January really is crap

I’m keeping January slow paced. There’s no pressure to do alot socially so I’m taking the opportunity to hibernate in the evenings. It’s given me time to get my workouts in and then I can unwind.

Seeing it get a little lighter in the evenings is making me happy too.

Fair point! The work aspect can be a pain unless you enjoy work or have something good in.

I quite like January.

I like walks when it’s crisp and bright, but also even when it all looks a bit bleak and overcast. Can be quite spooky and romantic. The weather I don’t like is rain, so as long as that holds off.

I think it’s the lack of money that can make it crap, and if that’s an issue in Jan it can be really depressing.

Buying experience gifts for you/ your DH if you have one/ kids for Christmas can be a good way to make Jan fun, if they’re things you can do in Jan. And obviously taken from Christmas budget not January’s!

I sometimes like to get down to the sea (sea is down for us) in Jan as it can be so beautiful.

The cosiness factor is good but I can hear it’s not doing it for you - I think you need to have gone out someone first for cosiness to be fun!

We are enjoying The Traitors on telly which helps - having something to look forward to on telly always helps! Or can you stretch to downloading a good film for film nights if the cinema is too pricey?

It's the going back to work after time off and not being be to go out and exercise in the brief windows of no rain and wind that does for me!!

Personally, I hate the cold and I hate the dark but I try to remember that it has a purpose and it's nicer to have seasons rather than live somewhere constantly hot, like some of my friends do.
Keep embracing it op. Find out if there are any free events in your area.
Do you have cheap kids cinema on Sunday mornings? Free farm? Does the library do any events?
Otherwise, it'll have to be some good books from the library (I read Harry Potter to my dc one winter), movie nights at home, baking and winter walks. We would feed the birds in our garden and take some oats to the duck pond.

I agree about getting rid of Christmas. We are currently "enjoying" clear skies, but my god it is cold. The snow has been on the ground for 6 days and daily highs have been 1 or 2 degrees, with sub zero temperatures at night.

We haven't had any post or deliveries for a week, bins haven't been emptied and the pavements are like an ice rink. The snow ploughs have left a narrow channel on the main road because of the cars that were already parked there, and the trapped cars can't get out because it has been so cold the mounds of snow surrounding them have frozen solid.

Praying for a thaw.

I hate January and I hate winter. It's dark, cold and shit. Everyone is sick. It's just horrid !

It’s not a rhetorical question though is it.

OP has literally started the thread to ask that specific question.

January, love it. So quiet.

No more shitty inflatable Santas and Snowmen everywhere.

I was out jogging today. Beautiful icy landscape. I prefer summer, but each season has its upside. The days are getting longer, spring is just around the😀 corner.

How is someone having a different opinion than you insensitive?

Perhaps you are the insensitive one, considering myself and others have said that we enjoy January before you said anything.

I love January and it’s been crisp where I am.

I actually love all of the months but for very different reasons.

There have been multiple posters saying they love January.

Your opinion doesn’t trump anyone else’s.

I didn’t ever say you weren’t.

I used to live in Ceredigion (much better than Pembrokeshire 😉) but now I’m near Cardiff.

Do you understand it could be a rhetorical question?

And I’m entitled to my opinion that banging on about how lovely it is to people who are made actually depressed by it (not a bit fed up) is insensitive at best.

We have freezing fog to look forward to tomorrow. Can't wait for that.

@cardibach oooh south wales is beautiful , I'm jealous.
I was in Pembrokeshire a few weeks ago, utterly stunning, fancy a home swap 😆

@itsalwaysthesame blimey - we certainly didn't over here in Bath- was one long damp fest - we were away in Greece late July for 2 weeks though - so maybe 'that' was summer over here

@cardibach the op asks "does anyone actually prefer these months"? lots of winter loving people have replied to say yes and the reasons why.

Maybe if you put a bit of warmth in your attitude you might warm up a bit 🤪

People are entitled to their opinion. It’s a public forum.
Yes, you and others think it’s crap, me and others think it’s lovely.

South Wales. Summer was crap, but actually 8 don't need it hot and sunny - just warm enough I can get out and about without feeling shit or putting on socks and boots and 47 layers.

I liked it more in Copenhagen when we lived there- proper snow a few times every winter- more sun , less rain although a fair bit of gloom still - a lot of xmas lights kept on till early Feb in houses, squares, balconies, , warm cosy cafes and candles and heating was all great geothermal heating and houses with no draughts!!

On a thread giving people who hate January space to vent and after it’s been pointed out that it’s not crisp mostly and anyway most of us (on the thread) don’t like it even when it is.
All the cold lovers get very cross when for 3 days it’s vaguely warm and they want to moan about it and those of us who hate the cold point out it’s 3 days out of 12 months…

No. Why would you think that? Someone comes on after pages of people saying it’s crap and not crisp to say it’s lovely and crisp. Insensitive.

It’s less cold than elsewhere. Whoop.
Spring - in any meaningful, non-meteorological sense - is month a away.

For me personally, I feel like it’s something to do with living coastal in a deprived city. We don’t have a lot of indoor things to do.

We have one absolutely shit museum.

and about 6899 over priced charity shops. And that sums up the city centre!