Can’t be bothered, 🎄 fatigue.

Just started snowing here on Fife

I cannot be bothered this year either

Well snow is just the excuse we need

I have a stack of books waiting to be read so until mid Jan I am going to cosy down besides the log fire with a drink or two and just take it easy.

I expect we will be doing a lot of that as well, especially if the snow they're promising does arrive.

Can't be bothered with much apart from normal day to day life, dog walks, laundry. GGchildren gingerbread and biscuit baking.

We did order and deliver gifts, hang the garden lights, receive the advent wreaths, begin using Christmas crockery, linens - cozy home.

merlotgran

I’ve made my first batch.

Eaten most of them. 😩

Well, I'm so CBB 🎄 that I bought some from M&S.

Not opened them yet.

Christmas cards, well I have decided to tell people I am not sending any this year and probably never again. I have sent just about half a dozen to people I rarely see but keep in touch with. Instead I am going to donate a whole load of stuff to the food bank. We have lights and candles put up and a very small already decorated tree, also I have a stack of books waiting to be read so until mid Jan I am going to cosy down besides the log fire with a drink or two and just take it easy.

Strikes apart, everything seems to be arriving reasonably reliably here. I recently posted a big parcel via click and drop - it arrived 200 miles away 48 hours later.

To all those missing family and friends this Christmas and I hope you find some comfort.

I haven't taken enough notice of Christmas yet to be fatigued by it. I pretty much ignore it until I'm ready to join in.

We've done what we need to do over the last few months - made the cake, pudding and mincemeat, posted cards and presents - and I'm quite looking forward now to putting the decorations and lights up next weekend.

SueDonim

Sasta some of my cards are leftover from last year!

What’s CFS? Cystic fibrosis comes to mind.

Christmas Fatigue Syndrome!

More and more I find that I am living for myself rather than ther people of "the community". I dont feel one iota of guilt because ive done more than my share over the years.

Yes, I've caught a doze after writing Christmas cards. So many were missing this year and so many I had to be careful to put the woman's name only. It is so cold my writing has gone back to printing the pen kept slipping
To top it all my mother's cousin lives on the same street as she did when I checked I had put my parent address on, luckily I could change it as they were just an added number. Goodness knows what I wrote inside I know I put all the best for 2003 in some but could not be bothered to tear them open and change.

Sasta some of my cards are leftover from last year!

What’s CFS? Cystic fibrosis comes to mind.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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 🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

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’ve made my first batch.

Eaten most of them. 😩