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To HATE New Years Eve with a passion?

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CiderBomb · 30/12/2013 16:00

I've always really hated New Years Eve. I find it really depressing, I'm not sure sure why? Maybe it's to do with being another year older, but in the days running up to it I suddenly feel really low for some reason?

I also hate this idea that you have to go out and have a good time. The best NYE's I've ever had are the ones where I've done nothing and just watched television. If you go out you end up being charged the earth to get in somewhere, squashed in with barely room to swing a cat and then struggling to get a taxi home until 7am or something stupid.

I hate it and wish it could be cancelled!

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Topseyt · 30/12/2013 17:57

I don't "do" New Year if I don't absolutely have to.

We will be in, probably sharing a bottle of wine until just after midnight. That is about it really. I cannot be arsed with it. We did the whole "going out" on New Year's Eve when we were younger, but it never really did it for me and I am relieved to say we don't do it anymore.

I am just hoping for not too many fireworks around here at midnight, as I too have a dog who is scared of them.

Isthatwhatdemonsdo · 30/12/2013 17:58

I don't like New Year either. I think it's because of the build up to Christmas that makes New Year a bit Meh.

TheBrotherHoodOfSteel · 30/12/2013 18:00

I'm not normally bothered about NYE but this year we have been invited to a masked ball and I get to wear a ball gown so I am really looking forward to that! Wink

Lemongrab · 30/12/2013 18:01

Yanbu. I'm completely with you on this. Even as a teenager I couldn't understand the fuss. I'd much rather stay in and treat it like any other evening than go out and brave the crowds of noisy drunk people.

Methe · 30/12/2013 18:01

Oh me too. I've been married to a dj and event organiser for a long time and so I always get the joy of staying in, on my own, while the kids sleep oh 3 of the last 10 years I've been in hospital.

I probably could have gone out last year but I worked until 2am then dh went to a gig.

It's shit. I get pissed off when the fireworks wake me up.

Caitlin17 · 30/12/2013 18:02

I much prefer Hogmanay. I've had many different versions of it over the years. My favourite period was a few years of when my boy and other friends' children were teenagers and the year son had loads of uni friends staying.

I take turns with a friend to hold a party, we both live in West End/New Town area of Edinburgh. It's his turn this year so champagne,party frocks,lovely food , no relatives and no small children. Fab.

Christmas on the other hand depresses me utterly. I'd be happy to never do Christmas again ever.

hattymattie · 30/12/2013 18:03

Count me in with the NYE haters. would be quite happy to be left alone with DH, champagne and Graham Norton

Sunnymeg · 30/12/2013 18:05

My FIL died NYE two years ago. The paramedic who certified the death wished the widow a Happy New Year!!

Caitlin17 · 30/12/2013 18:08

Some one said "it's a bit too much like organised fun" that sums up why I hate Christmas. And at Christmas the pressure to enjoy Christmas lasts much more than 1 night and at least no one calls you miserable or a killjoy if you don't do NYE.

LetZygonsbeZygons · 30/12/2013 18:29

sunnymeg Sad.

we can all convene here tomoz for a whinge and a virtual Wine instead.

kennyp · 30/12/2013 18:37

if new years eve was in june i'd be more tempted to enjoy it. but i hate it too. dark, cold, miserable.

i'll be recording graham norton and going to be early. blisssssssss. and smuggy smuggerson that i have no hangover on wednesday

CoffeeRevel · 30/12/2013 18:40

Count me in too, I'll be here. There's a party going on next door at MILs which has her side of the family invited, but as DH is FILs but not MILs, we are persona non grata ??
DCs are second class citizens apparently. Bitter? Me? Nah ....

LividofLondon · 30/12/2013 18:40

I just don't "get" NYE and have a tendency to rebel against being told to have fun. I'm normally an optimist, but NY just reminds me that time has past and I'm another year older and another year closer to death. I hate fireworks for longer than a few minutes, can't be bothered going out amongst all the "fun" drunks, and usually go to bed at about 10.30pm with the intention of being asleep and missing the whole thing. I have PMS too at the mo which isn't exactly helping my mood. Bollocks to it all Sad

sicily1921 · 30/12/2013 18:41

Definitely not being unreasonable OP. I can't say I hate it but can't say I see what all the bloody fuss is about a clock striking twelve either. As I get older the passage of time is something I don't really want to think about. It's not bad when you're 20 but not when you're 47 and time is flying as it is!!

