to never 'get' new year?

[NewUser2022]

I just hate all the nonsense around it.
Nothing really changes when the clock moves 1 second past midnight.
But all the hype of it being a 'new year' as if it's some kind of mega-shift in people's lives.
I've never celebrated it, find it a huge waste of time (and sleep!) and genuinely don't understand why anyone thinks today is any different to yesterday other than it's a new month and we have to remember to put 2022 on stuff.

I hate it too.

Was thinking yesterday that it's just a marketing ploy like the Debretts engagement ring nonsense.

I’m not really bothered about NYE, but I do like NYD. It’s a public holiday that I treat as the end of the festive period.
Agree with pp about September, that always feels like my reset, as we move from summer to autumn and the schools go back after the long break.

I really love the New Year. I love the positive feeling that this will be a fresh start and I'll tackle bad habits. That this year will be even better than the one before and that there are all sorts of wonderful things to look forward to. I'm very much a glass half full person - and I love a new planner, a new calendar and the optimism of things to come. I'm also half Scottish, so the New Year was always a big family celebration as a child and that has continued.

Each to their own, however.

I like it, I enjoy planning something fabulous to do on New Year’s Eve and buying a new outfit and then I take down my Christmas tree on New Year’s Day and my house feels all fresh. My family have a new year’s day tradition of going to the cinema together and we enjoy that.
I like celebrating all the annual events such as valentines and do something for bonfire night etc. I didn’t use to, I couldn’t be bothered but now I look back I think I was a bit depressed then. Now I feel I get a lot more out of my life and have fun things to look forward to.

It's still HUGE in Scotland, properly big with Hogmanay parties all over- big, small, just couples/ family whatever. I don't know anyone who doesn't stay up for 'The Bells'. It brings light into a dark time of year.

Go see Up Helly Aa once in your life and see if you can find the magic.

But everything is arbitrary?

I’m only ever 8 hours older when I wake up than I was when I went to bed.. birthdays included. The day you turn 40 you are hardly older than when you were 39 and 364 days are you..?

Christmas is only on the 25th because we’ve all decided to celebrate it on that day. If you decide to call another day Christmas Day, as long as the people you spend it with go along with it, it’s basically as much Christmas Day as the 25th is.

I hate it too, think it's because there was always so much hype and pressure for a good night out when I was younger, and it never lived up to the hype. I was in bed last night muttering to myself about the non stop fireworks keeping me awake. At least on Nov 5th, it's more for kids and families, whereas they were still going at 12.30. I'm the NY grinch. Go absolutely mad for Christmas though!

I find it quite bittersweet, never found it inspiring or filled with promise. I used to go out and watch people celebrate and be happy, whilst I just felt sad. Now I like to have a goodnights sleep and not wake up with a sore head. The only thing now is I wonder if I'll see the year through as I feel like I'm living on borrowed time. I sound a right old misery arse.

I totally agree! I've never got it.

God! I hate that too, it makes me cringe from the 2nd Jan onwards lol 😖

This thread is nearly a year old.

I absolutely love Hogmanay. A brand new year, a completely blank canvas full of potential and opportunity

I agree. It's just so blah

Come to Scotland then and see how to really celebrate. It was always more important that Christmas up here.

Always hated it. Just because 1 minute after midnight the date changes to a new date, why all the fuss?

Most people's lives carry on the same from Dec 31 to Jan1.

I can't be bothered with it.

It's not as if, suddenly, everything is different.

It's not a blank canvas though. That's what's so bizarre.
All the troubles people have are still there on 1st Jan.
Their life history is still there.

If someone want to think it's good time for a new start, fair enough, but in reality that's not what it's about.

It's not a blank canvas though. That's what's so bizarre.
All the troubles people have are still there on 1st Jan Exactly, I will never get the people on Facebook saying they're glad to see the back of 2022, they've posted the same thing every New Year since 2012....

Hate nYE don’t mind first though then bills paid as soon as.

@NewUser2022 Sound like a right ray of sunshine!

I prefer it to Christmas. At least I can opt into NY if I want to and have a party etc without the bullshit of buying presents.

I love it because it marks the turning of fortiune in winter. The light is notably brighter. It puts an end to all the slotgh and ferasting and enables us to have a clear out and fresh, healthy foods, with a but of a push to make an effort. Without it, I'd stay unde rthe duvet until March, but the prompt of New Year makes me make an effort at the least invogorating time of the year seasonally. It energises me to add interesting thinsg to my diary.

Lang may yer lum reek

Family, food, games, booze and also looking forward to watching 'Ooh The Banter' on the tellybox before The Bells.

@Marmelace

just checking in on you!! Please reply x

Firstly, I know this thread is a year old.

And while you are right, obviously, that it's not a blank canvas - it's a really great thing to have an obvious time to reflect, a time to consider what you want your life to be. Yes, that can happen any time, April 7th or September 25th etc. But as a business owner, a new year is a really useful time. a) I have a few days off work so I have time built in easily and b) its an obvious time to consider what my plans are going forward - for example diaries and planners use the calendar year, so getting those plans in now means a whole year of empty book to write in.

I hate New Year's Day. It's so boring. It means nothing to me. All I want is to get back to my routines.

I don't bother celebrating.

I'd feel a bit better about it if there were not expensive fireworks (which upset pets and some who are neurodiverse), no charging for entry to pubs (though OK with regulars only) and shops were closed on New Year's Day.

@MajorCarolDanvers lang may yer lum
reek. I remember old new years, watching Scotch and Rye then Taggart at my Aunts house the adults all drinking and crying a bit at the bells. The smell of chimney smoke….