Does it ever happen to you: a holiday is coming up, everyone is fussing around, making plans, and in the midst of this excitement you feel like a penguin in the desert, absolutely alien and “foreign”?
There is no mood, there are no desires, the soul is constrained by melancholy, I want to crawl to the side and not see anyone. Believe me, this is not order! You can't put up with such a mood. Holidays are meant for something completely different! These are the days of “pumping up” energy with new amazing emotions and impressions. Why lose at least one, especially if we're talking about about the New Year!
Fortunately, attitude is something that can be acquired. The secret is simple - to create a New Year's mood, you need to do New Year's things! Let's look at methods to combat melancholy and despondency on the eve of the most important holiday of the year.
New Year's mood for the home!
Sometimes, in order to breathe a new wave of strength into yourself, you just need to get involved in the holiday bustle. Look at your home through the eyes of an outsider. Is it ready for the celebration? Has everything been cleaned, has the “evidence” of failures and troubles been thrown away? Maybe they are the ones who are preventing you from finding the right mood.
Then imagine that you are waiting for the real Santa Claus to visit you, who will fulfill all your wishes in the coming new year: o).
Will he linger in a house that is not prepared accordingly? Of course not.
So what's up? Get to work immediately! After all, Christmas tree decorations and tinsel have been waiting for a long time for you to remember them. They've been so bored all year!
Dress up the Christmas tree, decorate your house or apartment with garlands: lights burning in the twilight look simply magical! Fill your house with New Year's smells: a live Christmas tree, tangerines, bake ginger cookies, put out fragrant candles, build New Year's compositions and you will immediately feel the sensations of the upcoming holiday!
The magic of New Year's music!
Do not forget that we have more than one organ of perception. You are already pleasing your eyes with New Year's decorations, and your nose with New Year's smells, so remember the sounds! Put on a New Year's playlist and listen to fun music while doing household chores, or in the car...
Believe me, for many (maybe you are one of them) sounds are a priority in creating harmonious feelings. Put on your favorite melody and see how quickly your melancholy flies away, taking along melancholy and apathy.
New Year's mood in gifts
New Year is not only a feast, which you may not want to organize. This is still a time of surprises. This is a magical day when you can make many people happy at once. And if you think that we are talking about you going to a monastery, then your mood really needs “intensive therapy.”
In fact, you can arrange a small “holiday” for yourself self-importance”, taking a shopping trip. Buy gifts for all your relatives and friends! You don’t have to spend a lot, even choosing ordinary souvenirs will give you the feeling of the upcoming holiday. Bright shop windows and huge decorations of shopping centers will definitely lift your spirits and delight you with their appearance.
Don't forget about yourself! Buy yourself a couple of elegant things, think about what to wear to meet New Year? Get a New Year's manicure and winter nail art. Choose an outfit and accessories for new year party. You'll see, the New Year's mood won't keep you waiting!
Mood for the New Year!
The house is decorated, gifts are prepared, the thought of which already makes you want to rejoice. But you forgot about your phone and desktop! What picture are you seeing now? Urgently change the wallpaper to a bright New Year's picture
Subscribe to several New Year groups on social networks to delight yourself with winter pictures and melodies regularly!
The easiest way to create a positive mood for the holiday is to stroll through the pages of the Internet, look at pictures, look through recipes, find out what is in fashion for this holiday 2015. After all, waiting for the New Year is an amazing time! Especially if the mood is right :o).
There are several to help you interesting ideas to create a New Year's mood
Based on materials from new-year-party.ru, girltru.blogspot.co.il
New Year's mood is something that adults so often lack on the eve of winter holidays. Urgent work at work, considerable financial expenses, the upcoming price increase - that's what our minds are busy with. In our daily hassle, we don’t even have time to notice how beautiful it is outside when snow falls, and how brightly the city is decorated during the winter holidays.
