AnonyMouse_26037 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 Before anyone gets overexcited I am not mentioning the C word. Apologies in advance if the 'A-word' I am about to mention causes offence! I could do with some ideas. Last year on the 1st December my parents turned up at my house with a mystery box for me - it turned out to contain an advent calendar from a toiletries company I love. My whole family (parents, brother and sister and their wife/husband and my three nieces and nephew) had clubbed together to get it for me as a total surprise. The message in the card was so sweet it reduced me to tears and still makes me feel emotional thinking about it. For a whole host of reasons which I won't share publicly it was really important to me. I obviously said thank you at the time but was thinking about returning the pleasure this year. It may not work out as there's a strong possibility that one of the families will be out of the country over Christmas but I wanted to think about it just in case. I was thinking of putting their own advent calendars together. I can't afford the cost of buying a 'grown-up' calendar for each of them but I am good at wrapping and making. For the two elder children I was thinking of getting a lego kit and splitting it up into 24 parts with the final instructions arriving on the 24th. For the youngest I could do one of those Santa's beard countdown calendars. For the adults I was contemplating a series of 24 small presents which could be things like a teabag or sachet of drinking chocolate, a small sweet, a packet of seeds/bulb. I wondered if anyone had any ideas for any other little treats I could include? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_8282 Posted August 24, 2019 Share Posted August 24, 2019 You seem quite handy, so could you include small shopping bags - handmade? I did 60 gifts for a 60th and included things like shower caps, travel size toiletries - hand cremes/toothpaste (brought in supermarkets at the end of summer season. They can work out expensive though, so I did a lot of individual tea bags etc, along with a couple of more expensive (£1 things) Look in Poundland type shops for sets of things that can be split up and used separately. Oh, and maybe day one could be a set of battery lights (Poundland) that they drape over the advent calendar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_29641 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Not quite on message, but a friend of mine once gave me a little origami box that turned out to be made of the card I'd given her the year before. Very thoughtful. I'm thinking maybe beads in a box and a thread or chain to put them on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonyMouse_26037 Posted September 14, 2019 Author Share Posted September 14, 2019 Those are lovely ideas, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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