To dislike New Year’s Eve?

I dislike New Year’s Eve... it’s just another day...and after living through 68 of them I realise not one of them has ever got better!! Fool to believe they ever will. Go to bed with a good book or a good man instead!!

I have never liked New Year, when I was young I used to go out with the friends but never really enjoyed it, now we usually have a meal out & are back home for Twelve o'clock, well to be truthful we are home well before midnight & hubby has to wake me up to let in the New Year, as I will have nodded off in the chair

Midnight on New Years night will usually find me sound asleep so obviously you're not alone in being a miserable old sod.

Totally agree Oldbatty !! Hate this time of year full stop but NYE sees the end of Christmas- thankfully! Bring on spring and the lighter days. Bah humbug !

It was only when in my forties and fifties did I appreciate new years eve .
Children grown up doing their own thing meant DH and self were able to accept party offers without the need for baby sitters with their ' curfew'.

Steady on cupcake, you must stick to the script and be elbow deep in cinnamon biscuit mix.

For years, we always gathered a few close friends to watch the ball drop at midnight and celebrate with a champagne toast. We would take turns at each other's houses and whoever hosted would makes a special (multi course) New Year's Eve dinner..... Stuffed Maine Lobster and Beef Wellington were some of my favorites. Another year someone served up an enormous seafood Paella, preempted with tapas and a delicious Sangria.

Now, many of us have retired and we no longer live near, so these days, H and I either spend it at home or accept our neighbor's invitation to share a glass of bubbly. Last year H was in the hospital and too sick to care. I'm just grateful that he recovered so I can once again give him a good smooch and a hug when the clock strikes twelve.

I love New Years Eve! Another year to look forward to, to celebrate still being alive, to make resolutions and try to live a little bit better life. Another excuse to party and wish our loved ones well. Bring on the jolly grans! Too many on this site just want to grump. Life is not a rehearsal, lets boogie....

No, its not, which is why I don't waste time doing things I don't enjoy because I "should".

In my youth I enjoyed some great NYEs - wearing the tartan and dancing and singing with Scottish friends and neighbours, celebrating in central London and getting overly familiar (and very wet) with the fountains in Trafalgar Square, and then having to walk 12 miles home as there were no trains or buses after midnight -happy days.

But now I struggle to stay awake till midnight, when I know our DSs will ring with greetings. The TV is usually boring and I really HATE all the 'reviews' of the previous year and predictions for the new one. I guess. I'm a grumpy too about NYE.

I like New Years Eve too . I struggle with Christmas a bit , I have had some quite sad Christmas’s, and I am a nurse in a substance misuse service so I know some of our service users are on the streets and although I know they can access the provisions that are available too them over Christmas , I can’t help but think of these very real people who probably never imagined they would be in the position they find themselves in now and that makes me sad ?
Whereas New Year I feel has an optimism about it and an air of possibility.
Maybe the diet will be the one I stick too , maybe I will start to enjoy exercise this year , maybe this is the year I will get organised, my son will find a job, we will win the lottery, whatever it is , this may just be the year !!
As the year progresses this optimism does fade ? , but at New Year , it’s all possible ?.

The past few years we have been invited to another couples house with their four friends, all very nice but its so boring they invite everyone at 4pm,yes 4pm we have a nice meal about 6pm then sit around exchanging news or the occasional joke until Midnight welcome the New Year then sit around again, I have made excuses each year about 1 am to go home, this year I said before we were invited that we wouldnt be coming this year, I just couldnt cope, I would rather see the New Year in on TV.We dont live in the UK but I love the midnight tv from London.New Years Eve here is definately dead if you dont go out, but then you need to book somewhere a year ahead.I sound grumpy but I dont see what there is in a Party with sitting around for hours listening to the same jokes year in year out.Home at New Year for us 2018

I used to work nights and would usually offer to work New Year’s Eve. It’s always an anti climax. And working put some brownie points in Bank for me with colleagues!

For the last 11 years DD has worked on Christmas eve, until midnight, NYE and NYD. The price of getting Christmas day off.

This year she has changed her whole career and now works 9 - 5, in a job where they closed the office at mid-day today and will not open again until 2 January, so this year we will all definitely be seeing the New Year in, at home, with a glass of bubbly and some party food. Just the seven of us, as DS and family will be staying.

We may also go in to the garden to see the fireworks, if there are any, and probably end up with a game of outdoor hide and seek known as 'finding Daddy in the dark'.

I think that NYE is vastly overrated. We much prefer staying in and having a normal evening in front of the telly. Sometimes we stay up until midnight, sometimes we don’t. It’s just another night, after all.
I remember when I was footloose and fancy free, I went out with my friend to a pub, kissed everyone there and came home with a chair we didn’t start out with!!

Always loathed NYE , since a teenager, ( and believe me, that’s a LONG time ago) I’ve made sure I’m safe asleep in one year, to wake up in the next!

New year's eve is when you look back on the mistakes of the last twelve months and wonder if you can stop yourself repeating them in the next twelve months......

oldbatty

We live in a small village in Devon where there used to be two pubs; one great, even on New Years Eve, the other rum by a businessman that he no soul. Unfortunately the former was owned by a pyromaniac who reverted to his usual behaviour a few years ago...we now stay in, drink what we like in whatever quantity and go to our beds to read our books when we get bored! We haven't seen the new year in for about 8 years now! Best thing about living with your best friends

It is my birthday on New Year's Eve and I have to have a party at lunchtime as everyone is going to a new year party in the evening.

Happy birthday to you Sulis

I don’t like NYE either.

I now allocate myself to work the night shift and watch new life enter the world.
We all take food and a bottle of Shloer in and it’s lovely!

I neither like nor dislike it. It's just another day on which I go to bed when I'm tired.

I don't know any rowdy drunk people either mabon1. At least, if they ever are like that it's not in my company. I don't do noise, which is why I like living a little off the beaten track.

I think life is generally noisier now than it used to be.

I hate it,

I have always hated New Year's Eve but not because of raucous celebrations and alcohol-fuelled partying. I have always got rather depressed looking back at a year when I felt that I still had not achieved my potential, that I hadn't lived up to my own standards, that I wasn't doing things right, that I was a failure in many ways, etc. etc. I would start out at a party of some sort and then leave before midnight, sit on the bottom stair and sob into my long-suffering dog's furry coat. The lovely dog is long gone and I am less hard on myself these days. I am still not a fan of New Year's Eve, but for some years I have thrown a big lunch party, inviting all those people I love, on New Year's Day to reaffirm our connections. It works.