NYE - are you a fan?

[SwanSong30]

I am not a fan of NYE. My perfect NYE would be to watch tv on the sofa in my pjs with a slice of Christmas cake and a cup of tea, not fussed about the bells. I really dislike forced fun and the expectations that NYE should be brilliant/wild/alcohol fuelled - fab if that’s how you like your NYE to be, it’s just not my scene.

so, are you a fan? What would your perfect NYE look like?

Bed by 10.

DH and I plan to go out for a curry at 6pm and then we will be in bed before midnight and sleep through the ring of the new year. 2025 has been a terrible year so will be glad to see the back of it and hope for an uneventful 2026.

We are meeting friends and doing games and drinks on 30th. The pressure on NYE just puts me off.

No hate Hogmanay with a passion.

Not a fan. Loved it in my youth, but now I'm happy to be home with a decent bottle of wine, an indulgent dinner and something from National Theatre at home to watch with DH.

Nope I hate it. DH is Scottish so is always trying to push it as a thing. It’s always shit.
The handful of times we have spent it in his hometown it’s also been shit, even when he blames it on being in England. I can understand he enjoyed it as a kid as everyone went to his grandmas and she fed everyone (which I’ve heard she hated!) and him and his cousins had a good time. We spent it at his parents and I’ve never been so bored in my whole life whilst being lectured about how amazing it must be for me.
actually now me and teenagers watch a film, I drink, DH falls asleep and missed it. That’s quite good.

The best NY’s have been dancing, where no one really drinks and a sip of champagne is all that’s needed at midnight. For a decade or so, we would host, dancing in the annex to our church (we live in the church Close). We would have bottles and bottles of fizzy wine/champagne left over as people would bring a bottle and only drink a glass. Learned to force everyone to take a random bottle home.

i would love to experience Hogmanay in Edinburgh some day, there is lots of drinking but I have got to know some of the dancers too. Their events are timed up to 11:55 and start again at 12:15. I’d love to experience it but suspect it may be beyond my reach now.

a lovely dance friend who will be oversees this year even offered their central EDI flat. Sadly elderly DH is just not up to travel these days but lovely to know it was offered.

Dancing really is the antidote to drinking culture. I commend it to everyone.

Nah....too busy, too cold and I hate enforced jollity

Loathe it

i haven’t been out on NYE for at least 20 years. Much prefer a couple of drinks and nibbles in front of the telly with DH & DS. Then at midnight we pop our heads out of the door and say Happy New Year to any neighbours who are doing the same, then watch the fireworks from London before going off to bed. No queuing for overpriced drinks at bars, consoling crying women in toilets, getting groped by randoms at midnight or dodging drunken fighters.

Going to local pub, all the pubs offer great nights out here, spoilt for choice, one has even laid on dbs checked childcare in the function room for school aged children too young to want to be dancing etc.

Nope, can’t be arsed with the forced festivity. DH will cook something nice, we will open a bottle or 3, eat decent food, drink decent wine, probably have a dance around the kitchen. Snog/ maybe more at midnight 🥰

I've always felt that I should be excited and have summoned up the enthusiasm in the past, but it has always felt false. I genuinely cannot be arsed any longer.

I haven’t seen the new year in for over 40 years. Not even the millennium.

Love it!
prefer it to Christmas really.
its so simple- just seeing one year out and a new one in.

We have a family match on blur on the xbox360 and play some monopoly with beers

Then if I'm still up, there's always a mad new year thread or 2 on here.

Always hated it even as a teen/early 20 something.

I remember - when i had DC1 at 25 i suddenly realised what an amazing get out clause having kids is! After all nobody wants to babysit on NYE so we just have to stay home. How sad 😃

Hate it. I find it really depressing.

Love it, the kids stay up late, we play games and watch the fireworks on tv. Have a drink or 3 and generally just enjoy our little family while we still can. Soon they will be too old to want to see the new year in with us.

It is my birthday 😱

Nope, I haven’t gone out on NYE in probably nearly 15 years, and was never a fan before that either. I don’t like crowds or loud people/music, and now I don’t drink either. I do like going to bed early and getting up early! So I manage to stay up til a bit past midnight with Dh watching Jools Holland and we have some snacks, dd stayed up with us last year for the first time (she was 11), and then I’m up nice and fresh and early and air the house and make ham and cabbage and we go for a New Year’s sea swim.

I always go to sleep before it and wake up in the new year just carrying on as usual. I loved the countdown as a kid but not as an adult!

No it all seems a bit forced really. Even when I was younger I was watching the clock in the pub/club and always drove because I couldn’t stand the taxi wait!

We do a little buffet / baked Camembert type tea and arrange something to watch - this year I think the new Ricky Gervais or Flo and Joan shows. Then we bundle up the dog when the fireworks start!

Night shift for me! I love my job, gets me out of all sorts of social situations! 😃

Have zero interest in it - will be asleep by 10 until the blasted fireworks wake me up. New Year's Day on the other hand is wonderful - fresh, clean, new and uncluttered.