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I have a confession to make. Today was a day I had been looking forward to for a couple months. I had it marked on my calendar and everything. Today was suppose to be the day that I would buy my Advent calendar.\u00a0 As you may have heard, this year Aldi was going to sell a wine advent calendar in the United States. This calendar was available last year in Europe, and they finally had brought it across the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Like I said earlier, I had this day marked on my calendar since I read that they were going to be released a couple of months ago. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity for CraftEaze! There was going to be 24 different wines to try! I had it all planned out, every day I would post the wine on Instagram and Facebook and then once a week I would write a post talking about the different wines. It was going to be PERFECT!<\/p>\n

Little did I know, everyone else had the exact same idea as me. Everyone wanted a wine advent calendar. Even the special cheese wine advent calendar was super popular.\u00a0 My friend texted me and said there was a line at Aldi when the store opened just to get a calendar.\u00a0 Unforuntualy, each store only had a limited supply. I couldn’t get away from work to go to Aldi because I was filling in for someone else. I thought, maybe if I go straight there after work I will be ok.<\/p>\n

So at 3 pm, I went straight to this Aldi store that never looks busy every time\u00a0I drive by. I got out of my car and walked to the door. As I approached, I noticed a sign on the door. This sign said, “Sorry, due to the limited supply we are sold out of the wine calendar.” So I got back in my car and rushed to the Aldi closest to my house, but I didn’t have high hopes. When I got to that Aldi, I saw a sign stating they were out of both the wine Advent calendar and the cheese Advent calendar.\u00a0 I went on into the store because I didn’t want to be that crazy person that got to the door twice and turned around.<\/p>\n

I texted my fiancee when I got into Aldi and told him all about the saga in trying to find the calendar.\u00a0 He immediately\u00a0looked online and found several calendars being sold on eBay, but they were over $150.\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but that’s way too expensive for me!<\/p>\n

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So I was feeling a little defeated that I wasn’t able to pick up the Aldi wine Advent calendar. I was thinking that I would just have to buy either a chocolate Advent calendar<\/a> or even this coloring book Advent calendar<\/a> this year. But my fiancee came to the rescue! He told me that many other people were probably at work when Aldi opened that would have wanted a calendar. Why don’t you just come up with your own “Wine Advent Calendar”? I thought this was a brilliant\u00a0idea and\u00a0decided to run with it.<\/p>\n

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