To Hate New Years Eve / Day

[Aquarius1234]

No I don't feel any joy when the clock strikes midnight.
I just wanna contuine watching a film etc but feel compelled to clock watch!
I've only ever had a few good decent new year eves and even then it felt forced.
I don't have Any plans so feel like I should suddenly find a friend or do something. But have learnt to accept staying home isn't anything to be ashamed about.

I used to love NYE. It was the tune if the year when my group of friends got together (once a year) and just had a lovely time. But now there are spouses and kids and it just isn't the same anymore.

I don’t like it much. I go to friends but we all have a disregard for it really. One year we all decided to knock it on the head about 11. I was home in bed by 12.

I am fairly indifferent to it. It usually is just another day to me, about every five years or so I might do something.

NYE is more overhyped nonsense, same as Christmas #controversial. If you are struggling in any way with New Year hype, I highly recommend searching for Marian Keyes' New Year video on YouTube. She sticks a pin in all the madness and has some good advice about new years resolutions

Oh I can cure that!

Put the TV on at 10:15am on New Year's Day. BBC 2 almost certainly. The New Year's Day Concert Live from Vienna is the loveliest way to start the New Year. I look forward to it every year. Worth going to bed a bit early so you can be up in time to enjoy.

@FangsForTheMemory thank you for your post defending those who spent time millennium-proofing systems. DH was one of them, so I do find it irritating that there are still people 20+ years later who believe it was all some sort of a big hoax or that those who foresaw the potential problems were just mistaken.
OP I’ve never been a New Year fan - the best one was 1996-7, we’d just moved to a new town and went to a friend of a friend’s we didn’t know very well. It was a lovely evening, we all got on really well and were half way through a game of Articulate when someone looked at their watch and realised it was 12.15. Whereupon everyone just said happy new year and got on with the game. That kind of low key is always my goal but I’ve never managed it quite that successfully again.

I watch Jools Holland and that’s about exciting as it gets, although it’s lost its magic a bit since I found out a few years back it’s not even live.

The whole Millennium Bug thing was so silly !

@starrynight21
Some people might say thank goodness all the hard work and investment paid off. Would you prefer that people had been less thorough and a few critical systems had actually crashed?

I love hogmanay. One of the best nights of the year. Any excuse to get together with family, have some food, drinks and everyone getting together is great. Then we do it all again on new years day.

I love New Year’s Eve! For years my parents ran a pub, so every new years Eve I would work - either as DJ (from 13 til I was about 18) or behind the bar. It was great - double time, lots of drinks bought for you to have anytime you wanted, you got the atmosphere and absolutely no hangover. I used to love going round and hugging all of our customers as I literally grew up with those people! Then my parents would throw a staff party after they kicked the customers out with unlimited free drinks (anything you wanted) and mum would cook for us all or put on a buffet as a thank you for working hard all year!

Since they left the pub and I stopped working there a few years later, we have held a house party - we invite 3-5 friends with their families round (there are 3 families who come every year, 2 who sometimes come). We start around 7/7.30pm and the last people usually leave around 2.30/3am - we just keep going til people are ready for bed. We sometimes get the karaoke out, always get silly games out, the kids all go off and play together, we provide party food all evening, lots of drinks available too. We just have fun together as a group!

when we couldn’t do anything in 2020 I was gutted! It was the only thing I missed doing through all the covid restrictions.

I used to party hard on NYE and now I don't. I kinda miss those party years.

No. Had so many shit and cold nights out. I wonder if being somewhere warm would make the difference.

DH is Scottish so was always obsessed with doing something, especially as the phone calls from his family quizzing what we were doing for Hogmanay would start.
Actually spend it with his parents one year after years of complaining and was literally one of the most boring nights of my life.
Been to some crap parties, probably caused by everyone clock watching, spoils the atmosphere.

One of his siblings has a party every year. We’ve never been as we don’t get the extra bank holiday and often I would need to be in work on the 2nd. He rings and complains every year because people go home early as it’s the only time they can book a taxi for (he doesn’t offer them somewhere to stay of course, that would make sense) or they’re driving so want to home for a drink.

I think it’s a somber time of reflection. Auld Lang Syne and all that.

I therefore find it somewhat depressing. I typically go to bed with a good book and am usually asleep by 11.

Loved Hogmanay as a kid. Massive family parties and it was such a thrill having time with all my cousins, up late, dancing, drinking fizzy drinks after midnight! There are some songs I hear now that just takes me right back to those parties and they make me smile so much, especially as a lot of those people are not with us anymore

Late teens/early twenties were good too but always a hassle getting home which always put a damper on the evening

These days I am usually happily asleep for The Bells.

NYD though, I love it. We have a traditional Scottish steak pie dinner and I look forward to that more than a Christmas dinner. Always go out a walk during the day, stop by the same pub for a drink then home for homemade soup and steak pie. Love it

I love NYD. Not bothered about NYE ar all.

I was in Vietnam for tet one year though and that was awesome. They know how to party!

Same, my birthday is NYD so as a 'youth' it was a big deal.

So much negativity on this thread, if you don't like it just put a film on or go to bed early with earplugs 🤷‍♀️ it's a great opportunity to reflect on the year that's passed and plan for the year ahead, and there's something very peaceful and serene about a bracing winter walk (followed by some chocs in front of World's Strongest Man 🙃)

We have a roast at about 4pm, then baths and bed for DC and early nights all round. Wake up and start the year fresh and rested and go for a long walk on the beach.

Each to their own but the thought of starting the New Year with a hangover sounds revolting.

It’s a New Year and a fresh start. Begin it by celebrating, or not, however you wish.

Nope not a fan. Admittedly it probably stems being verbally abused by someone blind drunk 1999/2000. I cannot stand New Years Eve and will be in bed by 9pm max.

I would never be able to sleep early as I'm a night owl.

Never was a fan but NYE 2015 we stopped treatment for my daughter and she died 7.00am NYD 2016. Was in a Central London hospital, family had to be cleared by police to come in, nurses were having NY buffet, we could hear the fireworks. I don’t have great associations
and am always just glad when it’s all over and we start the year back round.

I hate Christmas & New Year, I'm autistic & hate anything that changes my routine, Christmas I hate because I don't like parties or any kind of gathering, even family, the changes of food, mealtimes. When I worked I was called a misery because I didn't go on Christmas lunches or to the Christmas party, it just wasn't my thing.

It creeps me out as I always wonder who is going to die in the new year.

I always celebrate it but only because its my birthday and as the midwife said to my mum she will always have a party to go to lol but I always usef to go out make a big thing about it but now we just have friends over have a bit of karaoke a few drinks normally all over by 1am but the older I'm getting the more I'm sort of not being bothered as much or maybe I'm just thinking like that because this year I'm ill lol

F5 is your friend :-)