like a light blue on here but it's more of a navy orange
purple which i thought would run out it hasn't and then green
so it's got like six different colors in there and it says paper chase on the
pen as well so a nice little chunky kind of multi-use multi-colored pen day number twelve
day number twelve we've got some decorative washi tape this has got stars on i love stars
this is what it looks like so yeah super useful don't worry i'm not going to
like stick it on my head but it seems like feels pretty decent quality washi tape and
my goodness can you tell a cheap washi tape from a decent washi tape for one thing they
rip when you're just trying to peel a little bit off so seems pretty decent day number 13.
today we've got a pack of binder clips there are 12 binder clips in here four of each color and the
colors are rose gold silver and gold one of those where you just bend them back themselves like this
find some paper or something you want to clip together there you go just in case anybody
wasn't aware of what a binder clip was but yeah i like the fact they're in these little pouches
again that are reusable and i will absolutely use them i'm a complete organization freak and
love to have things organized so little pouches and things will always be used by me and they
kind of zip close but again this feels very much like if i were to go into paperchase and
buy some binder clips they would come like this they probably charged me four or five pounds so
it feels like i'm getting full-sized items in the calendar which is always good day number 14.
oh my gosh these are so cute and super festive and in another little pack as well so these are paper
clips we only get four but they're christmas trees they are so cute i absolutely love them
i mean they're not the most practical in the sense of you're probably not gonna feel like
using them in january but maybe you will they are so cute they are like a really
sweet little nod to the christmas season in your stationery world really like those day number 15.
okay so these aren't in packaging as such they are just tied up with a little bit of green
ribbon again along with that same design we've had on some of the books
and they all say paperchase on the end of them and they are just your standard pencils
one of them looks like it needs sharpening we get three little pencils day number 16.
it is a red metallic pen but it is a twist up ball pen so this feels the ballpoint pen
even um it feels like a bit more of a luxurious more grown-up pen it is black what i mean by that
is instead of it being like clicky or something or like pressing it down like the multi-use pen
this feels nice and kind of soft and quite tactile and would not look out of place
in you know a big important meeting but yes very very sweet like that a lot day number 17
so day number 17 we've got this bright yellow thing and you're probably thinking
what is it but it's basically as i understand it a bit of a bookmark so
um let's just say this is a couple of pages in a book and you would put it across well between
the pages and then it would magnetize and stay in place and then it's got this little hook bit on
here which is for you to put a pen in so obviously if this is your notebook or something you can use
it as a bit of a pen holder like so use your imagination let's pretend it's a full-size
notebook well that's the idea with it anyway so that's a cute little edition day number 18.
it seems to be another pen so it's kind of like a metallic silver colored pen and then it's
got these gold accents on this just feel a bit cheaper this is very kind of plasticky and looks
like a ballpoint pen so yeah oh it's like a gel pen actually it writes more like gel to be fair
it's this one here at the bottom um but it does feel a bit cheaper so when i was talking before
about some pens feeling a bit cheap you probably know what i mean this one is super lightweight but
it's done in a way that feels a bit cheap just my two pennies worth but nice a little gel pen though
something a little bit different to the other black pens we've had day number 19. little notepad
this is like a hardbacked one and when you open it up it's got lined pages in again super cute
little tiny notepad that's probably got about 50 pages i would say in it so it's pretty cute to be
fair again going on a kind of similar theme with all that abstract color and things day number 20.
some super cute little paper clips again quite festive kind of remind me actually of um
lollipops in the wizard of oz or like something from dr seuss that's what they remind me of i
actually know if i would say these are just festive actually if i just use them all year round
but they do look like lollipops don't they so these i've not even explained that what they are
they're a giant paper clip basically and on the back they're done completely in rubber this bit
this is just a standard paper clip and it slips in there but it's sort of threaded through and
finished underneath so they shouldn't just pull off or anything how cute they so we get four of
those again in a super cute little reusable pouch day number 21 today we get an eraser it's like a
multi-colored eraser something to go with your pencils if you make any mistakes day number 22
a little bit more washi tape a little bit more kind of festive
this is what it looks like
it kind of reminds me of mustaches as well
then number 23
some super cute little push pins again in a little reusable pack it's almost like jewelry don't
there's those little heart ones star ones and moon ones definitely jazz up anybody's notice board
day number 24 it's christmas eve this is what it looks like it is a notebook this feels like
the most kind of sturdy thing in here to be fair should probably like to save it for christmas eve
it's got a little hook on it for your pen holder and it is a little lined notebook again
it's open it have a pocket or something in the back it has not and but it is nice reminds me of
save by the bell don't know why i think it's that kind of retro print says paper chase on
the back as well again probably maybe 80 pages that kind of thing in here and that is the end
of the paperchase calendar so as a little recap it's a gingerbread house design it's
worth over hundred pounds and it contains lots of different stationery as you've seen including
that 2023 diaries lots of notebooks a five pound paper chase voucher we've got paper clips washi
tapes highlighters pencils sticky notes pens all kinds of things and somebody will get that lucky
golden pen or three people will and then they'll get a 200 pound voucher as well so all in all
i do think it's pretty good quality whether it's worth 45 pounds of your hard earned money
to spend on stationary it's completely up to you and how stationary obsessed you may or may not be
but i will put a link under the video if you do want to go ahead and pick it up let me know what
you think do you think it's worth it i must say like i said quality way better than i thought
now i've got everything in hand and i've looked at the items individually i actually think they've
not done a bad job of this if you want to watch my martha brooke advent calendar unboxing from 2021
i think i prefer this and this was like nearly half the price and i'll link it here actually
if you do want to go ahead and watch it but i do stationary unboxings and reviews and stuff as well
so if you're a big of a stationary geek like me there are videos go up from time to time on that
subject as well as all the beauty ones i do as well i also picked up the brand new paperchase
mystery box it's 25 pounds it contains 75 pounds worth of stationery and the items
look like they're way way bigger than what's in this calendar so if you want to see what's in
there make sure you subscribe to the channel and the video will be going up in the next couple of
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