How to get in the Christmas spirit. How to get in the Christmas spirit when you don't feel like it anymore

On the eve of the New Year holidays, we have a lot of trouble: we need to think over gifts, make a list of festive dishes, purchase all the necessary food and drinks, decorate the Christmas tree. However, not everyone is so happy about the upcoming New Year holidays and the preparations associated with it. After all, every day and so you have to solve a lot of urgent matters and tasks that there is no strength and mood left for fun. But do not despair! There are many great ways to get into the Christmas spirit. And 12 ways to create a New Year's mood will help you with this.

1. Decorate your workspace

It's no secret that almost half of an adult's life is spent at work. Before the New Year 2019, each of us has a time of constant deadlines, reports and blockages, the presence of which can drive even the most notorious optimist into depression. Therefore, it is worth starting preparations for the holiday from or the office. In addition, nothing unites the team like joint work related to creativity. After all, it is not necessary to spend a lot of money to buy jewelry!

It is quite enough to decorate the windows with pictures created using a can of artificial snow and stencils, arrange baskets with tangerines and vases with a couple of pine branches on the tables. And now, when you come to work, smelling the smell of fresh pine needles and citrus fruits, you are already beginning to be charged with a feeling of approaching the holiday. By the way, don't forget about the screensaver on your desktop and smartphone screen - urgently change your usual picture for a snowy landscape with fabulous animals and Santa Claus at the dressed-up Christmas tree!

2. Create a mood for others

Yes, yes, start with other people. After all, psychologists have proven that when a person tries to improve the mood of others, he himself does not notice how he becomes happier and happier. Moreover, no major feats are required of you: you can simply devote ten minutes a day to searching for virtual postcards that you will send to colleagues and relatives by e-mail. Looking at these pictures in itself sets you up for a holiday.

And you can remember the times when the Internet has not yet become an integral part of our lives, and please friends with the help of ordinary paper postcards. While you choose them in the store and write words of congratulations, be sure to recharge with positive! It is not for nothing that the tradition of sending handwritten cards by mail is one of the main New Year customs of the Japanese, who are otherwise a very technological and modern nation.

3. Take care of your appearance

Even if you don't feel like doing it at all, book a salon for a haircut, spa treatment, or manicure. After the procedures, you will definitely feel better and more cheerful, and an excellent appearance will add a positive outlook on life. One of the best ways to get in the Christmas spirit is to buy a new outfit. After all, New Year's parties and corporate events are a great occasion to finally buy that chic dress that you have been looking at for a long time, and incredible shoes for it!

4. Create a Christmas mood with music

Music has a truly magical effect when creating a festive mood and harmony with the outside world. Do not forget to prepare a themed playlist to listen to New Year and Christmas songs on your way to work and home, doing chores and shopping. New Year's tracks will instantly drive away the feeling of apathy and despondency! Do not forget about the traditional components of such a playlist.

Be sure to download the wonderful songs "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms, "Happy New Year" by ABBA, "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" performed by Frank Sinatra, "Snowflake" and "Three White Horses" from the movie "Wizards", "Last Christmas" performed by Wham! and "A song about five minutes." By the way, modern performers also sing about Christmas, so you can also look for fresh compositions to fill your player or smartphone. For example, include "White Christmas" by Lady Gaga in the list of songs.

5. Decorate the Christmas tree

This way to create a New Year's mood is a win-win. When we open boxes with old, familiar toys from childhood, we instantly plunge into the atmosphere of the New Year. All these balls, cones, snow maidens, bunnies, fruits and icicles are associated with unforgettable childhood memories, when moms and dads, grandparents decorated a Christmas tree for us on the eve of the winter festivities, and we willingly helped them.

Do you remember how you looked forward to the appearance of magical gifts from Santa Claus? Engage in making homemade jewelry and you will feel the magic of the New Year 2019 again! By the way, you can decorate a Christmas tree more than once: install a forest beauty at home, help your parents, take care of your aunt, create a New Year's mood with friends and colleagues!

