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If you don't have a lot of money, you could try masturbating every hour until midnight. Conversely, if you do have a lot of money, you could also try doing that.

Drink heavily, masturbate furiously, and fall asleep in a puddle of your own shame by 9pm.

Eat a healthy homemade dinner, go to bed early, sleep well, and wake up the next day feeling great and ready to take on the new year.

LOTR marathon drinking game

Get hammered, play Baldur's Gate 3, pass out at 3am.

I will be reading books, watch some netflix (Star Trek voyager and prodigy) then sleep.

Do some random acts or act of kindness on that day or night in addition to the things that others said.

Has anyone said masterbate furiously?

A few ideas come to mind

• Video games
• Scary movies
• Exercise
• Chores
• Read a book
• Other hobbies

A few years ago, I spent New Year’s Eve flying solo. Passed the time with a mix of baking, movies, cooking dinner, a long walk, doodling, and a bunch of Sudoku games. The night was dry, so I stepped out close to midnight, had a sip of whisky under city lights to see the New Year in. Then I popped an edible and fucked off to bed with a Netflix Lullaby. Best of luck too you!

Bottle of champaign and watch some fireworks

Watch your favorite movie or play your favorite game, especially one you haven't seen in a while

Do whatever is your favourite hobby but crack a few beers if you drink (or whatever else alcoholic or non alcoholic drink you enjoy) while eating some of your favourite snacks and just have some good alone time!

Gaming, knitting, scale models, whatever floats your boat.

1. Get some food and beverages you enjoy.
2. Take a bath and use a bath bomb. (It doesn't matter who you are, baths are awesome)
3. Drink bevvies in the tub. Bonus: walk around your place naked because it just feels good

I've spent holidays alone or travelling in the past. I also enjoy watching streamers on Twitch like Will Neff who do weekly movie nights, watches entertaining YouTube videos like Roll For Sandwich, and shows like Survivor on stream. His discord community hosts a variety of events when he's not streaming. At any given point you can usually catch his community members watching movies together in a voice call or just while chatting. My suggestion would be to find a streamer that you enjoy watching or a community that participates in events together on mediums like discord.

That or just get sucked into a really good show. Whatever works for you

Dude, just get a bunch of weed and alcohol of your preference and just enjoy... I'd give my right leg if I could spend new year's eve alone... or any other eve for that matter.

For reasons, I'm also. Having some fancy dinner and watching the fireworks. Already made friends with the table next to mine, an older fun couple visiting from Sweden.

This might not be the answer you're looking for but the way I see it, it's just another day, and we generally put far too much pressure on it and on ourselves on it, and that it's perfectly fine to not do anything special.

If for your own reasons you really do want to celebrate anyway, try and make/order your favourite meal, think of a good movie or two that always make you feel nice, and spend your evening enjoying those, but most importantly - don't feel down or bad for being alone, there's nothing wrong with that, and even if it feels like there is, this one night has very little significance in the grand scheme of things.

Either A. Take the time to write down your experiences from the past year, hurdles you've encountered, what you've achieved, what you want to accomplish in the coming year, and what you need to do to get there. Really dive into it and try to set the tone for a good start to 2024.

Or B. Get really fucked up on your intoxicant of choice.

What do you normally like to do when you have an evening alone?

Not sure what to recommend. Last year I spent it by listening to taxi drivers wishing happy new year to each other via their radios using SDR. But that was more like just 2 minutes as the new year came. Still, plenty of drunk phone calls around 1am.

Anyway, that's probably not much of a fun activity, and it's not likely you have SDR either.
Probably just watch some movies, order some better (in taste, not quality) food and enjoy those. Maybe go fire some quiet fireworks like fountains, if you fancy those. I say the "quiet" bit as a dog owner.

Last year I started my adventure into homelab, Linux, open source and it led to other technical hobbies. Started by repurposing an old PC into a server.

This year I think I'm taking up music recording

Bejba, that's kajnda krejza (reference to the Polish entry of Eurovision 2023)

Do you game on xbox by any chance? I’m spending this NYE alone because I’m generally a hermit/loser. So I’m probably gonna smoke weed like chimney and play battlefield 2042, must like I do most nights.

You could join in, if you’d like.

I’ve considered going out alone, trying to meet some people. But it’s just so sad.

There's usually a bunch of new years events like at a bar, concert venue, or restaurant you can go to and just hangout

So what are you doing finally?

I fucking love celebrating that day alone. It never made any sense to me celebrating a calendar change and all the build up to nothing actually happening. The first year I spent it alone I had been the sober driver and took a friend home early and happened to still be on the old dirt road heading back to the party when midnight hit and it was so peaceful. So up until I had a family of my own I spent every new years alone on a hike or working on a project alone or with a close friend, woke up feeling better.

Winter is warm this year, maybe a good way to celebrate is to visit your surroundings a little in reflection.

Please know that it is ok to be alone on special days. Don't feel sad. It's just another day.

Get an early night, start the new year fresh.

If you have Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Switch, you can celebrate with your animal villagers

Get yourself a sixer, kick your feet up and do whatever the fuck you want!