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AIBU?

To be totally unmoved by NYE

137 replies

TheoriginalLEM · 31/12/2015 11:10

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.

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originalmavis · 31/12/2015 18:42

I loathe new year. Always have. Bleugh. And as for having to text people or call them to say 'appy Noo yeaaaahr!'. Pants.

JugglingFromHereToThere · 31/12/2015 18:52

DH cooked our second nut roast with roasties etc. for when we got back from visiting family, so that was nice. Last year I stood on the doorstep with DD at midnight and watched and listened to a few fireworks together. Tomorrow I'm going to a friend's open house which always seemed like a nice chilled thing to do for New Year's day.

So I'm somewhere between celebrating it and not celebrating it.
I think I did most of my turning over a new leaf for a New Year around the winter solstice on the 22nd.
But perhaps a few more thoughts and intentions may come to me over the next 24hrs
Either way it's all good ....

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 31/12/2015 18:55

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

I could say the same about Christmas. And at least Hogmanay starts around 8 p.m tonight and will finish whenever tomorrow morning, unlike Christmas which has been festering for weeks.

toffeeboffin · 31/12/2015 18:56

I hate it. Love Christmas, hate New Year.

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 31/12/2015 18:58

nokidshere Do I know you? I'm 56 and you have described my NYEs exactly !

LassWiTheDelicateAir · 31/12/2015 19:02

Eigg Exactly. Hogmanay is as much as family time up here as Christmas is.

SevenOfNineTrue · 31/12/2015 19:04

I agree. NY has never been a 'thing' in my family but I support those who love to celebrate it.

originalmavis · 31/12/2015 19:05

I'm glad its not just me. Most people look at you like you've just said that you punch puppies for fun if you say you don't like new year.

Pipbin · 31/12/2015 19:07

I always feel on Nye the world is having a great time and I'm the only one who is alone and lonely!

Exactly. A few years ago I would go to friends and have New Years with them. Now we have all got a bit older and the shine has gone off it all a bit. May be it's because getting older it seems to be New Year every fortnight.
We still go to the same friends but the numbers and enthusiasm has dwindled. One year it got to about 11 and we all decided we couldn't be arsed. This year my friend is not well so it has been cancelled. I was actually a bit glad.

Even though I've never really been bothered, and I've generally had somewhere to be, it does feel like the party is somewhere else.

I'm glad that other people are having a great time but there is this sense that if you aren't partying then you are some kind of loser who is no fun.

formerbabe · 31/12/2015 19:08

I hate nye.

I am not going out or having "speshul" food.

I'm exhausted by 10pm most nights so why would I want to stay up till midnight!

Heatherjayne1972 · 31/12/2015 19:22

Hate it. I think that when I worked full time it was a normal working day so I'd up early work all day then be expected to be all jolly (drunk lol). And be having a ' good time'. When I really just wanted my bed by 10 pm. Now with kids it's cosy pj and watch the London fireworks on tv - if I'm still awake

whois · 31/12/2015 19:23

Christmas is for family. NY is for celebrating with friends and spending time with them.

Woodenmouse · 31/12/2015 19:28

I'm not a big fan, it's all hype then nothing happens!

My husband is at work, my ds is in bed and I'm curled up on the sofa in my pyjamas with a book and a box of chocolates! (No weight loss resolutions for me - well until after my second son is born in March).

HeffalumpsnWoozles · 31/12/2015 19:34

Used to enjoy it but not because of the significance of a New Year, it was all about a good night out with friends where everyone was up for a party. But now it just signifies Christmas is over, though our tree is staying up till 12th night 🎄

I really don't feel anything, I can't say I know anyone in RL that it means much too either so I don't feel like too much of a miserable old bag. It's all about December here, January is back to work and the daily grind permanently knackered & stuck in a mundane routine

Toraleistripe · 31/12/2015 19:35

Hate it. I have nice food and Prosecco but will go to bed normal time. It is the end of xmas and start of dull January....nothing to look forward to. And taking down the Xmas decs is soooooo depressing.

Yes I hate it.

IrianofWay · 31/12/2015 20:05

I am a chronic depressive. SAD hits me quite hard once christmas is done. I don't see the NY as a new start, I see it as falling back down to the bottom of a massive hill that I have to climb up again. So what's to celebrate?

Come Feb/March I will be a lot more sunbeam-like but right now I am a grouch.

IrianofWay · 31/12/2015 20:06

We have a party to go to buy we're crying off. Can't cope with it

nelliestar · 31/12/2015 20:14

Nope, not a fan here either! Agree with OP. Love Christmas so N Y's Eve signifies to me that Christmas is over and soon we will be back to work/school and the old routine. And it's my birthday on the 3rd which is always bitter sweet as its usually back to work the next day! Yuk!

pocketsaviour · 31/12/2015 20:50

I would actually really like it if we celebrated new year on winter solstice (usually 21st Dec, 22nd this year.) I really look forward to it every year as it means the days start to get just that little bit brighter and it means we're climbing towards spring. Then it would have some kind of meaningful, marking-the-seasons thing instead of just being a random date after which we'll all write the wrong year on our cheques for a couple of weeks reveals age

Oldraver · 31/12/2015 21:03

I've never been a fan of New Year and partys...once I got a tongue shoved in my mouth by one of DH's colleauges...yuk

I used to like going clubbing as it was about the music...they had a countdown then got on with it....non of this Auld Langes Eyne shit

Smoothyloopy · 31/12/2015 21:30

I've always hated NYE, Christmas over,January (the worst month of the year) coming

limitedperiodonly · 31/12/2015 21:45

Just go to bed then.

It's not compulsory to enjoy it but it's not compulsory to piss on everyone's chips about how sad it is and what a miserable time you have either.

I'm in and am MNetting after eating dinner. I'll be going out at 10 to midnight to watch the fireworks at the end of the road.

The fireworks will probably startle the cat, but he'll live - that's another MN whinge btw.

Tomorrow I'm going to test the mattresses in the Dreams shop so I get the right one in the sale, and then meet friends for a nice lunch.

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Twinklefuck · 31/12/2015 21:53

I think a lot of it is the pressure to have an amazing time, it's always felt like an anticlimax to me.

The past few months I've had friends marriages end so I'm feeling I have to be careful what to say as not to accidentally hurt them, but I couldn't be happier curled up on the couch with dh whilst the kids are sleeping and having a glass of wine. I'll be well away by the bells!

mizu · 31/12/2015 22:05

Haven't read the whole thread but I'm another who is not that bothered about new year. DH gone out, I'm happy staying in with DDs watching the shite that is Pitch Perfect

Toraleistripe · 31/12/2015 22:12

PP is great!

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