It’s quite alright to say, “No!” to a holiday. It’s ok to write off an entire season. Sometimes holidays are worthy of looking forward to. Sometimes they’re not.
It’s perfectly fine to ignore the myriad external messages elbowing each other to influence us. People, companies, cultures, they all would love for us to spend, do, and feel exactly as they think we should.
Never mind them. Really. Sometimes some holidays (and/or seasons) are best ignored.
Do whatever works for you. Mark time, survive, thrive. Before you know it, it’ll be holiday-free January.
Whatever any one of us does, we’re never alone. We’re all unique yet all human. Be good to each other. Take good care of yourself!
What do you do when you want to ignore a holiday?
Must you show the cookies!? 😉 It is a very positive and very sweet post. It is so hard for some…
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This is an awesome post. A lot of holiday traditions I could do without but everyone around me is so engrossed in it!!!! My family and I have an understanding about holidays and spending so that takes a lot of the financial pressure away. Planning a nice stay-cation is one way to ignore it too. 🏕
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great advice, Eartha 🙂
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Brilliant post, so very refreshing to read! “Do whatever works for you” – sums it up perfectly, very well said 🙂
Caz x
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so glad you appreciated it, Caz – best wishes to you & yours for 2018 🙂
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And to you lovely – I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, and all the best for a happy, healthy 2018! xx
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Looks lovely! X
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Yes one need not follow something because society dictates them to
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exactly 🙂
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Wow. I love this innovative perspective on ignoring certain holidays. After Thanksgiving until after the New Year, I try to avoid eating ALL the cookies, cakes and over-the-top foods…because once I start it’s hard to stop. I also try to avoid buying a million presents for everyone I’ve ever met. It becomes meaningless. Lastly, I never travel far on holiday weekends–the traffic makes me anxious. Instead, I just have quiet time with my husband and we spend time with others on less hectic weekends.
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that sounds like heaven, overthehillontheyellowbrickroad – wishing you & yours a fab 2018 🙂
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Same to you and your family!
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Great topic, and fun read😊
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Good morning dear da-Al. Let’s separate the chaff from the grain. One thing is to avoid a forced family reunion with obnoxious friends and worse family members and the other thing is to ignore, if you are a believer like I proudly am, a celebration of Jesus Christ’s birth. Yes, Christmas is not just a fat funny man that says ho-ho and brings presents but about the Coming of our Saviour. Merry Christmas to all of your readers.
Un grosso baccione. Arrivederci!
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By the way in Italy the kids are not expecting the arrival of Santa. Do you know who comes to deliver their gifts?
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do they get gifts? LOL
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Good morning and Happy Sunday. I just published a post about this character. I do hope you read it and comment it too. Buon Natale cara!
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I dunno know…Read my post.
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LOL
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Not nearly enough today .
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Beautiful post. I love it. Anyway hope you okay
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thank you – yes, I am well, hope you & yours are too – many thanks for asking, Madekesiworld 🙂
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Anytime. Good too, thank you.
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May we make the most of every moment of Now.. And sending you many more special moments to come..
Love and Blessings for the holiday season and beyond
Hugs Sue xx
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I’d eat those cookies anyway! Half the time I don’t know what day it is, so it is easy to miss the “minor” holidays–New Years and Christmas not so easy. I shall wish you Happy Holidays–include what you like–today as I go out to improve the economy this weekend.
Greg the Great Procrastinator and the gang at the Feline Cafe.
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good point – to some, burned cookies are better than no cookies! – Greg & gang, don’t work too hard 🙂
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Beautiful. Awesome. I love it.
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❤
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Amen to that my friend…beautifully communicated…thanks for sharing 🙂
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All days can be Holy Days if love, peace, harmony and friendship are in your heart 😀
Wishing you a very magical day ❤
Sid
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Burnt cookies are a big tradition around here! Also, latkes that don’t hold together and look more like hash browns, candle wax dripped all over the place, cookie crumbs ground into the carpet, wrapping paper that’s liked better than the gift (as true of some adults as some kids,) unsolicited phone callers rudely interrupting family time, and almost always, a major appliance that decides to go kaput. That’s how we make our own traditions and celebrate around here! LOL!
Happy Holidays to you, dear friend.
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too funny – Sharon – hopefully the experience is as sweet as it sounds – same to you, dear 🙂
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Me, I’m going to bake. I hardly ever get time to do that, except on holidays, and it’s something I really enjoy!
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I like to heat up the home with baking when it’s cold out 🙂
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Wise advice I already follow !! … Whenever possible I say “no” to summer holidays, I take days off at the end of September, the place I go to (mountain) is cooler and less crowded and more beautiful than in the summer days !!
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I like this post 🙂 and I agree, sometimes it’s just whatever works for you. Sometimes (not always) some of us just want to get though the holidays or make the most of them only as best we can. Sometimes I go home, others I go somewhere new, alone and that’s okay too!
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