What advent calendars are you secretly jonesing for?
When I was little, advent calendars were mostly just tiny toys or treats for kids, maybe gotten at Sunday School the last Sunday of November.
Now, they seem to be a large part of the cultural (not religious) Christmas festivities, expanding into all areas. I have seen ads for advent calendars for fancy candies, bites of gourmet cheeses, cookies, tiny puzzles, skin care products, whiskeys, wines, spices, tiny jars of jellies and jams, yarns for knitters, etc etc, pretty much whatever!
I love that sort of thing, I am a sucker for cute things.
An advent calendar for Star Trek wines (???) recently crossed my sightline and I am intrigued!!
What would you like to open from December 1 through 24?
This is a question for fun, not pretentious pedantry about strictly interpreting religious traditions.
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Are there advent nude calendars, with a different model each day until Christmas?
I would love the one with the jams and jellies.
Can you link a few? I am not sure I know what you are talking about. I think of an advent calendar as listing all of the Catholic holidays. Is Advent just the Christmas season?
Wow. I am totally oblivious to this. On your link there was an F1 Advent calendar. My husband would love that.
Now that you’ve looked at the link, your Facebook feed will fill up with new and marvelous stuff!
The classic ones, with the cheap chocolate in them.
Wow! Our advent calendar was a fancy calendar with little bitty windows that you open and get to see ‘through the window’ into the scene, which I loved. Each of us 3 kids would taking turns opening them. Same calendar year after year.
So now they have them with little gifts, huh? Cool!
I have never had and would absolutely love the Lush Advent Calendar. As it’s $250, I can’t see it ever being in the budget. But if they ever do a 90% off sale, I’m getting it.
Meanwhile, I still really like the Playmobil calendars I loved as a kid. I like the classic winter scenes, but also the newer ones. My husband (who knows I’m a child at heart) got me this one a few years ago, and it was so fun. Playmobil has branched out to make some very specific calendars; I just came across a Game of Thrones Calendar, complete with a little cardboard castle.
@elbanditoroso I think at this point, anything you can imagine exists. There’s Ramen calendars, beer bottles, drill bits, grow-your-own-pot supplies…
I showed it to my husband, he had no idea what I was talking about. Maybe they don’t have it in Mexico.
@longgone Omigod, my kiddo would love love love the Lush one!!
@Tropical_Willie Flaviar has a bunch of them. What a hoot to have so many choices!
This Q was inspired by this one, it had never occurred to me that there were Star Trek specialty wines, let alone this: https://startrekwines.ingoodtaste.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=LC+ShowsAdvent+Calendar&utm_content=2024ConversionsInterests-+Advent+Calendar&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHZ4CnoIy43UmxvSlBjAk5dE5ktDGJXumxqvJUTP6xeb61zd7UmVk237gwg_aem_eMmJMDRrurIyYY5GjcjsqA&campaign_id=6681457924813&ad_id=6688986970013&utm_id=6681457924813&utm_term=6681457928013
Age of the Geek, baby!
I’d like one with different coffee for each morning. Not a fan of K-cups but that would be about the easiest way
@Blackwater_Park Amazon has about a zillion choices, some with little bags so you’re not jerking around with the little cups.
Love the coffee flavor idea.
I never had one as a child or as an adult. As a child, we also were lackadaisical Presbyterians.
In the past few years, they’ve gotten very popular as fun whimsical things. Costco has some, Trader Joe’s too. Both stores have wine ones and ones with cat treats and dog treats.
I would like a coffee or tea one, a nice soap or lotion one, or maybe one with a simple craft of the day.
@Jleslie I’m amazed you’ve never seen them in stores.
@jca2 If I saw them, I didn’t know what they were. If they have been in front of me, I never really stopped to understand what I was looking at I guess. Completely clueless. I am surprised too. The two families I spent the most time around for Christmas were my exboyfriend and my husband, and like I said above my husband had no idea what it was.
I have been to plenty of Christmas parties, or tree trimming parties.
If it is mostly a young childrens thing, I didn’t do much Christmas as a young child, except going to Nutcracker at Lincoln Center every year.
Keep in mind that those of us who grew up Jewish didn’t have exposure to Advent calendars.
@elbanditoroso I guess it depends on where you grew up. The town I was raised in had a very mixed population, kids in each others’ houses all the time. Typical convo: “What’s that?” “Dreidel. Advent Calendar. Menorah. Easter Basket. (Etc etc)” “What’s it for?” Then various explanations. We all had a pretty good handle on what was what in the two religions by the time we were 8.
We liked the Hindu kids’ holidays the best, they were more interesting and colorful, and exotic snacks were especially marvelous.
Oh yes, I went to a catholic university. I was the only Jewish guy in the Chorus that sang Christmas Mass.
@elbanditoroso Oh well, lol, that would be a lot of exposure.
@canidmajor I grew up in a very diverse place also, more reason I am surprised I am unaware, or it is my memory again. :)
I will use this as an example the next time I see Jewish people online angry there are Matzah merchandised in a Chanukah display at a grocery store or dreidels for Passover. I always say to them to cut the stores and their staff some slack, we are only 2% of the population. Especially in certain parts of the country we are such a small percentage. Plus, it actually makes retailing sense to fill the shelves up full with whatever Jewish item they have if they are running low on the current holiday items. Here I am, clueless about Advent Calendars, and 75% of the country is Christian and I am with Christians most of the time.
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The first two years in YMCA groups I was Chaplin (my mom tucked a pray and a benediction in my shirt pocket for every meeting) sixth, seventh and eighth grade I was president; I recruited three Jewish friends to join. We were first place in dodge ball, flag football and basketball . . . I went to two of there Bar Mitzvahs. !
I love the Vermont Country Store! :-)
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