Can't see the fun about being stuck in the middle of a pissed up crowd of people (at any time) being told to have fun Smile fun Smile fun. and another Smile (MN Headquarters, hear this, can we have an emicon for stabby please I think a lot of us need it??)

Much more fun to sit at home with a nice drink, snack and a decent film on the goggle Grin

MilkOneSugar · 30/12/2013 18:52

YANBU.

I have always found NYE really depressing. It's my DFather's birthday so when we were younger, we were always torn between celebrating with him and going out with friends.

I remember going clubbing for the first time on the millennium. The DJ played YMCA as the last song of the millennium as apparently it was the best song ever Hmm and he missed the countdown.

The worst NYE was the one where I was 8 weeks pregnant with DD1 and XP was out with the ow. I purposefully went to bed before midnight because I knew they would be kissing at the stroke of midnight Sad. I have always felt a sense of melancholy on NYE since then.

But yes, the pressure to go out and have a nice time/do something to mark the occasion is horrible, particularly as I can never get a babysitter or find people to go out with. As soon as Christmas is over, I get a horrible feeling in the pit of my stomach and I think it's the dread of NYE looming. Not sure what to do this year.

GoodNewsGrinch · 30/12/2013 18:54

YY to whoever said it's worse when you're alone for it. I think that is the loneliest I've ever been, all on my own on NYE.

HappTeeNewYear · 30/12/2013 19:26

Oh no, my favourite memories of NYE were spent on my own.

Oldraver · 30/12/2013 19:33

I've never been keen on New Year, as a child I would sometimes go out with my folks or my Dad as he played in a band and I hated all the kissing that went on, it used to make me cringe.

The only time I have liked New Year was when I used to go clubbing as they do the countdown then get on with it.

A very good friend died on New Years Eve 30 years ago and it does leeve a sad taste.

The last few years I have sometimes been in bed, last year we were still up and sat on the patio listening to the church bells

dementedma · 30/12/2013 19:47

Ooh another NY hater here.makes me so depressed. All the false bonhomie and you still wake up to the same shit as the day before and nothing has changed. Just want the whole feckin thing over and done with so we can get back to normal.

MurderOfGoths · 30/12/2013 19:51

YANBU, it is horrifically depressing. I hate this weird idea that it's somehow going to make things shiny and new or mean things change, never ever happens. In the midst of cold miserable weather, suffering from SAD/aftermath of Xmas/normal depression, it's just salt in the wound that things will still be crap once the clock tolls.

VelvetSpoon · 30/12/2013 20:02

I hate it.

The last decent NYE I had was in 1994, in a village my friend lived in down in the West Country. Just before 12 everyone goes to the village square, links arms and sings auld lang syne. All rather lovely, and a bit like something from a film :)

But apart from that, I've been to awful parties, and spent a lot of years staying at home on my own with the DC. 2 years ago I went to the pub with friends as the Ex offered - for once - to have the kids. It was shit, I wished I hadn't bothered.

This year I'll be stuck at home while all my friends are out. Am already finding myself annoyed about it - being constantly asked 'what are you doing for new year' and having to say I'm doing nothing doesn't exactly help either!

trixymalixy · 30/12/2013 20:09

Used to love it as a child when we would spend it with my parent's friends and their kids. We'd eat lots of lovely food and play cluedo.

I hate going out on Hogmanay. You feel forced to have a good time and it's such a nightmare trying to get home.

MyLittleFinger · 30/12/2013 20:12

I hate New Years Eve all that celebration at midnight and wishing everyone a happy new year.
2014 - same shit, different year.

TamzinGrey · 30/12/2013 20:14

YANBU. I've hated NYE all my life, even as a wild party loving teenager. I can't explain why. However 25 years ago I dragged myself out to a NYE party where I met a gorgeous looking bloke. As «the time» grew near I suddenly found myself telling him how much I loathed the occasion, and to my amazement he completely agreed with me, saying that he felt exactly the same way.

Reader, I married him. Ever since we've enjoyed being two old grumps together on NYE.

KatieScarlett2833 · 30/12/2013 20:16

Never, ever have I been so delighted to have a raging ear infection. Shame I'm too ill to go out tomorrow...

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