# NYE a big deal for you? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 30, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824 "2003-12-30T19:41:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/21 "2003-12-31T21:39:49Z")
I’m planning a wild and wacky night of playing computer and XBox games, watching a Netflix (Murder by Numbers), and making up for not exercising yesterday. It’ll be me and hubby, who has a bad cough and is rather miserable. Calm down, people. Not everyone can be as exciting as we are. I don’t like parties, so I don’t know if I’ve ever been to a NYE party. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/22 "2003-12-31T21:39:56Z")
NYE = Las Vegas. But not this year… new job + no time off for = no Vegas. Good thing that next year NYE lands on a Friday night. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/23 "2003-12-31T21:41:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kanelda \* > \*\*I’m another that couldn’t care less. > > For me it’s like Easter or Valentine’s Day… it’s just another day, but for NYE there are more people getting drunk and being stupid. > \*\* NYE for me is a night to stay home and eat appetizers for dinner and watch movies. I don’t much care that it’s a different year. As I age I notice that they’re all more or less alike anyway. That being said, unlike the holidays **Kanelda** mentioned I _never_ have to work the next day. For that reason I look forward to New Year’s Eve. I couldn’t say why but even though I’ll be doing my normal day off stuff; cleaning house, reading, cooking a little, doing all of that on a Thursday is exponentially more satisfying than it is every Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/24 "2003-12-31T22:02:36Z")
It’s not a really huge deal, but I do enjoy it. I find it a bit dissapointing if I can’t spend it with friends or a special someone, or at least go to the local pub. I agree its not wise to be driving tonight. This year I have a good friend staying with me, but since we don’t have a local pub we’re staying home and drinking, and setting off some fireworks at midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Dawne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Dawne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dawne)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/25 "2003-12-31T22:06:16Z")
I’ve never seen it as a big thing before, this year I’m doing nothing at all (the fact that I’m writing this at 10pm speaks for itself, i think). Some friends invited me to go out to a club with them but i don’t really see the appeal of it, especially tonight when it’s going to be over crowded and more expensive to get in than it usually is. I’m far too boring for a teenager, I’m even considering going to bed in a few minutes so I’m asleep before the drunk people start coming out. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/26 "2003-12-31T22:59:16Z")
Well, we will be sitting quietly at home tonight watching a DVD after the kids go to sleep. My best friend is having an “island of misfit toys” fondue party for all of our friends who have nowhere to go (we are such losers in our old age!), but her house is up a canyon and kinda far away, and my husband is dead set against us being out driving amongst the Darwin Award candidates. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/27 "2003-12-31T23:07:02Z")
NYE is just another day to me and I am way too nervous about all of the drunken idiots on the road to go anywhere tonight and it sucks the fun out of my evening to be around drunks anyway so I am staying home and watching Basketball (go Rockets!..yea right) and then I have a couple of DVD’s that I have not seen yet. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/28 "2003-12-31T23:43:28Z")
I **love** NYE because as a child it was the only holiday that didn’t suck. We were poor so holidays that required gifts were always ruined by my mother’s lamenting over how stressful it was. We always went to the same couple’s house every year and they had this big basement with a pool table and other cool things and all the kids that were there had a ball. No pressure, just fun. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/29 "2004-01-01T21:25:53Z")
Ranks somewhere between Ground Hog Day and Arbor Day. But I’ll take whatever holidays the company offers me. They give us Columbus Day off, too, can you believe that? Who the heck even knows when it is or is not Columbus Day? ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/30 "2004-01-02T06:09:54Z")
I worked NYE delivering pizza. Made 66 bucks in five hours averaging out to $17.62 an hour. Yeah, I volunteered! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/31 "2004-01-02T07:06:21Z")
NYE is a pretty big deal to me, too. No date, why break with tradition, but a great time with my Family by choice, as opposed to all the holiday obligations with my Family by birth. I like the saying that predicts whoever you ring in the new year with are the people that will figure prominently in your life all year. We’re on our 9th or 10th year of the same big fun chaotic house party, kids and all. Hosting duties rotate, everyone brings appetizers and beverages to share, we play games and eat and toast one another all night, dragging all the kids who’re still up outside at midnight to watch fireworks and make a general hubbub. There’s a core group of 4 adults, with SO’s and kids we equal 18, with guest-starring hangers on and assorted stragglers to keep things new and interesting. No one’s out fighting off whackos and paying outrageous bar/babysitter prices, the atmosphere is fun and relaxed, I wouldn’t have it any other way. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/32 "2004-01-02T07:48:42Z")
IMO, celebrating NYE makes as much sense as celebrating March 5th. It’s just a new calender. You can’t make any changes that you couldn’t have also made on November 22nd. You don’t get any new chances or clean slates. Nothing has really changed but the calender. Who gives a crap? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824/33 "2004-01-02T17:10:26Z")
Eh, we don’t normally all have November 22nd or June 3rd off work/school. We aren’t carrying post-holiday baggage on November 22nd either. A large part of NYE is simply opportunity, IMO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nye-a-big-deal-for-you/221824.md?page=1)