Here are twelve things you can do to give yourself freelance festive cheer.
- Can’t afford client Christmas presents? Resend your overdue invoices with bows where your logo should be for that extra (cheap) festive spirit.
- If you don’t have a workplace Christmas party to go to, rustle up as many stuffed animals as you can and put party hats on them all. Problem solved!
- Stick holly on your soup-for-one and eat it with your new party friends.
- Avoid end-of-year procrastination by playing Mariah Carey Christmas carols in your home office on repeat.
- Instead of Secret Santa, wrap up your office stapler after use, and rediscover the joy of stapler ownership every time you need it.
- Dress the office dog up as an egg and call it egg dog. Ignore its side eye and share your hilarious joke on social media.
- Attend every Zoom meeting in a snowman themed ugly knit and use the desire to pass out as an excuse to hang up early.
- Add novelty Christmas earrings to your Zoom calls for extra dangly festive joy. (just remember to take them off when you fix the shredder later)
- Curse your choice of festive music after triggering the office dogs repeatedly with jingling bells.
- Gain a special appreciation for Santa’s elves as you furiously toil away at your client’s latest request and the fast approaching deadlines.
- Forget the Christmas stocking stuffer! You too can stuff in last minute projects with glee in 30+ Celsius degree heat.
- Switch on your out of office with tinsel on your middle finger for extra festive goodbyes to 2024.
That’s a wrap, folks!
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