Do you Celebrate New year's Eve

We have another couple over for a quiet meal, play a board game or two, wish them happy New Year, watch the fireworks, and say goodnight.

Used to go out and get totally hammered but that was about 40 years ago, rarely do I even stay up to see it in now 🤷‍♀️

DD2 and family always spoil me rotten at Christmas and they like to spend NYE with their friends so I cook myself a nice meal and then watch Jools Holland/fireworks etc. I always drink a toast to DH and DD1 with his favourite Famous Grouse whisky. It’s the only time of year I drink it so I save what’s left for his birthday on Jan 10th when DSiL will be happy to help me out by finishing the bottle. 🥳

I’m often working a late shift but if home we enjoy a family meal and drink but in bed before midnight.I really like the hope that goes with a New Year and the feeling of a clean slate.

I lie in bed and watch the fireworks and celebrations on TV and also out of my window as I live on a hill..

I do still make a list of New Year Resolutions though.. in my head

We will be like you Judy54!
Conga lines in our cul-de-sac with friends and neighbours with fireworks are long behind us. 😁

It will be just DH and me. We have some lovely fillet steak for our evening meal and a hotpot for NYD. We will go out of our front door just before midnight and watch the fireworks and go inside to continue watching Hootenanny. In between all this I will have to catch my smart meter readings at midnight as the prices go up and I like to work out my bill. All good stuff....lol

It's Hogmanay here in Scotland!

31st Dec is DH's birthday so we have a nice dinner and some champagne at home (not worth booking a restaurant table, as only an idiot would be out on the roads on certain nights of the year!). At midnight we bang saucepans outside, call out HNY to any neighbours who are out doing the same, then we go to bed.

We spend NY eve with friends alternating one year they host and the next year us. It is our turn to host this year. I will cook a dinner for us, we play a few games and then watch the fireworks on TV. Christmas is for our families but New Year is celebration time with our special friends 🥂🍾

We have always stayed in but we are going out with friends to a local new restaurant. We went last New Years eve it was a very nice change. We will be home before midnight though. As our dog will need cuddles being scared of fireworks.

We will be at a party with friends. I can remember staying up until 3am in the morning, but those days are long gone. If we make it until 1am that will be something.

Always stay in, and always have a malt whisky at midnight to see the old year out, as my grandmother used to say. Drinking alone this year, as DW is in hospital.

A quiet New Year for us this year. Sometimes we go to friends or they come to us, but they’re away this year.
At one time we used to go out for the evening followed by first footing, but those days are long gone.
I’ll cook us a nice meal, we’ll toast the New Year and then go to bed.
The idea of going to noisy pubs lost its appeal a long time ago.

Used to but not anymore - my two dear NYE pals will be celebrating at a party in the sky. I will be thinking of them while I watch the fireworks on TV …

grumppa sending good wishes for you and your DW to have a happy 2025.

We went to see the fireworks on the Thames one year; great excitement. Sadly the wind blew the smoke in our direction so the flashes were barely visible!

Now we are tucked up in bed well before midnight, having spent the evening transferring birthdays etc to the new calendar.

I open the back door to let the old year out before opening the front door to welcome the new year in before breakfast on Jan 1st.

I celebrate by going to bed early and trying to get to sleep before the noise starts. Have never seen the point of New Year celebrations.

Best wishes, grumppa Hope all goes well for your DW.

It will be a normal night for me.

Bed at 10, might hear fireworks going off at midnight.

NYE was never made anything of when growing up, and so it has carried on,

We always used to go around the neighbours to first foot them so long as a light was on!
For years, our ceilidh dance teacher, set up a ghetto blaster in the square in their cul de sac and call dances for an hour after midnight.
One year, snow underfoot, we had 8 eightsome reels so 64 joining in. Brilliant.
Then one year a neighbour complained! It put her off and nobody else is bothered to organise anything.

Edinburgh's Hogmanay - around the Tron Church bells - was spoiled when it became a ticketed event.
I suppose it was elf n safety and probably wise as my teenagers would come home with terrifying stories.

I'll be in hospital after my hip replacement this time. I'll let you know what that's like.😳

Our partying days are behind us I’m afraid. I’ve danced the night away for many new years eves but now, no longer. A quiet night in, a nice meal from M&S, a toast to the new year and watch tv and the fireworks. Next day, take the decorations down and that’s it until next year! I’m hoping for health for us next year as we’ve had a bit of a year of it.

Our days of fancy dress in the local hostelry are long gone, we have the grandchildren here anyway, so a pizza dinner, game of UNO flip and a film before Jools pipes 2025 in. Then we’ll stand out the front to watch fireworks and hear foghorns from the docks.
My best wishes for you both grumppa

being scottish i was brought up celebrating the new year, when i was little it was great to stay up to the bells, i still do what my gran did and that was to open the window to let the old year out and open the door to let the new year in.

Bed by 22.00 and hopefully asleep before the bloody fireworks start! And if that makes me a miserable old fart then I don't give a hoot!