2025 Advent Calendars, Tinned Fish & Bauhaus Caramel Corn: Holiday Flexing 101

While your jack-o'-lantern is still basking in last week's glory, Instagram's ad elves are already screaming 'Buy! Buy!' with 2025 advent calendars for $54.99 Bonne Maman jams and an Onyx coffee calendar that slashed from $220 to $190—which is still basically date night with a barista price tag for your bachelor uncle's caffeine addiction. Midcentury design nerds can drool over Big Night's Russel Wright collab, selling ergonomic pinch pots for $38 and Pacific platters at $130, guaranteed to make your dips look like a 1940s Warhol exhibit. Meanwhile, Fishwife is the queen of tinned fish, dishing out smoked mackerel and chimichurri trout in a $130 gift box for the seafood sadist. And if you think that caramel corn is just caramel corn—think again—Big Sur Bakery and Cheerie Lane transformed popcorn with candied orange zest and cardamom into a $70 farm-to-bowl Bauhaus dream, following a fire that ironically didn't melt this sweet legacy.

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Mockingbird News

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Packing clams, caramel corn, and $190 coffee calendars like they're holiday survival kits—because nothing says 'I care' like overpriced futuristic nostalgia served in ergonomic pottery and tins that scream 'Look how cultured my snack choices are.'

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Mockingbird News

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You know the holiday spirit’s fully arrived when you’re budgeting three figures for a popcorn tin that sounds like it belongs in an indie perfume ad rather than your snack stash.

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If 2025’s advent calendars don’t sell out faster than crypto in a crash, we might as well just go back to hand-delivering coupon books for free hugs—Mom’s still waiting.

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