To hate New Year's Eve?

[Shutupanddrive]

I love Christmas but just cannot be bothered doing anything for new year. My mum has offered to have the dc's so we can go out, I would rather stay in and watch a film and have a bottle of wine (and probably go to bed before midnight). It's too busy, too expensive, too annoying with drunk people everywhere. Should I make an effort? I'm 36 by the way. I can't be the only one!

[BrandonFlowersHoHoHo]

YANBU

I dislike the whole thing. The amount of alcohol you see in some trolleys is scary! I have bad memories of NYE from when I was a young. Wild parties thrown by my mum usually resulting in a fight, not nice for a young child. Usually dh and I watch Only an Excuse and Still Game then head to bed.

[BrandonFlowersHoHoHo]

YANBU

I dislike the whole thing. The amount of alcohol you see in some trolleys is scary! I have bad memories of NYE from when I was a young. Wild parties thrown by my mum usually resulting in a fight, not nice for a young child. Usually dh and I watch Only an Excuse and Still Game then head to bed.

[TheCrackFox]

YANBU

Expensive, enforced drunkeness and can never get a taxi home. Load of shite.

[SoftKittyWarmKitty]

I detest NYE with a passion and I'm only a few years older than you, OP. It's such an anti-climax. The last time I went out for NYE I was with my ex, so around 8 years ago, and we went to a house party at a friend of a friends house. Ex spent most of the evening avoiding me and walking out of rooms when I walked in the fucking bastard. I found out a few months later that he was cheating and had been for some time.

Even when I was younger and went into town with mates, it was cold, expensive and you could be waiting 2 hours or more for a cab to get home at the end of the night.

For the last few years I've taken DS to the local panto on NYE, which is great until they do that Auld Lang Syne (sp) crap at the end and I feel forced to join in. We then go home and I'm usually in bed by 11.30 at the latest, and get really irritated by the fireworks at midnight and the numerous text messages that inevitably start to come through as I'm desperately trying to get to sleep. I feel especially stabby at those chain texts that tell you to do domething like 'Send on to 12 friends plus the sender and you'll have good luck all this year. If you return it to the sender they'll know you're a true friend.' Fuck off. Just fuck off. Must remember to switch my mobile off when I go to bed on NYE this year.

[judefawley]

I love NYE.

But we are very lucky in that we have some fabulous friends that have a party every year and put loads of people up with all of their children.

It's always a great, memorable night and we all spend NY day together recovering reminiscing.

I would hate to go 'out' though.

[Cerealqueen]

great dontmindifido ! Plus, you know that new year's day is like the worst depressed sunday you ever had in your life, x 100. With a hangover from hell.

[rainbowsprite1]

I love NYE, but only because since we moved to our very remote island spot 5 years ago we have lifelong friends that travel out to visit us for a few days over new year. This year we only have 10 in the house (note the only 10 people & our house isnt that big!) & I can't wait. We will have a 5mo old, & 2, 4.5, 5 &6 Yr old with us & will have a lovely meal followed by fireworks on the TV & racing each other up the stairs to bed to get as much sleep as we can before the small children dawn chorus!:) if any adult has over-indulged they are soon woken up by the new years day dips (for charity) that involve a swim in the sea... one year we walked over frozen sand....

[BigW]

I hate it. We normally stay in with a couple of friends. Nothing worse than being in a club or bar (other than trying to find your way home afterwards!)

[soontobeburns]

Um I feel the same and I'm only 22 so not your age lol. Halloween, NYE etc I would never go out. I hate crowds when I'm out at the best of times so it sounds like he'll to me.

Its my grandas birthday on the 1st (totally outing myself here lol) so my DM DsD me and my OH usually go to my grandparents.

[MurderOfGoths]

I loathe new years, I hate the pretence that come midnight everything will be shiny and new. It wont. It will be exactly the same shit as an hour before, just with more wankered people and god awful singing.

[Allergictoironing]

Another one here who hates the enforced jollity. When I was younger they used to be OK I suppose, though trying to fight off drunken mates who thought because of the date maybe I WOULD be up for a quickie balanced against a motorbike meant I would try not to get TOO drunk.

Then partly because I didn't drink that much anyway, & partly because I had the most reliable car which you could squeeze a few people in, I became the NYE "designated driver". This would usually mean that I would be asked to risk my license by squeezing 8-10 passengers into a small estate car & drive all round the area dropping random people off at their homes. I called time on this the year a drunk staggered out in front of me, I stopped the car, and he threw up copiously all over the bonnet of the car - naturally by the time I'd dropped off the last random "friend of a friend" & got home, the sick had baked on to the car & spent most of NY Day scrubbing stinking puke off it.

Now I just try to get an early night in, interrupted by fireworks echoing around the valley from about 10pm until goodness knows when - last year the latest was well past 2am but they weren't constant so I could get used to it oh no, they would die down, I would start to doze off, then another set would start off sounding like the Blitz.

[CurrentBun]

I find it all a bit depressing. In my twenties I loved to go out but now I'd rather stay in with wine and a good film (because telly is crap at NY) and have an early night.

[Ilovewaleswhenitrains]

Glad to find out I'm not the only one. I can't stand the false/drunken jollity, inflated prices and the expectation to have "fun". I prefer to stay home and watch a film have nice food with my family.

[glitterbaubles]

I used to love going out on New Year, but since the small people were born, we haven't been out for years.
I've kind of got used to staying in now though. Takeaway and wine with rubbishy telly far more appealing than spending a fortune to get through the door of your usual (free!) pub that's charging just because it's New Year's Eve, Which is what happened last time we went out on it.

[MairyHinge]

Whenever anyone asks why I hate my birthday ^ these are all reasons why!!
Mine is New Year's Day and EVERYONE is skint, miserable and fed up of any form of celebrating by then!!
Hubby's is 15th December...well of course everyone wants to go out & celebrate that one

I hate my birthday, when it was my 40th I celebrated in June, when I was 39 1/2!!