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 🤣

Hogmanay has been dreadfully commercialised in the last 20 years or so. I am Scottish and the worst time I ever had was at “Edinburgh’s Hogmanay” several years ago. Dreadful. Full of backpackers wandering around looking for the party, not realising that they WERE the party ( or they were supposed to be).

It does matter to me, although in kind of an understated and personal way. I have no desire to go out drinking and be amongst people I don’t know. I really enjoy being amongst friends (even one or two of them), in somebody’s living room or something, in our normal clothes, seeing out the old year and welcoming in the new.

It’s a time of renewal and it can be quite emotional too.

I will miss the company this year. But nothing to be done about that!

May 2021 be good to you all.

In the past I've always gone to bed quite early because I want to be up for parkrun in the morning.

None of that this year, but I am usually in bed by 11 on NYE. I gave up on trying to socialise on NYE years ago, due to friends always waiting for more exciting offers. And as you get older it's just depressing, another year gone.

I'm Scottish, and traditionally the new year (not new years!!) has always been a big thing here - similarly to @jutanotherremainer I prefer being with close family. I'll stay up to bring in the bells, see the back of this year and welcome the new one, with the hope that it brings with it health and happiness.

I’d consider it shit luck if I was still awake at midnight on New Year’s Eve. I hate New Year and make a point of trying to be asleep for it.

Nope. I've slept through more New Years that I have celebrated.

It’s more of a thing in Scotland so I do normally see it in.

Obviously it’s not important to stay up OP. Just do what you want, be kind to yourself.

I’ve always loved NYE, probably as it was always a big deal growing up, we would go to a house party of a family friend and dance in the living room until the early hours. Since having DC, we have 2 or 3 local families come over to ours and we all love it.

It’s been a terrible year for everyone and god knows how we’re going to get through January so I want to bring joy to the kids and myself wherever I can. So we’ll be dressing up, DC are baking cakes, I’m making cocktails, we’ll play games and have a disco, and I’ll be saying good riddance to 2020 at midnight.

DH is Scottish. He used to feel huge pressure to do something and have a great time at NY. I can’t think we have ever had an amazing NY. The times we went to Scotland it wasn't even good.
When he was growing up there were huge family parties which is why he thinks it’s brilliant. My BIL is always trying to do a big party and there always a bit of a disaster. Mostly because of issues like getting taxis and people wanting to get children home (DH and all his cousins would just be expect to find somewhere to sleep).
NY is always has that ‘organised fun’ feeling about it to me.

YANBU. I’m going to have an early night and try sleep away the remainder of this miserable fuck of a year

Nope. I never could stand new year and this one will be even more pointless.

Pile of crap. Hoping there will be hardly any fireworks so I can go to sleep.

Absolutely. I have to let the old year out the back door and the new one in, carrying bread.

Not if you have little ones. We never used to, though we did before and we do now. Life goes through phases.

Oh yes (Scottish). DH will be booted out of the door with a lump of coal and some salt and told to stay oot until 00:01 when the poor baffled Englishman is let back in again.

Some years I’ve gone to bed but in the last deceased I’ve fully embraced Hogmanay. Like @justanotherremainer I’ve found it best celebrated in peoples living rooms but for me it’s about friends, laughs, music and sharing food. I’ll no doubt be in bed this year!

I'm always awake until 1.30 / 2am so it's not really special here either!

I remember some exciting New Year's Eves as a teen/20-something but it's lost its sparkle now. I think I would choose to stay up, just to mark it if my usual sleep-time was earlier than it is but it's just a personal thing really.

Normally don't stay up. This year? Want to make absolutely sure this bloody year ends.

Well.

I'm back from NYE brunch and very nice it was; fire pit, nibbles and bubbles. Unanimous agreement that it was the way forward for future NYEs. And just as well: at 10. 30.a.m. the Victorian government halved NYE indoor gatherings to 15 and mandated indoor masks from 5.00.p.m. in the face of new infections (low, but that's how it started last time).

So yes, I've tidied the garden, though NOT take the dog to the beach (drink) and am eyeing up the DVDs for tonight.

Happy new year to everyone, no matter how you see it in.

I remember, as a very small child, my Mother holding me up to look out of the window saying "it's a New Year" and being really disappointed that everything was the same - it didn't look new at all!
That annual disappointment has carried through to adulthood so I won't bother staying up.
We haven't even got Andy Stewart on the Telly!

I have seen the new year in twice in the last ten years as we had something booked. When I am at home, as I will be tonight, I go to bed at my usual time which will be before midnight.

It’s my least favourite celebration unless I’ve gone to the fireworks (about one year in five.
This year it’s pretty grim - brexit at midnight, awful awful 2020, difficult few months Covid wise and very uncertain 2021.
There’s a loudon wainwright song which ends ‘I will get through the days and I will face down the nights’.
That’s the mindset I’ve got and I will stay up and zoom etc. For first time in a long time Feels somehow important to me to mark it somehow ??
Feel defiant in the face of everything.
HNYEVE all.

I think I have stayed up about 6 times in my 67 years lifetime. It was fun when much younger but now I’m in bed by 9!
I suspect my rowdy Scottish neighbours will be whooping it up as usual, so little sleep tonight 😡🤬
Just need to wait for their children to turn up today from tier 4 areas, oh joy! Covid restrictions have completely bypassed them.

No, it’s not important to me at all.

Not for me. Indeed being able in normal times to go out somewhere on New Years Day in the morning or early afternoon is a lovely way to start a new year.

I won't be, I'm breastfeeding a 4 week old baby and I'm beyond exhausted. L