6. Don't Forget Aromatherapy

Aromas of needles and tangerines are indispensable smells of the New Year, so fill your home with them. Every evening, light candles that will envelop the apartment with notes of orange, cinnamon and spruce needles, arrange tangerine peels on batteries, take relaxing baths with citrus oils. You will not notice how you will look forward to the onset of the holidays! In addition, aromatherapy is one of the most effective ways to relax and relieve stress, which is not at all superfluous in the New Year's fuss.

7. Decorate your home

A beautiful festive environment for the New Year 2019 is a wonderful way to create the appropriate New Year mood for yourself and your family. Yes, and the chores of decorating an apartment can only be called pleasant, so a few weeks before the holiday, start getting boxes with purchased or handmade decorations from the mezzanine and start decorating your home.

Draw snowmen, deer and Christmas trees on the windows using artificial snow and stencils, stick paper snowflakes, hang multi-colored ones on the cornices, hang Christmas wreaths on the doors and be sure to arrange baskets with oranges and tangerines. On gloomy winter days and evenings, the soft flickering of colored light bulbs and the sparkle of tinsel will surely create an atmosphere of a quick fairy tale in your home.

8. Arrange movie screenings

Forget about showdowns and news programs with daily incidents and negative events - have a New Year's movie show in your house every night! Gather the whole family in front of the screen and enjoy. Even if you do not have a family yet, this is a great way to cheer yourself up, because what could be better than a warm blanket, aromatic tea and a great movie after a hard day's work?

9. Make your own jewelry

Any creativity in itself is a great way to relieve stress, and making is even more effective! You can create yourself, for which you have enough patience, diligence and talent. These can be themed glasses for a party, candlesticks, balls, snowflakes and garlands. Connect children and relatives to this business - such evenings are sure to evoke a lot of memories and create a sense of celebration.

10. Buy gifts

New Year 2019 is not without reason a time of surprises and fulfillment of desires, and absolutely anyone can feel like a little bit of a magician. Make a list of family and friends that you will gift with nice things. Think about what exactly will make the recipient smile and joy, and then go shopping. While you are looking at colorful shop windows, listening to Christmas songs and choosing gifts, you will definitely not be able to avoid the New Year mood.

11. Play winter games

Spend the New Year's Eve weekend with friends or family, enjoying all the fun that snowy winter brings us. Create an army of various snowmen, go skiing, have snowball fights, build fortresses, ride the city ice rink around the Christmas trees to the sound of Christmas tunes, make snow angels, and then watch movies with a cup of hot cocoa with the same fun company.

12. Expect the holiday

And most importantly: remember that New Year 2019 is a time when we all must take a break from a hard working year, clear our thoughts and believe in a miracle - and then the New Year's mood will come by itself, giving us all an unforgettable holiday!

Choose postcards with a New Year theme, sign each one and safely send it around the world. One realization that a message written on paper is rushing to friends should please and add 100 points to the expectation of the holiday.

2. Learn or compose a New Year's song

Learning the words to Jingle Bells, Christmas Is All Around or other Christmas carols and singing them daily at home and on the road will lift your spirits. And by coming up with a new song, you can surprise your friends.

3. Bake cookies

It doesn't matter if you've done it before or not. Gather a large company, take the first recipe you like - and go!

4. Play Secret Santa

Colleagues, classmates or a group of friends are ideal. Big family? Great. Decide on a budget and turn on your imagination: for the New Year, everyone wants something original. You can play on the Secret Santa website.

And if you do not want to use the Internet, play offline. Lifehacker collected the rules in a separate article.

Just the process of buying will already fill your head with warm thoughts about the upcoming holidays. And there is no need to talk about wearing it!

6. Read

Bestsellers such as The Night Before Christmas, The Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas will help you feel that New Year's atmosphere. Don't forget the blanket and hot chocolate!

7. Start the countdown

Have a calendar where you can cross out the days. The main thing is that the expectation of the holiday does not become more pleasant than the holiday itself.

8. Set Christmas wallpaper

We look at the screen of a smartphone or computer more often than in a mirror. In our case, it is worth making it an advantage: Christmas wallpapers will add an atmosphere of magic to your life.

9. Attend pre-holiday events

No, we are not talking about feasts with an indecent amount of alcohol, but about entertainment events for children and adults. One has only to search the Internet a little, and it will immediately become clear where you can spend the coming weekend and activate your New Year's mood.

