Bah! Humbug!

[DMass]

Anyone else ready for Christmas to be over? I don't know if I'm just lacking holiday spirit or if I'm feeling a tad Scroogey this year but I think I've had enough. I'm glad there's only five days left.

 

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[Carly_Roach]

Anyone else ready for Christmas to be over? I don't know if I'm just lacking holiday spirit or if I'm feeling a tad Scroogey this year but I think I've had enough. I'm glad there's only five days left.

Not me! I'm just now starting to get my groove on and will likely do this week at work standing on my head. It's going to be a great week with a fantastic weekend coming up!

Maybe it's because we don't start decorating or I don't start really baking Christmas stuff until the last few weeks of December? We put our tree up this past weekend and had a lovely time. Others have had theirs up since Thanksgiving or before. Could that be an explanation for Christmas burnout in some people?

Hope you feel better soon!

 

[Jennasis]

Not me. MIL is "Bah HUmbuging" all over the place. So much so that we "took christmas away from her" and told her it was being hosted at MY house this year. She's not happy about that, but dangit if you can't muster a wee bit of enthusiasm and holly jolly spirit for the day, then you don't get to have it at your black-house-of-disappointment-and-scroogery.

This is gonna be a fun Christmas. i can feel it already!

 

[ilovepcot]

This should be a great Christmas for us. We're going out of state to visit relatives and they get to do all the work. No decorating and cleaning up afterward... no cooking...just show up and have a fun time. Oh, and we Floridians should even see some snow!

 

[NAB]

This is me, I did put up the decorations,shopping, baked a million cookies, did food drives, Christmas hampers at the Church, concerts, parties, but still not in the "Holly Jolly"mood.

I really don't know what it is this year. Usually it can't come fast enough now it is almost here. If it wasn't for the kids I probably wouldn't have even put up the tree.

 

[Belle0101]

I'll join you with the Bah Humbugs.

I haven't felt the Christmas Spirit in years. Right or wrong I attribute it to the following:

- I do the vast majority of the shopping* and all the wrapping.
- We're expected at places that I no longer enjoy going to
- I do all the decorating**
- We have dinner here so there's lots of cleaning to do, all up to me
- I do all the cooking and baking

My family (DH, DS15 & DS11) isn't the helping sort. There's always a TV show they just can't miss. A video game they are right in the middle of. Some place else they just have to be. Or, no matter how patiently I explain something, they just can't understand the instructions.

*Shopping - I even buy and wrap my own gifts.

**Decorating - this year I told my family that if they wanted a tree they needed to do more than just watch me. Well, the tree is up and has about 10 ornaments on it. It's been that way for 2+ weeks. I'm not going to knock myself out when it clearly doesn't mean much to them one way or another.

Maybe the Christmas Spirit will catch up with me one year. I'm slowly doing less and less. This year, for example, not decorating and I've scaled back on the dinner menu.

I'm too old to be supermom/wife/hostess/BettyCrocker/Martha Stewart.

 

[NAB]

I'll join you with the Bah Humbugs.

I haven't felt the Christmas Spirit in years. Right or wrong I attribute it to the following:

- I do the vast majority of the shopping* and all the wrapping.
- We're expected at places that I no longer enjoy going to
- I do all the decorating**
- We have dinner here so there's lots of cleaning to do, all up to me
- I do all the cooking and baking

My family (DH, DS15 & DS11) isn't the helping sort. There's always a TV show they just can't miss. A video game they are right in the middle of. Some place else they just have to be. Or, no matter how patiently I explain something, they just can't understand the instructions.

*Shopping - I even buy and wrap my own gifts.

**Decorating - this year I told my family that if they wanted a tree they needed to do more than just watch me. Well, the tree is up and has about 10 ornaments on it. It's been that way for 2+ weeks. I'm not going to knock myself out when it clearly doesn't mean much to them one way or another.

Maybe the Christmas Spirit will catch up with me one year. I'm slowly doing less and less. This year, for example, not decorating and I've scaled back on the dinner menu.

I'm too old to be supermom/wife/hostess/BettyCrocker/Martha Stewart.

Maybe this is it. I do everything too! Heck even when I go to my mom's I had out the gifts there, I have a big family By the time I get to mine everyone has opened theirs and moved on. Then I help clean up the mess. I have 5 brothers and sisters and my mom is older so I try to help her out but jeez....

 

[Belle0101]

Maybe this is it. I do everything too! Heck even when I go to my mom's I had out the gifts there, I have a big family By the time I get to mine everyone has opened theirs and moved on. Then I help clean up the mess. I have 5 brothers and sisters and my mom is older so I try to help her out but jeez....

