NYE what do people do?

[BeansFee]

Do you do a house party with friends or family? Go out to a restaurant or party? Do you go away, if yes, where is nice to spend NYE

We haven't really 'done' NYE since covid, before that the kids were small so we did a few dinners with neighbours with similarly aged dc.

I am not a huge fan as I like to sleep early😂but willing to stay up till midnight if it's fun. So what are your plans?

Haven't been out for NYE in years, when I was younger we used to go as a gang to a Chinese restaurant and that was fun .. but over 30 years ago now! I do stay up to see the NY in with a bottle of champagne Prosecco ... DH goes to bed at his normal 10pm time .

My favourite NYE parties were in our dancing days. Most organisers tended to take NYE off so after the first year when nothing was organised, we ended up hosting in a spirit of DIY.

All sorts of friends signed up and brought their own friends. We had volunteers to provide the music, sometimes even spontaneously arranged live music.

After the first year when everyone brought a bottle of fizzy wine and very very few drank more than a glass ful, we learned to insist that people took their own 'leftovers' home

Not the usual NYE kind of party.

Nowadays, DH's mobility is extremely restricted and we no longer attend dance events. There are many more organisers, some of whom do arrange NYE parties but we are at home. DH is content to watch TV while I am grateful to be part of a group who run online Murder Mysteries, for which dressing up in character is while not mandatory certainly encouraged.

It's all good.

We stay home for now we are parents. Get in some party food and a have a drink to see in the bells then go to bed. Long gone are the drunken messes that used to stumble through the door in the early morning. I can barely stay up until midnight nowadays 😄

I befriended Harriet on Facebook, as she always throws a NYE party, and the invitation list is simply all her friends on Facebook.

Best NYE was in 2020 when my adult children were home and had nowhere else to go. We all acknowledged we'd never have another NYE with just the five of us together.

Nothing. Don’t always stay up til midnight either. I hate Xmas and NY to be honest. Can’t wait for it to be over.

I work. I’m a musician and can charge double rates for Xmas Eve, Xmas Day & NYE. Me & my OH don’t have kids so it’s a no brainier.

I don't like NY at all - I find it really depressing and hate to hear the bongs of Big Ben chiming another year of my life away.

We have a normal but very cosy evening in, then go to bed at the usual time (10.30 pm). We go for a long walk on NYD and in recent years seem to have got into a rota of having friends over for a big lunch or going to them, which is nice and cheers me up.

Watch the fireworks with DH and a bottle of champagne. Go to bed soon after midnight. We have a 2 year old and no local family so it's easier to stay at home.

I always cook a nice meal and have a couple of glasses of something alcoholic.....then fall asleep!!!! 😂😂 usually wake up around half ten and channel hop till the fireworks are on 💕

I sleep, dh stays up till midnight then sleeps🤣

We did go away last year but we walked all day and ate early so I was still in bed early!

I hate NYE, always have, so happy to sleep through it!

We have young dc and we usually go to a family rave or disco at lunchtime, they have a midday "countdown" so we don't have to stay up late. At actual midnight I'm usually up doing mundane stuff and sometimes switch the TV on to watch fireworks, and we can usually hear people setting them off nearby at house parties as we lived in a really central bit of London. Have moved further out and it's our first NYE in zone 2 this year, but it's a big party/nightlife area so I expect it'll be noisy.

Nothing. It's just a calendar change. I'm not paying through the nose to celebrate just because

Hogmanay. House must be spotless as you don’t t take last years dirt into a new year. Drinks at the bells. Ne’erday we climb a hill somewhere then home for steak pie, no cleaning or laundry that day as you ‘wash away luck/a life’ so a rest after the hill climb is welcome. We get the 2nd off in Scotland in a lot of cases and that’s when I get ready for the coming year.