Let the advice be banal, but it works 100%. The smell of pine needles, unpacking boxes with toys, buying garlands and decorations - the New Year is simply bound to come in the coming days! By the way, choosing a Christmas tree is an art.

11. Walk along the main streets

The administration decorates the city not only so that we admire the lights from the windows of cars and buses. So take some time and walk around the center: it is amazingly beautiful there!

12. Buy gifts for loved ones

It's a pleasant process. In addition, if you hurry, you can catch good discounts. It also lifts the mood.

13. And to myself

Why not? Is everything just different? You can give something to the most important and beloved person in this life. Let a small but pleasant gift brighten up your expectation of the holiday.

14. Get out the Christmas bedding

Falling asleep and waking up among snowflakes, Christmas trees and New Year's toys is a pleasure. You can check.

15. Make a snowman

Remember your childhood and take one of the next weekend with active games. Upon returning home, the festive table will become your dream at least until the next snack.

Shopping malls on New Year's Eve - just a treasure! Everything shines: walls, ceilings, shop windows. New year with new clothes! How do you like this motto?

17. Make Christmas ornaments

The spruce has already been bought, but only IKEA balls decorate it? Not our choice.

18. And a New Year's costume for a child

And now the task is more difficult: to make sure that the child comes to the holiday in the most interesting outfit.

19. Write a letter to Santa Claus

So what if it's over twenty years old! Santa Claus has his own mail. And I have my own address: 162390, Russia, Vologda Oblast, Veliky Ustyug, Santa Claus Post Office.

There are no special rules. Just write a letter, put stamps on it and drop it in the mailbox. And then expect a miracle. What if Santa Claus reads the letter and fulfills the wish?

20. Go to Veliky Ustyug

An amazing trip for a few days to the homeland of Santa Claus. So the letter, by the way, can be sent faster.

21. Or any other trip

In winter, you don't always want to go north. What can I say, I rarely want to go north. But the New Year can be started with other pleasant trips. For example, in warm countries. Let the plans give you a New Year's mood and a feeling of pleasant expectation.

So what? So do many. You can’t look at the magic grandfather - become him yourself.

23. Give others tangerines

At least it's a good deed and an interesting experience. Surprise your friends or colleagues, or better yet, strangers. Practice shows: you please others - you rejoice yourself.

24. Have a photo shoot

It works with a bang. The atmosphere in any photo studio will make even those who hate it want the New Year. In addition, these are commemorative photographs, it is always a pleasure to receive them.

25. Listen to music

You probably thought that we would forget about it, but no! Music works wonders, so a New Year's playlist is a must for creating and maintaining a New Year's mood.

26. Surround yourself with Christmas scents

Or just winter. Tangerines, cinnamon, anise, cloves, pine needles - these smells will definitely remind you of New Year's stories of childhood, and a warm mood is guaranteed.

27. Decorate your home

Without this, too, nowhere. We spend half of our lives at work (by the way, we also recommend decorating the workplace), and half at home. Let a holiday await us at home, then the mood will be the same.

30. Plan the New Year

What you invest in is what you expect. Let's plan the menu, program, gifts and the whole New Year's Eve today. The more we prepare, the more long-awaited the holiday will be!

Someone wrote on Twitter: “If you don’t feel delight and emotion every year about the onset of the New Year, humble yourself, this is your New Year’s mood.” But we believe that you can and should set yourself up for the holiday. Perhaps you are just too tired and tired, so you can’t stop for a while and immerse yourself in the New Year’s magic. We know what to do to feel the holiday.

Clean up the house and get rid of the trash

Agree, not the most exciting activity. But cleanliness in the house greatly affects our psychological state, it is not without reason that there are traditions to throw out junk before the New Year. Getting rid of rubbish and dirt, we get rid of heavy thoughts.

Relax and let go of unnecessary thoughts

After cleaning the apartment, it is worth thoroughly cleaning the head. Free yourself at least a few hours on a weekend or weekday evening to sit in silence and reflect on what has happened in the past year, good and bad, and let go of the thoughts that spoil your mood day by day. If it’s impossible to retire at home, then at least arrange for yourself solo walks for 15-20 minutes a day, during which you can think.

