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Advent calendar ideas for adults

Ideas for filling Advent calendars

Here are our gift ideas for Advent calendars for adults:

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Here are some ideas for all gourmets and enthusiasts of culinary pleasures:

·       Mini food packets (honey, sausage, jam, Nutella, granola, olive oil, etc.)
·       High-quality pasta (e.g. Martelli, Setaro, De Cecco)
·       Vinegar (balsamic, pomegranate, raspberry, quince, etc.)
·       Verjus (sour juice from unripe grapes, is used like vinegar...)
·       Olive oil, pumpkin seed oil, sesame oil, truffle oil, etc.
·       Specialty mustard
·       Nutcracker
·       Oyster knives
·       Flambé torch
·       Other kitchen accessories (ravioli or pizza slicer, ice cream scoop etc)
·       Coffee / espresso beans(specialty types)
·       Miniature milk foamer
·       Bottle opener / wine opener
·       A sour pickle from a glass
·       Spices (curry, cinnamon sticks or vanilla beans, saffron, etc.)
·       Pudding to make yourself
·       Jam – homemade
·       Salsa (e.g. jalapeño, chipotle, mango), also homemade
·       Homemade rum raisins
·       1 can of ravioli, 1 packet Miraculi
·       Walnuts, edible chestnuts or hazelnuts (one can also gather them in
        nature)
·       Pesto – you can also make it yourself...
·       Fruits such as mini pineapple, passion fruit, lychee, mangosteen (or other 
        exotic fruits)
·       Wine / sparkling wine Piccolo
·       Ingredients for mulled wine. you can also distribute the ingredients over 
        three days, and combine it with a movie night at home, for example...
·       Ingredients for eggnog

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Here are our sweet ideas for Advent calendars:

·       Truffles (store-bought or homemade – one can distribute them 
        throughout a few days)
·       Peanut brittle (also homemade)
·       Chocolate fudge (also homemade)
·       Toffee popcorn
·       Chocolate-dipped candy canes (also homemade)
·       Ferrero / Rondnoir, Mon Cheri, Hershey’s kisses, Raffaelo
·       After Eight
·       Chocolate milk mix (individual portions)
·       Chocolate Santa Claus
·       Marzipan, marzipan hearts, marzipan potatoes, etc.
·       Cookies (homemade?)
·       Roasted almonds
·       Gingerbread heart / gingerbread man
·       Mini fruitcake
·       Black licorice
·       Fortune cookies from a Chinese food store
·       Yes cakes
·       Mini gingerbread house...(homemade)
·       Walkers biscuits - Scottish shortbread


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With the surplus of sweets at Christmas time, something savory is a welcome change. Here are our savory ideas:

·       Spiced nuts (also homemade)
·       Homemade cheese crackers
·       Savory dips and spreads
·       Cheese log with herbs
·       Pretzel sticks / mini pretzels
·       Party mix
·       Chips (mini bag)
·       Tortilla chips
·       Peanut „flips“
·       Specialty crackers
·       Cashews / pistachios / peanuts / macadamia nuts
·       Italian Grissini (you can also make it yourself...)
·       Olives

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For all adults who like to do puzzles and brain teasers:

·       Sudoku, as a booklet or printed Sudoku puzzles online
·       Crossword puzzles, either from the internet or homemade
·       Mini brain teasers
·       Riddle or brain teaser books (i.e. the „Black Stories“ cards)



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Gift certificates are easy to wrap and offer diverse opportunities for gifts. Here are our gift certificate ideas:

·       Wellness day
·       Cinema / theater / zoo
·       DVD evening
·       Baking a cake, gingerbread, cookies
·       Reading aloud (a book, poems, stories)
·       Mulled wine / waffles at a Christmas market
·       Mixing a cocktail
·       Sunday breakfast in bed
·       Vacuuming, washing up, etc.
·       Homemade dinner / candlelight dinner
·       Recipe with a gift certificate for cooking
·       Getting fresh rolls on Sunday
·       Homemade cookies / cake / dessert
·       TV Joker (that person can decide which TV shows will be watched for the 
        evening)
·       Pool game
·       Ice skating
·       Build a snowman
·       Amazon, iTunes, etc. gift certificate
·       Sledding
·       Margarita-making evening
·       Fondue
·       Massage oil, including gift certificate
·       A car wash
·       Scratching ice off of the car windshield (perhaps include an ice scraper?)


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You could give a whole book on one day (e.g. on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve), or one could spread the stories out over multiple days (copies).

Our ideas for your Advent calendar:

·       Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol " (the text is available for free 
        online, e.g. on Project Gutenberg or Amazon Kindle)
·       Clement Clarke Moore, “The Night Before Christmas”
·       J.R.R. Tolkien, “Letters from Father Christmas”
·       O. Henry, “”The Gift of the Magi”
·       Truman Capote, “A Christmas Memory”
·       David Sedaris, “Holidays on Ice”
·       Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince"
·       Write your own story, write a sequel for each day
·       Book by a favorite author/ from a bestseller list (Spiegel / Amazon)
·       „Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus“: Correspondence between 
        Virginia O'Hanlon and Francis P. Church in 1897. Until the last print run
        of the Sun newspaper in 1950, for over half a century the 
        correspondence was printed on the title page every year (story can be 
        found online).

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Of course you can write your own poem, but there are also a number of beautiful poems online. Here is a short selection of Christmas poems:

·       The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore
·       Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
·       The Three Kings, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
·       Christmas Trees, by Robert Frost
·       Christmas Carol, by Sara Teasdale
·       The Boy who Laughed at Santa Claus, by Ogden Nash
·       Christmas Eve, by Robert Browning
·       The Eve Of Christmas, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
·       Christmas Comes But Once a Year, by Thomas Miller
·       A Defective Santa Claus James, by Whitcomb Riley
·       Also, see the “Christmas Shelf” collection at Project Gutenberg:   
        http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Christmas_%28Bookshelf%29

Or what about a song? Here are a few Christmas songs:

Jingle Bells
Silent Night
White Christmas
Winter Wonderland
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas    

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Other Advent calendar ideas for adults:

·       A song on a CD / MP3 download
·       A funny video from Youtube / Vimeo (e.g. „the funniest video of all time”
·       Bookmark
·       Scratch card / filled out Lottery ticket
·       Key chain
·       Ice scraper
·       Door de-icer
·       "I love you because....." cards
·       A „calendar in a calendar“ (card Advent calendar, tea calendar, etc.)
·       Vacation photo / portrait photo / wallet photo (funny?)
·       Sparklers
·       Mini board games, skill games or card games
·       Post-its
·       Long matches for Christmas tree candles
·       Description of a nice hiking trail in the area, for example an online route 
        description
·       Tickets for a museum in the area
·       (Electrical)-fly swatter
·       Shopping cart chip (available for free at many home improvement stores 
        and supermarkets)
·       Caricature (Search Google for famous people such as Obama, Jack 
        Nicholson, Mr. Bean, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Margaret Thatcher, 
        Einstein)
·       Stamp for geo-catching log entries
·       Mini-Advent wreath (to-go)
·       USB charger for a car
·       Travel accessories: luggage tags, reading light, travel pillow

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Would you like some more ideas? On our other pages you can find suggestions tailored to men, women and children:    

IDEas Advent Calendar Men
Ideas advent calendar women
Ideas Advent Calendar Kids
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