We don't do anything we don't do any other evening. Go to bed when tired, get up the next morning and go to work.

Yeah, we have exciting lives....🥱

 

We used to be the same. Drink, smoke, stay up and go watch the ball drop locally or a party, something different almost every year. Now I can't stand being around drunks, I got kids and don't like the swearing and low class people around them, and I just generally don't like being in crowds.

We usually do some stuff with the kids till about 9, then put them to bed and have a glass of wine or bubbly and watch the ball drop on TV, flipping channels on the Tivo to see who's show was the best.

 

Since we live outside the city limits it will be another stay home and try to keep the dogs from panicking as about a hundred thousand dollars of fireworks go off in the neighborhood.

 

Yeah the neighborhood displays here rival the big ones large cities put on.

And I also hope none of the 30 round mag dumps into the air land on my house..... It's not nearly as bad as it is in a CA big city, but there are still a few knuckleheads that break the AK out to celebrate on New Year's and the 4th of July, and I cringe when I hear them in the distance. With the population growth here over the last few years, it's gotten worse.

 

The wife and I have developed a sleep pattern where we crash at about 8-9pm and we awake at 4:30am. So staying up til midnight hasn't happened with us in way over a decade.

Funny tradition in our family, but for the night of the 31st, we eat boiled shrimp and smoked tamales..... Yeah, weird combo, but delicious.

We do a New Year's meal about 1-2pm and it is a smoked Prime Rib. This is a tradition passed down from my great grand father. I come from a long line of cattle ranchers, so we are never short on Beef.

 

The wife and I have developed a sleep pattern where we crash at about 8-9pm and we awake at 4:30am. So staying up til midnight hasn't happened with us in way over a decade.

Funny tradition in our family, but for the night of the 31st, we eat boiled shrimp and smoked tamales..... Yeah, weird combo, but delicious.

We do a New Year's meal about 1-2pm and it is a smoked Prime Rib. This is a tradition passed down from my great grand father. I come from a long line of cattle ranchers, so we are never short on Beef.

When you Smoke the Prime Rib can you get Rare or it like all other meats Well Done

I have no Desire to Watch the Stupid Ball Drop. There is no difference between the 31st and the 1st. Just a day after sleeping.

 

We used to do the "celebration" thing but over the years it's become less important. It's simply a night followed by a holiday...which, since we're retired, doesn't do that much for us anyway.

 

Waaaay back when I was much younger it seemed like something to celebrate with parties, fireworks and so forth. Now it's a nothing-burger. Just another day. Lots of crowds of which I do my best to avoid. The TV will talk it to death .

 

May/may not sit up till 12. Haven't done the partying/drinking since the late 80's.

 

We stay home on amateur night. Have a garage party either the weekend before or after. Lots of food, some beverages. We are selective in who gets invited, so it doesn't get wild. Near 40 people showed up one year, because it was a sunny day, it was crazy, but most years it's between 10-20.

 

I don't do anything. I don't even consider it a real holiday. Like St. Patrick's day and Cinco de Mayo, it's just an excuse for people to drink to excess.

 

Smoked tamales?? Everybody invited to the new guys place !!

 

Stay home to many alcohol fueled walking brainless thinking they can shoot the moon with Grampy's old hunting rifle. Fix wife a Flank steak, baked Potatoe and corn on the cobb dinner, with "A" glass of wine, retire to the LR "A" class of brandy talk hopes of a great safe new year, lock up and go to bed

 

I worked every new years eve for a couple decades. Now we always have a feast of appetizers and such, usually watch a movie, and go to bed a few hours before that ball drops.

 

The new year is always illustrated as an infant in diapers.
I don't do diapers.

 

I don't do diapers.

Not yet anyway- start out in them and go out in them

 

Not much anymore. I quit watching Anderson Cooper get sloshed on TV long ago. One time we watched the giant Pine Cone drop in Flagstaff. Freezing cold, I was thinking I could be at the hotel with a fireplace.

 

One time we watched the giant Pine Cone drop in Flagstaff. Freezing cold, I was thinking I could be at the hotel with a fireplace.

Lived there 25 years, never went. 🤷‍♂️

The last New Years party I remember, well sort of. Early 90s, there was a giant bottle of Jaegermiester... I woke up at midnight to the sound of automatic gunfire. 🤣

I'll be in bed by 2100... maybe 2130. New years day I will eat black eyed peas cooked with bacon grease and deer sausage. While the Mrs holds her nose. 😒

 

I'll go to sleep, and when I wake up, it will be 2025.
I don't think my participation in the event is required.
But if I wake up on Jan.1 and it's 1960 again - that might be worth a celebration.

 

I do the same thing w birthdays😂

 

My Dogs hate fireworks, I hate people🤔
Prob build a fire and watch neighbor people 1/8-1/2 mi away shoot their evil-spirit chasers👍

 

Blake Miller of Pike County, Kentucky. The Marlboro Marine iconic photo taken during Battle of Fallujah. Eastern Kentucky boys show up in the darnedest places. PTSD took a heavy toll on young Blake.

 

We do the same thing we’ve done with neighbors for last several years. Eat too much, drink and the right before midnight, go outside and spread out the 20x20 tarp. We each take turns firing one round as straight up as possible, standing on the tarp. The we watch to see if bullet hits the tarp. So far no one has ever hit the tarp, but some neighbors’ houses, carports and vehicles have been dinged. And a pontoon boat cover. Sadly, also one dog.

Still reading? JK JK 😂🤣
Happy, healthy New Years to all.

 

We each take turns firing one round as straight up as possible, standing on the tarp.

