For reasons I may not disclose freely on the internet. I am going to celebrate new years eve this year by myself. Does anyone know of ways to solitarily celebrate new years eve?
Note: Englisch is not my first language
Edit: Thank you all so much for the responses. I ended up making it a good movie night, and watched the count down on tv. Along with some retro video games, plus pizza. All things considered it was a night well spent!
If you don’t have a lot of money, you could try masturbating every hour until midnight. Conversely, if you do have a lot of money, you could also try doing that.
If you have a lot of money you can also have someone do it for you. Treat yo self!
That would not be celebrating new years alone, though.
That’s like saying if you order a pizza on NYE then you aren’t celebrating alone because the pizza delivery guy is there.
But will be give you one off the wrist?
If they stay below table level, you can pretend they’re a droid
If you have money, you can set that challenge to Easy with some cocaine
Get yourself a good dinner takeaway, favourite drink, choose a movie you would like to watch, and end it with some retro video games of needed.
Be warned, take out/ delivery on NYE usually takes 1-2 hours longer if you’re in the city. Lots of cancellations too. It might ruin your evening.
Excellent warning. Might want to order very early in the day and reheat if necessary, if it’s good enough/worth it.
Welp, too late now.
Start with a 2013 video game and end with a 2014 video game after midnight.
The game after everything is the way to go, also put some time into figuring out a good movie!
Me: shitty fast food, cheapish beer, and watching the Star Wars 1978 holiday special.
It’s all uphill from here.
That’s suicide by pickles
With star trek.
Plot the downfall of the bourgeoisie.
THE RULING CLASS WILL TREMBLE BEFORE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION! 『 Bolshevik chorus swells 』 WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS!
I like to pronounce that word “bourgeoisie” just to piss people off
What do you do any other night you’re alone? Do that. NYE isn’t special.
It’s traditional to play lots of video games. Trust me on this one.
My alone NYE when the wife is working is typically a dinner of hors d’oeuvres type foods, made throughout the night. Cheese and crackers, some summer sausage if I have it, puff pastries with spinach or Buffalo chicken, pigs in a blanket, mozzarella sticks, maybe some samosas, even pizza rolls. For entertainment, a good video game or two and several of the NYE streams on YouTube to make fun of.
Looking forward to seeing how God awful the Planet Fitness show is this year! Dick Clark and Casey Kasem are both rolling in their graves tomorrow night for sure.
Eat a healthy homemade dinner, go to bed early, sleep well, and wake up the next day feeling great and ready to take on the new year.
Christmas, New Year’s Eve, birthdays; you name it buddy. I lie down and try to fall asleep by 7pm.
Has anyone said masterbate furiously?
Yes
Violently
Almost too much it’s concerning
I will be reading books, watch some netflix (Star Trek voyager and prodigy) then sleep.
Whatever you want! When I have free time alone (a scarce commodity) I like to read, maybe have one drink, listen to music.
If it’s not by choice and you don’t want to be alone, go out and have coffee or a drink, watch people.
If you are trying to make it meaningful, do a ritual. Like write down what you want to get rid of, what doesn’t serve you (anxiety, whatever troubles you) and burn it, let it go. A time that’s unusual is a good time to make changes that you want, to interrupt habits.
Spend it in quiet contemplation of the year behind and the one ahead if you want. Not every holiday needs to be a party.
For 2023 I made a resolution, for the first time since the 90s. The resolution was to have $5000 in the bank.
I pushed hard, got up to about $3500, then my housing situation changed and I had to pay higher rent. The savings rate become quite low assuming perfect discipline. I don’t have perfect discipline so my savings rate was just a couple hundred a month.
After the moving expenses I’m back down then slowly up to about $2k in the bank.
Overall, I failed to reach the $5k, but it did change my relationship with money in a major way. Until this year, until I decided to make savings my top priority, I was always living paycheck to paycheck. I’m 41. This has been my entire adult life: worrying about whether I’ll make the next round of bills. Often asking for extensions on my rent. Paying lots of late fees.
This year is the first time I’ve lived with any kind of financial surplus. When my rent is due I don’t even check my balance I just pay it. All the other bills are on auto. It’s such an amazing feeling.
So that was last year. This coming year my goal is to be present for people. I’ve lost too many friendships from neglect on my part. And Ive passed up too many opportunities to connect, because I wanted to maintain my freedom.
My whole life Ive separated myself, doing everything I can to cut ties and maintain flexibility. My resolution this year is to stay present for the people in my life, to commit to and fulfill some social obligations. To stop worrying so much about how I feel and focus more on what I can do for people.
Well said. Good luck with your resolution this year.
Not sure what to recommend. Last year I spent it by listening to taxi drivers wishing happy new year to each other via their radios using SDR. But that was more like just 2 minutes as the new year came. Still, plenty of drunk phone calls around 1am.
Anyway, that’s probably not much of a fun activity, and it’s not likely you have SDR either.
Probably just watch some movies, order some better (in taste, not quality) food and enjoy those. Maybe go fire some quiet fireworks like fountains, if you fancy those. I say the “quiet” bit as a dog owner.
