The 'I'm Staying In For NYE Thread'

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I'm not a total hermit. I believe it to be in the best interests of my happiness and mental wellbeing to do a bit of gentle socialising, (gig, pub, curry house) perhaps once a week. However, I find New Years Eve terrifying. Its so desperate! People are desperate to have a good time, to drink more, stay out for longer and do more ridiculous stuff than ever before. Hence the atmosphere is far too pressurised to have any real fun, but you DO spend far too much money getting in a right old state.

I have only actually been out on the past two New Years Eves.

2005 - Horrible boyfriend did too much cocaine and shouted at me about how much he hates Ken Livingstone, (London mayor) for six hours.
2006 - Got stood up on the Victoria Line, (true story).

I know it seems early to be talking about this, but if you want into any good parties you have to buy tickets now. Who else is having a nice night in?

I normally don't go out for New Year's Eve. I did a few times when I was younger. However, the cost of most parties is more than I can afford. I can't afford to spend $100-200 to go to a party. I just also think that it's a waste of money. I mean, you spend that much to just drink and eat some finger food at a party. $100-$200 is just too much to spend. I've gotten invitations, but generally don't go because of the cost.

No, i don't really have the stamina for the whole NYE thing either.

2005 boyfriend sounds like a mug - i bet he doesn't really know jack sh*t about ken's policies let alone care deeply about them.

How can you be 'stood up' on the victoria line, (i take it you don't mean that you simply couldn't get a seat)?

NYE plans ? - hhhm, I am currently hovering between staying in to play scrabble with my 78 year old grandmother whilst watching whatever period drama the bbc decide to provide us with and working in a club - you see that kind of gets me into the party environment where my friends will be. I will have an excuse to stay pretty sober all night, but will also have the opportunity get some time out to absorb the atmosphere.

I get a little pleasure out of staying home on most high-traffic days. I like watching the chaos from my window where I have the option of stepping away.

For 2000, I finally decided to try the event in Washington DC again on New Years Eve, and it was just...insane. People running you over, spilling drinks everywhere, grabbing at you, etc. No thanks!

2005 in Italy was the same.

Otherwise I've mostly been home.

I don't do NYE. To me the change from 31st December to 1st January is pretty unremarkable and an arbitrary date to celebrate.

As a pagan, my 'New Year's Eve' is 31st Oct/1st Nov as nature (in the northern hemisphere at least) enters a period of rest and winds down in preparation for the following spring. I celebrate Yule on 21st/22nd Dec, spend time with my family on 25th Dec as that's their date for celebrating, and go to bed as usual on NYE - before midnight and with my earplugs in. 1st Jan is no more remarkable to me than 1st December.

I used to go to NYE parties when I was younger but people always seemed to be trying to have the 'best NYE ever'. I'd be reflecting on the year just ended, and thinking about goals and ambitions for the year to come, whilst everyone else would be getting as drunk as possible as fast as possible.

I always stay in and HATE all the stupid fireworks

My former wife has this family tradition of going outside and banging pots&pans.
I did it just to join the crowd, but they usually woke me up for it.

Last year my daughter and I were skiing/snowboarding.
She had a friend with us and we were all coming back from the hill after night skiiing on New Year's Eve.
That was the most fun I have had for New Years.

It actually turned when we were on our way back into town.
I pulled off the road and we stood out there in the snow and cold and holler'd (sorry I can't spell right now) HAPPY NEW YEARS to the trees and animals.

This year I'll be by myself... hmmm... maybe I'll go sleep way out in the woods so I don't have to hear everyone's stupid noise!

Staying in on NYE is absolutely bliss, if I can be completely alone. I don't know why but it is. It can feel good to be alone of other days but it is especially nice on NYE. I've been out a number of times on NYE. I wouldn't do it again. Most of the times it was something my parents or family were at. Even if it was just going to a restaurant. They would invite me to come with them for a meal for a while, I guess out of sympathy but they needn't have.

Millennium was a bit of a joke. I'm sure the firework display in its entirety was impressive, but standing near London bridge with hoards of people in the cold for hours just for a short glimpse less so. We had to walk all the way back to Keninngton which was a trek, because there was no way you could get into a tube station there was so many people. Then when we finally got in a packed tube train someone very nearly started a fight because he had the bright idea of 'SCRAMBLES!' some sweets by throwing them hard. Fortunately there wasn't enough room for them to throw punches.

Well now. I had been at this club which was tied to a magazine I used to work for - actually it was pretty relaxed, but I just knew that come 3am it would not be relaxed, and it would be full of people who had nothing to do with us, and no idea of our usual music policy, complaining that we didn't play hip hop. About 1am I was invited by a guy I'd been talking to to this party in New Cross. I couldn't believe he was showing any interest in me since i would normally have considered him way out of my league, so I said yes. On the tube platform, this crazy woman showed up and claimed to be his wife. He looked very scared but did not contradict her, and started ignoring me. Halfway through the tube journey I left them and went home without them noticing.

Yeah, my 2005 boyfriend defined the word 'mug'. He didn't like the fact that his bus fare had gone up and was paranoid about getting an oystercard because he was worried about people knowing where he went (??! !).

I've just remembered I did go out 2004. I got so drunk I fell down the same set of stairs twice