Seasonal Slacking
On Frugal Families, e13lorena has a confession to make. “My name is Erin and I'm a Christmas slacker!”
Everyone, “Hi, Erin.”
“I don't have my tree up, decorations out or up, nothing. I always have my decorations up by now, usually the first week of December, but with school and finals and ugh, ugh, ugh, all this crap we've had to deal with lately I just got my Thanksgiving and Halloween stuff packed up yesterday, the boxes are still sitting out even…. I also haven't sent out Christmas cards yet. I know I have some boxes of them in with the decorations, so I didn't wanna buy new ones. Anyone else wanna admit it?”
How much have you done? Got the shopping taken care of? Decorating? Cooking? Or are you like Erin, still lollygagging around with remnants of the Autumn holidays?
cl-monkeesmom: “This December has been more like spring. The last few days it's been in the mid-50s to low 60s. Just doesn't feel like Christmas. I know this is contributing to my feet dragging...”
Mm-hmm. Anyone else want to blame their Christmas slackerdom on global climate change? ;)
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This year Hannukah came early - it'll be over on Friday. Usually when that happens my holiday cards get in the mail early, too. And everything that has to ship gets sent early. Anything to relax over movies & Chinese food over Xmas weekend. But this year? The cards are actually finished and the gifts are all wrapped - but they are mocking me in a corner of my apartment. Sigh. Maybe next year.
Hello to Erin, my slacker-sister! Dh's birthday is the 16th of December & we never get started on holiday decorating or anything until after that! We always celebrate Christmas until "Old Christmas Day" - January 6th, so I try not to stress over what's not done yet... but we're really behind this year! I'm almost done shopping, but that's about it... maybe I'll send out Easter cards this year instead. (lol)
Zanna, my DH has a birthday on the 17th! And I haven't finished decorating yet either. At least the cards were mailed last week (my latest ever!) and I THINK all the shopping for gifts is done... but there is no clear space on the table for a holiday feast, and the turkey is still frozen solid!
With temps in the mid to high 50's and lots of drizzly grey rain, it sure doesn't FEEL like Christmas around here either! Last year at this time, we had had something like 28" of snow. This year, only a dusting which lasted about one hour into the daylight hours...
DEFINITELY global warming! LOL
I'm always a Christmas slacker and I'm not ashamed to admit it! The commercialism gets to me; Christmas should be great food, family and a few toys for the children under a tree. I love my nativity scenes especially the one with tiny lights inside that reminds me of the true meaning of Christmas and it saddens me that the world has stifled the real meaning with madness through the month of December only to collapse from fatigue on the 26th. In my extremely humble opinion, Christmas music starts too early and I can't deal with 'Grama got run over' so I don't play the radio (other than Classic Rock) until after the 20th. We spend a couple hours on a weeknight shopping with a list and we don't deviate. We put up the tree on the 22 or 23rd with no guilt and take it down again on Boxing Day (26th) and lovingly set the nativity scenes away till next Christmas. I don't get stressed, I don't care that I'm a slacker, and I enjoy Christmas Eve + Day.
I'm pretty good about decorating and cards, but I do always have some last minute shopping to do. I'm actually doing some more shopping today.