Grey rooms with closed curtains worsen bad days. Christmas flowers on the table break up staring at screens. Watering them gives you a task. 

Which flowers to decorate your home with during Christmas?

Treat yourself to some poinsettias - with its bright red or creamy-white leaves, it instantly transforms any space into something festive and cozy. Seasonal amaryllis flowers look beautiful in tall glass vases and pair wonderfully with evergreens or gold accents. Gerberas in neon or burnt orange catch attention across rooms while freesias release scent that fills the whole house with a light, sweet fragrance that instantly lifts the mood.

Open curtains. Switch on the lights. Claim one comfortable spot for the day instead of pacing around. Settle in and follow your routine. Speaking of which…

Days without plans stretch endlessly. Hours blur together until you lose track of time, which makes everything feel worse than it is. Write down a few anchors the night before. Breakfast at nine. A walk at noon. A film at three.

Include tasks you can complete. Ticking off small things like making your bed, showering, and prepping your tea helps when the day feels pointless.

Supermarkets shut on Christmas Day. Delivery services frequently stop running. Buy what you need several days ahead to avoid eating whatever's left. Cook something you enjoy, even if it takes hours to make. 

It isn’t sad ordering presents for yourself. You can buy mystery boxes based on themes, and that way, you’ll have no idea what you’re going to get. At least you’ll have something to open on the day, and in that sense, some Christmas normality.

Pick who you message based on who helps rather than who expects updates — for instance, texts to people who understand work better than long calls with relatives.

Send flowers with Euroflorist to someone else spending Christmas alone. They'll know someone thought about them. Sending flowers also gives you something to do beyond staring at walls.

Pro tip: Many of our Christmas bouquets come with free chocolates. You can also add a vase, teddy bear, or another gift.

Christmas Day turns every feed into a highlights reel. Perfect families. Expensive presents. Everyone's smiling like their lives contain no problems. Posts get curated. Arguments get edited out. You're comparing your reality to fiction.

Delete the apps for the day if you can't stop checking. You'll feel better without the constant stream of what you're missing.

Wondering what everyone else is doing right now guarantees misery. Your mind fills with images of tables full of people laughing, and measuring your day against theirs makes everything worse. 

Focus on your own schedule instead. Think about people you care about without torturing yourself over not being there, because dwelling on absence turns one manageable day into something unbearable.

or what you never had time to do!

Christmas alone means no compromises — no terrible films someone else picked, no forced smiles, no endless small talk with relatives you can’t stand. You get to decide everything: what to watch, what to eat, when to sleep, and how to spend every single minute. Forget about “how Christmas should look.” This year, it looks exactly how you want it to.

It’s the perfect time to binge that long show you never got around to, or finally finish that book that’s been sitting on your nightstand for months. No distractions, no guilt, no obligations — just time for yourself. Whether this is your only Christmas alone or the first of many you design your own way, fill it with things that make you feel good, calm, and free.

Arrange something for the New Year or early January when trains run normally and hotels & airlines aren't charging triple rates. 

Video calls on Boxing Day work better than Christmas itself because everyone's calmer and less frantic about timings. 

Shifting the celebration by a week removes pressure while keeping the connection, and sometimes, delayed gatherings feel more relaxed than the forced cheer of the big day.

Christmas passes like any other day. By the twenty-seventh, nobody cares anymore anyway. Shops reopen. People go back to work. The pressure lifts because the calendar moved on, whether you enjoyed yourself or not.

Ultimately, you got through something hard. That matters regardless of whether it felt like success at the time.