Just another day, a day of NOT celebrating. Much like my birthday, which is “just another day.” 😕😳

bad singers, stupid songs. give me beach boys and the beatles..... not today junk.

but the flip side of that is looking forward to the new year and hopefully positive change. We could sure use some of that positive change during these times. So Happy New Year to all.

In my younger days, New Years Eve parties were an occasional thing, but not any more. I'll probably be asleep when the ball drops in NY.

a big Bloody Mary/Mimosa brunch. Tons of food: Oyster stew, Quiches, Guiness venison stew, and all the trimmings! Open house, games, over by 6 pm. Participants relieved to have the holiday behind them and can relax!

Maybe next year I'll bounce the idea of a New Year's Day gathering off of my kids (all adults). By next year at this time, all of the ugliness of my divorce should be left far behind and I should be well into the next phase of my life.

I'd go to that!

I also don't like having an autopsy done on the past year over and over again. I don't mind remembering the good things, but reflecting on the not good is very depressing. I could do without it this year.

I hear ya, ailsagirl. The weather is usually dreary, the reminiscing of those we lost, we don't go out for partying at our age (50's), watching others on tv in big crowds, which is not my idea of a good time... If my husband were better at traveling (health issues) I would definitely be hitting a warm beach to bring in the new year. I'll raise a toast to you and wish you well for the new year. I'll be looking forward to having Nancy in charge of the House. That's some good news for the new year.

Nancy is going to KICK ASS!!

I haven't been to a New Year's Eve party since Jesus was a corporal, and I'm usually in bed before the ball drops in Times Square.

We'll both join you 😴 in 'celebrating' a NYE for contrarians. 😉

Ain't innerested in all that hoopla.

Anyways--"A Healthy, Calm and Prosperous Brand New Year Be Yours!" 💙 🎉🎆

New Year's Day is fine-- we get it off!!

I stay home on NYE. I have no interest being out on the rode with all the drinkers. New Years Day means eating copious amounts of black eyed peas and jalapeno cornbread. It used to include watching college football, but I don't really follow any teams anymore.

we love it, kitty tries to steal it till she gets her first bit of pepper near her nose! My black eyed peas are ready to rock; then we just play old music, have some ham and potato salad, and laugh at the kitty's antics!

I don't have ham because I want more room for the BEP and cabbage (greens for money in the New Year), but I do cook them with bacon.

So BEP, cornbread and greens! And a smoked ham hock for the BEP!

I am usually asleep 😴 before midnight. There are better days during the year to celebrate. I save myself for them. I do have a very social sister who celebrates and loves every minute of New Year’s Eve. I am also thankful Christmas is over. I am finding it more and more annoying each year. I do celebrate it because of family but am scaling back on all the gift giving and over-decorating.

reminds me I've lost yet another year in my strive to be the all knowing, hyper wealthy supreme human being i know i am deep inside. For now, I'm just another "chew 'em up and spit 'em out" cog in the capitalist machine.

I always feel a little melancholy on NYE and am happy to have it behind me. We usually have a hearty seafood dinner at home and plenty of bubbly just because. I try to keep my mind occupied with the thought that the days are getting longer with the dawn of the new year which is a very big deal living up north where it’s so damned dark in the winter.

Boring as a holiday.

Always thinking....so what will the New Year bring?

Some are better than others but I always like staying up late and watching the celebration in Times Square (hope to be there one year on New Year's Eve!) and sharing it with my wife. I can understand why some people might dislike it or not into it.

I used to like New Year's Eve when I was younger and partied a lot. Then, when I had a bigger apartment I would like to have small dinner parties w/ champagne and we would play games and/or watch movies until the ball dropped or go to someone else's house and do the same. Now it's pretty much just like any other night. Will probably just stay in and watch movies, make a nice dinner or order out. I really don't want to be out with all the crowds and drunks on the streets.

However, I am definitely glad to say goodbye to 2018. It has been a pretty bad year. I have hope that 2019 will be better and that it will be Trump's last year as president. Also, the Democrats will control the House, so that's a good thing to look forward to!

Had a really bad experience back then and I've only been happy on NY's eve maybe 5-6 times since that happened. I've always been depressed right after Christmas since I was a kid and now that's spread to NY's eve and sometimes NY's day. It's gotten a lot worse since mom and dad passed especially since we always had this celebration at their house. Maybe one year I will find I'm not missing them quite so much, but that is not this year.

I remember enjoying that. Sitting at the top of the stairs and watching everyone arrive, the beautiful, sparkling dresses the women wore. We would sneak downstairs and nibble on the hors d'ourves. As I got older it started to feel like a forced expectation to party and have a good time and those rarely work out. Now it's just meh. I will work NYE this year again and get off around 11:30 p.m. or so. At least I have the next day off, paid. That's nice.