Put a Christmas case on your phone

And also install a New Year's ringtone and winter wallpapers on your desktop, even if all this seems silly and frivolous to you. After all, the pre-New Year's mood is what it is, stupid and frivolous, when you, as in childhood, can enjoy all sorts of little things like the flickering lights of a garland.

Decorate the tree and decorate the house

When the house is clean and your thoughts have hopefully become more positive, it's time to start decorating the house. Be sure to involve your family: these are precious hours of communication and common cause that you will all enjoy.

Just remember that these beautiful moments can be poisoned by unnecessary perfectionism. You do not participate in the competition for the perfect Christmas tree, so why swear to heart-rending cries if one of the household members hung the ball in the wrong place.

If you live alone, then you can decorate the house yourself for New Year's movies and music, or invite friends to a New Year's pre-party. Light snacks, champagne, tangerines, joint drawing of a deer on the window glass - and now the New Year's mood has already crept up unnoticed.

Write a letter to Santa Claus

If you don’t feel like writing such a frank letter, then remember some funny or touching New Year’s story that invariably evokes pleasant emotions in you. While you will tell it in detail in a letter, remember everything to the smallest detail again - your mood will improve!

The letter can be sent in the old fashioned way, by dropping it into the mailbox, or in electronic form - this way you will receive a response with New Year's greetings much faster.

Meet your friends

Someone will leave for the New Year holidays, and someone will spend them with their families, so the days before the New Year are a good time to get together with a friendly company, remember the events of the outgoing year, and maybe even give gifts to each other.

Psychologists have been practicing film therapy for a long time. Watching films and discussing them help us to realize and rethink ourselves and our goals, feelings, needs, develop the ability to sincerely express feelings and form positive thinking.

So prescribe yourself a pre-New Year's therapy: start the morning with New Year's songs, and be sure to watch a New Year's movie in the evening.

Try New Year's goodies

In coffee houses, snowflakes and rain hang from the ceilings, appropriate music plays, and the menu probably has exclusively New Year's offers like gingerbread cookies. Dedicate half an hour to delicious desserts and immerse yourself in the New Year's atmosphere. In order not to waste time in vain, you can make lists of gifts for loved ones.

Walk around the city

In some places, elegant Christmas trees were put up at the end of November. And now cities are already delighting with full-fledged New Year's decorations: garlands on trees, figurines of deer and other New Year's characters, snowflakes and balls on shop windows. Dress warmly and go for a walk. Especially lucky if that day will be light frost and snow.

Enjoy the elegant city, drink hot tea or mulled wine at the New Year's fair, go ice skating near the central Christmas tree.

These entertainments are available to you only in winter, I would even say, only in December. Even on the January holidays, they will no longer be so cheerful and emotional. Don't miss the moment.

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This is one of the most anticipated holidays. All people are fussing, choosing gifts for loved ones, preparing delicious dishes. Often, behind such worries, the mood before the holiday itself is lost somewhere. Fortunately, this can be easily fixed. There are several ways to create a festive New Year's mood.

Christmas tree

The most important thing that every home should have is a Christmas tree. Decorating it on the eve with your family, you can not only create a good mood, but also make it truly festive.

You can decorate it with ready-made toys, but it is more interesting to make them yourself. For example, cut out snowflakes, stars, snowmen, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, small Christmas trees, deer, red bows and much more from paper. Thus, we create a New Year's mood with our own hands. Children are happy to participate in this.

Having decorated the Christmas tree, be sure to hang luminous garlands on it at the end. Solemnly turn them on and enjoy the atmosphere. It is better, of course, to put up a live Christmas tree, which will bring the smell of the forest and freshness into the house. But the guardians of nature can opt for an artificial one.

Snowflakes

How to create a New Year's mood? A great way is to decorate the house yourself. To do this, you can make jewelry with your own hands. The easiest thing is snowflakes. Making them is very easy. To do this, you need white or multi-colored paper.

