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It's traditional in my household to put a chocolate orange out on the New Year's Eve dessert table: you can usually get them at a good price during post-Christmas sales.

I did, indeed, find them at a good price during this year's post-Christmas sales! And the batch they were selling didn't expire until May 2026!

So I bought two of them, and now we have *next* year's NYE orange already sorted out.

(I put a note on my calendar for 2025-12-23 reminding me that we already have one. I may, next year, rotate in a 2027 orange and repeat the cycle; but if I don't find any chocolate oranges in stock at a good price next year, it's no big deal.)