New Year's Traditions.

[nellypope]

I love Christmas, Birthday's etc, but New Year's always leaves me cold. Everyone and every family have their own traditions for most celebrations and I was wondering does anyone have any particular New Year ones? Some people have big family get togethers, some go to the cinema, other's get absolutely polluted (I've tried this, but now I have a young family apparently I'm not allowed), I have friends that always go to the cinema, and some have fireworks. We have never celebrated it. Admittedly in previous years, pre-children & marriage, I once spend New Year's eve in a hotel broom cupboard after drinking the best part of a bottle of tequila and locking myself out, and once slept in a beer garden, I believe the local constabulary found me and returned me, but I'm too old and weighed down with responsibility to get away with these wild shenanigans. What does everyone else do?

[Blackiequine]

^^sorry about apostrophe for those who notice!

[Jenarry]

It's not so easy for me to get out these days being a mum but can't say I ever enjoyed ny's eve very much over the years either.We never used to do anything in our house when I was growing up and over the years I've always felt that keeping one eye on the clock seems a strange way to enjoy an evening and it all feels a bit forced. Prob best ny's I can remember have been working behind the bar with my mum and dad when they used to be in the pub trade in my 20's and seeing the new year in at house parties.
I did used to know a family when i was a teenager who used to make a big thing of it every year and would all get together at the mum and dad's house and had a tradition that at the stroke of midnight between them they would open all the windows in the house and shout 'Happy new year!' very loudly to the neighbourhood.

[mazzywoo]

I absolutely HATE new year's eve. For a start, we have 4 cats and they go doolally with all the fireworks going off. (when did it become obligatory to let off fireworks for every bloomin' 'celebration'?). At risk of sounding like a miserable old git (I am not) I also cannot abide all the programmes/newspaper/magazine 'look back through the year' articles.
So there! LOL