# New Year's Eve: Party Hearty Or Party Pooper? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 26, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245 "2005-12-26T11:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/1 "2005-12-26T11:12:51Z")
I personally hate to go out on New Year’s Eve. Been there, done that. Cover charges, over-priced drinks, insane crowds, drunk drivers…I live in Las Vegas and watch the newscasts of hundreds of thousands of people cramming the streets and counting down to midnight. I watch the fireworks from my balcony, watch the television coverage of the events and am in bed by 12:05 and asleep by 12:07. So, do you go out on New Year’s Eve, or do you stay home? ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/2 "2005-12-26T11:18:11Z")
I usually just have dinner with friends. We then walk to the end of the street about 10 minutes before midnight to see the fireworks over Sydney Harbour. Once they’re over we all go home. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/3 "2005-12-26T11:22:38Z")
I’ve only been away from my home on NYE once. I much prefer to be here, hopefully on the phone yakking to a friend for a bit, then see in the New Year with a raised glass of something non-alcoholic. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/4 "2005-12-26T13:47:21Z")
We almost always stay home (in our 8 year relationship Motorboy & I have left home for NYE just once that I can recall). We make some appetizers, have a couple of beers or a bottle of champagne and play board games with Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on the muted TV. Two-player Pictionary rocks! ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/5 "2005-12-26T14:02:55Z")
New Year’s Day is my birthday, so I generally get to do whatever I want on NYE. Including opening presents at midnight! 😃 That said, we don’t often go out. What’s typical is that we buy a whole pile of really good champagne, and we make a simple dinner or appetizers, and hang out just the two of us. After all the Christmas hubbub, we’re not usually interested in going to a big party or anything. Mellow and quiet… that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/6 "2005-12-26T15:03:41Z")
Hi, I live in Vegas also, and I’m definitely a party pooper if you mean going down to Fremont and hanging out with the multitudes. I do live in a ghetto fabulous area though and somehow its just much more festive to hang out on your mobile home roof and hear a bunch of folks screaming “Thank You Mr. Goodman!” when they (also from their roofs) watch the fireworks show. If you are lucky you might get to see a fight break out in the street when street fireworks get too close to the very, very flammable half dead mulberry trees. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/7 "2005-12-26T15:22:29Z")
We stay usually stay home. Neither of us drinks, and we’re not into hanging out anywhere where there are a lot of drunk people who are going to drive home with other people on the road who have been doing the same thing. We turn on Dick Clark at 11:55, kiss at midnight, and turn off Dick Clark at 12:05, stay up for a bit, and go to bed. I guess we’re officially boring. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/8 "2005-12-26T15:26:00Z")
Stay at home. I never drank or partied. Since I’ve been married, the missus and I will stay up long enough to see the new year come in and it’s off to Sleepytown. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/9 "2005-12-26T15:26:04Z")
Party Pooper. I don’t like starting the New Year with a hangover, a nauseous stomach, and an aching body. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/10 "2005-12-26T18:31:21Z")
It depends. This year, I’m noticing the bars are charging quite a bit more their usual NYE cover. I’m thinking this is because they “lost” a Saturday night for Christmas Eve as well as lost Christmas Day revenue unless they opened later. However, I’m in walking range of several bars/clubs so I’ll probably go out for a bit. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/11 "2005-12-26T18:48:34Z")
> [@DMark](#): > > I personally hate to go out on New Year’s Eve. Been there, done that. > > Cover charges, over-priced drinks, insane crowds, drunk drivers…I live in Las Vegas and watch the newscasts of hundreds of thousands of people cramming the streets and counting down to midnight. I watch the fireworks from my balcony, watch the television coverage of the events and am in bed by 12:05 and asleep by 12:07. > > So, do you go out on New Year’s Eve, or do you stay home? Generally, I stay home or go to a small gathering at a friend’s house. One year, I _did_ see the Brian Setzer Orchestra in AC for New Years - had a blast. VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/12 "2005-12-26T18:51:04Z")
Our NYE traditions range from dinner and a movie out to appetizers, movies, and cards at home. I’m guessing by most posts that “partying on NYE” means going out to bars and what-not to get drunk and stupid? Wear party hats and blow horns? Nah, we’ve never done that, and likely never will. This year will probably be a night in with family to toast the old year, eat nummy goodies, have a killer card and Scrabble tournament, and toast in the new year. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/13 "2005-12-26T19:11:50Z")
It depends. This year I am going to Disneyland! WOO! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/14 "2005-12-26T19:20:37Z")
The last NYE I went out was 2000/2001. I was majorly irked at the complete lack of imagination of the techno bar I was at- at midnight they started playing Cher’s _Believe_ when there is a techno remix of _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ (bka the **2001** theme) and left. I need to spend this New Year’s getting new glasses. I honestly read the Thread title as _New Year’s Eve: Patty Hearst Or Patty Pooper?_. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/15 "2005-12-26T19:31:24Z")
I’m a Party Pooper, I guess. We sometimes go out, but this year I will be working on NYE—I will be driving across the Howard Franklin Bridge from Tampa to Seminole about the time the bars close. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/16 "2005-12-26T19:36:12Z")
2000-2001, I spent NYE with the Barenaked Ladies at the FleetCenter in Boston. Nothing alcoholic involved, tons of fun. Pretty much every other NYE I can remember I have spent with friends… a “party” I guess, but pretty tame compared to what most people think of NYE. We get together during the day and play some football for a few hours, then we just shower, relax, get Chinese for dinner, maybe watch a movie, toast the new year with a glass of champagne, then sit outside around the fire pit with s’mores and other goodness 🙂 So I party on NYE, but I don’t “party” on NYE… and I generally enjoy it at least as much as I would the more ‘normal’ kind of party. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/17 "2005-12-26T19:51:47Z")
I don’t go “out” and party on New Year’s Eve but I usually visit with friends and we ring in the New Year with the usual booze and joy. This year though I’m arriving back into town on a 5:00am flight and then have to work some sidejobs during the day so I’m thinking I’ll welcome in 2006 sometime around noon on Jan 1. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/18 "2005-12-26T21:00:57Z")
Let’s see. In previous years I’ve gone to a hockey game, went to the casino, went to a friend’s house, or stayed home. Not in the mood for hockey this year and I don’t have any plans yet with friends. So either I’ll go gambling (I had a good night last time I did that) or just stay home. Whether or not I go gambling will depend on how much I have in my account and can risk. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/19 "2005-12-26T21:58:05Z")
This year probably party pooper. I have invites to a few places, but I was ill this past summer and am still not able to last long without getting tired. I find that I am very sleepy by 10:00. I may try to nap and go out, but the truth is, New Years is usually an overblown disappointment anyway, so I will probably stay in. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245/20 "2005-12-27T01:13:23Z")
I sometimes enjoy a couple of drinks and spend a quiet evening with friends… :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-years-eve-party-hearty-or-party-pooper/337245.md?page=2)