To ask what you are doing NYE?

I’m Scottish so Hogmanay means you clean the house so you don’t take the lady years dirt into a new year. On Ne’erday you can’t clean as you’ll clean away your luck and if you do laundry you wash away a life. After the shite luck I’ve had in 2025 I’m not taking chances. At midnight the backdoor gets opened on the first bell and 2024 can fuck right off! Then on the final bell the front door gets opened to bring in the New year. Then I raise a glass to absent friends as there are more this year, I lost a few good ones!

We're staying in. We've got sparklers for the kids to have out in the garden and we'll make them hot chocolate with marshmallows, then maybe play a board game. When they've gone to bed DH and I will have a takeaway from our favourite Thai place and share a bottle of fizz while we watch a film. We're not really fussed whether we stay up to see midnight or not, will see how we feel. Neither of us has ever really liked going out on NYE.

Indian takeaway with 4 year old daughter at about 17:00 then a normal evening. Might pop a film on.

I shall be in bed with my original cat and a new year old girl cat that I was given yesterday, making sure diplomatic relations remain calm. Currently the new addition is asleep on the middle of the bed, and boy cat is snuggled up behind my knees and as close to my rear as he can get.

We shall watch horror films and might just do a few texts at midnight.

Bliss 😊

But Happy New Year to you all, whatever you're doing, and may 2025 make some sense, because 2024 sure as feck didn't 😂

Hopefully going to bed at 10.30. DH and DS are going to have a James Bond film evening and maybe wake me at midnight for a drink. NYE is very overrated I think.

Having a small gathering of close friends and their kids at our house as usual, few snacks, maybe a board game. Usually gets quite loud and chaotic by midnight 😂

Not much this year as have a nearly 9 month old baby so we’re all going to a local restaurant for some food and then home to do bath/bed time, despite going to bed with my baby I’m confident I’ll still end up seeing midnight because she reliably wakes up pretty much every hour on the hour from 10pm at the minute🤣

Long bath using all my new goodies. Got a very lovely Estee Lauder skin care set that I will use. New pj's and slippers. Couch, fizz and food. Rock and roll!

Staying in. Did enough New Year’s Eves at parties for years. It’s my birthday just after midnight so will stay up watching Jools Holland with some drinks x

Having family over to stay but just because the dates fitted - not doing anything special for Hogmanay. We don’t drink and will likely be in bed before midnight, lol, but will have an Indian meal and watch films.

Popping to local micro pub for a couple of hours but home by 9-10pm. I’ll be in bed for midnight, cuddling the dog

Bugger all. Working on my uni assignment

And there will be a good handful of games of uno and possibly catan throughout the evening

We have a family living room picnic, each persons favourite foods, blanket on the floor
Bubbly for adults and j20 for kids
We watch a film and then family tv until the littlest has had enough (he always says he's going to stay up but flakes around 9) then we pick an end of the year show on the tv for the rest of us and chill.
Just before midnight we go up to our room and open the side window curtains & everyone who is still up watches the fireworks (a guy up the road does them every year) & toasts the new year in
Then it's fairly rapidly to bed
We don't usually eat in the living room so it's a treat and the food is always an eclectic and fabulous mix

Karma?

That's quite dramatic

Anyone wanting to set fireworks in 50mph+ winds as they are going to be forecasted at midnight NYD - are foolish. Hope they get karma.

We're still in Norway (DH is Norwegian), so we're having a family party. Lots of nice food, fancy clothes, and good music! We have a very quiet Christmas Day so NYE is the raucous one for us (after Christmas Eve). New Year's Day we'll go for a nice long walk, then come back and cook something delicious for dinner. Maybe a nice big side of salmon.

6 of us, three couples seeing the New Year in with a special meal at a lovely coastal restaurant just half an hour's drive away. Staying overnight in Premier Inn 2 minutes walk away from the restaurant so no one has to drive. 😃🍾🥂

Dh would happily be at the centre of a rowdy party but I have zero tolerance of being surrounded by drunks. We usually have a nice tea and watch a few films then the fireworks. It's also one of our adult DC's birthdays so we're hosting lunch.

I can't be doing with going out on NYE. Done it twenty years ago, in Leeds, and got fed up with waiting for taxis. So I walked the 4 miles home. I don't remember how I got home.

Since then - Jools Hootanany then bed about 1am.

Have the extended family, so 12 of us in all. Figuring out the specifics tomorrow - but will include food, drink, music, games and children running feral until they collapse.

I'm going to see Swan Lake in the afternoon and cooking seafood in the evening. I have a Waitrose trifle for after and I'll be in bed stinking of garlic for ten ish 🥳

I'm working a night shift in A+E like I do every single year and it will be mayhem. I love it 😀

Going out for dinner with my DH and another couple at my favourite restaurant. They lay on entertainment and dancing, I’m really looking forward to it.

Nothing particular- can't stand NYE, never could.

During the day, I may pop out as need to finish sorting my dad's birthday present.