I get the blues every year when I take the holiday decorations and particularly the lights down. Not sure why other than the obvious of the coziness of the lights. I force myself to do it and am probably the last one you know who does. Then I have to transition with a super corny snowman mantel with blue snow flake lights so I don't spiral into the depths of despair over an 'uncozy' house. :>))
Bills. It always seems like a great idea when gift buying. But it all adds up in a big way. Easy to get distracted from the whole total of spend during the holidays. And then the bills come in. And I see that 'great idea gift' sitting in a corner. Grrrr
Girth. I eat like a fat elf all holiday long. Now it is double time to get back into the jeans.
Just making it past Christmas this year was the thing. Our best farm cat disappeared (probably because of being eaten by a coyote) and our son was having a bad time because of hating middle school, and we rushed from event to event and didn't have time for anything. Now my Christmas lights are still up (though not to look like a jerk I don't turn them on) and I haven't put away the ornament boxes, and maybe sometime when the wind is not so bitter, I'll do something about it. I did get the bills paid on about January 1, only four of which were late, so that picked me up. I guess you'd say that I had the holiday blues during the holiday, not after, this year.
I guess the holiday blues were somewhat universal this year, then... I had them too, only I did really well right up to Christmas Day when my husband and daughter got into a disagreement (it was really my daughter's fault for being insensitive). She's the only family we have here, so once that happened, the holiday was pretty well ruined.
After that I was in a pretty big hurry to get decorations down and forget about the holidays, except for one "tree" made out of lights that my husband made outside... it's mounted to the flag pole and sits up in the air so you can see it from a distance, but I love seeing it on those mornings when I can't sleep and I get up to look out the window. There's a picture of it in my photo section from 2017 if anyone wants to see it. Anyway, I hated to take that down because it lit up the dark mornings...
I did put on some weight over the holidays this year, too, which I'd been determined not to do because I was doing so well with losing before Thanksgiving... I know a lot of it is stress eating because I'm eating things I don't even want and it sometimes actually makes me feel ill - not to mention the guilt that goes with it...
Cold weather and short days haven't done anything to help me get through it all any more quickly, either, though I'm working on it, slowly, but surely ... the days are getting longer if only by a minute or so/day!!
We put up about 32 feet of Christmas decorations and lights. The artificial trees go out into the mall hallway. Before we put that up we have to move all the other products to a different location(these are usually items sold spring summer and fall). End caps are filled with Christmas sale items from ads. Now we are moving all the stuff back to their original spaces and Christmas 2018 is all packed up and put away!
I never put up one decoration this year,not even a tree. Hubby and i shopped 2 days before Christmas and got it all done. My daughter had another surgery on the 21st of Dec so that was priority. Hopefully next year i wont be such a scrooge!