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There are only a week and a half left until the New Year, But, when it's wet and slushy outside, it's easy to forget about it. Let's think together about how to overcome unfavorable weather conditions and still create a magical holiday mood for yourself and your loved ones.

You can create a festive mood using the so-called "anchors". Remember what actions do you strongly associate with the holiday?, do them, and the New Year's mood will not keep you waiting.

Home decoration

One of the reliable ways to create a New Year's mood is decorating the apartment for the holiday. You can get by with a banal Christmas tree, or you can turn it into the whole house to the residence of Santa Claus or castle Snow Queen . There is no snow outside - no problem, place it in your own apartment. To do this, you need to buy decorative felt snow and carefully scatter it in small drifts under the tree and on the windowsill. Felt molds well, so you can even play snowballs with it.

Drape old and unloved furniture with white fabric - let it also turn into snowdrifts for a while. For authenticity, you can draw snowflakes and a snowman on the fabric with gouache.

Do new Year decoration with your own hands - very nice and useful. Remember with what passion you carved snowflakes as a child. No one is stopping you from doing this work today.

If the view outside the window kills any thoughts about the holiday in you, create your window into winter. Draw a wooden frame on whatman paper, and behind it draw a New Year’s landscape: snowdrifts, snowflakes, snowman. This “window” can be hung on the wall, and when there is a gray slushy city outside the real window, behind yours you will see a perfect winter. You don’t need any special artistic talent to create such a picture – even I managed it.

Astrologers have their own view on decorating an apartment: because next year corresponds to the water element, they recommend using elements of a marine theme - shells, artificial stars and corals. Also beautiful and unusual. With enough effort, you can turn your house into a cave with treasures - the abode of a real dragon.

Buying gifts

We all know that giving gifts is even more pleasant than receiving them. True, a search marathon New Year's gifts in the last days of December it can turn not into pleasure, but into real stress. To avoid this, I suggest you take your choice of gifts seriously.

Write down on a piece of paper the names of everyone you plan to give gifts to. Then think about what each of them would like to receive, what they can do to please them. After all good gift– this is first of all an idea, and then a purchase. Once you've come up with a few great options for each item on your list, you can start shopping. Imagining how happy your friends or relatives will be with this or that gift, You yourself will be imbued with a festive mood.

To consolidate this mood, Wrap your chosen gifts by hand.

Little New Year's joys

Mandatory attributes of the New Year we have been counting since childhood candies, tangerines, firecrackers and sparkling sparklers. Feel like the Snow Maiden - stock up on this goodness and distribute it on occasion to adults and children (only with parental permission, of course), colleagues and neighbors, and maybe even ordinary passers-by. Create a festive mood among those around you, and it will not bypass you either.

My stretching teacher recently used these New Year's incentives. Stretching in general is not the most pleasant activity, and, frankly speaking, very painful. So, during one of the exercises, when everyone had to reach forward, the trainer placed candy in front of each student so that they would reach for it. Stretching immediately became more fun and interesting.

Music

Each person has their own song that is strongly associated with the New Year. And some people have a whole playlist of such songs. It may contain foreign Christmas hits, songs from New Year's films and cartoons, classic children's songs that we remember kindergarten. Turn them on in the evenings, sing along loudly, dance, and the New Year's mood will inevitably appear.

Here my favorite New Year's songs:

ABBA – Happy New Year

K/f " Sorcerers" – Snowflake

What are your favorite New Year's hits?

New Year films

Another reliable way to immerse yourself in Magic world holiday - watch one of the New Year's films, old Soviet or classic American. These could be children's fairy tales, for example, Morozko or 12 months, and touching romantic comedies such as Real love or Exchange leave.

Aromatherapy

What smells do you associate with? New Year? I have it with spruce, tangerines and cinnamon. Everyone may have their own associations, but those-smells can easily be set up for a holiday. Choose your special New Year's cocktail from aromatic oils and take a bath with them, or use an aroma lamp to fill your apartment with these smells.

Letter to Santa Claus

Of course, we are already adults, we don’t believe in Santa Claus, and we certainly don’t plan to send letters with the address "to the North Pole, grandpa." But it’s even useful to write such a letter as a joke - thanks to him you can decide what you really want. And at the same time think about what needs to be done to realize these desires. And in general, dreaming, especially before the New Year, is useful.

