It's getting to be that time of year again when the people who are way too overly excited for the holidays come out and the Grinches of the holiday season come out.
Now let me start off by saying that I am nowhere near over the top already decorating for Christmas before Halloween is over, I even wait until after Thanksgiving; I let each holiday have its own special moment because that is exactly what is meant for them! However, after Thanksgiving, I am in full ready-for-Christmas mode!
All my Christmas decorations and I are ready to explode everywhere and I only have one thing stopping me: my Grinch of a roommate.
So, here are my tips on how to deal with your "Grinch" of a roommate when you want to do nothing but look like an elf all the time, smell peppermint and fir tree candles, decorate a Christmas tree, and eat cookies all day long.
1. Slowly replace anything that has a normal scent with everything Christmas related.
The candles on the living room table – peppermint bark scent. The wallflowers that are plugged in – balsam and fir. The soap in the kitchen and the bathrooms – winter cranberry. The car freshener in her car – cinnamon all the way.
2. Start incorporating red and green and Christmas themes all over the house.
Buy that super cute Christmas blanket from Target and hide all the other ones that were in the living room. Before you know it, your roommate will be freezing because, let's face it, we're still broke college kids and heat is expensive, so she will have no choice but to snuggle up in that adorable blanket she will soon love. Get that Christmas doormat because it's $4 and hello, who doesn't want to feel the merry welcome from that corny saying on the mat when you get home after a long day of work because – duh, you're still broke.
3. Buy those Jingle Bell boxers from Walmart and wear them always
First of all, they were less than $10, and we're still young enough to make stupid decisions with the money we don't have. Second, put them on and everyone will laugh at you because you do look like an idiot and an elf, but that is totally okay with you. Third, this just gives that Grinch of a roommate plenty of opportunity to get on your campus Snapchat story by making fun of you; she'll love you when it makes it on the story because only dogs and people pulling all-nighters in the library make it on there.
4. Put up the Christmas tree when she's at work one day and she'll have no choice but to deal with it.
She'll have no choice, but to fall in love with that pre-lit tree from the Dollar General because it'll be so pretty when you're done with it! Think about all of those glittery ornaments shining in front of those lights. Plus, when she sees those presents you wrapped underneath it, she'll be dying to know who they are for and if they are for her. She'll be ready to tear it open with a huge smile on her face.
5. Tell her she can't have any of those Santa or snowmen sugar cookies you just made.
This one is obvious. No human can deny those adorable little holiday sugar-coated cookies. She will actually have no other choice but to say she loves Christmas and everything you have secretly done to the house. She wants those cookies and she will totally love you for them.
That my friends is how you deal with your Grinch of a roommate all while you make her heart grow three sizes.
