I am to celebrate new years eve alone. How can I celebrate solo?

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!

balderdash9,

Bottle of champaign and watch some fireworks

Potatisen,

Champagne?

balderdash9,

Don’t mind if I do

Chee_Koala,

Champayne

BlitzKrieg2552,

Shampain

NotSteve_,

Shampaggin

don,

Fake hurting.

intensely_human,

Actually it’s a french word. It means “fake bread”

Fake4000,

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.

LillyPip,

Me: shitty fast food, cheapish beer, and watching the Star Wars 1978 holiday special.

It’s all uphill from here.

Potatisen,

The game after everything is the way to go, also put some time into figuring out a good movie!

SheerDumbLuck,

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.

victorz,

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.

andrew,

Start with a 2013 video game and end with a 2014 video game after midnight.

someguy3,

With star trek.

khan_shot_1st,

Fun will now commence.

Corkyskog,

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.

bionicjoey,

If you have a lot of money you can also have someone do it for you. Treat yo self!

ChefTyler1980,

That would not be celebrating new years alone, though.

bionicjoey, (edited )

That’s like saying if you order a pizza on NYE then you aren’t celebrating alone because the pizza delivery guy is there.

snaprails,
@snaprails@lemmy.world avatar

But will be give you one off the wrist?

intensely_human,

If they stay below table level, you can pretend they’re a droid

Candelestine,

Spend it in quiet contemplation of the year behind and the one ahead if you want. Not every holiday needs to be a party.

intensely_human,

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.

Candelestine,

Well said. Good luck with your resolution this year.

joeyv120,

What do you normally like to do when you have an evening alone?

capt_wolf,
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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.

user224,

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.

altima_neo,
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A lot of champagne I guess

FigMcLargeHuge,

I am taking the metro train to downtown with my bike. I will ride around a little, stay for the fireworks, and then take it back home. Easy enough. You are obviously going through something so don’t make being alone on new years eve too significant. Stuff happens, and hopefully you come out of this stronger.

j4k3,
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I treat it like any other day and ignore all events focused on relationships, but I’m partially disabled and unable to do anything social. Just do whatever you find interesting in life and ignore the “celebration” the memory will fade into the background like all the other days and you won’t have depressive repercussions due to self reflection.

DessertStorms, (edited )
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This might not be the answer you're looking for but the way I see it, it's just another day, and we generally put far too much pressure on it and on ourselves on it, and that it's perfectly fine to not do anything special.

If for your own reasons you really do want to celebrate anyway, try and make/order your favourite meal, think of a good movie or two that always make you feel nice, and spend your evening enjoying those, but most importantly - don't feel down or bad for being alone, there's nothing wrong with that, and even if it feels like there is, this one night has very little significance in the grand scheme of things.

TWeaK,

Get an early night, start the new year fresh.

JayBird76,
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Make your favorite food for dinner. Snack on your favorite comfort food. Play video games or watch a favorite movie. The key is to pamper yourself.

ShroOmeric,

Did it more than once and it wasn’t bad at all. Get some food you like, some nice movies/games, a stroll around the city to see people going crazy at midnight maybe, maybe a drink at the bar and then to sleep as soon as you’re tired without having to stay awake to make other people happy… I enjoyed it when it happened…

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