Suggestions for New Year's Eve?

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Registered: 05-03-2005
Suggestions for New Year's Eve?
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Mon, 11-21-2005 - 7:09am

This is my first New Year's Eve without a date. I'm wondering if I should stay home this year. Is it common for single people to go out for New Year's Eve? Is a New Year's Eve party a place to meet someone? I don't want to spend a night sitting at a table while all my coupled up friends are out on the dance floor. If I can expect to see other single people out, then I'll go.

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Mon, 11-21-2005 - 7:44am

My experience is that when I go out on NYE and I'm single (which has almost always been the case), I end up sitting at the table watching everyone else dance and kiss- just like you said. I usually stay home simply because going out and watching that doesn't interest me and I just don't feel like I have to go

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Registered: 09-01-2004
Mon, 11-21-2005 - 9:33am

That would depend on who you go out with and what you do. My single girlfriends and I go out every New Year's Eve and have a balst. We pick an event where the admission is no more thatn $35 and drinks aren't too expensive. We hang out with one another and party and drink and are full of hugs and kisses for each other at midnight. It's a really nice antidote to staying at home alone. Though I have to admit that I am the only one of us who has occasionally skipped it because I do get quickly annoyed with obnoxious drunks and NYE is their night to shine and all.

If you don't want to stay at home and can arrange something fun with other single friends, I say go for it. But I would not look at it as a venue for meeting men, but rather as a time to really enjoy your friends. If you don't feel up to it, stay home and plan a nice evening for yourself so that you don't regret not going out. Give yourself a pedicure and a facial or watch movies that you would be embarassed to admit that you like or do whatever it is that makes you happy.

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Registered: 08-13-2005
Mon, 11-21-2005 - 10:30pm
Even though this is the first new years eve that i'll be single (unless things change *knocks on wood*), I've only spent my new years with my bf one year. The other years we'd be apart over the holidays visiting family. So I've always gone out with friends, some single some not (a big mixed group) and we use it as a night to just have fun.
I wouldn't go out in hopes of meeting someone, but instead go out to celebrate with the people that are already in your life.
If you don't have people to go out with, you could always stay in with your family or just have a night to yourself. It's not really that sad in my books, it's just another night.
But of course there's bound to be at least one person you know throwing a party. So ask around or even plan one of your own.
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Registered: 09-01-2005
Tue, 11-22-2005 - 5:10pm
Sounds like we all need to party in Chicago with auntjules this year!
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Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 11-22-2005 - 5:16pm

Sounds like fun to me!


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Registered: 09-01-2004
Wed, 11-23-2005 - 9:07am
Come one, come all! That's not a bad idea, we Chicago gals should get together and party on New Year's.
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Registered: 03-25-2004
Sat, 11-26-2005 - 1:27am

I have a guy, but we usually stay in.

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