Do you stay up on New Years Eve?

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When I was a kid, my first time being awake at 12 on New Years Eve, I watched on TV the ball go down in Times Square. And I vowed I'd be in Times Square for the Year 2000. And I was. I never missed a New Years Eve. Now, if I'm up on New Years Eve, I'm up. If I'm not, I'm not. No big deal.
Do you stay up on New Years Eve?
 

Some years I’m just getting up around midnight.

I do a few old rituals, make sure all of my debts/bills are paid, take out the trash, clean, etc…

I also try to see how far into the new year I can get without spending any money.

I haven’t gone out to celebrate since 1986, not much of a party animal. 😉🤭😂
 
I have not stayed up for New Years for a long time now. I never was a party person, so even when I was younger, I was pretty much just home on New Year’s Eve.
When I was a teenager, the big thing was to listen to the Top 100 songs of the year, and it took Kasey Kasim hours to do the countdown to that number one song.
Sometimes, I spent the evening with a school friend, and we listened together, trying to guess which song would be number one. After I had a little boombox radio with a tape player, I recorded the songs I liked for that year.
Then , the Rock & Roll era ended, and I pretty much didn’t even do that anymore either.

On holidays, it seems like people here in Alabama like to have fireworks and light firecrackers, so there is always a lot of noise, not like on my peaceful little place in the country in Idaho . Marco Poodle hates firecrackers, so he always cuddles up close to me until they finally quit celebrating, sometime during the night.
Otherwise, it is pretty much just like any other day for me, and I am fine with that.
 
Yes, we like a couple of close friends round. We just drink, eat light snacks in the comfort of home. Usually it is Jools Holland we watch, he is so wonderful. I have lost count of how many years he is our tradition to watch.

New Year is nice, new hope and chance to do things better.
 
new years Eve ( Hogmany ) is a huge deal in Scotland and Ireland.. so I was raised to ( even as a small child)..in fact forced to get of bed before the bells rang at midnight to 'see in the new year''..or it would be unlucky ..apparently.. There is quite a ritual to be followed..including sending my brother out of the window and in at the front door because it's unlucky for the 'first footer'' through the door in the new year to be female

there would be parties some years at my grandads house or various aunties . and just about every house in the street had a party...they still do...

After I moved to England, I saw that New years eve was nowhere nearly such a big deal as it in the Celtic lands.. however people do go out and get smashed.. thousands gather in the centre of London to welcome the New year in.. but that's where it stops.. in Scotland when I was growing up..it was a big holiday.. here it's not...

I have celebated the NYE in Central London...horrible.. zillions of people and not enough toilets.. and you can't get near a bar for a drink for the crowds plus the price of alcohol is outrageous ....

Another time I celebrated it with a whole bunch of friends and neighbours in Southern Spain... that was a let down also.. the bars all refused to sell alcohol to ''tourists''.. but of course we were residents, but because we weren't Spanish they wouldn't serve us... so 10 of got some champagne and some grapes from a store and as is the custom in Spain.. tried to eat one grape per bell toll at midnight as we stood in an almost empty town square ....

That was the last time I actually went out on NYE... now I stay home, listen or watch the fireworks.. and go to bed at my usual hour which is normally well past midnight anyway..
 
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In my teens and 20s, it would have been a horror to not stay up and watch the ball drop... sometimes with friends, sometimes not.
In my 30s, yep, had to see the new year in as if it would have had trouble arriving without my help. :giggle:
Next decade or so, sometimes I made it, sometimes I didn't... no big deal either way.

But NOW! 💤😴 Sound asleep until the neighborhood crazies start with the shooting and fireworks at midnight. I sure don't need a clock that night... if it sounds as if a bomb just went off by my window, it's the old guy across the street with his... well, don't know what it is, maybe an M80? :oops: and that's how I know another year started. (Yes, I know they're illegal, but *I'm* not gonna tell him that!)
 
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