Safe place thread for the anxious, miserable and Grinch like

[Inyournewdress]

would anyone like to join me in a thread where we can say what we’re thinking about Christmas? Serious or lighthearted?
I have no idea why people want to put their trees up or enjoy them.
I just feel awful today
Anxious
Overwhelmed
I have no enthusiasm for Christmas at all I am sick of trying to get in the Christmas spirit and feeling like I am letting people down. Christmas is forced on us and I hate it.

I hate to see all that plastic disposable tat in shops. I've disliked it for a long time but now, with the growing climate issue it made me really angry. I wish it could be banned! Bah humbug from me too!

Exactly so true @Amoozbooze
Its what we’re told all year not to do!

I hate that it’s all on me.
husband has no interest what so ever
he has no idea what our daughter will be opening on Christmas Day or what’s in her stocking
I tell him what to buy his family
he asks what I would like, orders it from Amazon prime whilst literally sat next to me and it’s now sat in the porch still boxed after days- I’d might as well wrap my own present too then
then tells me “I need to relax” as “I do too much”
fucking humbug

And now it won’t let me edit my post to remove the swear word !

I'm in bed with the thing that isn't Covid that everyone's got. Plans for getting house build project largely wrapped up before Christmas are on hold as DH doesn't have a clue. DC have been on screens the whole time that they haven't been at school. I dread to think what the kitchen and lounge look like after 3 days of me being in bed. Haven't finished shopping, thought I'd have this week to do it. Haven't sent any cards. Just hoping no-one else gets it.

Really not looking forward to the forced engagement with my family.

DH has no idea what I've bought the DCs and yet insists that he must buy them a "personal" present from him when we've already spent ££££ on them.
I normally love Christmas and all the excitement but our marriage is on the rocks right now and I'm worried this will break it.

Desperate to see my BFF but they've also gone very quiet so worried about what's happened.

Therapy was a f*ton of awfulness today and I'm exhausted.

Sending very unmumsnetty hugs to all that need them.

💐 for you all who are having a rough time right now .

I keep getting irrationally angry about all the Christmas lights. Yes they’re pretty but we are in an energy crisis and and should be reducing consumption to reduce demand and for environmental reasons not using more for lights. As for all the it’s Christmas, no it’s not it’s December. Christmas is next week. I cannot get in the spirit of it this year, everyone is sick again (including me), I miss my dog who died last month, I have an overdue uni assignment, presents to get, and a DH that is sick, miserable and frankly useless.

I hate the commercialisation of Christmas. I'm so disorganised and always over think gift choices then feel like my gifts aren't good enough and it's a vicious circle.

This year I've finally managed to cut gifts down to family only, I was sick of all the tat. But I've only bought a few things so far. And not sure what else to get. Usually buy online but can't rely on that this year. Stress.

If it helps even a tiny bit to make you feel less frustrated about the lights, Eco, you could run a string of a couple of hundred LED fairy lights every evening for a week for about the same amount of electricity it takes to boil a kettle. It's just a few pennies' worth of electricity — you could run the same 200 LED lights all day and night through December for about £1.50. They're so much more efficient than incandescents, it's orders of magnitude different. Even brighter outdoor LEDs won't generally use more than a quid or two in electricity to run for a few hours a night for one month. It's the manufacturing, shipping and disposal that'll get you…