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Not a fan of forced celebrations. I've had some good New Years parties over the years though, just try and avoid the cringey bits.
 
Whos forcing anything?
Are you forced to celebrate, say, Ramadan?

I don't think I've felt compelled to celebrate anything for...a long time. Lol.

I like being forced to have bankholidays off, or forced to earn more money if I chose to work instead. Like today I'm triple pay. Woot being forced to celebrate NYE is tight.

Unless you being forced at gunpoint to stand in the kitchen at some terrible party, then I sympathize.
 
I think he means “forced” as in, “Here’s an allocated time that has to be ‘fun’” rather than being literally, physically forced to do something.

I haven’t done anything for NYE for at least 5 years.
 
New years celebration, I'll be in bed asleep and hopefully the 9 month old will stay asleep.

Can guarantee that some round here will be letting off fireworks most of the night ,:-(
 
I stopped "celebrating" NYE back in the early 2000's as, post the Millennium, everyone in my group of friends started to have more home based NYE parties rather Club/Town based ones and the life in general just started to feel more restrictive as we got older. I mean previously we were all going professionally run parties (in Clubs, pay at the door type) and we all went in fancy dress for something like 8-10 years before we started swapping to more restrained parties as we all got older, to the point that it must have been at least 15 years since any of us made a big fuss of NYE - plus COVID really hammered NYE over the past few years too.

For those saying "just don't do it if you don't want to" - sometimes you don't realistically (rather than technically) get that choice due to friends and family, for example you may be in a relationship and your partner loves NYE, which means you have to go along too etc.
 
The problem is that Xmas is no longer a celebration. It is a Commercial enterprise that starts in bloody September and you are constantly bombarded with it for months.
 
ianh said:
I stopped "celebrating" NYE back in the early 2000's
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About the same time as me, since the mid 2000's is me at home with whatever family happens to be in the house, watching the fireworks on TV with a tipple, and then bed by 1-2am.
 
I'll be in bed praying the fireworks don't wake the kids up but people are mad for fireworks around here, 1am on Christmas Eve they were setting the off the Muppets

A far cry from 10 to 20 years ago when I would go out, struggle to get in, struggle to get served, struggle to get home and always have a disappointing night
 
NYE is my most hated night of the year. The last couple of years I've stayed in on my own and had a great time. I intend to do the same tonight.
 
Maundie said:
Nope I'm an adult and if I don't want to do something I speak up, maybe you should try it sometime
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Unfortunately it's not that easy for some people, depending on their friend group. You either go along with it or change your friend group. I did the latter.
 
We're going to have some friends and their kids come over for some food and drink. It's fun for us to get together and enjoy some laughs, but we certainly won't be staying up until midnight. Our kids will likely go to bed at their normal bedtime and everyone will be going home by about 10/10:30pm.
 
I used to go out in my 20s with mates to a pub or whatever and get wasted. There were one or two house parties over the years as well. Last few years were with family but now they've all moved which would make it a ball ache, so I won't be doing anything and plan to be fast asleep by midnight. I never really gave a **** about it anyway - it was just another excuse to get drunk back when I was into that.
 
Lysander said:
Unfortunately it's not that easy for some people, depending on their friend group. You either go along with it or change your friend group. I did the latter.
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It is though, I just say "Not coming out tonight unfortunately" and that's it done.

As you say if they can't cope with that then you have the choice to put up with their inappropriate behaviour or remove them from the equation, life's too short to have to spend it with people who really don't make you happy, if you don't want to go out with them then are they really your friends?
 
We’ve been invited to my niece’s place for NYE, been a couple of times in the past, her and her chef husband put on a good spread, and she makes sure that she has plenty of decent vodka and Schweppes tonic for me.
Never has fireworks, but has an eclectic mix of music genres playing at a reasonable decibel level.
I’m standing by for the mother of all rows when I tell my wife that I’m seriously considering giving it a miss this year.
I trust all the family, in-laws, kids, grandkids, aunts, uncles etc to have had a Covid test prior to turning up tonight, but my niece has some edgy acquaintances, the kind who are just as likely to pee in the garden rather than use the toilet.
I don’t imagine some of them can spell Covid, never mind getting jabbed, so I think I’ll be safer swerving them.
 
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