From it you need to cut a square, fold it in half. And then two more times until the shape of a thin cone. Next, you should start making cuts in the form of small rhombuses, circles or triangles on the folded edges, cut the edge in the form of teeth or waves around the circumference. When such a piece of paper is laid out, it should resemble a snowflake. If there are doubts about the correct cuts, then with an ordinary simple pencil you can first make a sketch of the future snowflake.

and glass

How to create a Christmas mood in the house? You can also decorate the windows, especially if there is no snow behind them. Special cans with an artificial substitute are on sale. You need to attach a stencil of the desired pattern to the window and paint it over with a spray can. An imitation of frosty natural patterns appears on the glasses. It looks very beautiful, elegant and festive. This decoration can be used on interior glass doors, balcony doors, refrigerators (easy to clean), kitchen glass furniture. This is not only a natural imitation of frost and snow outside the window, but also an opportunity to create a New Year's mood in the house. And for all its inhabitants.

Luminous garlands can any person and will certainly make it festive. This is an indispensable element in the celebration of the New Year. Now on the market you can buy different colors, shapes, lengths of the garland. They can decorate not only the Christmas tree, but also balconies, windows, walls, furniture, in a word, anything. The main thing is that it looks harmonious in the interior. In houses where there are balconies, many interesting figures are used. Which? For example, inflatable Santa Claus, which climbs onto the balcony. Looks original and funny. There may be other options. For example, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, Santa Claus on a sleigh with deer, statues of snowmen, hares, elves.

Original serving of dishes

How to create a New Year's mood? Now we'll find out. It takes a lot of time to prepare dishes for the festive table. In most cases, due to fatigue, people lose their New Year's mood. But if you cook unusual dishes, you can turn this process into creating masterpieces that will delight all guests.

For example, arrange cheese slices in the form of a Christmas tree. To do this, you need a large skewer, hard cheese, a small piece of boiled carrots, greens. Cheese should be cut into thin slices in the form of triangles or diamonds. Put the skewer vertically on a piece of boiled carrot (in the form of a circle). Then put cheese on it so that the sharp ends fold like Christmas tree branches. At the top, cut an asterisk from boiled carrots. Decorate the plate with finely chopped greens around the Christmas tree.

Salads can be laid out in the shape of an animal, which will be the symbols of the coming year. For example, a snake, horses or monkeys. The snake can be decorated with thinly sliced ​​olives, and the horse's head can be made with grated carrots. In this case, the main thing is creativity and imagination.

Desserts can be served in the form of numbers for the coming year. You can also arrange a cake. Now the cake can be baked by yourself or ordered from professional confectioners. Additionally, you can decorate it with figures of Santa Claus, Snow Maiden and other characters. Here's how to get in the Christmas spirit.

edible balls

It is interesting to arrange snacks. For example, in the form of balls that decorate the Christmas tree, you can cook a cheese snack. To do this, processed cheese is rubbed on a fine grater, mixed with boiled chicken eggs (previously chopped in the same way), and seasoned with mayonnaise. You can add salt, pepper and garlic to taste. Next, from the resulting mass, it is necessary to form small round balls. You can roll them in chopped dill or crab sticks. Such an appetizer can be made unusual if you put hazelnuts or olives inside such balls. If you are wondering how to create a New Year's mood, then just preparing original snacks will help you in this matter.

Fireworks and drinks

Pyrotechnics can also cheer you up. With the help of fireworks, you can create a New Year's atmosphere. But they must be used with extreme caution.

Drinks are equally important. After all, if you choose low-quality alcohol, you can not only spoil your mood, but also your health. You can make various cocktails. Of course, champagne is indispensable, which is opened under the chimes. This is a traditional moment that will not leave anyone indifferent and, of course, will improve your mood. Champagne bottle and glasses can be decorated with original star appliqués. An easy and simple way to cheer up the New Year mood.

Holiday for a child

With adults it is much easier in this matter. Relax a little, drink a glass of champagne, and the mood is normal. It's more difficult with children. And how to create a New Year's mood for a child? For example, make a holiday for him by arranging a scene with the participation of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. Adults must first decide on the issue of costumes. On New Year's Eve it will be very difficult to find them. Next, you should play an interesting performance for the child. You can tell a story about the life of Santa Claus and give the child a gift.

