NYE what do people do?

Hogmanay. House must be spotless as you don’t t take last years dirt into a new year. Drinks at the bells. Ne’erday we climb a hill somewhere then home for steak pie, no cleaning or laundry that day as you ‘wash away luck/a life’ so a rest after the hill climb is welcome. We get the 2nd off in Scotland in a lot of cases and that’s when I get ready for the coming year.

Nothing. It's just a calendar change. I'm not paying through the nose to celebrate just because

We have young dc and we usually go to a family rave or disco at lunchtime, they have a midday "countdown" so we don't have to stay up late. At actual midnight I'm usually up doing mundane stuff and sometimes switch the TV on to watch fireworks, and we can usually hear people setting them off nearby at house parties as we lived in a really central bit of London. Have moved further out and it's our first NYE in zone 2 this year, but it's a big party/nightlife area so I expect it'll be noisy.

I sleep, dh stays up till midnight then sleeps🤣

We did go away last year but we walked all day and ate early so I was still in bed early!

I hate NYE, always have, so happy to sleep through it!

I always cook a nice meal and have a couple of glasses of something alcoholic.....then fall asleep!!!! 😂😂 usually wake up around half ten and channel hop till the fireworks are on 💕

Watch the fireworks with DH and a bottle of champagne. Go to bed soon after midnight. We have a 2 year old and no local family so it's easier to stay at home.

I don't like NY at all - I find it really depressing and hate to hear the bongs of Big Ben chiming another year of my life away.

We have a normal but very cosy evening in, then go to bed at the usual time (10.30 pm). We go for a long walk on NYD and in recent years seem to have got into a rota of having friends over for a big lunch or going to them, which is nice and cheers me up.

I work. I’m a musician and can charge double rates for Xmas Eve, Xmas Day & NYE. Me & my OH don’t have kids so it’s a no brainier.

Nothing. Don’t always stay up til midnight either. I hate Xmas and NY to be honest. Can’t wait for it to be over.

I befriended Harriet on Facebook, as she always throws a NYE party, and the invitation list is simply all her friends on Facebook.

Best NYE was in 2020 when my adult children were home and had nowhere else to go. We all acknowledged we'd never have another NYE with just the five of us together.

We stay home for now we are parents. Get in some party food and a have a drink to see in the bells then go to bed. Long gone are the drunken messes that used to stumble through the door in the early morning. I can barely stay up until midnight nowadays 😄

My favourite NYE parties were in our dancing days. Most organisers tended to take NYE off so after the first year when nothing was organised, we ended up hosting in a spirit of DIY.

All sorts of friends signed up and brought their own friends. We had volunteers to provide the music, sometimes even spontaneously arranged live music.

After the first year when everyone brought a bottle of fizzy wine and very very few drank more than a glass ful, we learned to insist that people took their own 'leftovers' home

Not the usual NYE kind of party.

Nowadays, DH's mobility is extremely restricted and we no longer attend dance events. There are many more organisers, some of whom do arrange NYE parties but we are at home. DH is content to watch TV while I am grateful to be part of a group who run online Murder Mysteries, for which dressing up in character is while not mandatory certainly encouraged.

It's all good.

Haven't been out for NYE in years, when I was younger we used to go as a gang to a Chinese restaurant and that was fun .. but over 30 years ago now! I do stay up to see the NY in with a bottle of champagne Prosecco ... DH goes to bed at his normal 10pm time .

If I'm not working NYE it's usually spent with STBXH & DD. He prepares a small buffet and we watch films until a bit before midnight when we watch the London fireworks on the telly. As a transport worker I know how hellish it is to get around London on that night (getting home from a late shift at 11pm is bad enough) so I stay in. The local pubs charge silly money to get in & I really can't be bothered. No-one I know does anything special either!

I've never gone out and celebrated but at least stayed up. Now I like to go to bed before it happens and just wake up in a new year. I'm a happy person so I'm not sure why!

Usually spend it having dinner with friends, then go out into the garden to see the NY fireworks. I'm not a huge fan though - had some fairly disappointing ones in the past, with expectations a bit too high! I enjoyed the 2020-1 one where nobody was doing anything and I just stayed in on my own with the fire, wine & music.

Spend it with friends we’ve been seeing for years on NYE since having DCs (who now do their own thing)
or
A local friend has a small gathering
V rare we do nothing!
Pre-kids was a party every year!

It's my birthday so we spend it with friends - ones we've been spending it with for many years now.

Usually go to friends for dinner or sometimes go out for dinner then back to friends for drinks

Since ds was born ds and I have gone to my parents (dh doesn't do NYE) and we have nibbles and play games and have some champagne. We watch the.fireworks at midnight and toast the new year.

But this year ds and I are going to see Pulp at Edinburgh Hogmonay! Super excited!

Nothing. I'm usually asleep before midnight. Perfectly happy with this.

I've always longed to go to (or host!) a big party, all dressed up, and join in a big group countdown to midnight, just like you might see on tv.
Reality is, I honestly don't know anyone who bothers with new year so I usually spend the evening on the sofa feeling a bit lonely and miserable then watch the fireworks on bbc and go to bed just after midnight.

If there is something I like, the cinema or the theatre, though the number with anything on NYE evening, even say at 7pm, is getting less.

House party with old friends

We used to rent cottages in obscure snowbound places, but these days someone usually hosts.

We go out for a fairly late dinner now with DC (youngest will be 18 this NYE), usually an Indian restaurant. Then it's down to the beach with a bottle of champagne to watch the fireworks and see in the New Year. Even when DC were tiny we'd get a takeaway from a decent restaurant. Later we'd wake them to go down to the sands wearing a onesie, coat and wellies.