If you do not like New Years Eve,why not?

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Reminds me of being a billy no mates but thus year I have been invited out. Usually have no money or a sitter but my Son is coming too!

Cba to stay up. It's no big deal. Same shite, different day.

Used to love it, now I’m old I CBA.

If you’re out, queues and dickheads everywhere. Can’t just get a drink or have a pee when you want because it’s a fucking hellish nightmare.

Multiple drunken strangers trying to hug and kiss you. No thanks.

Trying to get a taxi home to a rural location - HAHAHA. No.

Now I spend it with my DH and my best mate and her DH, all sit and get pissed in pyjamas, have a takeaway and board games and bugger off to bed when we’re tired. It’s mint!

I am not a sociable being. I really cannot be arsed with New Year's Eve. Forced jollity and vastly overrated.

I prefer to be at home with DH, the DDs and a bottle of wine.

I find NYE quite forced and boring. All that standing around waiting for the countdown, and then everyone goes around exaggeratedly kissing people on the cheek, shouting “happy new year!!!!” at them.

The best NYEs I’ve been to have been low key house parties. At one party we missed the countdown and then someone announced “oh it’s actually 5 past midnight” and people raised their glasses but there was none of the nonsense

Used to love NYE, spent it with the same group of friends, either out or at one of their houses. Then moved far away and nothing can match up!

I it’s another year away from when I last spoke to and saw my mum. I find it really hard.

I take dc to the last viewing at the cinema. We usually end up at home around 11.30. Do the countdown, watch other peoples fireworks and go to bed. I love going out but hate going out on Nye. I find the whole day depressing.

I love new years day though! Nice walk, second christmas dinner and card games with DC.

I don't feel its forced fun, more sad... Think of the year gone, another year going... The people no longer here etc.

Anniversary of my mum’s death.

Thanks mum.

I doubt your mum meant to die on NYE. My mum died on Christmas Eve, we choose to celebrate her life instead of mourn it.

It is sad to me too @RaiseaGlasstoFreedom

All of the above. I hate NYE, and every year DH and I argue from about June onwards about how to spend it, because he loves it. Especially can't be arsed now I have 2 small, early rising children.

I just don’t get it - like what’s the point? Time to crack out the new calendar, big whoop. Also by time it’s Hogmanay we’ve already had Christmas and two birthdays so I just can’t be arsed.

I’d be interested to hear why people actually like it.

It's always been an anti-climax to me. I used to go out every year when I was young, but it never lived up to expectations. Expensive, predictable, no real excitement about a new year ticking over (unless you've had a really difficult year that you want to forget about, it doesn't matter what the calendar says).

I don't bother stopping up until midnight these days

Saying goodbye to a year-it’s a night full of foreboding for me.

I'm middle aged but have lost parents etc.

In going away this year for it and really looking forward to it for a change!!

It’s just celebrating by numbers. Do this, now do this, check your watch, nearly time to do this, now it’s time, now it’s done, now what? Just quite tedious.

It's a date in the calendar. Its always an anticlimax and not worth the money, the effort nor messing up my body clock.

@UrsulaPandress - anniversary of my dads death (well just into new year) - thanks dad!

Sad I guess. Reflecting on what might have been and wasn't. Scared of what's to come next.

Every year I get an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach, it always starts a day or so before and it leaves me feeling really on edge. I can remember feeling the same even as a young child, but have never really been able to explain why.

Pointless false bonhomie. It's the end of December - why not "celebrate the end of every month? My DH will be at work 1st jan, no doubt clearing the results of the "revelers" that drink/drug themselves to excess and are a drain on the NHS. And that'll be after he's worked New Years Eve, so he'll get them twice. Happy Days....

Cause I have to be up at 6am on the 1st for work

Enforced fun, you MUST have a good time. Plus overpriced everything, packed pubs and clubs. Paying to get in places you'd not normally etc

Forced fun, with too many people who cannot hold their drink. It's just another day.

I always feel a tinge of sadness. I just feel that for every year that passes, lost loved ones just feel further away.