The New Year's miracle will come much faster if you start creating it yourself. Every person has the power to create a festive atmosphere in his home with his own hands. To do this you need to show imagination and work a little. In what areas is it worth making efforts? Says "EasyUseful"
Creating a New Year's mood in the office
We spend a huge amount of time at work. There we not only fulfill our professional duties, but also communicate with colleagues and establish friendly relations. Therefore, decorating the office for the holidays has long become a tradition in many teams. In just a couple of hours at work you can create a New Year's mood. How to do this?
First of all, you need to clean the room: wipe the dust on the shelves, sort out the piles of papers, put important documents in folders. Of course, it’s not always possible to install a live, fragrant spruce in your office, but you can buy a desktop artificial mini-Christmas tree. It is simpler, cheaper, and more useful for environment. Why would another tree go to the trash after 1-2 holiday weeks?
Many of the artificial Christmas trees have a very stylish look and do not require additional decorations. You can also buy a small live plant in a pot - it can be a cactus, succulent or any greenery in general. For the New Year, you can decorate it with balls or a garland, and after the holidays, remove the decorations and leave the plant in the office. Boring plastic windows can be decorated with paper snowflakes or designs made using stencils.
You can also set up a Santa Claus mailbox - place a beautifully decorated box or box in the room, where everyone can leave a congratulation addressed to a colleague.
Another important point: the anticipation of the upcoming weekend will be brighter if you finish all old projects and do not leave behind “debts”. Dedicate the last working days before the holidays to getting all your affairs and papers in order.
How to create a festive atmosphere in your home
Decorating an apartment requires responsibility and at the same time creative thinking. If you approach the matter in detail, not forgetting about creative thinking, the home will be cozy and original.
How to create a New Year's mood in your apartment? The first thing you need to do to create a unique holiday atmosphere is to put up and decorate the Christmas tree. Some people only recognize live spruce trees, while others prefer an artificial tree. Decorating the Christmas tree with balls, toys, garlands and tinsel - creative process. You can involve the whole family, both adults and children. 
Now it's time to decorate the rooms. They will look stylish if you choose New Year decorations in a single color scheme. The combination of red and golden colors, green and silver shades looks very impressive. You should pay attention to absolutely everything: windows, window sills, interior doors, furniture, walls. Windows can be decorated with special LED garlands, and decorative candles can be placed on window sills. Doors can be easily transformed with pendants or Christmas wreaths. Those who know how to sew or knit can make pillowcases in New Year's style.
Easy to mount on walls paper snowflakes or figures of Father Frost and Snow Maiden. The idea of laying out their silhouettes using a luminous garland is quite attractive. Children will especially be happy with this decoration.
When it comes to how to create a New Year’s mood in your home, there is no place for strict rules. The more creative the home owners are, the better the result will be.
Various nice little things
On the eve of the holidays, it is worth remembering your talent for needlework. With your own hands you can make decorative balls from threads, Christmas wreaths, compositions from pine cones, Christmas tree decorations or even from clothespins. The materials necessary for this can be found in every home. These are glue, cotton wool, yarn, colored cardboard, paints. You can involve children in making crafts, and then it will be a full-fledged educational activity that will benefit the child and develop his imagination. 
You can try to create a special atmosphere in your home with the help of scents, because aromatherapy is a separate form of art. We associate New Year with the smell of fresh spruce and citrus fruits: tangerines, oranges, lemons. Buy tangerines and place them in a decorative vase - a pleasant aroma will fill the whole house. A few more ways to scent your apartment - buy perfume cards, light scented candles or aroma lamp.
The feeling of celebration is created not only by things, but also by actions. Soviet films are traditionally shown on TV during the holidays. Why not replenish your home collection with new films that will create a New Year's mood? Many good romantic comedies have been made on this topic.
Let festive music sound in your house; you can set a New Year's ringtone on your mobile phone. A cheerful melody will be heard with every incoming call.
It's also worth taking care of your appearance. You can not only buy a new dress, but also think of outfits in the same style for the whole family, and then go to a New Year's photo shoot. 
