Do You Bother to Stay Awake for New Years?

[dreamyxo]

Yes I'm a night owl so I'm usually up that time anyway.

[claudegrizzle]

We stay home for New Years and as a family do stay up until midnight. We toast to the New Year and wish each other Happy New Year! Small celebration, but we have done this for years.

[ktheodos]

Yes, I stayed up to watch fireworks and ring in the new year. Then I had to take a bus home so by the time I arrived it was 1:30...then I had tolrouble falling asleep until almost 4...lol...just got to live in the moment sometimes....this only happens once a year...

[gaylasue]

No, I've seen many, many new years.  I just can't seem to stay awake that late.

[ccandpam]

We use to always stay awake to watch The Ball Drop. Now that we are in our forties and My Husband is Fifty, we always go to bed at ten at night.

[ghunter]

I went to church and then got home to see the New Year come in.

[rghvac69]

I didn't stay up for New Years. I was in bed by 11:00.

[bretay]

i used to stay awake and bring in the new year with *bleep* clark..but since he passed it wasn't the same...usually stayed up anyway...but this year i was in bed sick...hope that doesnt mean i will be sick all year...still sick...

[Tresbn00]

This was the first year in decades that I did not make it to Midnight. At nine in the evening I drove my son, and one of his friends, to a concert venue that was about twenty files from our house. My wife was passed out when I got home so I decided to take a small snooze. I set my alarm for eleven fifty five but the alarm was unsuccessful at waking me up. My son took a ride-share service home which ended up costing one hundred and twenty dollars. I stopped going out on New Year's eve several years ago for precisely this reason. Every business jacks their prices through the roof and I am a penny pinching, tight wad.We spent yesterday getting massages, eating and relaxing with the children. I am headed back to working jobs two and three today.

[gwilson31]

No, My spouse and I usually order Chinese food, watch the Twilight Zone marathon and then at  go out onto the deck and watch the fireworks.

[PGS28]

Not anymore, I went on to bed as always.

[PGS28]

But I'm a light sleeper so I ended up waking back up when all the gun shots started.  I fell back to sleep alright though.

[bremer51]

I had a little sparking wine around 11:00 p.m.  Its New Year's somewhere. 

[hawkeye3210]

I was awake, but I really didn't make an effort to stay up.

[aflyingmonkey]

Yes... but not by choice -- I have kids who were into the whole countdown & making noise outside at midnight, which is a thing where I live.

We stayed up, played board games, ate snacks, watched the ball drop, made noise at midnight & then put pennies in the windows & then New Years Eve was over & I went to sleep.