People (mostly kids) get these before December 1st coz that's when you start opening it. It's got 24 little doors, pockets or alike (little drawers in this case), one for each day until Christmas. So at the 24th you open the last one.
In Germany every kid has at least one - it goes from simple bought ones with chocolate inside up to big (and expensive) ones from Lego, Playmobil, Barbie... whatever you can imagine. Of course - as it is with everything: Selfmade is the best!
Since I've seen lots of these matchbox drawer advent calendars in blogs and you tube videos I decided to try and make one. My son already had a bought one from his Grandma so I thought it would be only fair if this Grandma (aka my Mom) gets one too.
It was a big project - as it always is - coz I went far too much into detail again (like embossing the numbers on the drawers for example). But the outcome is pretty nice for a first... See for yourselves:
The drawers are pretty small of course so I had a hard time finding lots of different stuff to put in. For example: The only selfmade Christmas cookies that fit in were the little stars. I found some small chocolate Santas for 6th December (our "Nikolaustag") and the final 24th. I put in some jelly beans, some "Merci" chocolates and every of the sides also inherited a lottery scratch ticket.
Thankfully this one is not for the bin, it can be used again. But next time Moms boyfriend has to find stuff to fill it with, not me! ;)
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