It is necessary to realize that the process of creation festive mood is entirely in our hands. You shouldn't blame someone for your lack of desire to have fun. It’s better to take control of everyday life yourself and do everything to new year holidays It was an unforgettable experience for the whole family.
Choose cards with a New Year's theme, sign each one and safely send it all over the world. Just the realization that a message written on paper is rushing to your friends should make you happy and add 100 points to the anticipation 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 and New Year carols and singing them daily at home and on the road will lift your spirits. And having come up with new song, you can surprise your friends.
3. Bake cookies
It doesn't matter whether you've done this before or not. Gather a big group, take the first recipe you like - and go ahead!
4. Play Secret Santa
Colleagues, classmates or a group of friends are ideal. Big family? Great. Decide on a budget and use your imagination: for the New Year, everyone wants something original. You can play on the Secret Santa website.
And if you don’t want to use the Internet, play offline. Lifehacker has collected the rules in a separate article.
The purchasing process alone will already fill your head with warm thoughts about the upcoming holidays. And there’s no need to talk about the wearing itself!
6. Read
Bestsellers such as “The Night Before Christmas”, “The Polar Express”, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” will help you feel that very New Year's atmosphere. Don't forget the blanket and hot chocolate!
7. Start the countdown
Have a calendar where you can cross off days. The main thing is that the anticipation 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 the mirror. In our case, it’s worth making this an advantage: New Year’s wallpaper will add an atmosphere of magic to your life.
9. Attend pre-holiday events
No, we are not talking about feasts with indecent amounts of alcohol, but about entertainment events for children and adults. All you have to do is search a little on the Internet, and it will immediately become clear where you can spend the next weekend and activate your New Year’s mood.
Even if the advice is banal, it works 100%. The smell of pine, unpacking boxes of toys, buying garlands and decorations - the New Year simply has to come in the coming days! By the way, choosing a Christmas tree is an art.
11. Take a walk along the main streets
The administration decorates the city not only so that we can admire the lights from the windows of cars and buses. So take some time and walk through the center: it’s amazingly beautiful there!
12. Buy gifts for your loved ones
It's a pleasant process. In addition, if you hurry, you can catch good discounts. This also lifts the mood.
13. And to myself
Why not? Is everything really 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 anticipation of the holiday.
14. Get out the Christmas bedding
Falling asleep and waking up among snowflakes, Christmas trees and New Year's toys- a pleasure. You can check.
15. Build a snowman
Remember your childhood and spend one of the next weekends playing active games. Upon returning home festive table will become your dream at least until the next snack.
Shopping centers during the New Year's Eve are simply a treasure! Everything shines: walls, ceilings, shop windows. Celebrate the New Year with new clothes! How do you like this motto?
17. Make Christmas decorations
You've already bought the spruce, but you only decorate it with balls from IKEA? Not our option.
18. And a New Year’s suit for the 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, it’s already over twenty! Santa Claus has his own mail. And there is an address: 162390, Russia, Vologda region, Veliky Ustyug, Santa Claus Post Office.
There are no special rules. Just write a letter, add stamps and drop it in the mailbox. And then wait for a miracle. What if Santa Claus reads the letter and grants his wish?
20. Go to Veliky Ustyug
An amazing trip for several days to the homeland of Santa Claus. This way, by the way, the letter can be sent faster.
21. Or on any other trip
In winter you don’t always want to go north. What can I say, I rarely want to go north. But you can start the New Year with other pleasant trips. For example, to warm countries. Let your plans give you a New Year's mood and a feeling of pleasant anticipation.
So what? Many people do this. If you can’t look at a magical grandfather, become one yourself.
23. Give tangerines to others
At least this is a good deed and interesting experience. Surprise your friends or colleagues, or better yet, strangers. Practice shows: if you please others, you yourself will be happy.
24. Have a photo shoot
This works great. The atmosphere in any photo studio will make even those who hate it want a New Year. In addition, these are memorable photographs, which are always nice to receive.
