A peak at the 100-year-old history of the printed Advent calendar

through one of the 24 little windows

9^th November 2002 - 2^nd February 2003

Different customs prepare us for the Christmas festivities long before Christmas Eve. The Advent calendar is one of them. Some inventive parents in the middle of the nineteenth century thought of a good way to help children count the seemingly endless days until Christmas Eve.

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