Adults can improve their mood in this way. To please the child, you can ask all the guests to come in certain outfits. For example, someone will dress up as an angel, a bunny, a snowman, a Christmas tree, or another character. The script can be thought through in poems. It will be much more interesting. It is important to choose a role for the child. This will help him feel "in business", give responsibility and courage. Scenes often include "evil" characters. This will help and make the child laugh, and teach to distinguish the bad from the good.

Conclusion

Now it’s clear how to create a New Year’s mood at home with your own hands. As you can see, there are a lot of options. It is better to use everything at once.

As children, we always looked forward to the New Year, wrote letters to Santa Claus and made wishes on New Year's Eve. But because of everyday troubles, we lose the amazing ability to believe in miracles and fairy tales. But in vain! New Year is always something fascinating and fabulous. After all, on the threshold of a new stage of life, with new achievements and successes!

How to create a New Year's mood - tangerine mood

Surround yourself with tangerines! The very first harbinger of the upcoming New Year holiday is, of course, the aroma of tangerines. New Year's fruit will give a charge of vivacity and good mood!

How to create a New Year's mood - Christmas tree euphoria

The smell of pine needles is an integral part of the holiday! Put up a Christmas tree, take out Christmas decorations and decorate the house with them. Even if you just hang garlands on the window and hang a couple of snowflakes, the New Year mood will already come to your soul! If you have a big family, decorate the Christmas tree all together, believe me, it's a lot of fun! Turn your home into a real fairy-tale kingdom, where the upcoming New Year will come with pleasure.

How to create a New Year's mood - holiday shopping

• Go get gifts for your family and friends! When you strive to give a New Year's mood to another, you imperceptibly become a participant in the holiday.
• This method is simple but effective. It works on the principle: “Do you want to be happy? Give happiness to someone else!”.
• Do not trust ordinary and boring foil for gift wrapping, but make original decorations and postcards with your own hands. The creative process will undoubtedly set you up for the New Year's motive.
• Remember to yourself - nothing invigorates like a new dress or suit. After all, you just want a holiday, to dress up and go to have fun. Pick up New Year's attributes for a new purchase, you'll see, during the fitting you will be positive!

How to create a New Year's mood - a return to childhood

• Watch your favorite children's films, remember with what trepidation and delight you were waiting for the New Year. Like waking up on New Year's morning, a New Year's gift was waiting for you under the tree, brought by Santa Claus.
• Open a photo album with New Year's children's photos, seeing yourself in a snowflake or bunny costume, you will be charged with a smile for a long time and forget about sad emotions.

How to create a Christmas mood - chocolate magic

Let's go back to childhood! Do you remember what candy bags our parents gave us? Play the game “Santa Claus to yourself!”, buy a chocolate gift in the store and put it under the Christmas tree. Of course, you won’t find such sweets now, but unwrapping and eating sweets under the Christmas tree will obviously bring you a New Year’s mood and pleasant memories!

How to create a New Year's mood - a magic drink

New Year's drink will bring you warmth, good mood and a sense of the upcoming holiday. In many families, this drink is considered one of the main components of the New Year celebration. We will need:

• Favorite mug.
• Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread.
• Whipped cream.
• Milk chocolate.
• Milk.

Pour milk into a mug, add 2 tablespoons of pasta, stir and microwave for 7-9 minutes. Mix the prepared drink well again and add whipped cream. The drink is ready!

How to create a New Year's mood - children's New Year

If you are a young mom or dad, what kind of New Year's blues can we talk about? You have little angels who can't wait for this holiday! Give them a fairy tale on the eve of the New Year. In preparation and bustle, you will not even notice how you plunged into the festive euphoria and are waiting for the upcoming miracle.

• If you have friends who also have small children, offer to spend the New Year together. Prepare a scenario with bad and good characters. Assign roles and prepare costumes. A couple of rehearsals before the final performance are a must!
• When you see the burning eyes of your children and bursting laughter during the holiday, a bad mood will disappear instantly!
• If you are celebrating the New Year with a narrow circle of your family, dress up dad as Santa Claus and give a staff in your hands! The effect of the emotions received by children is amazing!

New Year's mood, happiness and family well-being to you!