Gift ideas for Advent calendars

Whether for your partner, family, or colleagues at the office, personalized Advent calendars bring a little joy to every day. But before you can begin, you face 24 little problems: What do I put in the socks?

1. A vase made from a light bulb with a flower (best placed in the first door to avoid it shrinking). You can see and buy the whole thing at design-3000 . It's also easy to make yourself. Instructions are available, for example, on YouTube.
2. Pocket Advent candles for anyone who wants a little Christmas at their desk. Of course, you can also make them yourself (we'll refrain from saying that from now on, but it applies to almost all of the following suggestions).
3. For lovers of kebabs or other odorous foods: A cola that neutralizes bad breath. Great! Available at Papa Türk .
4. Perfect for small stockings: Our Pocket Garden . A big plus: You can order it directly here :)
5. A lovely idea and a sweetly designed website: tea for blending yourself . I swear by green tea!
6. Homemade chocolates. They're actually quick to make and, if you know the recipient's taste, very individual. Chefkoch has many great recipes. For example, Nutella chocolates .
7. Chocolates, too, but for bathing: bath melts . It's best to give chocolate and bath melts together and then let them guess which is which :)
8. Perfect for a night at the beach: The Kangaroo Manifesto . Funny, ironic, and at times bizarre. For me, the best audiobook of all time. Yes, even better than Whale Song!
9. Also easy to make yourself and, when packaged well, makes a lovely gift: pesto. Chefkoch has some great recipes for this, too. Alternatively, we found a nice pesto shop here.
10. For those who, like me, love garlic but don't want to constantly have smelly hands, here's the answer: The Garlic Card . Peel, grate, and spread directly on bread without touching your hands. Best served with good oil and sea salt!
11. Probably the best gift on this list: Seed Bombs from... us! Hand-rolled, stylishly packaged, and with a description, they're the perfect gift. If you like, you can also find instructions on our website for rolling your own.
12. If you like flowers even in winter, we recommend this cookie cutter . It may not quite look like a tulip, but it'll still make you feel like a Dutchman for a bit ;) If you'd like to make your own, you can find instructions at Tortentante , for example.
13. If you're tired of your roommates sneaking your chips, you can get some help: This mooing bag clip . Finally, there are Crunchy Nuts there when I get up in the morning...
14. Here, we don't break hearts, but walnuts. Without much effort and with a surgically clean cut: The Heartbreaker .
15. Personally, I HATE puzzles. But I'm sure a lot of people like them, so I'm mentioning the idea...or at least for people you don't like. There's a particularly nice (and TERRIBLE!) one on Amazon , for example.
16. Not just for devil worshippers and Satanists: Black pasta. It looks good and adds a certain something to the mundane pasta. Made with squid ink .
17. A piece of paper for every Sudoku solved. Diarrhea may take a long time, but it's fun: Sudoku toilet paper .
18. For retro gamers and anyone who is constantly looking for their stapler: The bright yellow PacMan stapler from 3dsupply.
19. THE bookmark for flower lovers: Sprout . Makes opening the book a joy every time.
20. Who hasn't seen that little loop on notebooks that you're supposed to fiddle with your pen? Too complicated for people with fiddly fingers like me! But if you simply clamp the pen into the book, it won't close properly. The Slim Pen solves exactly this dilemma.
21. The entry point into guerrilla gardening: An individually wrapped seed bomb from DieStadtgärtner. It's the last product from us on this list, I promise :)
22. This thing saves women with large handbags YEARS of life. The key clip hooks onto the top of the bag and ensures that keys are always easily found. To the inventors of this product: Thank you so much!
23. But once you have the key ring in your hand, the problems begin...which one is it? There's a solution for that, too, of course, and it's called: Cookeys .
24. Please just watch this video and you will understand why this product is a must-have.

So, those were our top 24 gift ideas for personalized Advent calendars. Please leave a comment if you have any other ideas. We'd love to hear them!