But it is very nice having the next day off (unpaid for me but hoping that will change soon).

Are you getting benefited, going full-time, or changing jobs?

Most years I ignore it. This year I got wrangled into participating and I'm still exhausted from the effort it took.

Next year I think I'll go away to a secret location.

All the very best Christmas holidays I've spend have been traveling. Unfortunately, I still have this "work thing" for the foreseeable future. Sigh.

Always uplifting. A perfect blend of nostalgia and rejuvenation.

For a number of years, I would work a half-day on December 31st then walk to my car parked on the West Side of midtown. The barriers would be in place and the traffic was being diverted. What a mess! I have never understood the desire to stand outside in the cold for hours just to watch the ball drop.

Of course, I don't like to go out on a night when too many people have been drinking to excess.

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I think it's a younger person holiday. A reason to celebrate, go out drinking, stay up late, eat at a fancy restaurant, maybe propose in the middle of Time Square, go see fireworks which in most places are at 9:00 pm not at midnight. Lots of big cities now have 1st night events. But those weren't around when I was younger.

I had fun when younger. Now I just see it as day you don't have to do anything; no presents, no big dinner, just a quiet night at home.

Enjoy AC, but Andy Cohen seemed to try too hard. Maybe he'll be more relaxed this year. Since Kathy Griffin was fired, I guess Andy was been given the role of the "crazy" one to play off AC.

if you really don't want to. Honest.

I have had lots of different New Year's Eves and Days over the years, including a decent number where I had to work. I enjoy being with friends and family and appreciating them. Which is what pretty much all holidays are supposed to be about. Make it the way YOU want it to be. Don't think you have to place yourself in some mold formed by someone else.

Reminded me of who I lost, and made me worry about who I would lose the coming year or if it was the year the world was going to end with blood running through the streets as high as a horses bridle. I’d cry because I didn’t want my parents to get another year older.

I’ll blame my fundy upbringing and my freaky neighbor’s influence.

Best New Year’s I ever had was the one where I felt my daughter move for the first time. I’m 55, and I only have one New Years that stands out over my entire life. I tried to make it 2 NYEs, but my stubborn son didn’t cooperate. I usually am like a mother hen trying to keep everyone in the nest on NYE. We do game night.

Oh, and no NYE cruises for me. I watched the original Poseidon Adventure too many times when I was a kid!

I drank for 30 years, and New Years was always an embarrassment for regular drinkers like me.

I quit drinking 15 years ago, and I cannot even go to a party where other people are getting tanked up. I watch drag racing videos on Youtube until about 8:00 o'clock and then go to bed. I cannot even remember a time when I had fun on New Year's night.

That's depressing!! I don't believe I've ever had a good time on New Year's Eve-- too much pressure put on us by the media to whoop it up and have the best time ever. Nuts to that!

That would be my personal version of hell, especially if Maria Carey was singing!

Now it's old movies and funny ones!

Blink you miss it, so why bother?

and be asleep around 9:30p. Fine with me.

It's amazing how much a small child can teach us. We feel very fortunate.

New Years Eve is amateur night!

Plus, I don't want to put myself in danger of people who have over-imbibed.

and I've hated the holiday ever since.

It was never a favorite anyway. The fireworks at Midnight are a pain in the chest.

ehhh, I disagree with all this. Don't let the holiday define you and your experience of it. You define it for yourself!

Regarding the remembrances of those who passed on, it's all in how you look at it. I look at them as comments on lives. "I (person in the film clip) was here, this is what I did, now I've moved on to something else." It's only depressing if you think they have ceased to exist, which I happen not to believe. They are on to another phase of their lives which doesn't include living in a country with republicans; lucky them!

As far as the drink, hey why not a glass of champagne or Proseco? I got through another year, the good and the bad. I'm still here and ready to go for another round. My dad used to have a favorite set of cocktail glasses that said "Don't let the bastards get you down." That's how I feel about it: the republicans errr, bastards, didn't get me down.

because Mom and Dad would let us stay up to watch the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals on WGN.

Now? Meh... it doesn't matter one way or the other, except that I need to use the new year # on my checks (yeah, I still use checks ).

Been sober for 22 years, and I still won't go out on New Year's Eve.

Not as bad as my roommate at the time, who would sleep in the bathtub with his army helmet on.

I know that's not what you were getting at, but that's why I hate it.

reach a certain age, staying up until the wee hours really loses its appeal. Not my idea of a good time.

Usually I can accomplish that.

for 11 years.

I've already seen all my friends at Christmas, no need to gather them together again a week later....