Single Christmas 2024 – 12 tips for spending Christmas alone
Advent is sometimes the most wonderful time of the year: the festival of love is just around the corner and the ever-popular Christmas stress begins: buying presents, baking cookies, and planning Christmas—the final sprint of the year. For many people, however, the Advent season means more stress than joy, and singles in particular deserve our sympathy. But why is that? Spending Christmas as a single person is actually the most relaxing thing for you, and we'll show you how stress-free the Advent season can be for you and how you might even fall in love after all.
Christmas alone – 6 tips for singles during Advent
Spending the festive season alone? Not a pleasant thought, but with these 6 tips you can make it work:
1. Treat yourself
When was the last time you treated yourself to something? One advantage for you is that you don't have to buy expensive gifts for a partner. Use the money you've saved and finally treat yourself to something. What have you been wanting for a long time? Maybe that dress from the boutique on the side street or the big Dolby Surround system for your living room? Now is the time to think about yourself! Finally fulfill your wish.
2. Red, the color of love – flirting allowed!
The Christmas season is enveloped in warm lights and colors and is also a very emotional time of year.
With countless Christmas markets and Christmas parties, it offers the best conditions for flirting. Online dating agencies are a great opportunity here. A little flirting to lift your spirits, or maybe it will even be the flirting that brings you love?
3. Enjoy the special atmosphere of the Advent season
If you are the type of person who loves Christmas and looks forward to the festive season right from the start of the year, then now is the time to enjoy it to the full. You don't have to consider anyone else and can enjoy the Advent season to the full. Whether it's a walk in the snowy winter landscape or a relaxed evening watching a Christmas classic on TV: savor the time and do what you love, e.g.:
Make DIY gifts
Drink hot cocoa in front of the beautifully decorated Christmas tree
Enjoy the little things in life
Watch a nice Christmas movie
Call your friends
4. Enjoy your freedom as a single person at Christmas
As a single person at Christmas, you have significantly more freedom than in a relationship. You don't have to discuss where and how you will spend Christmas. No stressful discussions about which family to visit on which Christmas days. No arguments about where to spend Christmas Eve and no endless driving back and forth on Christmas days.
You can spend the holidays with your family in peace and quiet and finally enjoy having your loved ones together at least once a year. Time for a glass of wine to relive old stories.
5. Plan your next vacation
Get new inspiration from other countries and cultures. Forget about everyday life and recharge your batteries for a perfect start to the new year. Who knows what awaits you in other countries? Maybe your new partner is already waiting for you.
6. Christmas season – the best time for online dating
During the Christmas season, many singles feel particularly lonely, a feeling you probably know all too well. So it's no wonder that the number of registrations on online dating sites skyrockets every December. Why not use this time of love and reflection to finally find the perfect partner for life?
6 advantages of spending Christmas as a single person
Fortunately, being single doesn't only have disadvantages. Especially at Christmas, it can save you a lot of stress and discussions as a single person: Here are the 8 biggest advantages of being single during the Christmas season.
1. There is only one family to take care of
Christmas Eve at home, Christmas Day breakfast with your parents, then visiting your grandparents, and on December 26, the same thing all over again with your own family. Juggling the celebrations of two families can be quite exhausting. Fortunately, as a single person, you are spared this stress this year and can concentrate entirely on your own family.
2. Being single at Christmas saves you stressful discussions
The Christmas holidays can be a time of conflict in many relationships. Why does your mother always have to interfere in our affairs? Why do we always have to go to your parents' house? They could come to ours for a change. These are just some of the issues that cause arguments between many couples every year. As a single person at Christmas, you're off the hook.
3. Less gift-giving stress
What should I get my partner this year? Finding the perfect gift causes a lot of stress for many couples every year. Being single at Christmas means one less thing to worry about. How nice!
4. No disappointments under the tree
After weeks of searching, you've finally found the perfect gift for your partner and can't wait to see their face when they unwrap it. But on Christmas Eve, the joy quickly fades when the gift doesn't go down as well as you thought it would.
5. As a single person at Christmas, you plan for yourself
If you're not spending Christmas with a partner, all doors are open to you. Would you like to celebrate spontaneously with your best friend this year, or would you rather just be alone? You can decide for yourself what you feel like doing, because you don't have to consider anyone else.
6. You decide on the Christmas decorations
You love Christmas and enjoy transforming your home into a real winter wonderland during Advent. Your ex, on the other hand, never understood all the glitter and decorations. Every year, there were discussions about how much decoration was acceptable and whether the life-size golden moose in the entrance hall was really necessary. As a single person at Christmas, you decide on the Christmas decorations all by yourself.
Conclusion: As a single person at Christmas, all doors are open to you
The Advent season offers you many opportunities to finally think about yourself and spend December stress-free. So spending Christmas as a single person isn't so bad after all. The only question is how to deal with it and how you can get the most out of it for yourself. And if you do long for a partner during the Christmas season, nothing stands in the way of your search.
