My best friend and I have now found ourselves in a position we have never been in before…Single for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.
How do you do it?
Um, how don’t you? Maybe it’s just that I’m usually single for the holidays and live close to family, but if your best friend is also single, that’s how you do it. It really only comes up on New Years for me, and then you just go out with your single friends.
You just live through it, like you do most days.
Me, I cook myself a tasty meal (roast pork, roast potatoes, and applesauce for T’day this year), read a good book, play computer games, terrorize my cats, and try VERY hard not to think about the fact that I have no one special in my life. After more than a decade, I’ve gotten sorta used to it, but I don’t like it any better now than I did the first time.
I don’t mean to seem insensitive, but I honestly don’t see why this is a huge problem.
If being lonely is the issue, make sure you spend the holidays with family and friends.
Gods, I am glad that I’m single for the holidays. No parents to chat up, no extended families to deal with. Hell, not even a set schedule of having to hang out with one-and-only-one person during the holidays.
Yay for being single!
P.S. Being single for New Years means that you can find someone who you think is cute and smooch 'em come midnight. I’ve heard parties are good for that sorta stuff 
Best of luck, keep your spirits up!
For Thanksgiving, you spend some time with family or have a “Friendsgiving” where you and your best friend cook lots of food, drink lots of wine and have a jovial time watching whatever old movies you’re both in love with.
Christmas, you guys buy eachother gifts and/or grab a few Angels to buy for from the Angel Tree at the mall. You go where you want on Christmas Day… no frantic driving from one end of town to the other to make sure you’ve seen EEEEVVVEERRYONE who is related to you.
New Years Eve is the best though. Get completely dolled up, hit the best party/club/event you can find and be surprised at how many boys are also looking for a NYE kiss.
Honestly, it’s the other 362 days that can be rough. =(
I have always been single for the holidays, or in a long-distance relationship. I hang out with the family, cook what I’m asked to cook, and play with my little cousins. If I didn’t have the opportunity to see my family, I’d hang out with other single friends.
I’ve been single for pretty much ALL the holidays I’ve lived.
But I have family and friends.
I deal*.
*By throwing Skittles at happy shopping couples while hiding behind a display of ugly snowman-print sweaters.
A book, a fire, a content dog curled up somewhere in the room, and some booze.
Like many other days, really. 
Booze…lots of it.
I’ve been single for every holiday in my life, although this winter break back at home I will be getting back together with a friend-with-benefits I had this last summer. I’ll be spending New Year’s going through Israel in a band of traveling Jews, though.
I feel you on the minor anxiety of being single for the holidays for the first time in, well, ever. At least since I started college and it was a big deal. As good as all this advice is, it will be a different sort of experience. And if the break up was recent (mine was 2 weeks ago tomorrow) it is kind of jarring to what was expected to happen. I’m sure that torie, her best friend, and I will survive, and probably have a good time, assuming that is what we aim to do (and, in all reality, it should be our aim).
My advice for us: get pleasantly drunk, but not one sip more, or it might not be fun for us or our patient good-listening friends 
I have been single for 10 years. And I don’t even have any friends to commisserate with!
The only family I have is my son.
Consider yourself lucky.
When I was single I worked in a movie theatre so I worked the holidays.
Now I don’t work there anymore and I’m single again.
My wife left me this year so these are the first big holidays alone in a long time. I’m having a friend over for thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years will be tough. I’m not sure. I don’t have the cash to travel to my mom’s, nor the desire. If I do have some cash I’m thinking of spending New Years in London. But hotels look pricey for that week so I doubt it.
I just think it’s odd that you’re not just concerned about being single for New Year’s, which is something of a date holiday, but also for Thanksgiving and Christmas, which I’ve never seen as datey holidays. Even when I’ve been dating somebody for one of them, we don’t see each other because we’re busy with family on them. (Except for that movie-on-Christmas-when-you-can’t-stand-it-anymore thing, of course, but that’s evening on Christmas Day when everything’s over.)
You’ve been dating since the day you popped out, then? No? In that case, think about the holidays you had when you were younger. Way younger.
No worries about faux pas when amongst The Guy’s family. No wracking the brain over what to get him for Christmas. You get to schedule things around you this year, and no-one else.
Plan to be around friends and family and General Loved Ones, this year. For T-day and Xmas, that is. For New Years, plan to be around many many attractive guys when the ball drops.
I have been single for every single holiday of my life. Sure, I get those wistful twinges sometimes, but it’s really not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps look into doing some volunteering at a soup kitchen or something else of that nature to stay busy and put a positive spin on being alone for the holidays.
Meh. “Big Occasions” like Xmas and New Year are more trouble than they’re worth, in my opinion. People EXPECT to have a big holiday celebration because, well, it’s EXPECTED, and in my experience disappointment nearly always ensues -there’s so much tension that strife is usually forthcoming. I make a point of not going out for New Year, and the best one I ever spent was staying home with my then girlfriend {now wife}, drinking bubbly, and watching the Japanese/Chinese international domino-collapsing faceoff - we laughed ourselves into fits. Honestly, do whatever the hell amuses you {although try not to drink yourself into maudlin oblivion thinking about what a good time everyone else is having - they’re probably not}, and let the world go hang.
I live alone, have never had a girlfriend, have only two friends who I don’t expect to see on either holiday, and my closest relative lives about 3,000 miles away.
It’s all relative.
For Thanksgiving, a bunch of friends (all couples) are coming over to my place for a good old-fashioned feast. For Xmas, I’m going to just have a quiet day to myself if I can get away with it, but that’s because I’m fed up with the whole Xmas hoopla rather than because I’m single.
This will be my sixth set of holidays since I became a born-again single. I like not having to do anything about them if I don’t want to.
These will be the first holidays I’ve been single in a long time.
I’m looking forward to them.