What are you doing to make Christmas feel Christmassy?
thelastnightingale
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Especially if you're not having the sort of Christmas you usually would, due to Covid.
I mean, stuffing my face full of chocolate until I feel so full I feel sick would be rather festive, but not exactly in line with my weight loss goals!
What do you have planned to rustle up some Christmas spirit in your household this year?
It will be my first Christmas on my own, and I'm looking for ideas to copy for how to stay festive.
I mean, stuffing my face full of chocolate until I feel so full I feel sick would be rather festive, but not exactly in line with my weight loss goals!
What do you have planned to rustle up some Christmas spirit in your household this year?
It will be my first Christmas on my own, and I'm looking for ideas to copy for how to stay festive.
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Everywhere I go I wear jingly bells
And nothing else11 -
Also - i don’t decorate for Christmas- no tree no nothing- I’m not a fan of the holiday my self - if you ask me summer is the the most wonder time of the year - no if Christmas really was in July it would be more my speed - I’ll accept my disagrees with this5
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So far we either have or have plans to:
- decorated inside and out. I turn the Christmas trees on first thing in the morning.
- two Advent calendars.
- Going socially distanced carolling with a few friends.
- Listen to Christmas music at home and in my car.
- watching Christmas movies and shows on Netflix.
- done all my shopping. Just need to sort and wrap.
- Making fudge as gifts for hairdresser, massage therapist, aesthetician, hockey and baseball coaches, etc.
We definitely have the Christmas spirit here even though we can’t get together with friends and family, or travel the way we normally do.2 -
Jennliftsandspins wrote: »- Listen to Christmas music at home and in my car.
- watching Christmas movies and shows on Netflix.
Any recommendations?
Carolling sounds fun - I always forget how festive a carol makes me feel. 0 -
We aren't having the number of guests come visit that we normally would, but otherwise we're business as usual. We do a real tree and go pick it out on either Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving and we spend most of the weekend decorating the tree and the house while we listen to Christmas music and we watch Christmas movies. I started working on the outdoor decorations on Monday after work. I also just put in my order for our rib roast for Christmas dinner. My boys are 8 and 10 and Christmas is still a huge event for them, so there's no shortage of Christmas spirit here.
I'm totally into the smaller gathering...I really enjoyed Thanksgiving being a low key event...it was the first time we hosted a holiday and I wasn't completely exhausted and pulling my hair out by the time we sit down to eat. Christmas will likely just be my wife's parents and my mom...so nice and small.2 -
Apparently this year I'm all of a sudden into poinsettias so my house is going to be littered with those.3
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... day drinking. Does that count?
In all seriousness, I've chosen to bust out my sweaters and start wearing them on Dec. 1 as well as listening to holiday music a tad early (I usually won't bust it out until two weeks prior).
I might try my hand at making traditional decorations if I can find the stuff lying around here.. or making eggnog from scratch. Or some festive breads.
Great, now I'm hungry.5 -
I sneak down chimneys and steal cookies from my neighbors pretty much all of December4
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I got nuthin'.2
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Sophisticatted_Gentlemanz wrote: »I sneak down chimneys and steal cookies from my neighbors pretty much all of December
😂0 -
Heading down to my parents place for a turkey dinner.1
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stevehenderson776 wrote: »Heading down to my parents place for a turkey dinner.
I hope you got a turkey with good grades0 -
stevehenderson776 wrote: »Heading down to my parents place for a turkey dinner.
I hope you got a turkey with good grades
Top of its class. 😊1 -
thelastnightingale wrote: »Jennliftsandspins wrote: »- Listen to Christmas music at home and in my car.
- watching Christmas movies and shows on Netflix.
Any recommendations?
Carolling sounds fun - I always forget how festive a carol makes me feel.
I have a pretty extensive Spotify playlist. Favourites are Pentatonix, Glee, Harry Connick Jr., Charlie Brown, Frank Sinatra.
For movies I just looked up Christmas on Netflix and am watching all the cheesy, cliché Hallmark-type movies.2 -
Sophisticatted_Gentlemanz wrote: »I sneak down chimneys and steal cookies from my neighbors pretty much all of December
Well played.
