Holidays are meant to sneak out from your tiresome schedule and boring lifestyle and add some spice to life by spending some quality time with family and friends, relaxing, and rejuvenating so as to recover the lost energy.
But, most of the time holidays are not fun as they bring along anxiety and frustration due to mismanagement or over doing with arrangements making it cumbersome and overloaded with extra stress and unwanted pleasure. In this entire rigmarole of affairs one does not even realize when did the holidays begin and when did it end leaving you completely exhausted and back to work with a sulken face.
However, for most of the people festive times like Diwali, Id and Christmas are the best holiday times to spend with family and friends. Holiday does not always means going out on a trip or a vacation, it signifies stretching out and relaxing during a full week or so, off from office.
However, if we follow some simple steps, we can make our holidays fun-filled and stress free.
1. Skip traditional gifts in favor of money-saving alternatives
Holiday stress piles most in arranging gifts for family and friends. Holiday gift shopping should be done smartly so as to not be a burden on you in any way. Choose a universal gift for the entire family instead of getting into selecting separate gifts for each and every member. If you do not want to spend much on a big gift, then you can go in for sweet surprises which creates more excitement rather than following the traditional league. Tickets for a shared activity, chocolate served boxes and stitchable stationery are some of the options to stress out your Christmas shopping and leave you all excited for the main event.
2. Take no-sweat holiday photos
Holiday photographs are meant to be like memoirs for a lifetime to cherish, however, you should not over do with them so as to spoil your entire mood in accumulating the best pics for a future collection. Enjoy your present moment by opting for cameras with higher sensitivity to light and an extended ISO range to make your photo sessions easy to handle and with best poses of spontaneous actions. Even for video photography, switch to the automatic dial of the sports exposure for faster shooting mode and reduced glare on the lens, enabling better zoom-in options for better quality captures.
3. Re-gift cautiously
When deciding on the gifts for your close ones, you can use gifts received from others by circulating them only to those who do not know the actual giver of that gift. Also, it should be something which you would have bought for the concerned person and should be re-wrapped, giving it a completely new look. This can save your money any time in selecting appropriate gifts by hopping from one store to the other.
4. Use these helpful tips if your flight gets canceled
In case of cancellations of your flight, get in touch with your airlines even while queued up for re-routing. Keep the helpline numbers of major airlines in your phone memory to save extra toil and unnecessary panic in getting things to fall into place as soon as possible.
5. Deck the halls without using a single nail
To show off your holiday best in beautifying your place to welcome your friends and relatives and have a blast, do not put too much of load on your self by nailing the walls and decorating them. Keep yourself light from all these extra events and use no-fuss hammer-free options by opting for easy and simple holiday decorative ideas.
6. Make good use of handy i-phone applications
If you are stuck up at an interstate junction on your holiday trip, use your phone applications to get a list of the nearest restrooms in that area on a map instead of physically running around and stressing yourself. Similarly, other phone application options can also be used to ease you off such as the photo-booth application to console a cranky child and the photo timer for a happy family photograph and so on.
7. Slash your odds of experiencing a holiday snafu
Unforeseen circumstances can spoil your entire holiday mood, so it’s advisable to make prior arrangements for some common calamities that might strike you during the hectic holiday season. For example, keep those Christmas trees away from flames, they might result in a mishap, also, check with airlines from before hand to be aware of any cancellations thus saving on time and energy on unnecessary trips to the airport.
8. Play some melodius music
Make arrangements for different musical CDs to suit every temperament and occasion. A variety added in your compilation of musical assets like classics, pop, and jazz can make your holiday a perfect one.