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I like the thread named Adventskalender better Übereil.

I've never seen anything like this in America and I think it's pretty cool.
It's part of your culture, be proud of the name. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />


Fafnir <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The word "Adventskalender" itself seems to me to be a German word ... anyway, I like the idea since I was a little kid. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The best Adventskalenders are self-made ones : for example in a package of tea there is wrapped in something totally different ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Adventskalender comes from the word Advent and kalender(=calendar. True brainer...). Advent is something we celebrate in Sweden at least, maybe you celebrate it in Gremany as well. (That was a question btw...) It's done like this:
Every sunday before christmass... Well, not EVERY sunday, just the four last... Anyway the four last sunday you pull out your Advents-candlestick (containing foru candles). The first of Advent you light the first candle, have some Coffee and Gingerbread biscuits. The second of Advent you light the first candle AND the second one. You allso have some coffee and Gingerbread biscuits... On the third of advent you light the third candle (and yes, you light the other two as well), and have coffee, Gingerbread biscuits AND saffronbread (with raisins, baked in a certain shape. Normally this is AFTER the 13:th, ie Lucia where you're supposed to eat those saffronsbreads. It tastes quite good. The saffron is pretty expencive though). The fourth of Advent you light ALL of the candles, and have the coffe and the Gingerbread biscuits and some saffronsbread if you like. And you're happy since there's less than a week 'til X-mass. This year Advent started early, just to make it before X-mass (if it would have started in December this year the fourth of advent would have been on boxing day! (We call it Annotherday, sort of. Great when comeing to jokes <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />. Nah, I'll do that another day. Boxing day, perhaps?)).

Übereil

Yes, it's exactly as I know it from Germany. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> More or less (the biscuits aren't that common in the area of Germany where I live, and the thing with the 13th is unknown to me so far). At least as far as I can see and judge it fom your descriptions.

Children have rhymes concerning the number of candles you burn begin to burn on each Advent :

First Advent -> 1 candle
Second Advent -> two of them
Third Advent -> three
Fourth Advent -> four (and normally it's Christmas then, if I remember corrdctly <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )

Another Children's Rhyme goes like this :

"Und wenn die fünfte Kerze brennt,
dann hast du Weihnachten verpennt."

Which means : When the fifth candle burns, you've overslept Christmas ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

(Hope I've spelled it correctly.)

You Germans don't celebrate Lucia, right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />. Than THAT'S what's wrong...

Übereil

What's Lucia ? (First I thought you might mean Lucretia ... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> )

Ahem, I out myself <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> - I have an everlasting calendar: Christmas theme and 24 little heart-shaped bags, all made out of cloth. I collect small stuff I like and then search for a victim to help me wrap everything up. She then stuffs it into the bags whilst I look away. This year it's only sweets - as my favorite victim is in hospital. We had lots of fun wrapping up pencils, erasers, hair clips, ruler, note books, tiny perfume flasks, little animals made out of wood, X-Mas deco for the tree etc., though she also shook her head every time cause I was so silly with this tradition. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

No time this year - but normally I fill a 2nd one as well and then lend it my favourite friend - get it back on the 25th then.

Lucia out of my memory => a young girl with a tross of other young girls (angels?)dress up in white and move from door to door? Symbol of the light coming back after winter. Lucia-girl wears candles on her head - the girls flowers. As Lucia is very popular it might end up with a bunch of a lot of Lucia girls and not a lot of "angels"?

Übereil, am I right? Read this a long while ago in a traveller guide about Sweden.

Do you have Saint Niclaus coming on the 6th as well? Hung up your shoe/boots/socks for it?
Kiya

I like X-Mas very much, as it's the time of the inner children IMO <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />


=> tapdoor 4

Choco Star for jack on day 4.

Santa Lucia`s Day


And this is a special Tapdoor for the older Kids in us. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />


Kiya <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shhh.gif" alt="" />it`s not a Tapddor you make <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

@ Kiya: I explained Lucia pretty ok in this post .
And about St:Nicolaus (later Stanta Claus, if any american wonders where THAT came from), isn't that when you hang some socks out and the next day they're filled with sweets? I'm afraid we don't, I wish we were (maybe I should try to hang out my socks THIS year. You know, just to see what happens...).

Übereil

PS Kiya! The poit with a tapdoor is that you have to open it! I SHOULD have been a link! DS

I opened the door <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" /> - myself... to cause mischief and save you the trouble <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif" alt="" /> - I need a devil X-Mas smilie <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" />
Kiya

Ah, now I see : I think it's the same as what I know as "Lichtmeß". But I'm not 100% sure.

This is a story I found while searching for the names of Santa`s reindeers for my mother:

White Paper on Santa's Reindeer

I read it and I think it`s quite funny, but maybe it is beacuse I`m german and don`t understand half of the words.. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif" alt="" /> ......... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />
If you like it and want to you can take it as the next tapdoor <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Have a nice Second Advent!

Bye, Hap <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

Jack opened two doors today because he is going into Hospital tomorrow to have his Tonsils removed and must not eat tomorrow morning!!
He had a Choco Ghost train and a Lantern from his Scooby-Doo advent calender.

Let's take this thread back!

Tapdoor five

THAT is what we Swedes did today <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />!

Übereil

Tapdoor 6

Nikolaus, not only in Germany <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

@ kiya -> that's so sweet of u.

@ Stone

I really like your last tapdoor. It reminds me the old christmas postcards.
Yes Nikolaus does not exist only in Germany.

[color:"yellow"]Bonne fête de Saint Nicolas à tous les Français et en particulier à mon frère Nicolas [/color]

Barta

TAPDOOR 7

A big Tapdoor, for a big Picture <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

Woa, I just got it!

Advent-skalender.

Advent calender!

I'm so proud of myself. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />