What is your special tradition on New Year's Eve

[malaise]

that is quite non-traditional. Mine is to make sure there are no dirty clothes in the laundry basket and there are lovely clean sheets on the bed to start the New Year.

Happy New Year DUers 😀😀

[rampartd]

1. i buy a bottle of cheap pink champagne

then we both fall asleep long before midnight so we drink it tomorrow with the cabbage and black eye peas .

[malaise]

2. LOL

I was never a champagne fan- will toast in the new year with my also cheap Blue Nun.
I’m cooking late lunch for four friends on NYD😀

[Think. Again.]

3. I always walk outside, alone, quietly, for 20 minutes or so around midnight.

[malaise]

6. In the cold?

Congrats😀

[Think. Again.]

7. Yes, wherever I happen to be, warm or cold.

It makes the occassion a very personal moment to reflect on my recent past and what I hope to do in the near future, a quiet moment of reflection while the rest of the world is being raucus and silly.

[malaise]

8. I gave up on raucous and silly decades ago

😀

[zeusdogmom]

4. I do a volunteer shift at the zoo

Wildlights is still going strong and the zoo is open late New Year's Eve for people to enjoy the lights. I sign up for an early evening shift, have great conversations with visitors as we enjoy the animals, and then go home. I enjoy the last Christmas peanut bar and a glass of bubbly then time for me to go to bed no matter what hour it is, midnight or not. Obviously I am not a party animal. 😁

Clean sheets and caught up laundry is a great way to start the new year especially if those sheets have been line dried in the sunshine.

[malaise]

5. especially if those sheets have been line dried in the sunshine

I never use the dryer - sunshine is all the energy needed for drying clothes here.😀

Love your tradition

[zeusdogmom]

10. Don't use my dryer either except to dry down jacket, vests and quilts

Everything else is lined dried. Better for the clothes, the environment and my bank account.

Happy New Year 🎊

[malaise]

11. Back at yah

😀

[bamagal62]

9. To make sure ALL

The Christmas decorations are down and stored away.
Tree at the street.

[malaise]

12. Mum was like you - she

took everything down on New Year’s Eve. I only make a wreath - buy the pine scraps from the Christmas Tree sellers. Will take it down on Thursday. Happy New Year😀

[happybird]

13. Phish livestream from Madison Square Garden

They always do something crazy, amazing, and totally unpredictable on NYE and it keeps getting bigger and more elaborate each year.

This is their 29th NYE run at MSG. I was there in person in 1995 and am super happy they have been live streaming it for the past decade-plus.

The tradition started with the band riding around Boston Garden on a giant flying hotdog in '94 (which is now hanging in the RnR Hall of Fame lobby), and last year they did a full broadway-esque production of The Man Who Who Stepped Into Yesterday (aka Gamehendge), the guitarist's senior thesis rock opera/fairytale. No idea how they can possibly top that one but excited to find out! The fan speculation and wild guesses on the Phish subreddit are a big part of the fun on both NYE and Halloween.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. sleep. yawn.

[Emile]

15. Pizza 🍕

[SARose]

16. Clean house

Top to bottom. Dusted, mopped, clean bathrooms, etc.

Why? ‘Cause my Mama did it, my Grandmama did it, etc., etc.

Happy Clean New Year!

[malaise]

19. We do that during the days leading up to Christmas

Same reason- saw grandma and ma do it and everyone else we knew 😀

[malaise]

20. We do that during the days leading up to Christmas

Same reason- saw grandma and ma do it and everyone else we knew 😀

[Wicked Blue]

17. Sleeping

[Mad_Dem_X]

18. My husband and I wait until it's about 3 seconds til midnight

then we give each other a kiss, and make it last until a few seconds after midnight. We call it "kissing in the new year." Don't know how non-traditional that is, LOL.

[malaise]

21. Enjoy!

😀