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NYE dullardery

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Boxingdaydisappoints · 28/12/2017 18:03

What are you doing on NYE?
I would much rather sit at home with a takeaway and nice bottle of wine, a good DVD and DP (not necessarily in that order)!
Instead we're going to a friend of DPs for a dull evening hanging around their kitchen while they talk about holidays they all enjoyed with DP and his ex wife!! I'm dreading it and can already feel the headache coming on.

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limitedperiodonly · 30/12/2017 17:39

Working tomorrow until 8pm and I'll be home within 30 minutes. We've been promised a big drink at lunchtime by my boss who is a bit of an enabler.

We had plans to go out but not now because my husband has come down with a vomiting shitting bug and is really ill. I'm not going to tell anyone at work because I am needed, feel fine and am being scrupulous about hygiene. I will not even be single dipping the office nibbles, let alone double dipping.

I'm going to leave him wrapped up in a blankie with a few pints of soup and a bucket. I might watch the fireworks from the end of the road at midnight. It depends how much excitement I can take.

daddyorscience · 30/12/2017 17:51

I've agreed to have the kids, so their mum can do her work stuff (and probably a party).. Don't mind at all. I've had a nice break, seen friends, gone out for meals etc.

Might take the kids (5/8) for a pub tea, sit in front of the log fire, come home, mini party with junk food and lemonade, maybe ginger beer, Netflix, then they can go to bed as they see fit.. They want to see midnight, no way will they still be awake.. I'll sit with them until they're asleep, then I'll sit down with tunes on Alexa, some alcohol (not much, single parent), something on the TV, feet up, chat to family/friends online, wish everyone a happy 2018. See it in, then crash with the kids. My idea of spot on.

God, I'm boring.

derxa · 30/12/2017 17:52

I'll be standing beside a giant bonfire in the middle of a town. Roaring at friends I haven't seen for years. The go home and watch shite Scottish telly. Happy New Year to you all you miserable old goats.

RhiannonOHara · 30/12/2017 18:00

I can't stand the idea of going on on NYE. Crowds, bumped-up prices, forced jollity, getting home...

I might make a nice dinner and a trifle or something and we might watch a film. [old duffers]

I like going out for breakfast on New Year's Day though. That feels like a better day and time to celebrate a new year!

RhiannonOHara · 30/12/2017 18:00

I can't stand the idea of going on on NYE. Crowds, bumped-up prices, forced jollity, getting home...

I might make a nice dinner and a trifle or something and we might watch a film. [old duffers]

I like going out for breakfast on New Year's Day though. That feels like a better day and time to celebrate a new year!

BootsAndCatsAndBootsAndCats · 30/12/2017 18:08

I'm staying in with dh. We haven't got a babysitter for dd anyway.

We're going to eat M&S party food and drink champagne. I don't think I'll make it to midnight - I've had an awful virus for the last 3 weeks and still feel pretty bad now.

I've never massively enjoyed nye anyway so I'm not that bothered about staying in.

Sallystyle · 30/12/2017 18:16

I think we are going to my friend's house. We have made very loose plans.

I don't really like NYE. I always feel maudlin but we went to hers last year and it was lovely just to get together. I am seeing her tonight though for her birthday so we will decide if we can be bothered to do another night of socialising.

From 2000-2016 we did nothing at all.

limitedperiodonly · 30/12/2017 18:24

I had three really good NYEs. A club called Charlie Chan's in Chingford in 1987 where I'd had the most brilliant Xmas Eve and hardly dared think anything could top it. It did and the fact that I came down with flu a few days later didn't even take the shine off.

Millennium Eve with my husband, mum and two friends watching the fireworks on the Thames and then going home to my mum's fry up.

Dinner in a restaurant in Golden Square, Soho, that was really glam and smart in that early 2000s way and having family call me and saying: 'Where are you? It sounds really great.'

But the vast majority of my NYEs have been spent in the back of expensive cabs desperately trying to find somewhere better to go or dozing on the settee after our traditional NYE menu of steak and kidney pudding and pannacotta with pureed raspberries. We sometimes put coats on over our pyjamas to watch the fireworks at the end of the road.

VelvetSpoon · 30/12/2017 18:48

The problem I have with NYE is FOMO (fear of missing out).

It's perfectly summed up by the NYE I had when I was about 19. This was v early 90s so pre mobile , ubers and all that stuff. Went round to my mates about 7pm. Her parents and their friends were having drinks before going to a nearby party. We were invited along but decided we'd have a better time elsewhere.

So went to a house party that a friends sister was having a few streets away. About 8 people there. Had a couple of drinks, and snuck out with some other friends who were there. Basically when we left that halved the no of people there We'd heard some others we knew were at the local pub 20 mins walk away. In fact we didn't see anyone we knew but it seemed lively. Whilst standing outside deciding whether to go in someone else we knew walked past and said they were going to the other pub in the village (30 min walk) where 'everyone' was. So we all walk there.

We arrive as friends brother is leaving with a group. They're all going to a house party. This is 40 mins walk in the other direction.

We end up going there, by the time we get there some people apparently have gone to the first party and others to the first pub...at this point as it's 11pm we say enough is enough and stay there. The house party is the one my friends parents had gone to - had we just stayed at her house in the first place we would have gone there anyway!

And that evening sums up the futility of NYE!

MsHarry · 30/12/2017 19:00

Ha ha Velvet that could be an Aesop Fable "Beware the FOMO/thinking the grass is always greener"

AhJaysus · 30/12/2017 19:30

Going out for a few drinks. Only because I really can't do another NYE in.

TheOtherGirl · 30/12/2017 19:40

I love NYE and we always get together with friends.

This year we're all going round to a friend's house in the village, all the kids are invited too. We all take booze and nibbles and everyone pitches in.

There'll be 80s music. Dancing. Cocktails. Then champagne at Midnight + Auld Lange Syne. Good times

10thingsIhateAboutTheDailyMail · 30/12/2017 19:51

I always get excited, for no reason....

It's like a Pavlov reaction, I THINK it will be great

As from the age of 11, I was allowed to stay up til 12, eat delicious snacks all night, and drink a glass of champagne with the grown ups at midnight (continental upbringing)

Counting down with the clock

Singing Abba's "Happy New Year"

Masses of fireworks, and everyone having hugs and kisses in the street

.... now it is boring

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