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Watching sappy Hallmark Christmas videos
Staring out my kitchen window at night, the neighbor's house looks like a tastefully done Griswold's house
Silly sounding maybe but looking at the stars when I bring my dogs outside anywhere between 7 p.m.-5:30 a.m.
*thinking* about making cookies like I usually do
*thinking* about putting up a tree, I wasn't going to but Miz_Owl may have convinced me with a comment about how the lights might raise my Christmas spirit.
It's been astoundingly hard getting into the spirit of things so far because it'll just be and dh this year, first year ever without any of our kids. I was thinking I'd be happy just wallowing in self-pity but I get kinda bored with that.
Another thought is start a tradition of giving. It's a beautiful tradition to begin with but this year especially. Pick 1 focus, whether it's an animal shelter, local library or whatever floats your boat, and collect for it.5 -
Watching sappy Hallmark Christmas videos
Staring out my kitchen window at night, the neighbor's house looks like a tastefully done Griswold's house
Silly sounding maybe but looking at the stars when I bring my dogs outside anywhere between 7 p.m.-5:30 a.m.
*thinking* about making cookies like I usually do
*thinking* about putting up a tree, I wasn't going to but Miz_Owl may have convinced me with a comment about how the lights might raise my Christmas spirit.
It's been astoundingly hard getting into the spirit of things so far because it'll just be and dh this year, first year ever without any of our kids. I was thinking I'd be happy just wallowing in self-pity but I get kinda bored with that.
Another thought is start a tradition of giving. It's a beautiful tradition to begin with but this year especially. Pick 1 focus, whether it's an animal shelter, local library or whatever floats your boat, and collect for it.
That's a great idea! I should volunteer or donate at my local animal shelter too.3 -
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Diatonic12 wrote: »
Love it!!0 -
Haha! Thanks. Honestly though I deserved every last one of those disagrees.
In all seriousness, @thelastnightingale I thought this was a great idea for a thread but I was in a shamelessly dorky mood when I posted. I can see how my comment seemed rude. I didn’t intend it that way, swear.
Carry on2 -
Watching sappy Hallmark Christmas videos
Staring out my kitchen window at night, the neighbor's house looks like a tastefully done Griswold's house
Silly sounding maybe but looking at the stars when I bring my dogs outside anywhere between 7 p.m.-5:30 a.m.
*thinking* about making cookies like I usually do
*thinking* about putting up a tree, I wasn't going to but Miz_Owl may have convinced me with a comment about how the lights might raise my Christmas spirit.
It's been astoundingly hard getting into the spirit of things so far because it'll just be and dh this year, first year ever without any of our kids. I was thinking I'd be happy just wallowing in self-pity but I get kinda bored with that.
Another thought is start a tradition of giving. It's a beautiful tradition to begin with but this year especially. Pick 1 focus, whether it's an animal shelter, local library or whatever floats your boat, and collect for it.
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I’m so happy Christmas will be low key this year . My family is extremely extra usually we dress fancy, loud music, a lot of dancing- church. Uncles aunts cousin, second cousins.
This time I’m bumming it out, bought a cute pair Xmas pjs to stay in all day, and it’s just going to be my siblings their gfs and parents. I’m going to make rum cake and that’s it.3 -
Since we can eat whatever we want this year, we’re doing prime rib. Cutting our tree and decorating this weekend. I always deliver my four closest neighbors little gift bags with treats, a card, and the annual teeny-tiny Snoopy ornament.
My bf’s parents sent us a set of 12 days of Christmas holiday glasses he insisted they collect from Taco Bell when he was a kid in the 80s. Really sweet. Apparently one or two broke over the years and his dad paid a fortune to replace them. Such a treat to open today.2 -
@CacoEther Don't worry, I'm not the one hitting disagree! Takes so much more to offend me.
@Diatonic12 Well, I think I know where all the Christmas spirit is... Those are some Christmas lights! I don't think I've ever seen anything like them! (We typically don't go all out in the UK in that way.)
@Kashmir_314_ The idea of attaching jingle bells to a pet made me chuckle.
@aChuisle_moChroi I wish I were one of your neighbours. That sounds adorable.
I listened to a live-streamed carol concert yesterday and sang along. There really is something about Christmas carols - I'm starting to feel it a bit more. 4
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