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The most overrated holiday is


New Year's (Eve and Day)!!!

You're just flipping the calendar, for the sake of Pete.

Amirite?

If not, then what is the most overrated holiday?

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I look forward to it. My mom, dad, uncle, aunts, cousins, and I all get together and play games and then at midnight we go outside with glasses of champaign and sing Auld Lang Zyne. It's fun.

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That sounds really nice. If my family did something like that I would probably love New Year's Eve, too.

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My wife is from Ukraine and New Year's Eve/Day is actually her favorite holiday. In that part of the world, they don't celebrate Christmas until something like January 7 (I think), so New Year's Eve/Day is a bigger holiday for her, since it chronologically comes first.

I don't really have an overrated holiday. They're all interesting to me in some way.

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This thread is giving me a new perspective on New Year's. Maybe it's good I started it. 😊♥️

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Don't feel bad...I understand where you're coming from on it.

Your thread got me thinking about all the different New Year's Eve celebrations I've been a part of. I've spent several in churches (a lot of churches have special New Year's Eve services, including the church we used to attend). I've been to all-night parties where I danced and drank with a bunch of drunk Russian people (I drank Coke while they drank the alcohol). 😃 I've spent many with my family (I e., my now-deceased Mom and Dad, plus my sisters, brother, nieces), where we'd sometimes play board games and one of my sisters would bake her delicious chocolate brownies or chocolate-chip cookies. We'd usually have the TV on getting ready to watch the ball drop in Times Square. And there were a few where I went to bed well before midnight and just didn't care about waiting up for the New Year. This will make the second year in a row where I'm spending the New Year in Florida (with wife and kids), so it'll be a lot warmer here than where I normally am in Ohio! 😃

I don't think I have ever spent a New Year's Eve completely by myself, though.

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Like you, I have spent my New Year's Eves in different ways, too. Sometimes with family, sometimes at parties and sometimes going to bed well before midnight.

I'll be spending it in Florida with my husband and kids, too! Who knows we could pass each other and not even know it!😁

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Awesome! That's so true...I look a lot like "Florida Man" now after being down here for a few days! 😃 Have a great time!

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Thanks! You have fun, too!

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It's my favourite day and month of the year. A new year, new beginnings, new stuff to look forward to.

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That's how I used to look at it and maybe I need to re-shift my focus.

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Agreed.

I used to love New Years Eve but bad behavior and poor choices were all too common. Quite a few of us are very fortunate to not be incarcerated and still be alive.

Now I spend New Years Eve with my wife, my kids, my niece and my
little dog…start a fire, mix some drinks, play some classic rock and country in the garage and leave the cars parked!

I’m too old for that party nonsense.

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I'm going to love New Years Day this year - going to the Rose Bowl game. Go Buc's!

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Sounds like you’ll have fun!
Cheers and Happy New Year🍷🍷

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Same to you!

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I think your last sentence best sums up my current view of this holiday. Ever since having kids, getting to go to bed whenever I want to has become one of the greatest luxuries in life 😂 and there's not much that's going to make me stay up til midnight.

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It seems we are a lot less fun than we used to be but we get far fewer questions to answer…I can live this way😄

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Yes, I have grown to appreciate the beauty of a simple, ordinary day (and life).

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Sometimes you say some stuff that really hits me 4L.

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😘

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For me it is meaningless.
I celebrate Rosh Hashanah.

PS It's also much cheaper not to celebrate the foreign version as well 😂

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Yes, agreed. It doesn't hold a lot of meaning for me either. I know it is supposed to signal a new beginning but I think I try to make everyday count and don't really need a date on the calendar to signify that.

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I appreciate this point of view.

We know when it’s freezing or hot outside and when to show up for work…the rest of the important days I have a wife to remind me🤓

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Well said.
Both of you.

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Kwanzaa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maulana_Karenga

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Does anyone actually celebrate Kwanzaa? I've never heard any Black coworkers at any of my jobs mention this day.

Save the holiday season.

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It's unclear to me. The fact that tv news anchors mention it all makes it overrated :)

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I don't care for New Year's Day, either, because it signals the end of the holidays. This means having to wait another ten months for the return of Halloween, which I consider the kick-off to the holiday season.
I don't use alcohol nor do I participate in loud, drunken parties.
Like you said, you hang up a new calendar. Big deal. There isn't much to look forward to for the next ten months, especially the upcoming miserable summer heat, which seems to be starting earlier and hanging around longer.

Save the holiday season.

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I'm glad to know there are a few of us here who don't buy into the New Year's hoopla.

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It's just another semi pointless holiday.
But I get a day off so that's cool

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Yes, I did always appreciate the day off. There is that.

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