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7 Helpful Hints – How to Enjoy the ‘Silly’ Season !

The Silly Season – Coming soon! 

For many this is the leadup period to Christmas festive celebrations. A time of shopping for presents, including choosing for those hard to buy for family members, gift wrapping, get togethers, summer holidays and keeping a diary of celebratory events to attend, including the ‘office’ party! It can become fast-paced with this frenzy of activities. Sometimes we throw caution to the wind, let our hair down and our inhibitions as we try and keep up!

BUT we can all enjoy the ‘silly-season’ with a little careful thought, planning and preparation.

Here are our 7 Helpful Hints:

  1. Avoid going into overdrive. Take each day and step at a time to avoid ‘silly’ fatigue! Don’t try and pack everything into this short period. 
  1. Everything in moderation.  Food, drink and frivolity, celebrate and enjoy each without going overboard! Over indulgence has after affects!
  1. Remember what the true spirit of Christmas is about. Togetherness, sharing, caring, reflection and kindness for self and others.
  1. Enjoy yourself and the company of others. Stay responsible to avoid regret, remorse or revival later. Whether Family or Workplace functions ‘normal’ standards of behaviour still apply.
  1. Don’t try and compete with the Jones’s or family when it comes to the decorations, presents, or feasts. The biggest, most expensive isn't necessarily the best, its the thought that counts.. 
  2. Debt hangover. To avoid this pain manage your finances now. Jot down your usual, likely expenses, budget for gifts and keep your credit card spending under control.  Remember credit is easy to access, buy, have now but comes with the cost of paying later.  
  3. Reach out, share a kind word, do a good deed, or wave to your neighbour.  Simple things with no monetary cost.

 Where did the term ‘silly season’ come from? 

First recorded in 1861 in the Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase, as in the UK the period in the summer months known for frivolous news stories in the media (source Wiki). 

So here we are in 2023, counting down to Christmas, and the start of the ‘silly’ season. 

Enjoy and I hope you find our Helpful Hints helpful! Ho ho ho!