Choosing a New Year's outfit

It is believed that shopping always lifts a woman’s mood. And New Year's shopping - choosing an outfit for the New Year– allows you to feel the holiday atmosphere. Think carefully about your New Year's look: dress, shoes, jewelry, makeup and hairstyle, and go shopping.

Fashion astrologers vying with each other to advise on what to wear to celebrate the New Year. There are so many tips that when choosing one of them, you can create any New Year's image.

Tip 1. Gold and black

The coming year - Year of the Black Dragon, so some astrologers recommend meeting him in a black outfit. On the other hand, Dragons are known to love precious metals and stones, so you can dilute the elegant black dress bright gold jewelry. Decorations in the shape of snakes, lizards, dragons and other “reptiles” are welcome.

Tip 2. Bright outfit

IN Chinese tradition Dragons are always depicted as red. And for good reason, because dragons love fire and bright colors. Therefore, the second advice is choose a bright New Year's outfit.

Tip 3. Nautical theme

The third version of the New Year's outfit is due to the fact that the coming year - Year of the Water Dragon. This means that you should choose cold marine tones in your clothes: blue, blue, silver. Decorations can also be marine theme: Shaped like shells and starfish.

In general, as you can see, there are a lot of options for outfits for New Year's Eve - choose or not. The main thing is to do it for the benefit of your mood.

New Year's table

For those who love to cook and eat delicious food Thinking through the holiday menu will lift your spirits. You can abandon proven recipes and try to cook new, unusual dishes. Astrologers are trying to give advice here: since the Dragon is a predator, it means there should be an abundance of meat dishes on the table. But still, refuse rabbit dishes as a sign of respect for the symbol of the outgoing year.

Exotic dishes can be prepared using seafood - our Dragon is aquatic, after all, so he won’t refuse this food. Maybe for the New Year you should try unusual dishes of octopus, eels and squid.

Christmas story

This is a way to create a New Year's mood from my childhood, or more precisely, from adolescence. When I realized that I had become too old for the New Year's mood to come to me by itself, I started a tradition of inventing and telling my little sister a New Year's story at night. My fairy tales were long, multi-part, and were invented along the way (as in the joke, each episode ended the same way, with the words “hrrr-pysch”), so the story could stretch throughout December. Over the years, my sister grew up, and it was no longer she who asked me to tell a fairy tale, but I persuaded her to listen (and forcing her to wash the dishes in exchange for a fairy tale story no longer worked). At a certain moment I realized what to tell New Year's tales It’s much more important for me than for her to listen to them.

Try to come up with your own fairy tale for the New Year. It can be told to children or friends in a company instead of jokes. After all, many of us only want to seem like adults, but are still children at heart. Especially before the New Year.

Select postcards from New Year theme, sign each one and safely send it around 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 by coming up with a 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,” and “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 must 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- pure pleasure. You can check.

15. Build a snowman

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

Shopping centers are just a treasure during the New Year's Eve! Everything shines: walls, ceilings, shop windows. Celebrate the New Year with new clothes! How do you like this motto?

17. Make Christmas decorations

Have you already bought the spruce tree, but only balls from IKEA decorate it? 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. Can't look at magical grandfather- become one yourself.

23. Give tangerines to others

At the very least, this is a good deed and an interesting experience. Surprise your friends or colleagues, or better yet, strangers. Practice shows: if you make others happy, you make yourself 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 the New Year's playlist is required condition to create and maintain 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!

Despite the fact that we have long grown out of childhood, each of us expects a miracle and change from the New Year. With age, we sometimes lose the ability to dream and sincerely enjoy the holiday. But in vain, because the New Year is always something unusual and magical. To main holiday has become truly memorable in the year, it is not necessary to book a table at expensive restaurant or go on a long journey. Creating the mood and feeling of the holiday is entirely in our hands. New year's night can become special at home if you show imagination and think in advance about how to create a New Year's atmosphere in the house. We offer you 18 ideas on how to create a New Year's mood for yourself, maybe a little touching and romantic, but sometimes that's exactly what works!

1. Set the tone for the holiday

First you need to think and decide how you would like to celebrate the New Year and understand what you want. Understand the necessity and meaning of holidays or put your own into them. There is no need to force yourself if you don’t want anything. After all, it is important to simply enjoy life and current affairs, not fuss, not worry and allow yourself to relax. Make this holiday a time of relaxation from responsibilities and imposed values. Well, if you still need to receive festive mood, then proceed to the next points.