I really do think that could be it, or at least part of it. Because think about it, if you are doing the majority of everything, when are you enjoying the holiday?

The one thing I really want to do every Christmas Eve is stop by the cemetery, wish my my great-grandmother Merry Christmas, clear off her headstone and leave her some flowers.

Reason why is because as kid we always stopped by her house on Christmas Eve. She's been gone 20+ years now but that was the best part of Christmas Eve for me. To top it off, she was more a mom to me than my bio. mom ever was. So I miss her, still.

Some years we have to skip it because of the other 3 places we're expected at. (This year we've been asked to add a 4th place. It's just not going to happen.) And even when we do stop I have to hurry because my family is bored.

 

[BroganMc]

I'm the opposite. I do a lot of prep for the family Christmas gathering. I may start the season less enthusiastic but I always get into it. But this year there's a snowstorm brewing. I have a fear that will keep my family at home and away from the gathering. Truth be told I've long suspected one family member would prefer it that way.

So while my excitement is building, I'm trying to temper it. I can see myself heartbroken come Christmas Day because the safe and wise thing is for my family not to get together that day.

 

[tvguy]

I'm doing pretty well actually.

I was outraged at the Pre-Black Friday sales the Friday BEFORE Halloween. But I vowed to ignore all that. I was outraged at Black Friday, but ignored it. I was outraged at Cyber Monday, but ignored it. We put up our tree and outslide lights on the December 11th, and started our Christmas shopping on the December 17th.

Christmas season in our house starts 2 weeks before Christmas, and ends two weeks after Christmas on the Epiphany.

So on the flipside, to all my neighbors who scurry to take down all the Christmas decorations on December 26th, folks, that's only the halfway point. And the funny thing is, my wife and I aren't particularly religious people, so it is odd that our Christmas traditions are so closely modeled after the bibilical time frame.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

I always try to remember the joy of the holidays when I was a child. Now I'm responsible for 99% of decorating, shopping. cooking, cleaning, entertaining, etc. Now I'm usually happy when I see it all packed away.

 

[plutotek]

I think we're both looking forward to it this year. We spent the first week of Dec in WDW, have a small amount of decorations on the front of the house. DW always decorates the inside, and did the same minimilist decorating inside (since we were going to be gone for 10 days). I think the fact that it's a true 3 day weekend (4 day for her as she gets Eve/Day off), and our son will be home from school lends itself to being a good holiday.

 

[C.Ann]

I'm looking forward to it - I'm ready here, everything is done that I need to do - but for the sake of honesty, I have to admit that the day after, I kind of feel like - "Ahhhhhhhh... All over for another year.." LOL..

The two holidays I really dislike at this time of year are NYE and NY's Day.. I've never liked them - ever.. I don't get miserable about them, but I just don't like them and don't look forward to them..

Yet I still look forward to a "new year".. Weird, I know..

 

[dawn1620]

I am ready for the 26th! I just have not been in the holiday spirit at all this year. DH had surgery on his leg last month after ripping his Achilles tendon so I have been pulling double duty since he can't really do anything due to being on crutches.

Also, MIL has been more of a pain than usual this month so that has not helped -at least once a week this past month she has asked if we are putting out our animated deer (complete with lights) out for Christmas and for some reason each time I tell her we are not decorating the outside of the house this year it does not seem to sink in. I told DH if she asked one more time I was going to hang one upside down from the oak tree and have red lights hanging down from it so it would look like a deer that has been field dressed so maybe that would shut her up.

I'M KIDDING - I would not actually do that.

I think it's more due to the fact this year has sucked quite a bit and I'm just ready to bid it farewell and start fresh with a new year.

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

The two holidays I really dislike at this time of year are NYE and NY's Day.. I've never liked them - ever.. I don't get miserable about them, but I just don't like them and don't look forward to them..

I love NYE but I'm with you about NYDay. It always seemed so depressing to me. I don't know if that's how you feel about it, but to me it's like the end of a sugar rush.


I think many of people are just exhausted or overwhelmed by all the preparation they have to do for Christmas.

 

[Minnie]

OP - Perhaps some perspective would help...... A family member just lost their 6 week old son a couple days ago

Now that is a reason to be ready for the season to be over.....

 

[C.Ann]

OP - Perhaps some perspective would help...... A family member just lost their 6 week old son a couple days ago

Now that is a reason to be ready for the season to be over.....

Oh my gosh.. I can't even imagine.. That poor family!

Although you didn't say who the family member is, I will send up a prayer for them tonight - as well as you.. Just too, too sad..