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My mom likes the holidays. She once even told me she doesn't get stressed out, even when she gets up before dawn and makes several meals and desserts and then stores them in the freezer until the holidays arrive. Although that is a good idea.

The only thing that really seems to stress out my mom this time of year is the days getting dark so early, and she really hates having to drive at night.

I think everyone gets a little stressed at Christmas, as it feels more like a deadline than a holiday. These days Christmas has become so commercial and all the stores want to make money so they do everything they can to push Christmas in your face to the point where you feel guilty if you're not part of it (unless you have a religion where you've never celebrated it).

It's stressful for my boyfriend because a lot of his family have birthdays that are in December. Also I don't know what I'm doing on Christmas day this year and neither does our families. That stresses me out for some reason.

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The WP discussion 'Holidays 2019' might be of interest. I've learned to view the holidays from frames of well...curbing stress e.g., I've learned to not let all of the over-commercialization of the holidays become an issue.

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I don't.

No amount of social expectations tells me to be stressed out about Christmas. No amount of sensory commercials tells me to mark this holiday as stressful.
No holiday actually does.

From where I live, there are more holidays and Christmas is over 4 months long.
Many here takes holidays a bit seriously and some gets to prepare long ahead instead of running around at last minute.

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Only days away from Christmas (as of this writing) - days away from where much of all of the holiday hype will be.....all said and done.

As we digest our Christmas Day, and night, how many of us feel lost, as much of the holiday is coming to an abrupt ending?

How does future-pacing help us handle the holidays?

I was stressing this year, becomimg a bit obsessive to be honest... going home, having extra relations and friends staying, but I've planned for as much of it as I can, the rest will be grand.

A conversation I had today grounded me super quick, talking to someone who lost a sibling a few months ago and has a terminally I'll child...

Yup, once I have loved ones and my health, the rest is trimming
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I must acquire some perspective, too!

Christmas never stressed me out too much. I really liked Christmas as a kid cuz I got out of skewl & got presents. I never paid much attention to the other aspects thou. I never been into giving other people gifts, decorating or cooking or other aspects about Christmas. I'm also a loner & keep to myself a lot so other's stress doesn't bother me too much. The one exception was when I was working retail. The stores got really crowded around the holidays & management was on our backs more so things were much more chaotic. I was also working longer hours. I didn't have to work extra but I volunteered cuz I liked getting over-time pay, my parents were on my back about me not being independent enough & how I could do better, I was dealing with a bad depression & working at least made me feel like I was accomplishing something, & I'm loyal to a fault & wanted to help out my department. Working over 9 hours a day(not counting the hour lunch break) 6 days a week for a couple months when a store is busy can be pretty stressful. I mostly slept when I wasn't working then except when I was doing the essential stuff.