I’ve made mistakes in life, but my biggest regret is buying the Lego Friends Advent Calendar.

The $30 I spent could have been used to buy two bags of socks, and socks are just puppets waiting to happen. I could have spent $30 on tickets to see The Hobbit or that Seth Rogen/Barbra Streisand movie. I could have used the money to buy a really fancy hotdog. Or I could have spent it on an autographed copy of the phone book, or a bunch of limes.

Anything would have been better.

Let’s open the door for Day 17 and then look forward to next December when a much better calendar will be opened.

It’s a mailbox.

Ugh. What a tower of crap. It’s just so…stupid and colorful…and nice and…and…

The hinge works.

And it comes with real Lego Mail!

Fine. This is awesome. The Lego Mailbox is great. It doesn’t make up for the rest of the sadness inside the calendar, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.

Annie-Ann tried to convince Baby Robot Snowgirl that the mailbox was a fun “Snowgirl Fort.”

Then she tried to mail Baby Robot Snowgirl to France.

Day 17 Rating: 8.5 out of 10 (Points added because despite trying very hard to hate it, I kind of love it.)