To be switched off to Christmas this year?

[TheBeaTgoeson1]

If anybody else just switched off to Christmas this year?

It’s almost like it’s all happening around me, but I literally don’t care at all, I have no feeling of magic, or any desire to get particularly involved.

I’m enjoying wintering and the dark nights, and cozy evenings in.

I have a fabulous trip to take away with my family unit over the Christmas period, but I have absolutely zero interest in anything Christmassy.

There aren’t any kids in the equation, And I’m really looking forward to the two weeks off. But I just have zero interest in Christmas at all this year.

Does anyone else feel the same way? I can’t quite understand where it’s come from!

That sounds so nice. Just relaxation with peace and quiet

I think a lot of celebrations seem to be overdone to death now resulting in a general ennui.

Don't like Christmas, never have.
I paint a smile on my face for relevant people

I only ever want two things for Christmas

1. The silence to write in (the one thing I really do enjoy about Christmas day is the hush that descends);
2. Just enough alcohol to bring on a pleasant haze.

And what's more I'll get these things: I live on my own, and have avoided family Christmases long enough to have built up an immunity, so any family now know better than to invite me.

I felt like this last year. I wasn’t well and I had a lot of other stuff going on. Totally understand that feeling of it just going on around you. I decided to take the year off from it. I still gave presents and saw people but I didn’t try and force myself to feel festive or put up any decorations.

I’m feeling more myself this year and looking forward to it. Hopefully next year you will feel better.

I've felt like this since my dad passed away, however had to 'pretend' for the kids sake. However, over the last couple of years I stopped putting pressure on myself. We do Christmas our way now. In fact this year we're trying something different and having christmas dinner in Xmas eve. Christmas day will be pizzas and party food 🙂 Less stress

The economy certainly isn’t helping.

I have had several years like this in the past so I always thought it was good years and bad years etc. This year I have felt so much like this that I have concluded I just don’t really love Christmas all that much. I love buying gifts but it’s the pressure and extra stress it creates. I agree with a pp who said about the consumerism spoiling it.

The only thing I love now are my decorations, I go a bit OTT but I love how pretty they are. As for the rest - my only adult child and I are estranged and my only sibling lives a very long way away and barely makes contact. I’d give anything for my parents to be alive; my mum loved Christmas but dad was bar humbug but he made me laugh and he still bought lots of presents and joined in. My partner and I don’t even bother buying presents any more and we’ve no joint friends to meet up with for a meal/party etc. I know I should be grateful for what I have but I’m so sad I haven’t got a big family or lots of friends to enjoy Christmas with😢🎄🧑🏼‍🎄

The only thing I love now are my decorations, I go a bit OTT but I love how pretty they are. As for the rest - my only adult child and I are estranged and my only sibling lives a very long way away and barely makes contact. I’d give anything for my parents to be alive; my mum loved Christmas but dad was bar humbug but he made me laugh and he still bought lots of presents and joined in. My partner and I don’t even bother buying presents any more and we’ve no joint friends to meet up with for a meal/party etc. I know I should be grateful for what I have but I’m so sad I haven’t got a big family or lots of friends to enjoy Christmas with😢🎄🧑🏼‍🎄

I don’t feel festive at all this year which isn’t like me. DS relapsed cancer in march and has only finished chemo this week. My whole year has been consumed by cancer. I haven’t had the head space for anything else and I’m now having to cobble together Christmas. I’m usually all over it. But there’s been no school activities because he hasn’t been to school and none of my other DC are school aged. One visit to Santa which was nice but short lived. I feel guilty as I feel like I should be giving DS the best Christmas ever but he’s been my only focus all year and I’m burnt out. DH is good in other ways but he does absolutely no planning and I do feel resentful that not even this year has he offered any real help with “doing” Christmas. I’ve put up the decs, organised the tree, bought the gifts and itll be me doing all the food. In previous years I have been known to cry on Christmas Day because the pressure has got to me. I never cry usually. So yeah it’ll be done but mentally I’m checked out.

I am still living with my husband but we have separated and are waiting for our house to sell. So, that’ll be fun won’t it… 😕

I would like it to be 2026 now please.

Yep, I just feel done with it tbh, not even doing Christmas dinner this year, just party type food with PIL. We've all had a horrible year for numerous reasons and I think we're all just too exhausted to care about Christmas, neither me or MIL can even be bothered to put a tree up. We're all agreed as long as we can spend some time together just relaxing and eating too much cheese then we're happy, so that's what we're doing!

