For Meat Lovers
"Meaty Christmas" Jerky Advent Calendar
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’Tis the season for meat! Give your man 25 days worth of bite-sized jerky in flavors like honey bourbon, wine, pepperoni, and BBQ habanero.
Upgrade His Grooming
By Technic Man-Sized Advent Calendar
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Let him experiment with different grooming products — in a manly way, of course — with this extra-large advent calendar. It has fun products like shampoo, body wash, lotion and hair gel, along with tools he might need, like clippers, tweezers or a pumice stone.
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Fun Fidget Toys
Metal Puzzle Advent Calendar
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Credit: pozemuIf he likes fidget toys or solving physical puzzles, this 24-day advent calendar will let him exercise his brain as he figures out how to detangle two dozen interlocking metal pieces during the holidays.
Just a Little Something
Elf: The Official Advent Calendar
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Credit: Insight EditionsDon't be a cotton-headed ninny-muggins — if Elf is his favorite holiday movie, get him this advent calendar. It comes with 25 small things that will surprise and delight him, like stickers, buttons and keychains. If he's not an Elf fan, you can also opt for other Insight Editions advent calendars, including ones themed around Beetlejuice, House of the Dragon, Skyrim, Fallout, Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars, Batman, Marvel, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Home Alone or Dragon Ball Z, among others.
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For You and Your Man
Advent Calendar for Couples
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Whether he’s in a long-term relationship or just starting out with a new partner, every couple could benefit from some fresh December date ideas. Each day of this advent calendar gives him three activity options, ranging from PG to NC-17 on the spice-o-meter, ensuring he and his significant other will have some real fun under the tree this holiday season.
Best Toy Advent Calendar for Men
Funko Pop! Marvel Holiday Advent Calendar
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For Kidults
LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
No matter how hold he is, he will never outgrow his love of LEGO — or Star Wars. Combine the two with this advent calendar, which lets him build out mini ships and other vehicles while collecting minifigures of characters like Ahsoka and Princess Leia (Christmas garb).
RELATED: The Best Star Wars Gifts for Fans of All Ages
For the Indecisive
ManVent Advent Calendar
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For the guy who has everything, this fun advent calendar for men gives him a little bit more of everything he loves. He’ll enjoy 12 days of spicy bar nuts, artisan jerky, craft beer and cool cocktails.
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For Sports Fans
Party Animal NFL Advent Calendar
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For the football-obsessed guy in your life, there’s this TeenyMates 24-day advent calendar with a football stadium and mini helmets for him to collect and display all year long.
For Snackers
Christmas Popcorn Advent Calendar
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Credit: Williams-SonomaGive him something to snack on while he goes about his holiday business. Each day for 24 days, he'll get different kernels or seasonings to try — or combine to try out new flavors. He can go with some really unusual flavors, including spice blends that taste like French toast, dill pickles, baby back ribs or chocolate chip cookie dough.
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Wake Up His Taste Buds
12 Days of Hot Sauce Advent Calendar
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Keep him warm and toasty his winter with a dozen hot sauces for him to try on his wings and burgers. The heat ranges from sweet to spicy and includes flavors like Zombie Apocalypse with bhut jolokia peppers and mandarin oranges, Psycho Curry with garlic and turmeric, and Sweet Onion Habanero infused with scorpion peppers.
Best Beer Advent Calendar
Beer Advent Calendar
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This advent calendar is the gift that keeps on giving for beer lovers who want to taste twelve of the best craft beers of 2024. He’ll crack open a variety of stouts, ales, and IPAs from some of the greatest microbreweries across America. Does he prefer bourbon or seltzers? There are also advent calendars for canned cocktails and hard seltzers, along with other fun boozy advent calendars.
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Start His Days on a Good Foot
Variety Pack Advent Calendar
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If he loves waking up to a fresh cup of Joe from his Keurig, these 24 pods to savor each December morning will put a pep in his step during the holidays. No Keurig, no problem! Buy him the Door County Coffee advent calendar with 12 days of full coffee bags!
Mindful Gift
Andy Warhol 12 Days of Puzzles Christmas Countdown
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Credit: GalisonThis artistic advent calendar is perfect for the man who, like me, is still enjoying the calming zen of puzzles he started doing during the harrowing pandemic days. There are 12 days of easy-to-manage, 80-piece puzzles featuring Warhol’s 1950s retro Christmas paintings and drawings to get your guy relaxed and ready for holiday cheer.
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Nice and Sweet
Shortbread Advent Calendar
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The most delicious advent calendar comes all the way from Scotland and is filled with an assortment of buttery shortbread cookies in a variety of fun shapes. They'll go great with his tea or coffee!
+ Ashden Co Men’s Bath and Body Advent Calendar
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We might not say it out loud often, but what men really want from their true love isn’t a partridge in a pear tree. Instead, we’d love 12 days of pampering in the form of bath salts, balms, body wash, bars of soap and so much more.
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Limited Edition Advent Calendar
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If he loves fresh jam on his bagels, scones, and toast each morning before work, this wildly popular annual advent calendar will brighten each and every dark December morning leading up to Christmas Day.
Great Gift From Family
EXIT: The Game Advent Calendar - The Missing Hollywood Star
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Every guy I know enjoys solving a riddle and fixing a problem — it’s what we (try) to do best. This new Exit game blends the best aspects of an advent calendar with a fun adventure story to provide clues for 24 days to help him try to find a missing Hollywood star, alone or with help from his kids.
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For the Whole Family
The Ultimate Family Christmas Cracker Advent Book
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For the family guy, this clever book offers up 25 days full of quizzes, jokes, games and old-fashioned British Christmas crackers to bust open up together with his kids every day in December!
Useful Gift
ChapStick 12 Day Holiday Advent Calendar
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This advent calendar for men is both fun and practical because he’s probably always misplacing his lip balm and always complaining about his cracked and painfully chapped lips. He’ll have holiday scents and flavors like vanilla icing, cake batter, and sugar cookies to keep his lips moist and ready for kissing under the mistletoe.

Jeff is a dad of two daughters, an avid traveler, a photographer, an author and a freelance writer who lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia with his wife and their cats. In addition to Good Housekeeping, he's written for Parents, Fodor's, Food and Wine, Real Simple and Reader’s Digest, among other print and online publications. Jeff is the publisher of the quarterly literary magazine, Stanchion, and his book, Streets Cats and Where to Find Them, will be published by Running Press in the Summer of 2025.
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