Do you celebrate New Year's Eve

Stopped going to or throwing any formal sort of ‘do’ years ago, though as a teen/early 20s I loved a NYE party.

Dh and I will usually stay up and have a glass of fizz at midnight, watch the fireworks on TV, but unless we have guests staying anyway, that’s it.
What we’ve done a few times is book theatre tickets for NYE - sought-after tickets are often available.

For the last few years we've been in bed fast asleep long before midnight 😄 This year may well be the same. When we were younger we always felt like Billy-no-mates staying home at New Year so we rarely did it. Now we're very happy not to be out in drunken crowds.

It has varied immensely over the years, with no real pattern.

But since the grandchildren came and DS and family have spent Christmas with one set of grandparents each year alternating with new Year, we have had a full house one year and just us and DD the next, we have partied at home: abottleof fizzy, lots of nibbles and in bed by 0.30 in tothe New Year

I'm in demand for babysitting on that evening. I stay over and enjoy a child friendly celebration and an early night. I've always felt ( as a long- divorced woman) that NYE is more of a couple kind of event.

When I was younger, I lived going out on New Years Eve.
Now, it’s a much quieter affair at home.

I generally go away for a few days at New Year, usually choosing places because they have something fun/interesting happening on NYE. It has the added advantage of not being around for babysitting requests.

This year, because of the endless bloody hip injury limiting my mobility so much, I’m going somewhere flat, and planning to do nothing more exciting than watch fireworks on the beach.

Sorry about your hip Simpel. It’s a so and so isn’t it.
Fireworks on the beach sounds grand. We are usually indoors on our own and often in bed before 11.

Siope. Predictive text is driving me mad.

I have booked a couple of nights in a seaside hotel in the first days of the new year,

Thanks silverlining. I’m having a small operation in early Januaryvwhichbi Hope will help.

Enjoy your break.

Not long to wait Siope. . Assume you know about our hips and knees thread on here. ? Go to Health on forums and look for the dancing 💃 twins.

In answer to the OP- not if I can help it.

When I was not young enough to drink my gran had a huge party that started at midnight. All the cousins were put to bed and allowed to join in. All the Mines and ships in the docks blew their hooters and Grandad was the first man allowed back into the house. All the men had congregated on a certain pub corner.
We used to go First footing when older in DH village . You went to a house and had a drink and a mince pie then they locked up and joined you as you went round the village.
As we got older and did not go home it turned into buffet suppers that everyone took turns to host—and finished well after midnight.
Now we watch all the fireworks from different countries, usually watch Joules Holland drink fizz and go to bed. It's the only time I cry. Especially singing Auld lang Syn.

Used to love big parties but not now. I will probably babysit for my DD this year. Quiet night in will suit me fine.

No not any more. Usually go to bed and then get grumpy when the fireworks wake me up! 😂

I’ve never been a fan of New Year, but for years we spent New Year’s Eve with a couple we were very close to - dinner at either of our houses and then bringing in the New Year. On Millenium NYE we took glasses and a bottle of champagne across to our local park and stood on top of a hill with hundreds of people watching the fireworks go off across the city. We counted down the chimes and sang Auld Lang Syne with a bunch of generous spirited, good humoured total strangers. It was magical. Then one of our friends died and the heart went out of it, as so often happens.

For years we celebrated Hogmanay with our neighbours and partied until the early hours. Everyone took a turn and the host had to organise the quiz.
The teenagers had a separate party in one of the empty houses and came at midnight to join us. They were always great fun and no need for taxis home!

Now that we are older, it's much quieter. DD is organising a Hogmanay family lunch, which means we will be all tucked up by the bells. Frankly I am glad, I always get quite sad at that time.

I have never been a party animal, so will go to bed at around 11pm as usual.

Yes we always celebrate it. This year it is to be dinner and a ceilidh with an overnight stay at the hotel. 🥳

This happened years ago. We live in south of England and had Scottish neighbours. They were not overly friendly but there wasn’t a problem.
One new years eve when we had gone to bed around 11 we got loud knocking at the door at 2.30 am. Frightened the life out of me. They were quite insistent wanting to come in, or us to go next door, can’t remember which, but I found it very strange; not only them knocking but waiting til 2.30 a,m to do so, our house was quiet, no lights, no party, no nothing.
Not wanting to cause offence we let them in, us in our pjs. them in their party clothes. all quite bizarre. They went after a while and we went back to bed. We didn’t become best buddies afterwards as they kept a distance as before.
Can anyone tell me if that is usual

I will go to bed and try to get to sleep before the noise (fireworks etc) starts. I don’t really see the point of celebrating New Year, and it’s too soon after Christmas for another lot of jollifications.

Yes every year. When my son was 2 we moved to a new house in a small cul de sac.
All of us in the surrounding houses all had children around the same age.
As my house was the biggest we invited the close neighbours and a few other chums into ours for NYE. The children either asleep in the beds or determined to stay up.
Those children are now in their 30 s the parents still come home every year.

During Covid, we faced timed each other on NYE but my next door neighbour with my DH took a fence panel down, still within our own gardens,my neighbour lit a fire pit on his side of his garden, so we could sit around at a distance, warm, drinking fizz and bringing in the New Year.
So yep we will no doubt see in the New Year.

We used to go to our local in fancy dress, we then changed to having friends for dinner, now it’s just us. We’ll still stay up past midnight watching Jools, love the pipe band and open the front door.

Not since my husband died 20 years ago. I can't stay awake long enough. To be honest just woke from a nap . Good job I was watching something on all4 so will need to watch it another time. Over did things today. I am 65.