Christmas countdown
A Christmas countdown made of your photos, not chocolate
Twenty-four doors, each one a picture or a few lines, opening one morning at a time until Christmas. It lives on their phone. There is no cardboard to recycle.
Four doors from a 24-day Christmas
Day 1
December 1
The tree lot, last year, before it was dark.
Day 8
A song
Write the line you both sing wrong. Audio comes later; the words can go in today.
Day 16
Still shut
Sealed until its date.
Day 24
Christmas Eve
Sealed until its date.
How this differs from a paper calendar
A shop advent calendar is the same for everyone, and it ends in the bin. A personalized Christmas countdown is specific: their coat in your hallway, a recipe in your handwriting, the year the dog wore the sweater.
You can make 24 days, or fewer. Christmas does not require that you perform the whole of December. Twelve honest doors beat twenty-four blank ones.
Photo, note, and the song you would have attached
Each day holds a photo and a written note. If a day is “our song”, put the lyric you mean and say which recording. Voice and video are not part of this first version, so do not promise a file you cannot upload.