--- title: London Man Makes Wife Giant Advent Calendar for Christmas description: Benjamin Anthony Hewins gave the ultimate thoughtful gift this Christmas when he made his wife a life-sized advent calendar. canonical: https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-09T20:54:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:21.790Z og:title: This Man Built His Wife a Life-Sized Advent Calendar og:description: Above and beyond for his wife og:url: https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte489fe7d3d1883bb/6988b282428a9e81e7cd540e/advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Man Built His Wife a Life-Sized Advent Calendar twitter:description: Above and beyond for his wife twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte489fe7d3d1883bb/6988b282428a9e81e7cd540e/advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Man Built His Wife a Life-Sized Advent Calendar for Christmas  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 9, 2016 8:54 PM UTC  (Credit: Benjamin Anthony Hewins / Facebook)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 9, 2016 8:54 PM UTC Today, let us recognize a man who’s gone so above and beyond normal protocol for [gift-giving this holiday season](http://time.com/money/4566174/post-election-feminist-gifts-clinton-trump/) that all offerings from other men will likely pale in comparison. Benjamin Anthony Hewins, a husband from London, England took it upon himself to build a huge (7 foot tall, to be exact) [advent calendar](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/01/a-brief-history-of-advent/) for his wife. According to [Metro.co.uk](http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/05/this-guy-made-a-huge-advent-calendar-for-his-wife-with-a-different-present-behind-every-door-6301858/#ixzz4S3yO4cVi), the larger-than-life present housed presents like scarves, shoes, and treats behind each door. While Hewins constructed the whole thing himself, the project only took him two days to complete. “It really wasn’t difficult—just a bit of imagination, a few tools, and loads of green tea,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Significant others of the world, pay attention: _this_ is how you give a gift. See the advent calendar in all its glory below. London Man Makes Wife Giant Advent Calendar for Christmas ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/"},"headline":"This Man Built His Wife a Life-Sized Advent Calendar for Christmas","datePublished":"2016-12-09T20:54:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:21.790Z","description":"Above and beyond","url":"https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","christmas","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte489fe7d3d1883bb/6988b282428a9e81e7cd540e/advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte489fe7d3d1883bb/6988b282428a9e81e7cd540e/advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"advent-calendar-benjamin-hewin","caption":"","creditText":"(Credit: Benjamin Anthony Hewins / Facebook)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4596916/giant-advent-calendar/","name":"This Man Built His Wife a Life-Sized Advent Calendar for Christmas"}}]}] ```