When did you first stay up at New Year's Eve?

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Different people celebrate their first New Year's Eve celebration. Some people are allowed to stay up at a very young age, others have to wait until they're a teenager, but most fall somewhere in-between these two extremes. For me, it was at age 3. I had chronic insomnia when I was a kid, and since my parents knew I always took a hour or more to fall asleep, they always let me stay up for New Year's Eve, and I viewed it as Christmas present of sorts. How was it for you? Post your answer.

I believe I was in junior high when I first stayed up that late.

Believe it or not if I remember correctly I was alloweed to stay up late for New Year's when I was around 8 years old.

I was around 4 or 5 I believe. It was indeed like a christmas present Or more a Sinterklaas present.. *sigh* Stupid Alternative Holland...

But I always wanted everything closed (Windows, even ventilation ) so I could hear as little sound as possible. I was really sensitive for noise and loud sounds. That has kind of disappeared after I was around ten years old, fortunately.

I was at least 11 or 12. My friend was over for a sleepover and she couldn't get to sleep because of my hamster's squeaky exercise wheel. Since we were awake at midnight anyway, my parents let us come downstairs to watch the ball drop.

Not only was I allowed to stay up, but I was allowed to go out on the front yard nd bang pots together at midnight. I bet the neighbors loved us

I laid up in 2000, when I was seven, but that was because it was special, and I fell asleep anyways. I think I first stayed up when I was eleven.

Age 7, my mom and sister and I went on vacation to a step family of her childhood for Christmas. She visited some friends of theirs for New Years Eve and I stayed up until 2AM with some older kids playing Super Mario Bros 3. My mother was also very, very drunk, although I didn't notice it at the time, I can remember how she slurred her speech and years later arrived at that conclusion. They were playing all sorts of loud rock music and I reemmber her telling me it was to keep everyone awake.

at age 25. 2 years ago. I'm probably going to stay up this year... don't know yet.

Though I technically was up that late when I was 23. But really I went to sleep and then woke back up at 2am to pick my sister up from a party she was at because she didn't have cash for a taxi.

First time I remember staying up was when I was 10. It was in 1995 and we were in Montana and everyone stayed up and we all had balloons and party whistles and we all had the balloons on the ceiling over the tarp and after the count down, we released the tarp and the balloons came down. We had on New Year's Eve party hats and we had ribbon all over the room.

My earliest memory of New Year's Eve is laying on the floor, wrapped up in blankets, staring at the clock as I waited for it to strike midnight. I do not know what age I were.

I've never stayed up specifically for such; I'm not one for "special" events and occasions.

I don't care for human celebrations.

My birthday is New Year's Eve so I've been allowed to stay up late since a young age, as a kind of extra birthday present. I'd say since I was about 5 I've been able to stay up if I could make it without falling asleep.

I think I was about 5 or 6, making staying up that late the only redeeming thing my overprotective parents let me do for another 6 years.

11 or older