40 easy (and free) ways to feel festive this holiday season

There's a lot of pressure around the holiday season. It's full of things for which it's easy to have overblown expectations — New Year's Eve, for example, and the unintentional friendship quality metric known as "giving gifts." Not helping: the state of the world, which is bad. It's understandable, then, if you're not feeling particularly festive. This year, I've struggled to get into the holiday spirit (whatever that is) and my lack of excitement is matched only by my guilt for its absence. It's Christmas! What, within my extremely limited budget (zero dollars), can I do to feel more ... holiday-ish? Read more...More about Christmas, Holidays 2018, Culture, and Web Culture