Do Any of You Sleep Through New Year’s Eve Into New Year’s Day?

Yes. Yawn.

No. I usually make to 10 at least when we're alone.

This year, we have guests and good champagne, so I guess I'm staying up till midnight.

Well, if balls drop.

Yes. Since I'm alone I don't give a damn. Tomorrow I will visit my parents.

every year for at least 20 years now.

Tacky people being loud and drunk is not my thing.

Yes.

The last time I watched the ball drop the Baja Men were performing their hit “Who Let The Dogs Out.”

[quote]people having fun is not my thing

FTFY

alone (this year) again, naturally.

don't care about watching the ball drop and no longer drink. i'm just going to get a few movies on Amazon prime, eat junk food and go to sleep whenever. tomorrow i'm baking some bread to go with some split pea soup i'll be making.

Yes. I'm over NYE.

I hate change so I would purposely fall asleep to avoid the new year. Don't care much about this holiday.

Never been a big NYE fan. I usually watch the ball drop but tonight I don't care.

I have a golden memory of spending New Year's Eve in Time Square on my first visit to NYC. I'm good with that.

It's just an arbitrary point in the Earth's orbit that is used as an excuse to get wasted. I enjoyed it in my 20s, but since I hit my 40s I prefer a good night's sleep. Some years I get woken up by fireworks.

When I was a kid, I was so excited to stay up until midnight. Now...meh...that's what I do many nights of the year. I figure that the year will be there for me when I wake up on the 1st. I definitely don't want to drive sharing the road with all those people who have been drinking.

[quote] No. I usually make to 10 at least when we're alone.

So you usually sleep through it but not tonight.

The new year started in March at one time. Let’s go back to that.

R8 people can have fun without being total hogs.

I'm grown up. I can get drunk in the comfort of my own home and have a bathroom. I'm watching Persuasion right now and don't care about all the shit on TV or the ball drop.

I doubt I will be asleep at midnight as the fireworks have already started in my neighborhood.

So glad to have moved out of a neighborhood wherein the neighbors don't find it necessary to set off fireworks.

I've watching Dangerous Liaisons.

^^I'm watching Dangerous Liaisons

While having my feet massaged and heated with a Christmas gift I received.

I watched the 9pm fireworks from my balcony, was asleep by 9:30, briefly woken up at midnight, rolled over and back to sleep in 5 minutes, woke up at 7:30 and was having my first surf of the year at 8am.

Just the way that I’d planned it.

I stay up. And, yes, text or call or Zoom with cousins and call my parent at midnight to exchange NY wishes. But I agree that I think it's a melancholy occasion for many: It reminds me that we're turning 1 additional year longer and farther away from any wonderful memories, former relationships, or deceased loved ones/relatives that we lost and left in our past. I get very sentimental...then by New Year's Day in the evening, I've ripped down and stowed away every fcuking Holidays decoration or reminder anywhere throughout my house! :D

For the past 20 years or so, yes I've slept through it. Except last night I watched the 'Call the Midwives' Christmas special I DVRd last week, and it finished at 11:45 - so I figured I'd watch CNN for the last 15 minutes or so and watch the ball drop. What a mistake that was...

[quote] I watched the 9pm fireworks from my balcony

9pm?

No, I still have friends and live near people I like. I have a spouse too. We both love the holidays and enjoy socializing.

I didn’t sleep through it but was busy cleaning the kitchen floor. I looked up and it was 12:10

R26 in Sydney there are two sets of NYE fireworks - 9pm targeted at families who just want to see the fireworks and get the kids home and midnight for everybody else. There are over a million people around the harbour for the main event so it makes sense to split it.

People camp out from early morning and spend the day in the mid-summer sun waiting, eating and drinking. There’s nothing that I would rather do less.

^R29, best places to be are on the North side of the harbour to watch at Midnight. We're in Cremorne and just walk to the wharf. Yes there's plenty of people but it's easy to get out. We stopped doing the City side years ago. The old saying applies, when you've seen one, you've seen them all.

I have never particularly cared for NYE because it has always seemed to be a forced celebration. You are SUPPOSED to have a wonderfully fun and simply marvelously great time. But so often, the night regularly disappoints and turns out to be just obnoxious people acting dreadfully while getting drunk or high — which most people hardly need an excuse to do.

This year I attended a few parties with friends, who I love dearly, but I could have just as easily stayed home.

Eh, maybe next year.

I was on the toilet heard the turd drop and had a very relieving New Year’s Eve. It was a heated seat too.

I go to bed even earlier on New Years eve.

[quote] in Sydney there are two sets of NYE fireworks - 9pm targeted at families who just want to see the fireworks and get the kids home and midnight for everybody else.

Wow, that’s accommodating!

At least you have an excuse for missing the ball drop, unlike Don Lemon.

Not yet but I think I'm getting there. I've long since sworn of going out since bars are hellish for the hour running up to midnight, and the parties my friends host have a lot more of their kids running round than they used to.

I'm in St. Louis.

The gunfire prevents it.

Slept right through it.

With all the crazies out, NYE, drunk people, and violent nutbags do not make a good combination, so was definitely not going to go out into that mess.