9 Great Reasons Staying in is BETTER on New Year’s Eve.
9 Great Reasons
Staying in is BETTER on New Year’s Eve.
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.
PartyWear. In Winter. Brrrrr. Not 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.
#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.
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 who’ve taken their shoes off.
#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
start the new year.
#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 = Start the New Year like a BOSS
Whether you are going out, having friends over or
snuggling up – we wish you a brilliant New Year’s Eve.