To ask if anyone else has FOMO?!

[fomocrew]

I'm working tonight (support worker) but I must say I'm starting to get really bad FOMO seeing everyone get dressed up and going out. Anyone else in the same boat?! Let's share our boring NYE stories to give each-other some comfort 🤣

Also... so glad I won't be hanging tomorrow!

Love this!

No, I hate crowds, drunks and noise and am experiencing only RAAT (Relief at Avoiding All That).

I am currently Comfortably Utilising Netflix Time.

I'm at home , my partner died in the Summer after being run over in 2021 and getting brain damage and my Mum and dad had a motorbike accident on Friday and they are in hospital , with My dad facing his leg being amputated and having warning signs of sepsis right now.. they have had their beds put into the same room to watch the fireworks together :)

Right now I ain't in the mood for partying. I'm scared to delve into 2024 for the fear of what's to come when they both come home.

My 5 year old was in bed at 8pm. I've done some washing, ironed the school uniform ready for Wednesday and have watched a film on tv. Quite happy to not be out anywhere. I'll be heading to bed soon with my book.

Too skint to do anything but don't dislike chilling out at home so can happily take it or leave it. I’ve taken down my decorations and thoroughly cleaned the house then followed it with a nice meal and a couple of drinks with a film. I’m working tomorrow so a quiet night is for the best.

She picked all of the acronyms that wasn't a Mumsnetism

FOTTFOFATFOSM - sure, MN jargon.

But DH? Nope been around since the days of AOL in the 1990s

No did all that when i was young and daft enough to think a packed pub with pricey drinks and overpowering perfume dressed in clothes that were not for the weather was a good idea, quite happy in me pjs with a glass of bubbly and queen Wembley 1986 on the telly Happy new year everyone

Your not missing out don't understand why you think everyone is out just because it's New Years Eve?

I have JOMO

The joy of missing out

😁

We went out for dinner tonight with dds. I drove, so back home now with a glass of wine to see the New Year in. Just chilling watching crap tv.
I did my fair share of working new years over the years when I did shift work. Never really had FOMO. Everyone I know is doing things early on and heading home to celebrate.

I didn't, when I saw it I thought it was an illness.

No, I am not getting any of that, quite content at home alone though telly is predictably boring. I am going out tomorrow.

😂 me too!

@Doglover19 , I'm so sorry

Fomo was added to Oxford dictionaries in......2013.

Doglover19 really sorry about your awful year, hope your parents will be ok and home soon.

You are asking in the wrong place as it’s an online forum hence a higher percentage of introverts, socially anxious, I mean lots of people think it’s ok to never answer the door on here.

I have had lots of different NYE over the years massive partying ones from my teens till I had DS at 34 and then a good decade at home or sometimes at a relatives all very low key. Now it’s a get together with friends often over last decade for drinks, board games and food, not wild but very enjoyable. We had one blip 2019 , DS had a party at our house and he insisted we join in. That was a great night and I won beer pong, which was not a thing when I was young. There was no charging to go in pubs when I was young either.

I’m dreadful with this. When an outing is suggested, I know deep down that I won’t enjoy it, but the FOMO hits and I agree to go.

Then when it comes to it, I get FOGO and am desperately looking for an excuse not to have to go. Does anyone else do this? It’s a dreadful habit and I feel guilty if I let friends down.

NYE is a bit easier as so many people don’t go out out now. I don’t think I have been out out on NYE for about 20 years!!

You are asking in the wrong place as it’s an online forum hence a higher percentage of introverts, socially anxious, I mean lots of people think it’s ok to never answer the door on here.

Sigh.

@fomocrew

I hear you!!! My husband was at work last night. He does 4 on 4 off (nights at the moment) and was actually back at work on the 30th December. So is he in 30th, 31st, 1st, and 2nd of January. (He was on holiday over Christmas though and had been off since 17th... So at least we had Christmas together - and saw family for a few hours, which was lovely ...)

My family live 25 to 35 miles away. And even though I've got quite a lot of friendly neighbours, they were all doing their own thing. They had a few family members around, and a few even went to the pub, which is 10 minutes walk away. The pub had a NYE party. Everyone invited. Just £5.

There's just no way in hell that I was going to go to the pub on my own though. I've only been a couple of times in the past year and the last time was June. What was I supposed to do? Go on my own and try and pick somebody to sit by? Imposing on their little get together, with their family and friends?

I haven't been out on New Year's Eve since 2018. (Was ill NYE 2019.) Then covid hit and I have rarely been to the pub since.

When we first came here, (around 8-9 years ago,) we went to the local pub with four or five neighbours. (And went out on NYE several times with them.) But those neighbours have left now, and this year, DH was working. So I was sat on my own last night with a glass of wine and some nibbles - watching the telly, seeing the New Year in - just with my cat.

I actually felt really, really sad. I felt like crying because I was sitting on my own, and felt to lonely at that moment.. It's absolutely ridiculous because I know lots of people are probably in my position - or just there with their partner. Just forcing themselves to stay awake till midnight, clinking a couple of glasses of wine together, then going into bed. And my DH is only at work, and I do have adult DC a few miles away, so why did I feel sad and lonely?

Daft really isn't it? My husband has next New Year's Eve off, AND Christmas. He has already booked it! So we're going to go to pub a few more times this year. Try and engage a bit with the people in there, and the landlord and landlady, and then go to their New Year's Eve party next year.

Going for a nice long walk by the canal in a minute. So at least I can say I did something for New Year! (DH is in bed ... Nightshift!)

I could have gone to my adult children's house and celebrate with them and just stop over. I think they'd have been fine with that. But they had six or seven friends around to stay - all in their 20s (did last NYE too,) and I don't want to impose and put a dampener on their party..... with their 50 something mother hanging around them. They may not mind, but I would feel awkward.

Anyway HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! 😍