I’m in.
Normally look forward to putting up the tree but this year I can’t find any cheap ones. Even Aldi is sold out near me.
All the lights have a few bulbs missing which I wanted to replace but not got round to . I can’t bear the huge choice of new lights and the huge price disparity in different strings.
It’s all a pain in the arse this year.

Big hugs because im absolutely in the same boat. Dad is in his last days at the hospice after being told he was terminal just two months ago. I cant believe the change in him in such a short space of time. He survived cancer and got the all clear just before last Christmas but it came back. My Nan and my cat died last December, I really want to skip it this year but my son is so excited for it and its also his 4th birthday soon. Its all so overwhelming

Yeah I fully agree. It’s the anniversary of losing my dad yesterday, my late sisters birthday on the 1st and then her anniversary on the 27th. And the 1st anniversary of m DH’s shock heart attack in a few days. And on top of that, I have the super flu which has mutated into viral pneumonia. Honestly December and 2025 can fuck off- I’m done!

We have a relative living with us atm who came to us after leaving prison. He has serious mh concerns and recently has been tricky to live with. His probation officer has decided to recall him and for the last 2 days we have been on tenterhooks waiting for the police to turn up. He knows nothing about it.
I'm having a baby in Feb. No it feels anything but Christmassy it's like living in a nightmare

I get so utterly overwhelmed, stressed, over scheduled and exhausted due to chronic adhd disorganisation, which in turn renders me a vile, snappy bad tempered freak to live with, so I ruin things for my lovely family and then beat myself up and feel ashamed and the bastard cycle perpetuates every year at this time.
I’m sure gentle Jesus never meant for all this crapola!

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I hear you Londog!

I dislike all the hype , the Christmas songs on the radio , TV adverts making me panic that I haven’t bought anything special enough for Christmas gifts .
We went to a furniture store as we wanted to look at something in particular and it was all “ ooh for all your Christmas guests. You will want that before the Big Day “
Got my hair cut and coloured because that was scheduled anyway and it’s all “ ooh what are you wearing on the Big Day “ aargh Noooo
I am tired , not feeling that well , I’m not off to dress up for a Christmas do .
I will decorate tomorrow though and enjoy a Carol service in a stunning church soon .
I enjoy seeing all the houses around this neighbourhood decorated though when I walk my dog ( who isn’t having a Christmas pamper with Santa 🎅 bandana and cinnamon scent on him he’s on his usual schedule for grooming)

I live alone, do have family but they do their own thing and never include me in any plans, so I would rather take myself out of it all rather than sit around feeling unloved and unwanted.
I've tried saying that I would host on 25th, but no-one has any interest in spending that day with me, regardless of how early I suggest it (although they're perfectly happy to do so on any other day throughout the year).
So, every year (for the past 11) I've shut the doors and curtains, and turned my phone off on 23rd and (slightly over)dosed myself with my regular meds and taken myself off to bed. I've slept through the majority of 24th then done the same again that evening to take myself through 25th.
Come 26th, it's all over and I go back to my usual routine.
No-one ever bothers to contact me, and generally waits until around 29/30th.
I would love for my family to actually involve me one year, but I doubt it will ever happen, so for my own sanity, I will be doing the same again this year, and most likely, every year going forward.

I feel like this every year and have done for the last 35 years. I fucking hate Christmas and everything associated with it.

Well, my kitchen is now rat-free and all ingress points thoroughly blocked with wire wool and expanding foam, but I still can’t bake my way to the festive feeling because it stinks to high heaven right now.
Why does the Death of Rats have to be such a fulsome olfactory experience? They have the whole of outside to go die in and they choose somewhere in the walls or under the floor. I can’t even.
In better news I put up one sting of tinsel up the stairs and some nativity figures on the TV but they’re not doing the trick.

I usually love Christmas but since my mum died last year I can’t get into it.

I also agree with other posters that the hype starts too early. I now live in France and it’s at least a bit calmer there. (There is a current supermarket Christmas advert/cartoon in France about a wolf who turns vegetarian which did make me smile. It’s on YouTube with subtitles if anyone wants to look it up.)

But last night I was on the London tube, in multiple stations and trains, and I was surrounded by drunks everywhere singing/shouting in Santa hats! I just thought, no get me to January!

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