As a child, during the advent season I very carefully would pick up a little wooden wand with a star on one end, poke the other end into a little hole in a paper flap, open it and find a tiny wooden ornament. Then I’d use that wand to pick up the ornament by a string loop and hang it on a little peg on a wooden tree.
Column: The big business of advent calendars
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