Anyone else had a terrible year?

[Aurasauras]

I am sure you don't want my list of exactly how shit 2023 has been but roll on 2024!

I read about the ritual of opening the window to let the year out just before midnight on 31/12 then opening the door at midnight to let the New Year in. Any other rituals I should know about?

Yes, and under current circumstances it is going to continue to be bad until the end of the year. I wish everybody a better 2024

All I want for Christmas is New Year's day. 2023 can fuck right off!

Although, I am saying that. This year has been shit but also an absolute blessing. I am hopeful and optimistic for next year. For once!

Only New Year's ritual I have heard of is first footing.

Yes - first footing - supposedly the first person to cross the threshold after midnight should be a tall dark man - but definitely a man - carrying money/gold; some coal and a food item I forget what.

It's supposed to mean the household will have prosperity, warmth and food.

Apparently my great grandfather used to do it religiously.

It's very bad luck for the first person over the threshold to be empty handed with no gifts for the household.

I love the door opening ritual I'm going to do that !! I've had a pretty shitty ten years on the whole but this one hasn't been too bad and I feel I'm finally getting out of a very dark hole.

Looking forward to seeing the back of 2023, it’s been horrendous. I’m sorry for everyone going through illness, loss or whatever you’re going through that’s led you here, take care xx

Ooh I have a tall dark haired man who can bring gold, food and coal 😊. I hope we all do better and feel happier next year.

2023 is definitely on my shit list. I’ll be kicking it up the arse on its way out.

my sympathies to anyone dealing with a shit twelve months (or longer). Considering we all lived through 2020/1 it’s actually quite fascinating how subsequent years still manage to be bullshittingly awful.

2023 has been truly awful for me and my DP, I'd cheerfully have said goodbye to it by the end of September so just to spite me, October got even worse.

I thought mine was awful,till I saw some of the other replies,sad to loose a parent, unimaginable to loose a child. Me,I'll health,lots of health issues a malignant tumor found on a scan for something else. Covid September,first time, now under FOUR different consultants,Long Covid .Much love to everyone else here. I understand growing up,you bring coal,food and drink. Having said that I can't stand all the new year party rubbish,waste of money,it's just another day.

I’ve often wondered if I did the same Christmas themed walk as I did last year which saw life turn a bit of a challenge and 2023 get off to the worst start possible, could I reverse and heel myself.

Always wonder what if I’d done something else in that moment in time.

I’ll be glad to see this year passed.

I'm so sorry. Being homeless is so very difficult and against everything we should be as a civilised society

I'm so sorry for all of your losses; it's horrific and relentless pain. I lost my brother to covid in 2021 and it's like life before and life after. I can't really remember life before, just life now.

I'm truly glad to not know what life holds because good or bad, it would be too much.

I hope that 2024 brings good things, as many as will completely outweigh any bad.

Not me, but a few people I know have had a terrible year and it's so sad.

First footing. I am sorry you have had a crap year

OMG I'm so, so sorry. That is horrific.

2022,2023 and next year looks like being equally crap.

Sorry for everyone who’s suffered with ill health and loss this year. I was coming on to say I’d had a terrible year but you’ve all put it into perspective. I’ve had a stressful year that I’ll be glad to see the back of. I’ll do the door ritual and I’ll be thinking of everyone on this thread as I do it and hoping for a positive, calm and healing year for everyone.

In a way it’s been nice because I’ve been pregnant with my second child, but that came straight off the back of a miscarriage, so I’ve been pregnant all year essentially, with all the sickness and tiredness that entails, plus my mum died in August and as an only child I’ve had to deal with the whole estate whilst working and knackered, so struggling endlessly to keep up with work, and our toddler has been going to sleep later and later so that I fall asleep just after he’s gone down, and wake up to him climbing into our bed and rolling on my head at around 6am. So very, very little genuine relaxation time, and no option of using alcohol to get through it.
Baby is due on Dec 28th (elcs so I know this to be true!) and on NYE, even if I’m still in hospital, I’m celebrating the end of 2023! And the minute baby and I get home I’m having a large gin.

Absolutely horrendous year. The worst of my life. I'm hoping that the clouds will start to lift in 2024.

Oh god, how absolutely devastating! Nobody should have to go through that I'm so sorry 💐

Hugs to anyone who is going through a difficult time with health or loss, difficult one for me too, I became a homeowner in March, and in September we were hit by two very awful catastrophic floods, I live in central Greece. Things are looking on the brighter side now, I just decorated my bedroom for the winter because it is the only room in the house that the heating is working. I’m doing things I can each day just to bring about a bit of joy, but everyone here is still feeling the effects of what happened in September, my building was very badly damaged, and it’s not that easy. So hopefully next year will bring better luck.

So sorry for those that have lost precious family and friends this year always hard to navigate grief, been through it many times unfortunately. Hoping 2024 will be a better year for us all.

Lots of love to everyone struggling. It's been a shit couple of years here too, and the shit just keeps happening! The shit is relentless! I don't really believe that the laws of the universe have much truck with the Gregorian calander so I'm not expecting 2024 to be any different, but I'll keep putting one foot in front of the other.

I have had the worst year of my life bar none. It has been horrific, with health probs, family probs, money and relationship problems. However, after reading some of the replies on here, I’m going to just be incredibly fucking grateful that my children are healthy and happy. I hope all your 2024’s and beyond are filled with happiness and better than this year! I will definitely be trying the window and door shenanigans at midnight!

The only way 2024 will be better than this year is if I die so I can be with the people I've lost. Nothing else will fix anything.