AIBU to ask why people hate NYE so much?

[Kat256M]

Maybe not hate as such but people are just done with the festive spirit after the 26th. I am not British so it seems weird to me, we always used to celebrate NYE more than Christmas, the big family gathering is usually on January 1st.

Is it just that everyone is over it by then? Or because there seems to be more pressure on Christmas dinner? Just curious really.

I'm not done with the festivities. Still have my tree up, still eating chocolate and watching Christmas films. We'll have a party tea tomorrow night and a nice roast on New Years Day but I don't really understand the midnight fuss. If we're up, we watch the fireworks but I don't really get it.

The tradition here is to bring the new year in and celebrate at midnight which for a lot of people is inconvenient. I think if the tradition was to do something on New year's Day people would be more into it.

Obvs not everyone feels like this.

My partner and I were talking about this today.

For me, Christmas Eve sounds dark, magical, exciting and full of wonder - even if when it isn't.

NYE in contrast is grey, cold and bleak.

It just feels different.

I am going out this year but don't normally. I usually stay in and clean/tidy the house and begin my plans/prepare for the following year - start as I mean to go on.

It is mostly celebrated with a late night of drinking. It just holds no interest for me.

I started to dislike it after the Millenium.
Before that, there used to be fireworks in Trafalgar Square which were televised, maybe in some big cities but not all over the countryside. Fair enough I suppose that people had fireworks for the Millenium but then they've carried on forever after. I quite like nov 5th fireworks in the early evening but really don't like all the banging at midnight and sometimes for the best part of an hour after.

I see no more reason to stay up until midnight on NYE any more than I do to stay up to the solstice at 3:27am. The latter is probably more meaningful actually, I do celebrate at sunrise.

It's because it's a miserable occasion. The holidays are over. Work looms. A miserable, dark, cold January beckons. What's to celebrate? Nothing. Plus it's the last night I will be able to get a decent amount of sleep and idiots will be blaring music out/setting of fireworks all night. Fuck it.

Give me the first week of January off as well and I'd suddenly be much more interested in New Year's Eve.

I am Scottish, Hogmanay is a big celebration here.

I don't drink and am generally in bed before midnight, but certainly where I am from it's still a big celebration for most people - shops close early on Hogmanay and many businesses remain closed on the 1st. It's a public holiday here.

It’s grim. It’s the middle of winter. Cold, dark, everyone’s skint.
For me new year is the 1st of March. It FEELS fresh, new and hopeful.

This exactly. This holds no attraction for me.

I like the bank holiday and that’s about it.

We always stayed up to watch it when we were kids, walk the old year out the house and the new year in and we stay up now too but the kids are in bed. Watch the fireworks on telly, speak to my sisters and Mom, try and catch the neighbourhood fireworks but I've only really gone out for it once and it was expensive!

I really do hate it. I never used to. When I was young and going out til 5am with friends I loved it, but now I can't think of anything worse. Plus New Year was very much a family time work my parents, aunties etc and now they're all gone it just doesn't feel the same and I really feel their loss.

I think it's because there is pressure to do something, so if you don't, you feel inadequate/friendless/etc - and then that feeds into not liking it.

Nowadays I need my sleep so the fireworks are a right nuisance.

NYE is in the middle of the Christmas festival for me. I’ve been back at work all week, but we still have the tree and decorations up and will for ages afterwards. I don’t like nYE as an excuse for drinking, though, as I don’t drink. And I find it too hard to stay up till midnight, so don’t do that.

Because one can be perfectly jolly then someone plays that Auld lang Syon (sp) and everyone cries

I used to love it, but actually for maybe the last 5/6 years or so the world has seemed so bleak that bringing in another year of shit and wanton destruction doesn’t feel like the party it ever used to be. But maybe I’m just getting miserable in middle age.

I agree OP, I enjoy the period between Christmas and New Year many are packing away the decorations after Boxing day. I think the pre Christmas hype starts building so early now that it just cannot be sustained much past Christmas Day. The planning, the adverts, the hype, the excitement, the spending it's not possible to keep it up. The shops seemed to start with the Christmas displays while I was still wearing my flip flops-now shops are already displaying Easter eggs before we've even celebrated New Year's 🙄

Jan 1st is a holiday everywhere in the UK I think - isn't it the 2nd Jan which is the "extra" BH in Scotland at this time of year?

Because it marks another year further away from loved ones who died too soon.

Am I heck done with being festive?!?! Steak pie dinner on New Year's Day, big fuss bringing in 2024 - but I'm Scottish!🤣

It's a big noisy reminder that the holidays are over and it's time to go back to work and school.

I am in Scotland- we don’t celebrate it and none of our friends really do either. Boring and fake and the drunks (whether in the pub or at a select gathering - done both) hanging all over you - no thanks!

I will be banging it out on piano tomorrow night 😁

It was always an anti-climax in my going out and drinking years and now I just feel done with celebrating by the 31st. I'm knackered! DH tells me we need to push through and keep celebrating until the 1st or we're wimping out.

I like it, more booze and music and no need to hang out with my parents (I love them but ...) night owls here so midnight is nothing. We have booked a dinner and band package locally