Did a few of those myself when I was in Alaska and my family was in NY and I couldn’t afford to travel home. Not too bad. Went to the movies.
Same here. When I lived far away from my family and worked at a job where I most often had to work on holidays. If you accept it, it’s not so bad. But I always had a tree and cooked myself a Christmas meal. I think that’s important. Doesn’t have to be elaborate, but don’t leave out those things because there’s no one else there.