How christmassy are you feeling?!

[Rainydays55]

I’m just not really feeling it this year ! How christmassy are you all feeling?!!

Medium.

Presents are bought and wrapped but we’re having the boiler and water tanks replaced and the radiators flushed out so can’t put the tree up until that is done.

I bought new decorations this year and I’m buzzing to put them up!

Once the tree is up and my house is back to normal I shall revel in the Christmassyness.

Not at all, everything feels grim. I need a visit from Santa.

Not. I have covid, DD has covid. Tree isn’t even up because I’m too ill. Nothing wrapped or written. This is my favourite time of the year too

Could be February right now and it would feel no different!

Medium.
Started the Christmas house clearance.
Had loads of presents delivered to our house and I wrapped two gifts today.

Medium too, all decorations up and cards written out and posted. I think i will feel more festive once I've wrapped some gifts up and once ds has broken up from school and we do some christmas outings!

Tree will be purchased next weekend.

Quite a bit. Lights are up
Tree is decorated.
Most shopping done and some Christmas food items bought.

I read a novel with 25 chapters of Christmas stories each night and elf is here.
But there's a little personal issue preventing me from feeling fully OK at the moment. So on a practical level I'm there.

Not at all , can’t wait for it to be over, hate the Xmas songs, the forced jollity, the crap adverts, all happy families together. Fk the fk off.

Humbug

Not at all. I'm trying. The tree is up, I've had glitter gin cocktails, I've watched a Christmas film, I've worn a Christmas tshirt today and been to a Christmas market which was absolute rubbish . I think half the battle for me is I'm an online retailer and I am absolutely flat out at this time of year so I'm exhausted. No headspace for anything else right now.

Not one bit. Feel like a grinch, but having grown up children just isn't the same

I finished my Xmas shopping today and we put up the tree yesterday so I'm about 60% there!

In negative figures this year I think!

I'm feeling lots Christmassy 😂 as in I spray painted my grass white and put all my outdoor decorations up today, have done all my shopping, painted blank nutcrackers with the kids and made crispy mallow wreaths this weekend.

My most favourite time of the year.

Not at all. We are both feeling crap and I can’t be arsed with doing the Xmas stuff!!

No not in the slightest, we have put the tree & other decs up. We have recently suffered a close bereavement, so understandable in the circumstances. It was always going to be a difficult Christmas.

Not at all, but I'm trying!! We have the tree up and lights up outside - v tasteful if I do say so myself.. My boys are adults but still enjoy Christmas and all the small details, but I work in education and the number of staff and students off with covid is ridiculous! Combine this with ongoing rigorous mock exam testing, in case the summer exams are affected again, and this makes it a slow burn to say the least!! Bah humbug

Not in the slightest. The worry of getting all the presents for everyone totally ruins it year after year. I can’t wait for it to be 2nd January.

Wouldn’t care, but I used to really love Christmas and all that came with it. These days it’s just a HUGE pressure all falling on me that I could really do with out!!

Not at all.
I find christmas really difficult with the food and the expectation to have a good time. Feeling sad at Christmas is so socially unacceptable. Cannot be fucking bothered with it all. The world is an absolute mess, my life is a fucking shambles and I’m supposed to be full of festive cheer somehow.

Slightly - tree is up, I've made some salt dough decorations and hand print cards with DD, I've done about 2/3 of the shopping and posted what needs posting.

But I'm full of a cold/ sore throat and have had a swollen and sore armpit since my covid booster, I wanted to go out and do something nice and vaguely festive as a family this weekend but yesterday was a complete washout where we live and I've just not felt up to it at all.

The main one though is we lost our much beloved dog this year and I just feel really sad at the thought of Christmas without him (he was the one thing that got me through christmas when I was bereaved, as well as through infertility struggles, I miss him a lot)

Not very. Bug after bug has meant hardly any presents done but we did buy the tree today so will put that up tomorrow.

The dead hand of commodification of everything is getting harder to ignore.

Not at all

I now feel very christmassy because the house is fully decorated, watched a christmas film with the children, had a christmas party on Friday night and around here at least it is looking more and more festive each day.

Christmas is a feeling not a date, so if your heart is full of light and love then it will feel festive, but if you are ill/busy/stressed and exhausted of course you need to put self care before feeling christmassy.

Invite friends over, put the 70s classics on and drink some cocktails. Christmas doesn't happen by itself. Sorry for those that are going through bereavement, obv it will take more than that to feel better

1%.
No one is interested. Well, 1 adult DC wants to give us gifts & 1 adult DC has asked for a gift. Literally no one else cares & my whole visit-relatives plan may be scuppered by Omicron - then I wouldn't get what I want, ether.

Not at all. Actively avoiding Xmas songs on the radio by changing channels and listening to podcasts instead when there are songs on both of my favourite radio stations (long commute)