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.

This. Last year my DH and I were watching a celebration/fireworks show on TV in a city we didn't live in . As we watched we said we're going to live in that city by the time NY rolls around again. And we did. We worked hard this year to achieve it and love our new home/city.

I like the fact that once it's 1 January, you can look forward to the spring, which is my favourite time of year.

YANBU. I like it, but just because I view it as an extension of the Christmas festivities and another opportunity to enjoy good company, food and wine. I don't really care about the 'beginning of a new year' aspect of it. I'm a teacher, married to a recently ex-teacher, with school age dc. September always feels far more like the dawn of a new year with a fresh start to me than January does.

The Hogmanay parties when I was a kid and then a teenager were legendary. All the neighbours in the street. First footing went on for hours. And parents let us out till all hours.

Then Edinburgh's Hogmanay came along and all the parties stopped as everyone went into the town. And the town was shit. Hated it and missed the parties.

We have a good party now with extended family. But it's not the same 🥲 and no Rev I M Jolly.

You need I M Jolly to end the year. He got offered ‘super sexy’ and said ‘I’ll have the soup’