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Do you feel like the holiday season affects your mental health at all? The holiday season SO affects my mental health in many ways. First, let's just talk about how fast everything moves. I can't keep up with everything I need to do, let alone everything I want to do. If I don't do things like clean the house and decorate the weekend after Thanksgiving, I feel like I'm decorating for nothing because it will be only a few weeks before Christmas is here. Do you think I got anything cleaned or decorated this weekend? Hell no. I just lazed around and did the very basic of chores, being laundry and some dishes. Next, there's not only Christmas I have to worry about with my family but I also have Christmas at work that I have to worry about. I don't do buying gifts for my boss and coworkers, I just don't. I remember one person giving me some great advice. They said don't do it unless you want to make it an every year thing, because once you buy them a gift, they'll be expecting it every year. That was the best piece of advice I can remember receiving in a very long time. Do the holidays make you feel better or worse? In what ways? They mostly make me feel worse because of everything that I can't/don't get done during the holiday season. Not to mention how much money I don't have to get gifts for our girls. We are always scrambling for money by the end of the year and we rarely have money for Christmas. This year it's even worse than it has been in years past. We went for so long with no credit cards that it hurt our credit because we didn't have any. Then we got credit cards and now we have a 3k balance. So much for getting Christmas on credit!  Most of the charges are for car repairs and there's still more we've got to get fixed. My husband's vehicle needs new wheels. Not tires, but wheels. They are keeping the tires from holding air. So he's been airing up the tires every morning on his way to work. Then the dash needs to be replaced because it's cracked on both sides and it vibrates obnoxiously. I need new tires on my car. Hopefully, they'll last until tax season, provided we get anything back from taxes that is. Who knows what the changes will bring. We just finished five hundred dollars worth of car repairs on our daughter's vehicle. Merry Christmas, your car is now driveable again! That won't fly. Do you feel any additional pressures? I feel pressure because I think people 'expect' a gift from me. I would love to buy gifts for everyone I know, but that's not happening. That's what I feel most pressured about, the gift-giving. But then I also feel pressured to get my house decorated inside and out. I do it for my girls, not so much because I just have to have it that way. I'm good with no decorating but that adds to the depression, too, I think. Who knows. All I know is that if it weren't for my girls I wouldn't do a lot of things! And, I have to say, if it weren't for my husband the girls wouldn't have had Christmas many years because he put it all together. It was just too much for me. It's because of him that the girls have Christmas, Easter, visits from the tooth fairy, etc. ** Animated Images For Use By Premium+ Only ** |
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