25. Listen to music
You probably thought 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 New Year's scents
Or just winter ones. Tangerines, cinnamon, anise, cloves, pine needles - these smells will definitely remind you of childhood New Year's stories, and a warm mood is guaranteed.
27. Decorate your home
You can't do without this either. We spend half our lives at work ( workplace, by the way, we also recommend decorating), and half - at home. Let a holiday await us at home, then the mood will be the same.
30. Plan for 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 on Twitter wrote: “If year after year you don’t experience delight and tenderness about the coming of the New Year, accept it, this is your New Year’s mood.” But we believe that you can and should prepare yourself for the holiday. Perhaps you are simply too wound up 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 your home and get rid of clutter
We 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 of throwing out old things before the New Year. By getting rid of trash and dirt, we also get rid of heavy thoughts.
Relax and get rid of unnecessary thoughts from your head
After cleaning the apartment, it’s worth thoroughly cleaning your head. Free yourself at least a few hours on a weekend or weekday evening to sit in silence and reflect on what good and bad happened in the past year, and let go of the thoughts that spoil your mood day after day. If you can’t find privacy at home, then at least take solo walks for 15–20 minutes a day, during which you can reflect.
Put a New Year's case on your phone
pinterest.com And also install a New Year's ringtone and winter wallpaper on your desktop, even if it all seems stupid and frivolous to you. After all, the New Year's mood is what it is, stupid and frivolous, when, like in childhood, you can enjoy all sorts of little things like the flickering lights of a garland.
Decorate the Christmas tree and decorate the house
Once your home is clean and your thoughts are hopefully more positive, it's time to start decorating your home. Be sure to involve your family: these are precious hours of bonding and shared activities that you all will enjoy.
Just remember that these wonderful moments can be poisoned by unnecessary perfectionism. You are not participating in a competition for the perfect Christmas tree, so why swear to the point of heart-rending screams if one of the household members hung the ball in the wrong place.
If you live alone, you can decorate the house yourself with New Year's films and music, or invite friends to a New Year's pre-party. Light snacks, champagne, tangerines, drawing a deer on the window glass together - and now the New Year's mood has already crept up unnoticed.
Write a letter to Santa Claus
pinterest.com 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 tell it in detail in a letter, remember everything to the smallest detail again - your mood will improve!
The letter can be sent the old fashioned way, by dropping it in the mailbox, or electronically - this way you will receive a response with New Year’s greetings much faster.
Meet your friends
Some will leave for the New Year holidays, and others will spend them with their family, so the days before the New Year are a good time to get together with a group of friends, remember the events of the past year, and maybe even give each other gifts.
Psychologists have been practicing film therapy for a long time. Watching films and discussing them help us understand and rethink ourselves and our goals, feelings, needs, develop the ability to be sincere in expressing feelings and form positive thinking.
So prescribe yourself a pre-New Year's therapy: start the morning with New Year's songs, and in the evening be sure to watch a New Year's film.
Try New Year's delicacies
pinterest.com In coffee shops, snowflakes and rain hang from the ceilings, appropriate music plays, and the menu probably includes exclusively New Year's offers like gingerbread cookies. Dedicate half an hour to delicious desserts and immerse yourself in the New Year's atmosphere. To avoid wasting time, you can make lists of gifts for your 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 in store windows. Dress warmly and go for a walk. You will be especially lucky if there is light frost and snow on this day.
Enjoy the elegant city, drink hot tea or mulled wine at New Year's fair, go ice skating next to 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.
Prepare gifts for your family and friends
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The smell of pine, the taste of tangerines and the expectation of a miracle are the main attributes of the New Year. And the older we get, the more we want to return to the mood we experienced as children, expecting holiday gifts.
How to create a festive atmosphere
In order for the mood to match the most desired holiday of the year, it is necessary to create the appropriate atmosphere:1. Prepare the home decoration for the New Year holiday.
