To be totally unmoved by NYE

[TheoriginalLEM]

i just don't get it!

it actually makes me abit sad, signifying the end of Christmas.

Honestly what is it about the forced jollity? Its another year -whoopie.

we make resolutions we know we wont stick to and there is mass hysteria at midnight. Then nothing actually happens

Im not a grinch. i am a bit of a home body but quite happy for there to be a party if there is. a reason for it.

[mrsfuzzy]

it's interesting reading other peoples take on nye, we are pagans and celebrate our nye on oct 31st the celtic new year and our nyd is nov 1st, so we have winter solstice to celebrate in dec.

[ScarlettDarling]

op you definitely aren't alone. NYE makes me sad, but then I definitely am prone to melancholy thoughts anyway.

We've had a sad year this year as I lost my dad and his illness dominated the whole year, so I'll actually be glad to see the back of it. But tonight I'll not be able to help reflecting on it all and I know I'll be sad.

If I've had a happy year then NYE still makes me emotional as it signifies the end of the holidays, taking the lovely decs down and going back to work.

Roll on the springtime, light nights, long days and birds singing!

[IrianofWay]

Another thing I hate about NYE is bloody resolutions. I get so miserable at this time of year, one thing I can't stand is making resolutions that will make me even more down when I fail! I keep those resolutions until Feb when my birthday is and I feel much happier.

[trinity0097]

I don't celebrate it, don't see the point, just another day to me! Will be at work tomorrow morning getting ready for the new term.

[OOAOML]

I no longer make resolutions - I feel much more inclined to sort out my life in spring or autumn but even then I don't make specific worded resolutions, more of an aspiration. I think resolutions at New Year are pretty much setting yourself up to fail, unless you are spectacularly driven.

I have been doing a fair amount of tidying this week, but not in a new year sense, more in an 'I have time off work so I might as well sort the stuff that bothers me' and the last couple of days I've been in work and it has been really quiet so I've taken the chance to clear out filing, sort my email inbox etc.

[GothicRainbow]

New Year's Eve has made some great memories for me having house parties with friends and family but I would say from my mid-twenties up until a couple of years ago when my DS was born it always felt abit forces and anti-climactic.

For the past couple of years and also this year I will be having an early evening dinner with DH & DS then home for DS' bedtime. I've treated me and DH to some nice nibbles and we will watch a film, I'm really looking forward to it!!

[Jux]

I used to enjoy it in my youth; lots of big parties and many places to trawl around (lived in central London), much fun to be had.

These days, I just do what I normally do of an evening. DH is always gigging and I can't go with him (he doesn't really want me to either), so dd and I have stayed up late, clinked mugs at midnight, and carried on. This year, she may be staying with her best friend, but that is tbc.

[Strangertides1]

I think I've out grown NYE, in my 20's going to the pub and back to my mums for a buffet with family and friends was wonderful. Going out to clubs, was always a nightmare: sore feet, cold weather, clubs rammed and priced put up. Now am in my 30's and have young children, it simply marks a passing of time that's quite sad really, children grown to fast. Our oldest is starting school in September already and our third and last baby will be born.

[MrsBartlettforthewin]

I never really got it. At Uni I used to work it at the local indie club. It was great, the pay was brilliant, had a good laugh watching the drunk people, my DP was the DJ so I got to request a lot of the music, we would be so busy the shift from 10pm -6am would go really quickly and the manager would cook us all a big fry up in the morning. Now days me and DH snuggle up and watch a film after the kids are in bed and we might still be awake when it turns midnight but probably not.

[Ipigglemustdie]

Remember one year watching a young ones marathon on uk gold and hearing fireworks going off. Said to my friend "wtf is that?" Turns out it was the millennium. Think that was the last time I was awake at 12 😃

[WhatALoadOfOldBollocks]

In my youth I went to pubs and clubs on NYE because that's just what my social circle did. But I always thought it was a bit "meh". There would be a big build up to middnight, then 1 minute of over excitement, then about 15 minutes of people not quite knowing what to do with themselves before the lights went up and we were encouraged to bugger off home. Getting home was always a PITA because there were never enough taxis to cope and the buses didn't run past about 11pm. Every year it felt like a mssive anti-climax.

I just don't really get it either. What exactly am I meant to be celebrating? To me it's just the next day in the diary

[Canshopwillshop]

When I was a child we always had a big party on NYE and our house was full of fun and laughter - I loved it! Had some pretty depressing ones as a young adult as there was always so much expectation and anticipation and it was usually a big ant-climax - especially if you didn't pull!

When I got married and had the DC, NYE was spent quietly at home and we were normally in bed before midnight.

Now the DC are a bit older, we all love it as we meet up with a big group of friends and their children and have a big party. We take it in turns to host and it works really well. The kids love being allowed to stay up late with their friends, doing the countdown at midnight watching Big Ben on to and then the fireworks. I will have a moments silence remembering my mum, dad and sister who are no longer here and will probably be quite emotional but also look around at my friends and family and be thankful for what I do have.

