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Do many people do anything for New Year these days?

When I was younger I was always out on hogmanay, be that to a party or just in the pub, and then NYD itself was at my great aunts. As that generation has passed on no one has really taken on that role in the family among the younger generations (and a lot of cousins etc don't live locally now anyway). Even going back a couple of decades though us (then) youngsters would be told it 'isn't like the new years we used to have' and we would be regaled with tales of first footing, parties that lasted days and all ran into one, steak pies that would have fed 5000 etc etc. My grandad can recall working on Christmas Day as it wasn't the focus of the celebrations in Scotland but never New Year.

Is it just the case that Christmas has totally usurped New Year now? I can't remember the last time we did anything notable at NY. I tend to do the racing at Musselburgh and that's about it. We have no plans for Hogmanay and I doubt I'll even stay up until midnight. NYD we have my parents coming down and I'm doing soup and stovies but I don't foresee it being a raucous one. Is anyone keeping the party going? Or is it a thing of the past?
Used to be the same for me. Would go out to the pub or a club on hogmanay. When I was a bit younger me and my dad would wander from Reastalrig, where we lived, to Meadowbank to visit his mate and his auld boy, but that stopped when the old boy died. Then there would always be a party at my folks on the 1st into the second, where my dad would pull out all the rank drink that lived in the drinks cabinet and never got an airing until New Year. Most of it was older than me!😂.this went on until I was in my 20's then started to fizzle out, especially one I got married, had kids and couldn't be bothered with it any more. My dad's mates still went round, but gradually they got older and health took over so it stopped.

I don't really do anything now. My daughter is 15, so I imagine it will be her turn for partying in a few years but I can't be arsed any more. Got some cheese and wine and will sit in the house then probably hit the sack just after the bells. As I hit my late forties, it doesn't have the same appeal any more.