2. Remove everything unnecessary

Do you want changes in the new year? Then remember: in order to let something new into life, you need to get rid of the old and unnecessary. So let’s deal with trash - take unnecessary things to the trash can, clean your laptop of useless files and unnecessary contacts from your phone, take a stack of dust-covered newspapers and magazines to the nearest library.

It's not just the house that needs cleaning and tidying. Forgive everyone, because this burden on our souls makes it hard only for us, and forgiveness, first of all, will make life easier and simpler for us.

Drive all sad memories away. On a piece of paper, describe the grievances in all the details that hurt the soul and burn it, and scatter the ashes to the wind. Like melodrama, although sometimes it works.

Remember the past year - what have you achieved, what new things have you discovered in yourself? Sum up the results of the year - note all the good things that this year has given you, mentally thank everyone who helped you in the past year. But never remember everything you lost and who you broke up with. Let go of everything as unnecessary.

On New Year's Eve, you want to create and create something new, wonderful and romantic. This can be arranged, along with all friendly family and turn it into a real magic castle.

3. Elegant house.

To decorate your holiday, first of all, you need to choose a base color - the house for the New Year can be decorated in colors characteristic of the winter season - pastel, blue, red, brown or green. But the color you choose should be in harmony with the interior of the house. Add additional accents to it, for example, decorate the tablecloth and Christmas decorations silver or gold paint.

Extracurricular activities

How to create a New Year's mood?

New Year is already in less than a week, but there is no New Year's mood. Of course, classes and the work week have not come to an end, and there is almost no time for the New Year's commotion. What to do, how to get your holiday back? 8 tips that will definitely work!

It’s very difficult to catch the New Year’s mood by the tail. It gets lost in routine, chores, everyday difficulties and school problems. In some places the report is not yet ready, in others the numbers don’t add up, notebooks still need to be checked, and getting children to listen attentively is almost impossible. But we are sure that every teacher, parent and educator is simply obliged to feel the same winter's tale, as in childhood. What kind of holiday is this that is not for everyone?

- New Year's mood, ah-oo-oo! - the hedgehog shouted in the New Year's fog and listened.
-Why are you shouting? - asked the crow sitting on the tree, shaking off the snow, - you don’t need to call him, but look for him yourself.
- But where to look for him? “You can’t see anything,” the hedgehog doubted and rubbed his eyes with his paws, placing his briefcase with unchecked notebooks on the ground.
“Here’s a link for you, here’s an article for you,” the crow, flapping its wings, flew up to the hedgehog and showed him the website, “read and follow the smell of tangerines...

Method 1. Spruce branches

Even if you decide not to put a Christmas tree in your house, or, as conservationists, you choose an artificial one, this is not at all a reason to deprive yourself of the slightly tart and fresh smell of spruce. The aroma of the forest will fill the room, even if you just bring a few branches from the spruce market. A good option will also be the search for a scented candle! It is well known that the smell of spruce has a beneficial effect on nervous system, relieves fatigue, helps with depression and is the ideal remedy to set the mood. Isn't this what we need?

Method 2. Tangerines

Since we started talking about smells, the smell of citrus fruits is an indispensable attribute of the New Year. In the middle of the last century, tangerines were in short supply in the USSR, and therefore their appearance on the New Year's table was a real holiday. Nowadays it’s much easier to get these bright orange fruits, so don’t deny yourself the pleasure. Tangerines can be placed on the table, made into an aroma toy, and even decorated with a Christmas tree, as was customary back in the 19th century. The smell of citrus fruits is invigorating, and the fruit itself is extremely healthy.

New Year's hot chocolate recipe

1 mug of hot milk

1/2 tablespoon sugar

1/2 tablespoon grated orange zest

60 grams of dark chocolate

Gingerbread came to us as a treat from Europe, as in traditional Russian New Year's table appeared infrequently. Gingerbread men, houses and gingerbread cookies are more familiar to us from children's fairy tales. So, it's time to turn the fairy tale into reality. For Christmas and New Year, gingerbread will be a tasty and fragrant decoration.

Classic English gingerbread recipe

Someone on Twitter wrote: “If year after year you don’t experience delight and tenderness about 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 cannot stop for a while and immerse yourself in 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

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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, then you can decorate the house yourself New Year films and music or invite friends to the 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

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If you don’t feel like writing such a frank letter, then remember some funny or touching New Year's story, which invariably evokes pleasant emotions in you. While you tell it in detail in a letter, remember everything down 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

On new year holidays someone will leave, and someone 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

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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 the 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.

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