Happy New Year everyone however you decide to spend it.

[SiencynArsecandle]

Never really enjoyed it as my family did nothing at all. Have always wanted to go out but for some reason it never happened. Last few years have been spent with the family at home trying to make the best of quite a depressing evening. Tonight it will be a sober quiet evening. Probably not as depressed as normal though as Christmas has just passed me by this year due to being unwell and ending up in hospital on Boxing Day. Looking forward to seeing DD and DGrandD tomorrow and then its a fresh start for the New Year.

[Potatoface2]

i used to love it but as ive got older it can be quite depressing ....another year older another year nearer my pension/death...lol....happy new year anyway !

[Sirona]

I've never been into New Year. In fact many a year I've gone to bed before the new year chimes in - and then been raging when the fireworks wake me up

[GnomeDePlume]

NYE was great when we lived in the Netherlands. Everyone set off fireworks at midnight. It was incredible, a giant uncoordinated firework display. It would start at the stroke of midnight with a few distant bangs then it would grow and grow. Then for about half an hour it would be continuous. Everyone setting off their own fireworks.

Then people would walk up and down the street with glasses of champagne wishing their neighbours "gelukkig nieuwjaar".

In the morning everyone would be out with brooms sweeping up the mess.

Happy, happy days.

These days (ever since I found out that Jools Holland's Hooternanny wasnt live) I am happy to have a nice dinner, maybe stay up maybe not. Then get up the following day and clear away Christmas ready to start the new year all fresh and tidy.

It is what you make of it.

[medalsforeveryone]

I hate NYE. A big pressure to go out and celebrate but end up in packed bars queing to get served before midnight just so you have a drink at midnight, and then the who do you stand next to question mark at midnight when you are single?

[EponasWildDaughter]

The only 2 or 3 NYEs i can even remember from my teens are the ones when i went to Trafalgar Square with a friend for the midnight bongs. Lucky enough to be a short trip from where i lived. Had to be sure to be standing next to a good looking bloke at the final moment as everyone would turn round and grab who ever was nearest for a kiss! Atmos was great. It felt genuinely like something different and cost nothing. Public transport was free to get home. Do they still do that? This was the late 80s.

From then on a bit 'meh' about NYE. Everything too expensive, young kids to babysit, and a dodgy marriage.

My worst NYEs were the last two with XH 10 yrs ago, and the one 5 years ago with after the loss of a much wanted and hard fought for pregnancy with new DP. DP and i foolishly accepted an invite out that year. I just spent the whole night thinking 'if i had my baby i wouldn't be here, i'd be at home looking after her' ... will never forget that and it didn't endear me to NYE.

Happier NYEs in more recent years (have married lovely DP, and managed to have DD4) but somehow they're always still tinged with melancholy for some reason.

[Namehanger]

When I was a kid my parents always did Hogmanay, cooked big pots of stovies and invited everyone we knew and kids over with a pop in if only for ten minutes. We had a big living room so my dad would get the Scottish country dancing going. Always finished with my dad cracking open the malt whisky.

Or when we visited my grandparents in a fishing town in the NE of Scotland we went on a crawl round a series of homes of their friends, where we had a drink and toasted the new year. Also people hoisted little presents on us.

My 17 year old brother was taken out by his second cousins, my mums last words were don't get into a car!

[FairyDustDreamer]

I go to bed before midnight, wake up at midnight to grumble at firework noise and go back to sleep.
Another person who tends to feel sad round New Year....

[Gottagetmoving]

NYE is just a day like any other to me. It's not particularly exciting. When I was in my late teens and twenties I was caught up in it all and partied and joined in but I realised the end of a year is no big deal.
I don't get why people get all emotional and make promises they are never going to keep to others and even to themselves.
By Jan 2nd everyone is back to being exactly the same as they were the whole year before.
None of it takes sense.

[Gottagetmoving]

Makes....not takes..

[CrazyMermaidHair]

I hate it. I find it quite depressing as its another year of your life gone. I'd like to be more positive about it, think of the new year as a blank positive page but the forced joviality and this idea that you are miserable if you don't do something. Actually the best best year Ive had was about 10 years ago where there was just me, DM and DF in the house. We saw Big Ben on the TV, went outside watched the fireworks going off all around and then went to bed!

[GoodtoBetter]

I'm quite looking forward to it this year for the first time ever. Just been to one of those all you can eat Chinese buffets with MIL and we have a selection of pastries for tea. It's raining and I'll light the fire in an hour or two. Kids will be going to bed at normal time and then DH and I will watch a film and quaff amaretto.
Had a good year this year and I think 2016 will be better and finally at 40 feeling like life is going in the right direction.