New Year’s Traditions

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Anyone care to share what traditions you hold when celebrating the new year?

We usually try to go to the vigil or midnight Mass, and have certain foods on New Year’s Day. Being from different national heritages, it a strange combination (from herring to ham & beans)
 
Minute to win-it type of games.
Madlibs new years resolutions.
Tricking the kids with early midnight.

Black eyed peas on New Year’s Day.
 
Chinese food for New Year’s Eve and then trying to stay awake till midnight. New Year’s Day we cook black eyed peas and collard greens and go to Mass.
 
A younger me: listening to that “What are you doing new years eve?” song and assuming everyone else was at these Great Gatsbyesque parties I wasn’t invited to.

That was a terrible tradition. If that’s you, life gets better!
 
Setting off noise at night. Pinto beans the next day. Bean dip and chips the next day.
 
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We stay in with a bottle of champagne 🍾 and some fancy-pants finger food. Usually in bed by 1am.

There is a Mass at the cathedral at 12:30am and the Te Deum at midnight at the ICRSS parish, both preceded by a period of Adoration. Sounds lovely, but…no, thank you. I’m wary of being at the wheel on amateur night for drunks 😖 I’ll be at Mass in my territorial parish at 11am on the 1st.
 
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I go to bed at my normal time. My wife likes to stay up until midnight. We go to the 9:00am mass in the morning.
 
Same here with mass. Both my wife and I try to go to sleep. I say “try” because, invariably, someone is setting off fireworks. Even when it’s raining. sigh
 
Working the overnight shift.
Sometimes I get to see the ball drop on the TV in the day lounge LOL.
Oh, and it’s also “changeover night” (that means filing all the December medication records and putting the new, clean records in the binders for January before the day shift comes in).

OTOH, my co-workers and I get the fun of whining to each other, and it’s also time-and-a-half! 🙂
 
Worked my share of New Years nights in the pharmacy over the years. I’d bring in cookies, and sparkling juice. We’d leave the empties in the trash for the day shift.🎉😳
 
Mine is always spent with my family at home. We watch the countdown celebration on the TV, but stop at around 11.30pm to say our family prayers. My mum prepares charcoal which my dad then uses, added incense and smoking the house. I guess this is our way of inviting the Lord into our home every new year.
 
Yes, not really up to staying up for the craziness. When our son was younger we went to the “First Night” events. It was a celebration of the arts with music, storytelling, and other events.
 
Late night dinner, 12 grapes at midnight, fireworks in the neighbor’s yard, hot cocoa (for Mama) and Mexican Egg Nog (me).
 
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