How to get in the christmas spirit?

[ChickenPeep]

Watch a Christmas movie toghther, while baking cookies and having a Christmas smell (cinnamon, peppermint, pine tree, etc. ) in the room.
Always works in my family!

 

[GoldenSparrow]

find a church that is having a christmas pageant!
see the ture meaning of christmas!

 

[chickened]

Start looking at all the Christmas light displays. Load erveryone in the car and go see them.

 

[Mattemma]

If there is someone handicap or elderly near you stop by and check on them.

My mom is home right now in a wheelchair,and she was so grateful that neighbors and friends stopped by to give food,get her mail,take out garbage.One person told another,and another resulting in a line of them. One neighbor sent his son over with a meal(for no reason other than being nice),and when his son went home and told him my mom was in a wheelchair he went over with more food. LOL,my mom says she is going to get fat from all the food and holiday desserts everyone is giving.

Simple things,but it meant so much to her to have people care about her. Helping to make things better for someone else is what gets us in the holiday spirit.

 

[seminolewind]

The best way I know is to go to the mall to just watch the people scurry around buying Christmas gifts, and the decorations.

Play some Christmas music

Watch "A Christmas Story", or "Christmas Vacation".

Yes, bake cookies

Drop little hints to eachother about their gifts. Always got me excited!

Sometimes my family takes turns telling what their favorite Christmas was and why. It's good to talk about past Christmas's

 

[IttyBiddyRedHen]

sunny & the 5 egg layers :

My family just isn't in the christmas spirit this year... Any ideas on how to get in it? The house is decorated, tree is up but still non of us is in the christmas spirit. Any idea how to help us get in it?

Volunteer to deliver meals to homebound?
Depending where you are, offer to shovel snow for a neighbor?
Do some Angel Tree gifts?
Contact a shelter, and offer services (haircuts, toiletries, etc...)..to the shelter inhabitants?
Go to your church and find a family in need....do they need food?...warm coats?.....a holiday dinner?....a utility bill paid?
Go to an animal shelter and pass out hugs ....​

 

[lorain's fids]

sunny & the 5 egg layers :

My family just isn't in the christmas spirit this year... Any ideas on how to get in it? The house is decorated, tree is up but still non of us is in the christmas spirit. Any idea how to help us get in it?

My husband and I are also not really in the Christmas Spirit this year either....seems like we're just going through the motions of doing what we're "suppose" to be doing, but we're really not into it.(we are having some problems with my 22 yr old son, so maybe that has something to do with it)​

 

[sheaviance1]

Do a random act of kindness for someone in need and don't tell a single soul you did it. Take a mental picture of the moment that you do it, what they were wearing, how they reacted, and how it made you feel. If you want to get the whole family in on it, do that, but make the agreement in advance that you will not talk about it, even to each other. Let me tell you, there will be a twinkle in your eye and cheer in your heart! Every time you think about it, it will put a huge smile on your face.

 

[PollyC]

My daughter told me "you have to take the cap off the bottle first to get in the Christmas spirits"