If you’re a mum, New Year’s Eves have probably changed
somewhat from your Child-Free days.
Babysitters??
You’d be lucky if you can find one,
and if you do
you’d probably have to put your best looking child on eBay just to pay what they charge.
But actually – staying in on New Years Eve might well be the SMART option.
Here’s Why:
#1 It’s Freezing Out There
New Years Eve has a tendency of being in the bleakest, coldest, , wettest part of Winter in the UK.
It also seems to require you to wear the smallest clothes and the most uncomfortable shoes.
Party-Wear. In Winter. Brrrrr. No thanks.
#2 You’ll Get Ripped Off
Even the stickiest-floored old mans local is charging a tenner each to get in.
And if you want to go anywhere nice you definitely won’t have any money to spend in the sales.
ffs, really. Enough said.
#3 Drunk People
Most evenings out, for actual grown ups, probably peak at half past ten.
Dinner Party, Meal Out, Quiz Night and so on – people are at their jolliest at 10:30 and then start to wind down around the 11 o’clock mark.
But New Years Eve it seems people UP the speed of their drinking, AND you have to keep going for a couple of hours longer than usual.
Hence town is full of utterly mortalled drunks all staggering about from about 9pm.
Not pretty – and not fun when you are trying to negotiate crying women in the toilet who’ve taken their shoes off after making a scene.
#3b Vomit and Toilet Queues
Just that really. More crying women.
#4 Christmas Kisses
With the one you are passionate about – amazing. Special. Perfect.
With all the other beer-breathed chancers…not so much.
Indecent assault amnesty across the country for 5 minutes once a year.
And you probably will get your bum felt.
Apparently it’s tradition.
*shudder*
#5 Invisible Taxis
Still waiting at 1:55am for the taxi that was supposed to come at midnight, but some other bugger must have taken, completely knackered is no way to see the New Year in.
#6 Pressure to Have Fun
It really is just another night, but aside from the fact you have just spent a fortune on clothes, hair,
earrings and 3 times the going out costs…you are then expected to be having the time of your life.
Whether you like it or not.
“How was your New Years Eve?”
“Expensive, crowded and loud thanks
I am £150 lighter and a drunk man burped in my mouth – how was yours?”
#7 The Telly is Superb
New Years Eve telly is for one night a year completely BRILLIANT.
Big, Fat Quiz of the Year, Jools, Comedy Specials
Why wouldn’t you want to curl up in the warm pour a glass of champers in front of the fire
and have a gorgeous evening in?
#8 Home is Where the Heart is.
We live in a quiet street.
Suits me fine.
But at midnight New Years Eve there is an unwritten rule that you go out onto the street
and just be nice to each other.
Really is cool – and you get the added bonus of being
able to sneak into the room of a sleeping cherub, give them a gentle kiss on the cheek,and think about what you hope for them for the coming year.
#9 No Hangover.
This is not to be underestimated.
New Years Day hangovers are like nothing on Earth.
Like childbirth – we forget, because if we didn’t we would never do that again…
NYE at home = Raise a couple of something bubbly (without the £20 a bottle mark-up) have some tasty food and Start the New Year with a nice fresh smug face.
Whether you are going out, having friends over or snuggling up – we wish you a brilliant New Year’s Eve, if you’re finalising your plans – don’t feel that you are not living up to expectations if you just want a cosy night in to relax.
It’s just a night.
There will be 366 of those next year – what you do with those is far more interesting.
How you prioritise, how to move forward and be wiser – how to stop making the same mistakes and when it’s New Year 2017 – be able to look back at the past year with no regrets.
p.s – If you’ve been keeping up – you your achey abs should be easing off by now (do go back and find the abs workout from earlier in the week if you haven’t)
p.p.s. if you are going out – checklist
- soft pumps for when your feet have had enough
- baby-wipes
- granola bar
- little bottle of water
- both girls and guys ‘toilet vending goods’ …if you will. If you seriously want to save someone’s evening ;
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