What do people on here typically do on New Years Eve

[roadman]

Personally, I normally stay at home and watch some of my favorite TV shows or movies I have on DVD that I haven't viewed in some time.  Last year, I watched the entire first season of CHiPS .  This year I plan to watch the entire first season of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[jeffandnicole]

It was my in-laws's anniversary, and we would take them out to a nice restaurant.  My father-in-law passed a way a few years back, but we still take my mother-in-law out to celebrate her anniversary. We then go back to the house, play games, drink drinks, eat, and watch the ball drop on TV.

[Otto Yamamoto]

Murphy's Law NYE show at the Late Trash bar, or work, depending.

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[SignGeek101]

Not really anything special. May turn on the TV to see the countdown in New York or Toronto or something like that.

[cjk374]

Drink lime sherbet punch, play cards, shoot the breeze, eat finger foods, maybe a bonfire if it ain't rain In.

[corco]

I've done nothing the last four years. Maybe I'll break that cycle this year. Talk to me tomorrow night.

[hbelkins]

Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.

[wanderer2575]

I'll go out during the day for some random driving and dayhiking.  I like to get back home just as it's getting dark, and the wife and I are in for the night.  I'll mix a few drinks and get loaded (doesn't take much; I rarely drink anything the rest of the year), make a pot of spaghetti for dinner, and camp in front of the TV.  Usually will do my own Twilight Zone marathon from DVDs (it's unwatchable on the SyFy channel).

[epzik8]

Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.

That was me until I graduated from high school in 2013 and then I found myself staying up past midnight on a regular basis.

[kphoger]

Struggle to stay awake till midnight for no good reason, then immediately crash in bed.

A few years ago, we had several friends over for New Year's.  We had wine, snacks, games.  From about 12:30 on, everyone kept saying they should really get home, but then nobody could move.  We literally sat there for three hours, saying every so often how late it was and how we should get to bed.  Three freaking hours and no one could muster the energy to actually get up and go.  Now half of them have had babies recently, so staying past 9:00 or 10:00 doesn't really happen.

[Max Rockatansky]

Usually go to bed around 10 PM and get up at 5 AM the next day.  New Years Day usually is pretty quiet in the morning meaning it is great for a undisturbed distance run.  I prefer to avoid Christmas and New Years for driving activities due to the high number of extra officers out looking for DUIs.

[DandyDan]

I may still be driving back to my parents in the Omaha area when midnight hits this year.

[Takumi]

Depends on my work schedule. This year I'm working until 10 tomorrow and then back at 8 Sunday morning.

[kurumi]

Party at friends' house (but not this year for various reasons), then leave before midnight to party at extended family's house (with some friends there). Usually some sort of games tournament (3 generations of family including kids) with prizes. The friends had a trivia contest last year (sample question: which 3 countries share the island of Borneo?) In the past, we've brought in the "Beers of the World" box from Costco, arranged the beers in order of when their place of origin hits midnight, and sampled them in that order.

I'd love to leave the TV off, but by tradition everyone starts watching Times Square and we do the countdown. Hold a penny and grape in each hand for wealth and health. There must be a third item to stop the new year from sucking donkey balls that we evidently did not do for 2016; sorry about that. Then at 12:01 we send and answer a bunch of texts, while some watch the afterparty stuff on TV which features prerecorded performances of the worst music of the past year.

The last time we went out (restaurant/bar) for NYE was before any of the extended family's kids were born.

[Scott5114]

I always have to work. New Year's Eve is the casino industry equivalent to Black Friday.

[GaryV]

Usually, nothing. I'm lucky if I'm still awake at midnight.

We celebrate Newfie New Year (10:30 Eastern) just in case.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

In Spain there is a tradition of eating twelve grapes (one for each bong) at midnight (6 p.m. Eastern). And like every year, I'm going to do so.

[ET21]

2nd year partying with the girlfriend and her sisters. Normally I'm the last one up and first one awake 

[dcbjms]

Usually my Mom and I go visit some friends who we usually don't see except around New Year's, for dinner and some bubbly when the ball drops.  Our friends are very, ahem, interesting people.  How interesting?  When they visited relatives in Phoenix, they seriously agonized over which airport to make the connecting flights.  It proved so important that eventually we got a postcard in the mail from the airport in Chicago (which they eventually went through) saying how nice the airport was.  I wish I was making this stuff up!

[3web]

We're just gonna watch maybe some movies, then switch to the countdown. Nothing too special.

[jwolfer]

I have my 6 year old with me this year.. Ex wife is going out... We will hang out with my parents eat finger food.. Eatch some football.. Make a bonfire and make some smores

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[1995hoo]

We stay home. Going out to crowded bars or the like lost its appeal years ago. I'll cook a nice dinner (this year, beef tenderloin) and we'll have some good wine. We have a jar of caviar to eat too. Probably watch HNIC the WJC since HNIC is preempted.

[bandit957]

Usually we just stay home and watch 'New Year's Rockin' Eve', but there were a few years in the late '80s/early '90s when the Cincinnati affiliate preempted it because it was too much for Cincinnati to handle.

[bandit957]

Also, years ago, we used to listen to the special edition of 'American Top 40' where they counted down the top 100 songs of the year, but this tradition got ruined 25 years ago.

[Max Rockatansky]

Stand in line regretting forgetting mustard yesterday.