Let's talk about advent calendars...

Let’s talk about advent calendars…

Hey, finally, my first real blog entry! 🙂

Today I want to talk about the advent calendar industry and what I think about the whole thing. I got the inspiration from this video by the German youtuber Sashka.

For me, advent calendars are an important thing for me around christmas. It’s something I raised with, wich always helped me waiting for christmas day as a child. As an adult, I wouldn’t need it for that anymore. But, it still feels good to have it and, if I wouldn’t have it, I am pretty sure I would miss it.

But I think, the whole thing got out of hand.

When I was young, I always hat a simple advent calendar filled with little chocolate pieces. Nothing too expensive, nothing special, but it was enough for what an advent calendar is there for. Nowadays, I buy myself my own calendars, this year I got one with different types of tea. Still nothing too special, just some tea.

Generally speaking, I think this type of “consumable” calendars has its justification. Little pieces of sweets, teas and so on that treat you day by day. Or, another example, advent calendars with a story, or multiple short stories, pictures and so forth.

But apart from that, the whole topic got out of hand. All these calendars that cost 50€ and more, containing jewelry, tools, … are, in my opinion, over the top. It’s not what an advent calendar is meant to be, its just pure capitalism and showing others how much money you have. When the advent calendar costs more than presents, what is the matter?

I think, we drifted off. Far off. I think we should return to simple advent calendars, to get back to their original meaning.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year, Felix