So peeps, I am very happy to share with you today the gift that I made for Pakjes Avond.
Traditionally celebrated on the 5th December (although we did it a little earlier this year), Pakjes Avond is the dutch fete of St. Nicolas that tends to replace Christmas as the main gift-giving day of December. I don’t know how traditional our anglo-dutch version is, but I love it and I think it’s a lovely idea that I would like to keep up.
Here’s the premise : everyone is assigned in secret one person to buy a gift for. You have a budget and generally people get one ‘real’ gift and one funny gift, but I combined mine this year in one bumper gift, sometimes you write a little poem to go with it, which I did, but unfortunately I lost my copy so I can’t share it with you. Then in the evening of the 5th, all the gifts get hidden under a blanket and handed out by the younger members. At the end of the evening when all the gifts have been given everyone has to guess who their secret gift-giver was.
I had to buy a gift for my uncle Steve, and after much deliberation I decided to create a Christmas survival kit for men. The main gift was homemade chilli-infused vodka, which turned out very spicy and would be amazing mixed into a bloody mary or a spicy martini. The other gifts were fun survival bits and bobs, like mints and ear plugs, that I repackaged and wrapped up in one big box. Take a look at the photos below to see what the final product looked like. I hope you like it
I was curious what did you use to put together your Christmas survival kit?
Hi Kim, do you mean what products? If yes, they were all just standard items from the supermarket. Glad you like it!