2. Buy gifts.
3. Watch New Year's films (“Irony of Fate”, “Home Alone”, “Christmas Trees”, “Happy New Year, Moms”).
It is not necessary to adhere to any general rules, you probably have your own New Year rituals. So, even watching films that have nothing to do with the New Year can give you a festive atmosphere.
Decorating the house for the New Year
The Christmas tree is the main attribute of this holiday. But don't get hung up on it. Complement it with other elements that will look no less impressive in your home:1. Spruce branches. They can be placed in every room so that the pine aroma fills the entire space, filling the air with the pleasant freshness of the winter forest. You can weave Christmas wreaths from the branches or create beautiful compositions by placing the branches in vases and decorating them with toys, candies, glitter or artificial snow.
2. Electric garlands. They are the ones who delight the eye, forcing even adults to return to their fabulous New Year’s childhood. There must be a garland on the Christmas tree. It can be either a simple thin garland, which becomes noticeable only when the lights come on, or one in which each lantern is a separate large Christmas tree decoration. The most important thing in it is that the work is done correctly, so that it gives joy with its radiance.
4. Decor. Let the holiday touch every corner of your home. Decorate windows, walls, paintings, photo frames, fireplace (if you have one). Wherever you look, everything should remind you of a celebration that foreshadows the fulfillment of all your desires. By the way, not all toys have to be purchased; some can be made yourself, even from simple office paper.
5. Good mood. Your smile and positive attitude are the most important decoration of your home. Think about the good, about what you would like to receive in the new year, what you dream of achieving, make pleasant plans and do not allow doubts and negative thoughts to settle in your head and in your home for a moment.
New Year's shopping
Pre-holiday shopping consists of a lot more points than everyday:Food on New Year's table;
Holiday clothes;
Spruce, twigs, balls, candles, garlands and other decorations;
Present.
They say that the New Year's table should be rich in delicious food. As a result, everyone tries to buy even what they haven’t eaten for a whole year: expensive caviar, unusual varieties of fruit and overseas drinks. The main thing in this matter is not to overdo it. There should be enough food so that you can eat it before you get tired of it or spoil it. In addition, you should not try to diversify your New Year's diet with any super extravagant dishes that you are not sure about. Still, the stomach may not want something like that. And don’t forget about tangerines - the main dish of the whole winter!
When purchasing an outfit for a holiday, you need it to match the format of the evening. If it's homemade family celebration with children, then funny masks, horns and perhaps even costumes will come in handy. For a restaurant, of course, such an approach to clothing is unlikely to be appreciated by others, but, nevertheless, even to evening dress you can pick up some New Year's accessory: a Santa Claus hat, a brooch in the shape of a snowflake, etc. Probably, buying decorations for your home is one of the most enjoyable stages, since the choice is always great: the variety of shapes and colors is simply mesmerizing! Among all this beauty, however, you will have to be vigilant and make sure that there are not too many decorations - so much that there will be enough of them for another 3 new years in advance.
Choosing New Year's gifts
It is best to write a list of gifts in advance so as not to wander around the shops for several days. Here are some small tips:Colleagues: gift chocolate, tea, coffee, high-quality alcohol.
For parents: blankets, sweaters, warm scarves, trips to a sanatorium and other things that show your concern for them.
To brothers and sisters: practical things. These are the people who you can ask directly what they want and simply fulfill their desires.
For your beloved man: a practical gift. The main thing is that it is presented correctly: with nice words and a loving look. Whether it's a chess set, a book or a perfume set, your chosen one will be happy to receive it from you.
What to give for the New Year
Friends: symbolic gifts (figurines, sweets, etc.).
But one category is missing here - children. They are the ones who will enjoy gifts more than others. Therefore, choose any gift to your taste and feel free to put it under the tree. By the way, if you ask your child to write a letter to Santa Claus in advance, then it will be great, because the child’s dream about a doll, a car, a console, etc. will be directly written in it. And also... Don’t forget about yourself before the New Year. You also love gifts!
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