Well played…. Although- me and my brilliant neighbor friends (when we were kids) threw old school lawn darts straight up then run away from it as it came down- until- the sun was in the wrong place and blinded us. Lost track of the dart and right thru little buddies foot.

 

My Dogs hate fireworks

Ours did too but they weren't afraid of shotguns when hunting. One dog got so scared he busted through the basement window to get into the house.

We each take turns firing one round as straight up as possible

aloha snackbar 🙃

 

Ours did too but they weren't afraid of shotguns when hunting. One dog got so scared he busted through the basement window to get into the house.

aloha snackbar 🙃

It stresses them bad and if I go out it makes it worse…best I keep them close( they both have extreme FOMO anyway🙈😂) and let them stay underfoot like always😎….as long as Im close they dont bother if some are aways off…
Dude thru the woods builds AR’s and he test fires at all hours, they never react, prob cause I dont even notice anymore….Holidays come once a year but my dogs are w me 24/7/365…Ill do it their way….plus at my age, notching another year isnt all that great🙈😳😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

For NYE I make Bacon wrapped scallops in the air fryer. I may add shrimp and grits this year. Peach Bellini to drink.

Later is Hoppin John with Sauteed collard greens. 😋

 

Depends, I am happy staying at home and doing nothing or hanging out with people. Our neighbors 2 houses over had nice parties with great food every year for years, but got tired of throwing parties last year. We would normally go there which was nice because of the short walk home. Last year my wife and I stayed in the basement rec room, she slept and I watched twilight zone movies. A nice way to spend a night imo. My then 17 year old son went over a friends house.

This year we are going over another friends house. It’s the same house my son went to last year. They have yearly parties. They live 7 or 8 miles away which is not far, but not walking distance.

My wife does not really drink at all. I will probably have a glass of wine or 3, but that is it. I don’t mind drinking but am not a big drinker. We know a lot of people who will be there and enjoy their company. They always have good food at their parties. My wife has been making sourdough bread for the last year or so and will have plenty to take to the party. Hopefully we can add positively to the fun others have. My wife always does pork, beans and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day and people stop in throughout the day. Then back to work for me on Thursday. She took off the entire week.

 

Our friends who normally had the New Year’s Eve party texted us earlier and said they are having a small get together. We will stop at the first party we were invited to for a couple of hours then head to the other party around 10. It works out because that will get us home before most drunks are on the road. We will head over to the neighbors for the rest of the night and a short walk home.

Depends, I am happy staying at home and doing nothing or hanging out with people. Our neighbors 2 houses over had nice parties with great food every year for years, but got tired of throwing parties last year. We would normally go there which was nice because of the short walk home. Last year my wife and I stayed in the basement rec room, she slept and I watched twilight zone movies. A nice way to spend a night imo. My then 17 year old son went over a friends house.

This year we are going over another friends house. It’s the same house my son went to last year. They have yearly parties. They live 7 or 8 miles away which is not far, but not walking distance.

My wife does not really drink at all. I will probably have a glass of wine or 3, but that is it. I don’t mind drinking but am not a big drinker. We know a lot of people who will be there and enjoy their company. They always have good food at their parties. My wife has been making sourdough bread for the last year or so and will have plenty to take to the party. Hopefully we can add positively to the fun others have. My wife always does pork, beans and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day and people stop in throughout the day. Then back to work for me on Thursday. She took off the entire week.

 

Not a good day to be at a club or a huge gathering. I will, however, get 💩faced behind closed doors, at a private party. Go inside at midnight until the gunfire subsides 😁

 

Probably about the same thing we did for Christmas. Drink a couple Bloody Mary's and watch some movies. And wish our son Happy Birthday. He was a New Year's baby. Can't believe he's going to be 35. Just got moved to S. Carolina from Fort Hood TX. He's in the Army and has been for almost 15 years. Pretty proud of him.

 

Low key for me for sure. My girlfriend lives 30 miles from me, we are going to a Japanese-Fusion place around 6, got reservations. We'll have a couple of drinks, some great food and each head home.

If I can nap after that.. maybe I'll see midnight. If not, I wake up in 2025 and our cars will be a year older.

On Monday I'll be making a pot of lentil soup. My grandmother always served it on NYE.

 

Fall asleep to the sounds of money exploding

 

Was it just me or was there really not as much money exploding as the previous few years

 

Go to bed around 9:30 or 10:00.
MAYBE wake up before Midnight if I have to pee.
Turn on TV.
See some little girl singing some song I never heard of...
Turn off TV.
Get up around 5:00
Make coffee.

Then I go outside and make LOTS of NOISE...

 

Can I tell you a secret?

I hate New Year's Eve.

In fact, due to the conflicts and bedlam caused by the collision of work demands (clinical health care, hospitals get busier during the holidays) and family demands (we had some entrenched, entitled, emotionally immature, stubborn and inflexible personalities in the mix) I grew to loathe the gawd awful trifecta of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.

Husband and I would be stressed to the point that we'd inevitably get into some big blow up from trying to meet work demands and simultaneously keep everyone else happy. We'd end up bending over backwards trying to make family happy and ripping into each other from the stress.

No matter how hard we tried, it was never enough.

By New Year's Eve I was a burned out hot mess and just over it.

Finally we grew up, grew shiny new spines, told the whole lot of them to pound sand, and we dropped the rope.

Retirement took care of the work aspects.

We are finally beginning to enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas on our own terms, as fully enfranchised adults with agency, instead of as extra tall children who have their marching orders.

It's amazing how much happier we are, and how drama free, during the holidays and all year long.

That being said, I am still not fond of New Year's Eve. It feels like the whole world is shoving a party up my arse, and I am just not interested.

We will be staying in, happily. 😊😊