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To not 'do' New Years Eve?

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WheresTheCat · 29/12/2011 20:14

Are DH and I the only people in the world who don't 'do' NYE celebrations? I just don't get why it's such a big thing!
Or are we - according to my OAP parents - just extremely boring!!! Xmas Wink

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ThatVikRinA22 · 29/12/2011 21:35

i always find it a massive let down - i feel like i should be doing something.
and i never do!

ill "see" the new year in and then go to bed. am dreading the first one i have to work though....

winnybella · 29/12/2011 21:37

We haven't gone out since DD was born, but always cook a nice dinner and have a good bottle of champagne to open at midnight. Sometimes a friend or two will pop in. This year it'll be just us, DCs and my father.

Foxy800 · 29/12/2011 21:46

Im not doing it either, partner working so just me and 5 yr old dd, dd will be in bed and if nothing on Ill be in bed too.

33goingon64 · 29/12/2011 22:06

I bloody love NY day, if it's sunny we go for a long walk and it feels great to be alive and fresh at the start of a new year. So, no, we don't do NY eve. It's hard to feel fresh with a hangover.

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WheresTheCat · 29/12/2011 22:20

33 you are right on my wavelength! Am planning our walk now - where're you going?

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Figgyrollsintoapudding · 29/12/2011 22:22

The thought of going to some trendy club (like friend has been telling me she is) or going somewhere with hoards of people fills me with dread on a normal day - let alone on nye. I do however feel sad that we aren't seeing any mates and having nice food and drink together in a mini party for 4-6 people iyswim. I feel that everyone else has been banging on about party/dinner/night away and we are doing jack shit or haven't been invited so aren't very popular. That is what makes me sad. However I really don't mind if we are at home ala a normal night tbh, but won't be admitting that to the people didn't invite us to their party! I shall make something up I think!

Sparklingbrook · 29/12/2011 22:25

Plus I think if you go to a club there's some rule where you have to be half dressed too.

GladbagsAndYourHandrags · 29/12/2011 22:29

Figgyrolls, don't feel bad about not getting invited - DH and I were invited to a dinner party, only to be UNINVITED this week! Would rather never have been invited at all!

slowburner · 29/12/2011 22:37

We used to stay up and sing old lang syne at midnight as kids. We did resolutions too, the past few years we might stay up and watch fireworks and have a bit of bubbly and then make some resolutions, in a perfect world I would clean house top to bottom on new years eve t go into the new year with a fresh start. Might actually manage it this year!

Oh and I'm not a fanatic about the resolutions, just something to aim towards.

YANBU about not celebrating. Personal choice.

ladybaabaa · 29/12/2011 22:37

I am always in 2 minds at NY. Part of me wants to be invited to a big party at a friend's house, magically find a babysitter and go along to see the New Year in. But the other, bigger part of me is relieved not to have to go out!

And DH hates NYE so best to stay home.

We are going out for a family lunch and ice skating in the day, but I guess that doesn't count :o

slowburner · 29/12/2011 22:40

And we often see family by arranging a long walk ti blow away cobwebs on NYD then cake and mince pies with tea afterwards.

ShowOfHands · 29/12/2011 22:44

It's. My. Birthday.

Figgyrollsintoapudding · 29/12/2011 22:46

Gladbags - we have been invited to lunch then disinvited, and invited somewhere for NY and then they forgot and don't want us any more - I sense a pattern that is occuring! Bastards, the lot of them.

MrsHoolie · 29/12/2011 22:48

Yanbu.
And why the hell people would want to go to Trafalgar Square with all those crowds I'll never know

startail · 29/12/2011 22:59

DMIL loved christmas but NYE made her sad. Too much a reminder of time passing for someone who had their DCs late in life with a much older man (FIL was 80 when I met him).
She used to go for a swim on NYD, in the sea. This reminded her that spring, in the far west of Cornwall, was not far away and she'd cheer up.

AliBellandthe40jingles · 29/12/2011 23:08

We haven't been out on NYE for years. We have friends coming for the weekend this year, and we'll cook some nice food and have a bottle or two of good bubbly and then go to bed at 12.15pm :)

ravenAK · 29/12/2011 23:11

We usually have a few mates round (the ones with dc) & have a sleepover for the kids/drinks for the adults.

There's a gang of us who used to go to various goth/alternative clubs but since we all started having kids, it's just too much faff for NYE, hence the house party at ours.

That said, once the dc are older I'll be going out again. You just don't get all this 'paying silly money to get in & watch a fight whilst the toilets are full of sobbing women' malarkey in rock bars you know...Wink

mathanxiety · 29/12/2011 23:12

Another party pooper here. I hate going out in the cold. I hate getting all dressed up in party gear and uncomfortable high heels. Even worse is leaving the party venue and picking your way home through all the pools of puke, broken bottles, unconscious drunks.

PizzaSlut · 29/12/2011 23:14

I don't do it, I like to spend the night with Pizza lover and the individual pizzas.

To me its not about getting drunk but spending the new year with those that means the most to me.

MustControlMincepieOfDeath · 29/12/2011 23:20

YANBU gave up on NYE years ago.

I spend the evening avoiding Jools Holland as his programme makes me want to gouge my eyes out

ElleJB · 29/12/2011 23:24

Loved NYE 20 years ago, but now in our mid-40's with 2 kids who will still be up early on NYD, can't be doing with finding something that fits, rushing to get ready after kids in bed, keeping one eye on the time so not back too late for bbsitter, getting bbsitter home safely etc etc, just because it's NYE! So we have a box of Hotel Chocolat's Christmas Selection chocs stashed away ready, will be opening a bottle of half-decent wine (more than a fiver less than a tenner) and channel-hopping between Alan Carr & Jools Holland, ending with a lovely snog as the bells chime - if we're both still awake!

buzzgirly · 29/12/2011 23:27

We are not doing anything either - mainly because I'm 38 weeks pregnant! I don't think we would have done anything anyway, there is always such pressure to have a great night and it is always a bit of a let down!

partytights · 29/12/2011 23:44

DP's best friend doesn't do it either.

DP and I make goals, not resolutions and we have a few drinks at home. Occasionally we have a few friends around but not last year or this year.

I'm looking forward to eating, being merry and writing lists while the children sleep. All my friends are out clubbing and calling me an oldie.

No. I am sane. Standing in an overcrowded and overpriced bar is not my idea of fun.

A1980 · 30/12/2011 00:14

I never do it. Why would I want to celebrate the fact that the Earth has circled the sun one more time. It does it every year.

MrsSeanBean · 30/12/2011 00:16

Yanbu. I don't get people wishing people 'happy new year', though the sentiment is well meant, I have no doubt. You may as well just say 'happy day' every day.