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AIBU?

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to be fed up of all the negativity around January

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user1485342611 · 02/01/2018 09:56

Yes, I know it's a bi of an anti climax after Christmas but some people seem to hype themselves, and everyone around them, into a state of absolute misery about January. Oh I have no money, oh I have to lose six stone, oh is anyone else giving up wine for January, oh, oh, bloody oh.

It's just another month. Stop whining on and on and on and just get back to normal life after Christmas (which we'll start hyping ourselves up for again in about 9 months!

AIBU?

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Kbear · 02/01/2018 13:21

January is a clean slate - time to think about what to eat that's not stodge or chocolate, time to think about holidays, plan for the year ahead, even if you can't afford it right now. Yes, it's grim weather but there's no flooding and no snow so just hurry home and put the lamps on and sit under a blanket watching tv. Soon be summer, when it will be equally rainy but less cold!

TheSockGoblin · 02/01/2018 13:24

Another one here who loves January. Love the feeling of new beginnings, fresh energy and putting the last year to bed.

Always feel energetic and refreshed - but I didn't feel like this when I was younger. I think partly it might be because I switched my focus from Xmas and New Years eve to January 1/2nd and how I want to feel when those days hit during the last two weeks of December.

So my Xmas was nice but I didn't go mad on spending and alcohol etc. New Years eve was quiet. I got prepped for 2018 and now I feel happy and focused.

Younger me, with the hangover and empty bank acocunt might have thought older me was boring. But I don't feel bored nor do I feel shit because I overindulged and overspent over Xmas.

As for the weather - now the solstice has happened the nights are getting shorter. Spring won't be long.

RoseAndRose · 02/01/2018 13:26

Minimising January blues is an excellent reason to make sure your Christmas is a full twelve day festival

Crunchymum · 02/01/2018 13:29

I am trying to adopt a more positive approach to January. DC2 has a January birthday and it is looking likely that DC3 will be January born as well.

Don't want my poor children to grow up hating their birthdays.

(Although sorry January is fucking rubbish!!!)

specialsubject · 02/01/2018 13:35

Crapmas is gone, can buy useful stuff again and daylight hours are increasing. All good.

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user1485342611 · 02/01/2018 16:53

Very true Rose. If we went back to starting our Christmas build up in December and seeing it as a twelve day celebration, finishing on 6th January, it might help assuage the January blues.

Instead, the build up starts in October, the celebrations in mid November and by Boxing Day a lot of people are pulling down their decorations.

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thetemptationofchocolate · 02/01/2018 17:11

I'm another with a January birthday. I am going to the pub to eat loads of food and if someone else drives I will have a drink or two as well.

Crunchy I will admit that January is not a great time to have a birthday especially if you like doing outside stuff as a treat. But, there is always the possibility of having an official birthday, like the Queen, and pick a day in the summer to use for that.

shhhfastasleep · 02/01/2018 17:30

I love my January birthday- sometimes it snows which is great fun. Days are getting longer. You can have your own private cheerfulness if everyone else is pissed off. Just DON'T ask me if I want to combine Christmas and birthday presents. I will tell you to Eff off. Get me a bar of choc if money is tight.

Amanduh · 02/01/2018 17:35

I dislike January because I feel like there's nothing to look forward to, back to work etc. Feb I look forward to spring, march/april Easter, then summer and bank holidays, then autumn and halloween and fireworks and then christmas! I just find it really blaaaahh.

Allwashedup · 02/01/2018 17:39

I like January. Peace and quiet in the shops, days slowly getting longer.

SugarPlumFerry · 02/01/2018 17:46

Yabu and yanbu. It's cold, it's dark, I have horrendous SAD, it's the month my baby died, and I have fucking bronchitis. Again. Like I do EVERY FUCKING JANUARY. I was dreading this January.

I'm sick of negativity too though.

Now it's here there is something fresh and new feeling about it so I thought I might spend the month looking after myself, eating healthy food and getting plenty of exercise (when I can breathe again) and just call it something else. I feel like calling it something else will help.

Pinkhoodie · 02/01/2018 17:55

I hate January. It's nothing to do with Christmas really, it's the cold dark wet weather that gets me down.

Call me weird but I find I need things to look forward to to keep me going, I like all the little holidays through the year, nothing much happens to n January and it's hard to motivate myself with the shit weather.

February is literally the light at the end of the tunnel with the nights getting lighter.

I love Spring Summer and Autumn, Winter is bearable in December because of the festivities.

shhhfastasleep · 02/01/2018 18:17

SugarP, that is horrible for you. My sister is the same about another month for the same reason.

weetabix07 · 03/01/2018 14:36

I think some of it is down to the fakeness of December which leads us to crash back to reality in January. At least December is the one time of the year when people seem to actually want to do something about homelessness and stuff such as that. Come Jan, Straight away we are bombarded with doom and gloom news ( apparently out kids can't have high calorie snacks now) and of course the obligatory losing weight tv programmes et al! Plus many of us as cold and skint (!!)

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