Unboxing The Cult Pens Stationery Advent Calendar 2024

The 2024 Cult Pens Stationery Advent Calendar is packed with a variety of pens, pencils, and accessories. But is it worth the £95 price tag? The theme is Alpine and the products included in the Calendar come from Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France.
I've purchased and have been unboxing 3 of the top luxury 2024 Stationery Advent Calendars available and the 2024 Martha Brook Stationery Advent Calendar is next. I'll also do a side-by-side comparison of the contents of all three calendars so keep an eye on my channel and let me know what you think.
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[@noghostx]

this feels like someone went into an office supply cabinet and said "let's just make an advent calendar out of all these extras so we can get rid of them"

[@quantquill]

That's what I was thinking. Especially with that wonky Stabilo. "Bent sausage" lol. 100 pounds and 24 days of gifts works out to 4.2 pounds a day. It is probably worth the money if you want a rando collection of stuff (but from great brands).

[@helena-rosehouldcroft871]

I absolutely love your use of technical language. I am so happy to add rubby outy to my vocabulary. I am enjoying watching your unique selection of Advent calendars. 🥰🇨🇦

[@BlueBearWood]

😂😂 A rubby outy pen sounds so much more interesting than a boring friction/erasable pen 😂😂 language can be so much fun!

[@patlarson5986]

It takes a little while for the ink to go through the feed, that’s the part behind the nib. When you first started writing what you had was just the residual that was on the tip when you dipped it in the ink. So if you write with it a bit more it’ll come out, heavier and darker and you’ll see the shimmer

[@BlueBearWood]

That's good to know. I had another play with the pen and ink and gave the ink pot an extra meaningful shake to disperse the shimmer. That made a big difference with the shimmer now obviously visible and the ink marks are now much heavier. 😊

[@myepictbr6968]

Thank you for the video! I am a bit torn about this calendar. In pure monetary value, I say it is worth the price tag (a lot of the brands they feature are either premium like Caran D’Ache or solid midrange ones), but the actual items are kinda … boring? Totally usable, but also things that belong in an office business supply closet. I guess personally I want something a bit more frivolous from an advent, something I wouldn’t necessarily justify buying for myself.

[@jrr442]

I like this Advent Calendar and your video. I'm a stationary fan as well😊 All the brands inside are of very good quality. And all German brands are well known here for many decades. Best wishes from Germany.

[@BlueBearWood]

Hello Germany and thank you! 😊 I really enjoyed opening the calendar. It's a great way to discover new products and I love that Cult Pens seems to do themes based on countries.

[@daniipieper2486]

The (golden) Stabilo Woodys are really versatile. You can also use them on many surfaces, like for example glas if you like window drawings that can be erased later. I recommend checking out tutorials on those. They started like "kids pens", but they can do A LOT 😀

[@karaslater7877]

Love these! TFS!

[@louisacoote2337]

Kah-ran-dash is how you pronounce Caran d’Ache. They are a pretty high end/fancy brand for coloured pencils etc.

[@doxieowner2571]

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your unboxings!

[@Poisonmiezi]

This was so much fun to watch! I love your excitement :)

[@catherinecarreiro3955]

Like the calendar. Could use less shaking but fun video

[@juliangelus]

I got this calendar last year and loved it! It's pronounced Karen Dash (caran d'ache) if that helps :) Great video thank you. WIth the last fountain pen, you're supposed to take the converter out to fill with ink so you did it correctly in the end. Be careful with the sparkly ink though as it can clog up the nib.

[@BlueBearWood]

Thanks for the pronunciation help. That's really helpful. I was surprised how much I liked the calendar. I really enjoyed opening it. Even with all the ink-chaos! 😂

[@joshalexander416]

legami pen are all I use for uni fantastic pens come in loads of different colours and patterns I loved this advert calendar good selection of pens and bits in for ant stationary lover

[@rinl.6924]

OHHHH another great Cult Pens advent! Last year was quite a bit of Japanese and this year seems very German/Swiss ... I wonder if they will switch it up every year to avoid repeats from the previous year. As mentioned by another comment, the ink needs to make its way down the feeder. I am kinda surprised they delivered a Fine nib, usually Mediums will show more of the shimmer. But this shimmer might work! Diamine ink is an exceptional company and make some of my most beloved inks. The only thing that I did not like was the notebook. I even looked at the box description on their website, they do not mention the paper type. I think that is a bit disappointing coming from a stationery company with a wide selection of papers/notebooks they sell (like Clairefontaine). But that is my personal opinion. Very enjoyable! Thank you.

[@stephsupr]

The orange pen has rulers with different scales on them. They are very helpful with architectural plans or paper maps to measure distances without having to convert them. I'm an imperial user so I don't exactly know the correct conversions, but I am guessing 1:20m means that a 1cm section is equal to 20m in real life. (In the US our ratios are structured like this: 1/2"=1'-0", so 1/2 an inch on the drawing is equal to 1 foot no inches in real life.) It looks like a good pen.

