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🎁 One gift, a calendar of exciting moments

🎁 One gift, a calendar of exciting moments

Patrick Kucharson
October 11, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

This is Better Gift Coach, where you are learning to be the Tim the Toolman Taylor of DYI gift-giving and we are your wise neighbor, Wilson.

Estimated read time: 2 minute & 22 seconds (I know...but worth it)

📊GIFT SCALE:

🎁THE GIFT:

The “make your own advent calendar" Gift

Two years ago we missed out on getting one of my wife’s favorite holiday traditions - the Aldi's Advent Wine Calendar. I decided to create my own wine advent calendar. I went to a craft store and purchased a rectangular crate, some 4x36” mailing tubes, and curated my own selection of 12 half/mini-wines that fit her preferences from local wine shops (can't be drinking every day during the holidays!). I wrapped the tubes in Christmas wrapping paper and filled them with the bottles/cans. She loved it and all the neighbor’s wives asked if I could teach their husbands how to do this. I still have the crate & tubes and might just "re-gift" it again to her this year.

Rob from Ohio

(props to Rob for providing photo)

Content tags: baby shower, foodie, workplace, group, experience, tradition

🌮WHY THIS GIFT IS GREAT:

Extra efforts win points!
Combo of a material gift & an experience
Tees up potential gift tradition (see other tradition-worthy gifts)
Given prior to traditional gift date (breaking gift-giving norms can be fun)
One gift, multiple exciting moments (similar to the subscription service gift)
Since bought locally, can likely get the favorites again next year (or next month)
Selection curated to personal preferences (vs one-size-fits-all store-bought options)

📂 If this gift idea is save-worthy, create a “Gift Ideas” inbox folder & file it away for future use ~or~ find it again in our library.

YOUR VERSION OF THIS GIFT

💡TIPS FOR YOUR GIFT:

You can always buy premade advent calendars
Document what was included so you remember
Not into wine? There’s advent calendars for almost anything
Muffin tins, socks, toilet paper tubes - ways to assemble your own calendars
Don’t delay, DIY calendars take time and some premade ones sell out before Nov
The advent calendar concept can be repurposed for almost any occasion (weddings, anniversaries, workplace events, birthdays, finals week, etc.)

🤔GIFT BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:

Who in your life would appreciate an advent calendar-style gift?_____
What things/themes do they like that you could include in a calendar?_____

▶️FORWARD THIS GIFT IDEA TO:

Your best friend’s significant other (or your significant other!)
Someone with a kid approaching finals week

And introduce them to your favorite 1 minute a week shortcut to always having great gift ideas well in advance. They can read past editions and subscribe here.

👂LET'S HEAR FROM YOU:

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Have you ever received/given a unique advent calendar-style gift?
Is there a relationship category that you struggle to think of gifts for? (Co-workers, in-laws, your friends’ kids, mail carriers, etc…?)

😆GIF/MEME:

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All the best,Patrick KucharsonBetter Gift Coach™

P.S. There’s exactly 75 days until Christmas! But don’t worry…you’ve got us this year, so you can spend your Saturdays in December doing anything but worrying about your holiday gift shopping!

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