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AIBU to really not like New Year that much?

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WellAlwaysHaveParis · 29/12/2017 00:27

Off the back of another thread, does anyone feel indifferent to NYE or not like it? It feels wrong just typing that Blush

I've never really liked it, no matter what I'm doing for it! Blush And have always felt pressure to 'do well' and to achieve things in the following twelve months, rather than feeling hopeful and excited about the New Year.

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speakout · 29/12/2017 08:36

I have always hated NY- ever since being a child. Just anther day to me now. I don't stay up, no special meal.

FaFoutis · 29/12/2017 08:39

NYE feels like a sad time to me too. As another poster said, it usually reminds me how stagnant my life is. I'm not looking forward to the coming year as DH & I both have redundancy hanging over us for January, so for once I might have to get pissed on NYE.
There's a Thomas Hardy poem about new year that is just how it feels to me, something about a thrush.

speakout · 29/12/2017 08:41

There's a Thomas Hardy poem about new year that is just how it feels to me, something about a thrush.

Sorry - I misread, I thought you were sating NY was like having thrush- and I was about to agree.

Montsti · 29/12/2017 08:46

I hate NYE....love Christmas though! Can’t wait for New Years Day when it’s all over...

dementedma · 29/12/2017 08:47

Depression always strikes at new year for me. I can already feel the beginning of it today. I will be in bed early and then grit my teeth until I go back to work on Jan 3rd. It's all false bonhomie, drunks and empty promises, when in fact it's just a stark reminder we are all a year older. I hate it.
It's worse here in Scotland because people insist on wishing you a "Happy New Year" the first time they see you after it strikes, and that goes on for about a week or more.
FFS, you don't wish anyone a happy birthday or happy Christmas a week after the event!!

FaFoutis · 29/12/2017 08:49

Yes that too.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 29/12/2017 09:01

Haven't much liked it since I was very young. Often such a let down after all the hype - feeling that you ought to be having such a great time. Since we have become old and boring Dh and I have sometimes got last minute theatre tickets for NYE - often easier to get then even for really booked up shows.
As a child I used to like making resolutions like 'I will not leave weekend homework until Sunday night' etc. - and stick to them for about 2 weeks.

WanderingJules · 29/12/2017 09:06

Not particularly enamoured with NYE.

In fact, the bongs at midnight make the hairs on my arms stand on end.
Nothing to do with life’s expectations for the next 12 months, we are happy and have no money worries, but it’s just.....naff.

I treat it like it’s a normal night out. We go out for an early ish meal, then walk home afterwards and watch (crap) TV.

CiderwithBuda · 29/12/2017 09:08

Actually thinking about it I think I really like going to bed early on NYE and just waking up in the New Year. No effort. It's all done. And it feels clean for some reason. No hangover. Good night's sleep. Ready to face whatever the year brings.

Which is usually a diet of some description and a plan to tidy the house!

limon · 29/12/2017 09:26

Yanbu. I loathe it. I don't drink or stay up late ever due to chronic fatigue and dont make any exception for nye. I arrange a walk outside with family and kids on new years day

Popfan · 29/12/2017 09:30

I don't have any strong feelings about it, generally can't be bothered to do anything though!

falange · 29/12/2017 09:33

I love it. It's my favourite night of the year. Always try to go out. Out with the old, in with the new. It's a time to look forward, give thanks for what you've got, and hope for better things

falange · 29/12/2017 09:34

Just read whole thread. Just me who likes it then Smile

speakout · 29/12/2017 09:36

falange that's what I do on the 21st Dec.

New Year is a big thing in Scotland, but only because christmas was banned by the church for 400 years.

Now that we celebrate christmas, New year seems superfluous.

lookingforthecorkscrew · 29/12/2017 09:36

Eight years ago I spent a new year by my unconscious mother’s bedside. She died on the 2nd. Since then I just go to bed and sleep through it all.

WanderingJules · 29/12/2017 09:56

@Looking 💐

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WellAlwaysHaveParis · 29/12/2017 09:58

Sorry looking :(Flowers

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SmileAndNod · 29/12/2017 10:09

Hate this time of year. My MH has already taken a turn for the worse. I can't look forward - life is shitty and it gets worse year on year. You just think you get one thing sort of ok then something else comes along. I genuinely envy people who are happy. Not the trappings of nice cars, holidays etc but who are day to day content. I can't imagine what that feels like. I don't feel anything. Possibly sadness and emptiness.
NYE just reminds me how I've fucked up my life and how nothing is ever good enough and how those close to me are slipping away (elderly with dementia).
Quite honestly I'd like to go to sleep and wake up in July. Or not wake up at all.

MrsJayy · 29/12/2017 10:13

I am not fussed really Dh likes to stay up on hogmanay then he starts getting maudlin and reminisant I would rather be in my bed andNYD is so dull

BlueSkyBurningBright · 29/12/2017 10:21

Had lots of fun at NYE in my 20's, pre kids.

With kids, we would go out for an early supper and a film or bowling. Then we felt we had done something and still be at home later.

Now I just see it as another day, I will probably be a taxi driver for my teens.

Asthenia · 29/12/2017 10:41

Ive always been completely indifferent to NYE - in fact it makes me a bit sad because it would have been Xmas eve the week before! However I’m always treated like some sort of leper by friends for saying this - why WOULDN’T I want to go out somewhere completely over priced and over crowded and queue 3 hours for a drink?? I stay in with my boyfriend, cook a nice dinner and see in the new year quietly in the comfort of my own home.

goingonabearhunt1 · 29/12/2017 10:49

I am unbothered by News Years tbh, seems a waste of time going out. I hate massive drunken crowds and everywhere is way more expensive than usual so unless I have a good house party to go to I don't bother.

I hate any kind of enforced fun (people telling you it's the 'best night ever' and all that) and also hate the pressure to be make resolutions and make each year better than the last so now I just kind of ignore it.

Lucisky · 29/12/2017 10:58

I'm old enough to remember when new years day was not a public holiday, and dragging myself into work with a terrible hangover.
Now I'm getting on a bit, my idea of hell is drinking too much and forced bonhomie.
We celebrate new years day by going out for a pleasant lunch.

Lucisky · 29/12/2017 11:01

Just to add, I looked it up and new year first became a holiday in 1974. God I feel really old now.

AintNoOtherFan · 29/12/2017 11:04

I like NYE but I HATE that new year song people sing at midnight. It's so depressingConfused