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11 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit When You Feel Like Scrooge

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11 Ways To Get Into The Christmas Spirit When You Feel Like Scrooge

If this is you right now, you're not alone.

Maybe it's because finals are still among us. Maybe it's because it feels like a cool Summer's day outside. Or maybe it's because you could swear that November never happened and Halloween was just last weekend. Did Thanksgiving even happen? Did you blackout and miss it all? Should you eat more just in case? We all need answers.

Whether you like it or not, the new year is rapidly approaching, promising to leave us all briefly inspired to turn our lives around and get our shit together, only to leave us in a cheerless place two weeks in when we realize that we are never going to get our lives together. So, on that note, you might as well try and make the best of the holiday season while you still can. If you can somehow acquire the weather machine from The Ultimate Christmas Present, that would be ideal, but if that somehow falls through, here are some other ideas to get you in the ~holiday~ mood.


1. Bake until you hate yourself

Here are 33 easy and delicious recipes that even you can't mess up.

2. Marathon every Christmas movie you've ever heard of (while eating all of said baked goods)

Here is the complete schedule of ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas - the best way to watch lots of subpar movies that suddenly become classics on December 1st.

3. Decorate until your home resembles something out of the North Pole and your neighbors threaten to report you to the Homeowner's Association

Just in case you need some inspiration.

4. Run an Ugly Sweater or Tacky Light 5k

Do it for the free beer and unlimited hot chocolate - sign up asap!

5. Buy yourself presents because you deserve it

To show appreciation for the person you love the most.

6. Make a gingerbread house with your friends

And inevitably give up halfway through because you're out of wine and it's just so complicated, how do people even do this? How do kids do this!?!? We're gonna need more wine.

7. Take cheesy holiday pictures and 'gram to your heart's content

Does your holiday spirit even count if you didn't get at least 40 likes?

8. Listen to Christmas music on repeat until you've forgotten what other music sounds like

Got your playlist right here.

9. Get the ugliest, tackiest Christmas sweater you can find and wear it every single day

EVERY DAY.

10. Go ice-skating because it seems like a totally cute idea until you get there and remember you have the balance of a baby deer learning to walk

At least you got some more pre-fall cute holiday pics for the 'gram!

11. Throw a Christmas party and include as many festive cocktails as possible

Because you can't spell Christmas without b-o-o-z-e. Maybe you can. Whatever, I'm drunk.


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