To ask if you think it’s important to stay up and see the new year in.

[Linds29]

Completely random. Not usually fussed on NYE anyway so restrictions really make no difference to us anyway.

But do you feel it’s important to stay up and see the new year in?

I’m usually fast asleep by midnight 🤣 staying up will make me tired and grumpy the next day. Plus partner is on an early shift tomorrow leaving the house at 5am tomorrow so don’t think he’ll make it to midnight.

So aibu to just go to bed and sleep through til 2021? It’s not like there’s much to celebrate this year but I was thinking maybe we should see such a s**t year out.

To add, I’ve ordered a disco light from Argos coming tomorrow so thinking we’ll do a very early evening disco music, lights and party food for the kids and call it a night 🤣

Not important at all

I usually do but I’m a night owl and generally awake till 12 anyway

Omg yes just sleep through it

Awful evening

I used to. Then I figured out I wasn't going to get a prize for doings so.

I’m never in bed before midnight, so it would feel like I was making a real point of avoiding it if I didn’t see it in. I can’t remember not being awake for new year since I was about 10. You can always play last years Big Ben bongs and fireworks on YouTube at whatever time suits you and then go to bed. But wouldn’t you be woken by all the festivities at midnight anyway? I mean there hopefully won’t be large parties this year but I’d imagine people will still be first footing and setting off fireworks

Even when I was a child we stayed up for NYE, and that habit has carried over into adulthood. We usually do something on NYE though - this will be our first time staying in for about 8 years!

I’m seriously considering sleeping through this year. You definitely don’t need to stay up!

Of course it isn't important. We always stay up for it, but is just a question of personal preference. It doesn't actually matter either way.

I normally stay up for the fireworks but I think I'll just go to bed as normal this time

YANBU, I think I might go to bed early and not get up until April!

Not in the slightest. The day will arrive regardless of whether you are awake or not. Massively over hyped imo

See you next year, is a great shout as you tuck the kids in.
We used to say it too our children.

Thanks all. I have no idea what’s normal. Nye was never celebrated in our house growing up. No idea why but my parents hated it. As an adult I’ve always wondered what I’m meant to do.

In the early years of relationship with partner we’d stay in but stay up and watch the drama outside (used to live in a flat in a town centre and nye was always entertaining). Then the kids came along and we sometimes stayed up, sometimes not. It’s quite late for us to be up, we are early risers in the morning tend to go sleep at a decent time....

I am ready for bed tonight already💤

Why are you 'meant' to do anything? It'll come in regardless whether you're asleep or not.

Nope. Some years gone to sleep other stayed up until just past midnight. Kids always in bed by 9ish

I don't normally but shall be celebrating this year with a glass or two of award winning English bubbly.

I don't stay up.

I always have a sense of impending doom for the entire day, I'm glad when it's over.

No, it really doesn't matter. For the last ten years or more we have celebrated on New Year's Day, and pretty much ignored New Year's Eve.

Nope! It wasn’t that big a deal where I grew up. I “celebrated” a few times as an older teen with friends and we stayed up (and out) for the millennium, when I was home for the holiday from uni, but other than that I wasn’t bothered.

I lived in Scotland from 1997 though and Hogmanay is huge there. For a good number of years I felt very pressurised to do something on Hogmanay, but when I was pregnant with our first DC I loved the excuse to not have to do anything. DH was equally delighted. Thereafter we never went out or even stayed up. Said DC is now 16 and the only time we have “seen the bells in” is when we lived overseas and the UK bells were early evening for us! We got our happy new year messages in then and headed to bed. Interestingly it wasn’t a huge deal where we lived overseas either. I don’t get the appeal

Not even slightly. I'll be going to bed by ,9.30ish as I do every other night of the year. I'll be greeting 2021 at 5.30am with the toddler and baby anyway... What difference will a few hours late make

@Inastatus

YANBU, I think I might go to bed early and not get up until April!

That's very tempting!!

I've never understood the fuss about new years eve tbh, going into a new year is no more significant than the month or the day changing. Might as well run around the streets pissed shouting 'woohoo, I got a new calendar'!

Of all the important things in life I think this ranks extremely low. Beyond low infact and into totally unworryable about territory.

I live NYE. Nicer than Christmas really.
I shall definitely see the new year in!

I might stay up this year just to make fucking sure that 2020 really does finish. And I'll be booting its nasty arse out as it goes.

We will sleep through just like last year. Can’t be bothered to stay up that late now that we have kids.

We usually stay up with a bottle of fizz and set up a Scrabble game. The lower the level in the bottle, the lower the level of scores...

Have a DS who now wants to stay up for the Big Ben bongs and fireworks, obviously not happening this year but the Scrabble should still go ahead, why not?

As kids we used to have to dress up in "our best" clothes, which were actually the least worn, and then at midnight everyone shook hands and said Happy New Year and I wanted to die it was so cringy! There was always a glass bowl of peanuts and a plate of shortbread as nibbles. I cringe so bad thinking of it now, we are much more natural and nobody has to obey superstition and wear their "best" either.

Make your own traditions, why not?