AIBU to really not like New Year that much?

[WellAlwaysHaveParis]

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

I've never really liked it, no matter what I'm doing for it! 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.

@mycatsapirate

I think (and please don't shoot me for this) that NYE is for the younger folk. The younger ones don't seem to object to paying £20 to get into the local pub, pay more for drinks and then have the hell of trying to get home afterwards

I have never paid £20 to get into a pub in my life. Not on New Years Eve or ANY night for that matter. And like a few others on here, (and a few people I know,) I live close to a few pubs and a couple of clubs. (20 minutes walk.)

Not everyone lives 4-5 miles from the nearest pub! And many pubs don't charge £20 on the door to get in! So I am baffled by all the 'I won't go as I don't wanna pay £20 to get into somewhere and then £20 for a taxi home' comments....

I love New year's Eve myself, and usually go on a pub crawl around our small town with DH and a few friends, from 8pm til 1pm-ish. Or we go to a party at one of the pubs in our small town with DH (that usually has a fiver entrance fee to cover food.) They usually last til 2-3am, and then we walk home afterwards.

We have also been to a couple of 'house parties' in our street, where 30-35 of the neighbours chipped in a fiver each for food, and everyone took some wine or beer or spirits.

I think its a fun excuse for a few drinks and we tend to get together in one house with just a few friends and let the kids stay up til midnight which they enjoy. I prefer it to Christmas I think as its much simpler and lower expectations.

I liked it as a child as we always had/went to a family party, party food, games, got to stay up late.

Once I started working I stopped enjoying it - working on the day and no time to recover except the one day. Now we have 2 DC (youngest 5 months) and if I'm awake at midnight tomorrow it won't be intentional.

Urgh - hate it

Loved it as a teenager as an excuse to go out!
By my 20s I spent a lot of time queuing to get into pubs, freezing my ass off and waiting for taxis. Really lost the appeal.

BIL has a party every year, he's given up asking us to go. There are rarely any guests left by midnight as they all need to get home - which is impossible unless you drive or willing to get an early taxi.

I like New Year's Day though!

Getting on a bit, so I've had my fair share of NYE both good and bad although the millennium was brilliant - it was well planned, with a group of good friends. After my mum died suddenly ten years ago and very close to Christmas, I couldn't face NYE and went to bed at 10. On NYD we met up with friends who were talking about the 'amazing' parties they were at, and it just sounded so false. That year was a catalyst for me, and since then I've avoided anything NYE related - the noisy pubs, the expense, the hangover, the groping, the pretence. I no longer make resolutions I know I won't keep, but I'm content and happy day-to-day. I have a wonderful family and close friends. I love Christmas, I love looking forward, and I'm optimistic, but as far as I'm concerned, overhyped NYE can do one!

We would host but there are quite a few of us and we don't have the room and I can't be selective. We went away one year and that was fab, but not everyone was happy with that. Don't want to fall out with anyone but am dreading tomorrow as it's just so predictable!

Now I'm married I don't do NYE , when I was single I used to go to our local in a huge group and we'd have to get double rounds in because it was so busy at the bar. That's now my idea of hell

I'm really non-plussed about new year. If happily sleep through it if I could.

Hate it. It's forced fun. Why people think it's the best night of the year when you pay a fortune to get in anywhere, can't get served, no seats, the once a year drinkers who overdo it and can't behave are out. Not for me.

Increasingly as I get older I find the night a bit depressing and I tend to feel quite low. Often teary.

Can't wait for it to come and go.

YANBU I have never liked it, but after my father died suddenly on New Year's Day 9 years ago it's made me treat it like any other day. We don't wish happy new year and I like a quiet evening and am usually asleep by 9. DH is a singer so is never here New Year's Eve or day and that suits me.

Forced jollity kills me. Sorry but I absolutely hate it. And it is worldwide too, how nice.

Different for a special day, wedding, christening party, birthday or similar. Those involve family and friends and most (though I accept not all) will enjoy the fun with those close to them.

No one HAS to be out boozing on NYE to enjoy themselves at all. Just another construct for the ad men and women. Otherwise you are a loser.

Not.

Prefer it to the utterly appalling Christmas orgy of eating and consumerism.

I like a good christmas orgy.

I ignore it and Christmas as much as possible. DS has autism the holidays are dire with him. Plus, the rest of my life is pretty crap, too, so it's just another day.

So when we are on here on 1 Jan 2018 will everything be different because we went out partying or not?

I don't think it will be any different, apart from the hangovers TBH.

Christmas Day is far too short for the ad men and women so it has to be lengthened for food and booze shopping. Ho hum.

Another day bites the dust!

Sometimes we go out (if invited to a party) on NYE and sometimes we don't - I don't really mind either way. I find the whole countdown to midnight etc really forced and faintly absurd

I have always looked forward to it, with a sense of optimism and an almost "clean slate" feeling. The whole year is still to come and full of hopeful promise. As I get older (50 next year) though, I have started to feel a little more melancholy and wistful. Maybe more aware of time passing and things changing.

It's just another day for me. I'm working tomorrow and Monday so I won't be doing anything special - will probably be fast asleep before midnight!

I don't do nye at all as my grandmother who raised me died just past midnight.

I always offer to work over new year so that my colleagues who do wish to celebrate it can.

I always just class it as another day, so it’s the end of one year, when your almost 30 it’s not at all exciting when you’ve celebrated for many years. I stopped fussing when I was 18 and legally allowed to drink. Literally stay at home and watch tv with the kids. Harry Potter will be my movie of choice and I don’t give one... 😂 as I don’t drink and haven’t for 12 years the whole getting smashed don’t appeal to me.

I don't like New Year either. I'm working this year and everyone keeps saying it's such a shame, but I really don't care

I've had some good ones and some not so good, sometimes have dinner with friends but never go out on NYE now (and a great benefit of being older is that no-one expects me to). I don't hate it or have any strong feelings about it. This year DP and I are on our own in a country cottage, we've bought some nice food that barely needs cooking, very unlikely to stay up till midnight.

No, I just say in. The city I live in now has a new year festival that runs for days, with torch-lit processions etc. I give it a wide berth. The whole thing bemuses me.

I hate it. I've hated it since I was about 15/16; no idea why but, it makes me very down and depressed. Dd wants to watch the tv this time and mum's disappointed I won't go to hers but, she makes me feel even worse than the guilt I feel at leaving her alone which I don't think I've done since Dad died 8 years ago. Damned if I do; damned if I don't.

It's so over-hyped these days, as is Christmas. I doubt I'll bother to stay up late, it depends on my energy levels. OTOH if you're a party loving night owl and don't mind paying over the odds for booze and transport I guess you'll love it.