Where have I put them??

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Although each year both the girls get an Advent calendar, we didn’t like the fact that they are mainly packaging, a lot of which is not even recyclable. So two or three years ago both the girls made fabric Advent calendars. They came as pre-printed panels and it was simply necessary to cut out the parts and sew them together in the appropriate places. The results are really nice re-usable calendars which could last for generations. The snag is that of course we then need to get things to go in the little pockets, so overall even though we are not paying for all that unnecessary packaging, they work out more expensive than the pre-packed little chocolate shapes. Well, a few days ago I went to the supermarket Lidl. They sell our favourite Christmas goodies, chocolate-coated lebkuchen. I don’t like starting Christmassy things too early, but unfortunately they start selling them in October or even earlier and run out long before Christmas, so I have learned that I need to stock up when I see them. They had quite a selection of Christmas-related treats in stock, and I looked up and down the aisles but couldn’t find lebkuchen. Eventually I did find a few packs in a basket, so I bought several in case those really were all they had left! Anyway, to get to the key point of this post, while I was looking for those I came across several packs of little treats that could be used to pop in the pockets of the Advent calendars, so I bought a selection. And when I got home I realised I had better put them out of sight somewhere before the girls saw them. The first place I thought of that they would never look was inside the washing machine. But then I found that my partner had put some dirty clothes in there, so I decided I’d better find somewhere else. And the weird thing is that at that point my memory goes blank. So where DID I put them?? I have looked all over and not found them yet! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.