Can’t be bothered, 🎄 fatigue.

Nanna8 you are ahead of me I haven’t even written my cards yet,mi don’t think I am going to send many this year. I also find it hard to do anything and I am not depressed but I just can’t be bothered with anyone. What’s more Mr B and I are going to have Christmas on our own by choice. About the only thing I do is go out for a cycle ride a few times a week and that’s it. I have put it down to the time of year, the state of the country and family deaths. Hope next year will be better for us all

Yes, me too, nanna8, although I’m trying to rise above it. I just wish ‘Christmas’ didn’t start so early. If only it wasn’t so commercialised, I think I’d feel differently.

I'm quite happy with a small quiet day. The full monty just isn't for everyone and never was for me tho made a big effort when DS was small. Hoping for a sunny crisp day for a walk.

Yes, that's me this year, and M E. doesn't help.
I'm doing things like wrapping presents, and trying hard to care, but the feeling isn't there.
And I agree with Barmeybat about the causes, plus now we have scarlet fever. Its all so depressing.

As I make my bed in the morning I am very tempted to climb back in!
You are certainly not alone.

Yes I have CFS too quite bad atm but even without it I just done like all the pressure and its lovely to see family/friends at a less pressured time.
I don't feel there has to be a reason, nor that the whole full. monty is a "norm" I am departing from.

Yes, I have, I'd just like to hibernate.

We had Covid about 8 or 9 weeks ago and I'm having to push myself.
We've got a few social events in the next week or so and I'd usually be looking forward to them all.

Usually I am excited and keen but not this time. I’ve bought most of the kids’presents and I am getting Christmas bags for them, can’t even be bothered wrapping ‘em up. Maybe I need a stiff drink ( but it is only morning here, not such a good idea).

We will be having a quiet one - just me and dh, but some pre Christmas family socialising that was planned for very soon, now isn’t going to happen, because one lot (A) have a very nasty bug, which we can’t risk passing via B to C, who’s very vulnerable anyway, and is only just beginning to recover from a serious illness on top.
So I’m feeling a mite deflated.

I’ve been consoling myself with the mince pies made yesterday (2 dozen) of which there are now just 2 left 😱 and for once I can’t accuse dh of pigging most of them.
In my defence I did give 2 with his cup of tea to the young chap who looks after the communal landscaping.

I love mince pies, just chuck some over will you ?

Yep that's me exactly.

I haven't made any yet.

I’ve made my first batch.

Eaten most of them. 😩

I feel like this too, flat, and overwhelmed with the prep for family coming to stay,I have little energy,glad I dont like mince pies ,otherwise I would be tempted to eat all those I have bought.

I’m in a similar state. We moved over the summer, downsized quite considerably, and whilst it’s been a good move, the house still isn’t sorted and everything I do is such an effort, with having to search for things all the time. I used to be organised with things like spare batteries, sellotape, scissors, envelopes, pens etc all in one place and now they’re scattered over three different rooms and I wander about trying to locate the wretched things. Same for the kitchen, which is about one third of my old one. I feel like I need to empty the house and start again and have it better organised!

I am fed up of wrapping presents and I haven’t made a cake for the first time in 50yrs and probably won’t make mince pies, either. Xmas pud is one that’s left over from last year. Christmas will happen, though, and I will enjoy it with my family, in the end.

These posts are refreshing to see. I thought it was just me, so many accomplished members having completed all gift buying, wrapping and cards posted. I haven’t even bought my cards yet. I’m not finding the inspiration for gift shopping yet either and I don’t know why 🤷🏻‍♀️

nanna8, things I'm not doing:

sending cards
going shopping
cooking pies, cakes etc.
putting up a tree
socialising
etc.

as it's all optional - I'm not a sheep - I don't bother.

Things I am doing:
watching films
enjoying my hobbies
lots of walks (as usual)
afternoon naps
spoiling myself

It's at this time of year that I'm inclined to be lazy and self-indulgent, so the challenge is to do as little as humanly possible. I've ordered Christmas food online, sent gift tokens and got the beds ready for guests - so all done!

Can I join the CFS club too please? And I don’t even have the excuse of Covid!
So, tickets for the Harry Potter Experience at Warners Studios for the GC (all except the tinies, 3 and 18 months) , Secret Santa ie one gift for the adults in the family, something edible/drinkable for a few friends and my cleaner -and everything is going in cloth gift bags , ticking the environmental box as well as the bone idle box.
I can report 14 cards have been written , setting myself 10 a day, and when I run out of stamps (40 left over from last year) - I will stop.

I am also not 'feeling it' this year. With all the disruption to the postal services I suggested that we got the 'postal' Christmas card written yesterday. OH then went off to the post office as there was one for overseas and one that was a 'large letter' and both needed extra stamps. Even then I couldn't raise much enthusiasm about Christmas. Yes, we've placed a meat order etc but if we don't get around to putting up the lights and Christmas tree I won't be disappointed.
I agree, it is far too commercialised now and starts far too early.
I am also now disabled and cannot do any shopping independently, OH has to drive me which irritates me immensely - not his driving, just the loss of independence - how do you choose a gift for someone who is literally standing next to you?
Worse things in life, I know.

I’m another, it’s all just too much and I’m fed up with it all falling on me to do.
I haven’t done anything other than dig out the cards, not bought a single present. I have order porchetta for Christmas dinner but that’s it.
I don’t get a single present and am fed up with the whole shebang.

Oh BlueBalou, sending you some flowers, a gift from me to you .
Hope they cheered you up a little.

My mother used to love Christmas and came alive cooking for the family till she was in her late 80s. I am the complete opposite and head to M & S and Waitrose and so a small Christmas. I also want to enjoy myself.

I am quite unapologetic, I love Christmas. The day itself will just be our small close Family as it is every year. Leading up to it I have a number of meals, drinks general Catch Ups with friends. Just yesterday we celebrated a daughter's birthday with a surprise Party with relatives who live 300 miles away and had travelled especially for this. To-day I'm having my hair done ready for a couple of exchange of present meals to-day and tomorrow. My only regret, I no longer work where our Christmas used to involve a wonderful Ball. Yes, I'm a Fan.

We’re lucky if we get one postal delivery a week here. Be quicker with a horse and buggy. We’re not third world , we’re fifth world from a postage point of view. Mind you, the bills manage to fight their way through.