What Gets You In the Christmas Mood?

[qwlauren35]

Giving to others, like the homeless in shelters, or needy kids.

Scenting the house with pine.

Listening to Nat King Cole's The Christmas Song, Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas and Pentatonix' Mary Did You Know

Watching THE ORIGINAL Grinch.

[elleng]

1. Nothing (any longer.)

Sorry.

Hope you're well, qwlauren35.

[qwlauren35]

2. I'm so sorry.

I'm well, Ellen. Been hiding from the madness, just letting Biden work his magic.

Sending a quick DU hug.

[elleng]

7. Good of you to hide from the madness and let Biden work his magic.

[Enter stage left]

3. News year day.

[applegrove]

4. Egg nog, shopping for others, decorating the tree, family.....

[PJMcK]

5. Decorating

And listening to my vast collection of holiday music.

Wrapping presents is fun, too, but during the pandemic, we don’t get to see our family and friends.

However, I’m with you, qwlauren. Get into the holiday groove!

[a kennedy]

24. I hate wrapping, I sent a friend a package just the way I bought them, I put them in

a mailing box, and just put Christmas stickers on the outside.

[Ocelot II]

6. Not a damn thing any more.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. I hear ya!

No excitement. No magic. No mystery. Just another day to me.

[Deuxcents]

25. Me, either

I wish everyone well but I’ll be happier when it’s over

[Tomconroy]

8. I always feel a little festive throwing a few bucks in the Salvation

Army buckets. Seeing The Messiah certainly does it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. Watching "It's a Wonderful Life"

Which I am doing right now.

Merry Christmas!

[Farmer-Rick]

10. I'm still not in the mood

But I think these might do it:

It's a Wonderful Life

White Christmas

Egg Nog or mulled wine.

Making cookies with my family.

[3catwoman3]

11. Seeing all the outside lights.

I love Christmas lights.

[liberalla]

18. Yes, that works for me too!

[a kennedy]

26. Yah, there seems to be fewer then years ago......our neighborhood hardly has any.....

We didn’t put up lights, but did do our daytime decorations. We’re just getting to old for our night lights, they are hard for us to put up these days.

[LakeArenal]

28. Yes. For me, twinkling lights. I like multi-colored ones more than plain white.

[Sneederbunk]

12. Whiskey.

[dchill]

15. Snort! Me too!

[mopinko]

13. stevie wonder's ave maria, but

mostly, this year, good luck w that.
not even making cookies.

[Larissa]

14. A Charlie Brown Christmas music by the Vince Guaraldi Trio (1965)

[Glorfindel]

16. Watching "Love, Actually"

Sending and receiving Christmas cards
Looking at photos of Christmases past

[stopdiggin]

17. Xanax -(nt)-

[raging moderate]

20. Find some people who need something, and give it to them.

That is the real Christmas spirit.

[NNadir]

21. Making out with my wife while listening to the Temptations sing "Silent Night."

It started right after she turned 21 and well, Christmas isn't Christmas without it.

[pnwest]

22. Bell ringers outside a store can bring a flash of that feeling sometimes. But most years,

the holidays are something I just white-knuckle my way through. I breathe a HUGE sigh of relief come the first day back to work in January, bringing "normalcy" back with it.

[msongs]

23. december 26th when participants goes back to their true selves nt

[LakeArenal]

29. Love to watch every version of Scrooge.

Except that recent British mini-series.
Also:
Hobson’s Choice
The Mudlark
All Mine to Give