Gift Guide #5: Advent Calendars
Because countdowns are the most fun.
I know, I know. Autumn has barely begun and I’m on about Christmas. Some might accuse me missing the joy of this glorious season by already thinking about the next, but experience has shown me the opposite.
By spending a few hours here and there planning for the rush that is Christmas, I am able to savor the season with fewer frantic weekends and late-night runs for tape and wrapping paper. And the sales offered to early birds are a nice bonus.
So, with that, I am sharing a collection of gift guides for the holidays. First up is a list of Advent calendars.
What once was a humble chain of construction paper is now quite the event. Some Advent calendars sell out in the summer! (You’ll find none of those here, dear reader. Even that is too early bird for me.)
I wasn’t always an Advent calendar person. I remember making the aforementioned construction paper chains in elementary school, but they seemed to mark the days to winter break versus welcoming in the Christmas seaso…
