To dread New Years Eve

[Loveweekends10]

I always look forward to Xmas but dread New Years eve months ahead. I think I have almost developed a kind of phobia to it! We did celebrate it with friends last year but that’s a one off as they go away most years. We tend not to get party invites and I feel like we are the odd ones out most years. I wish I could shake this feeling.

One year my mum left my dad... on New Year's Eve. I hate the night. I think now it is only one night in a year so I do something nice in afternoon, come home with kids and have an early night. The next day is another day as is any other. Don't put pressure on yourself and do what is right for you and your situation

We do a family meal out then some fireworks for the dc followed by their usual bedtime and me and oh watch a film in bed. I don’t think we’ve seen in midnight for years and we arnt ever invited to party’s and neither are my friends. I find it a huge anti climax even before the days of dc, we only do a meal and fireworks because the children enjoy it.

I think NYE is the ultimate FOMO (Fear of missing out) night. It always looks like everyone else is having fun, especially in the world of social media. I realised going into 1994 that I don’t like New Year. It’s a massive anti-climax. I work shifts and I frequently volunteer to work the night shift as I’d happily work NY and have Christmas off instead while most of the younger staff prefer NY off. I’ve had the last couple of years off, DH and I have been happy to stay in, have a nice meal and a few drinks, watch TV then go to bed after Midnight!

NYE, like Christmas, isn't for me any more. But I wouldn't say I hate these occasions. I have said on another thread that I don't dislike Christmas per se, but rather its unpleasant effects on some folk and all the different excesses. Hate is too strong an emotion for something that happens just once a year, every year. Distasteful may be a more suitable adjective. The expected celebration of the passing of one year to the next suggests that the year just gone was awful for everyone and that the year just begun will be a magical watershed. It could just as easily be the opposite. Hope this makes sense.

Oh I meant to say, for the last year I’ve been putting things that made me happy into a ‘Graitude jar’. It’s pretty full now and we’ll be reading through them on NYE I’m really looking forward to that!

I wouldn't say I hated NYE.. I just don't like it so I don't celebrate it, I just go about my day as normal and then go to bed as normal, about 10ish then get annoyed when I'm woken up by fireworks at 12

Just pretend it's any other day, no need to force it.

I am the green haired grump at Xmas and as for new years eve not to fussed about that either that's not to my darling other and children who will get tricked into early bed rather than late. Then the adults can watch something other than generic new year count downs and family friendly TV.
But you should make it your own.

We always go away to the Lakes for a few nights over NY. Walks, fresh air, nice grub, pubs and early nights!

Can you do something like that?