[@kterinkacz]

the bubbles in the converter of the pen, were most probably because you were shaking the ink a lot. You just lightly rotatate it up an down, especialy with the sparkly particles. Its not recomended to shake it so much. the pen you got from Faber Castel its on the pricier side arround 120 EUR+ easily

[@PerfectlyImperfectColour]

For then magic KOH i NOOR Pencil, they are actually a lot of fun. Whenever you get a pencil, one should always sharpen the pencil because the manufacturers tend to put a coating on the tip to insure it wont break in transit. This coating tends to block its pigment from performing correctly. Its annoying but understandable. Thank you for doing this review! I had no idea cult did advent calendars. Im in the states so it might not be the best choice financially but i do love Cult Pens! IDK if i say it correctly but ive heard it many different ways but i say it just like its read.. "Kar-in Da-Sh" but ive heard "ka-reen da-sh" or "ka-rene -D-ash" idk, we all know what you mean though!

[@scottcullen2832]

Hi, it’s Karen dash phonetically speaking, it’s generally top end stuff they make the luminance colouring pencils if you’re into art as well as stationary I’d get in touch with cult pens as they generally don’t send out dinged products. I’m sure they could replace that from stock for you ❤️ ❤️

[@BlueBearWood]

Thank you. I'm more of a crafter than an artist, although do like to dabble and there is some cross over with materials.

[@quantquill]

Amazing how many of the items are dinged or bent -- others mentioned it looks like they tossed a bunch of leftovers in the boxes, but from great brands, I agree. Karen Dash is pretty much how I hear people pronounce Caran d'Ache.

[@trehs98]

With the shimmer ink with that pen. It’s really hard to see. When storing lay it horizontally that way it doesn’t get clogged.

[@BlueBearWood]

Good tip storing horizontally. The shimmer shows more now that I've used the pen plus I gave the ink bottle another huge shake!

[@roserose45]

Thanks for this video. I appreciate your detailed descriptions. I'm a bit disappointed with the amount of pencils and small filler items that feel like a lazy afterthought.

[@SimonC273]

131€ is a lot of money for this calendar.

[@darkmoore05]

Well, that E-motion fountain pen, when not "on sale" is already 110 Euro, you get another fountain pen (the Kaweco) and store exclusive ink. Plus, have you looked at what prices Caran d'Ache has?

[@50kwords]

@@darkmoore05 In Germany, the Faber Castell fp reatils for 66 EUR as sale on their own website. The Perkeo is around 15, sometimes even 11/ 12 EUR in some webshops. The blue Faber Castell mechanical pencil is something around 4/5 EUR on Amazon, and the Troika pen is around 10 EUR. Haven't seen the Caran D'ache coloured pencils before but I have bought their professionell coloured pencils called Luminance for 3,79 EUR, so these are surely much less. Everything else is in the 1 to max. 3 EUR price range. You may get your money's worth in the end. But I wouldn't want my Advent Calendar to be mainly filled with cheap everyday stationery, tbh. Better to have only 4 quality items than all this filler stuff.

[@JohannaInTheCorner]

‘I watched KAREN DASH across the road’ is how many pronounce it, but I do hear it pronounced more as CAR. Do love the brand!

[@julianarincon4488]

I actually wanted this calendar, but the shipping and taxes fees to Colombia are absurd 😢

[@theempath8244]

You have to do water in them first. Then it will suck the ink up.

[@lindyashford7744]

A really nice selection of mostly quality items, I do would be disappointed in the notebook. The various colours are fairly seasonal as a collection, and if you couldn’t help yourself peeking. A small set of blank cards would have been nice, for seasonal greetings, thank you notes or even for the rest of the year, birthdays etc. I won’t be buying for practical reasons, I Already own more than enough stationery! However I loved the two fountain pens and the pencil pot, as well as the gold woody crayon. I have the pot in Matt black, it has lasted very well and in spite of a lot of use still looks very good. It was not cheap. I suspect the erasable pen is a few quid too. Cult pens do a very different calendar each year, one year it was all ink. The last item the gorgeous fountain pen is fabulous, I love its chunky look Thanks for the interesting video.

[@emilyirisbowen9169]

This looks like an enjoyable and practical calendar but...£95?! Did I mishear that? That means it's about £4 per door on average. I would feel a bit disappointed in a lot of the items for that price. I would expect more "special" pens. A lot of these feel a bit basic for the price. But I do like the idea of a more practical usable stationery calendar

[@SimonC273]

Is this a German advent calendar? Most of the Brands are German; al lot of my pupils use these.

[@choochmagooch5200]

I liked the products, they’ve given a good sample of items in case any of those brands or products are new to you but the overall price seems steep to me. I found the shaking very irritating and I couldn’t help but focus on the dirty fingernails. Otherwise, good for you being open minded about the new products you got.