What Do Baby Boomers Do on New Year’s Eve?
I’m curious. Let me know what you are doing. I am going to a party at a function hall in Boston with a bunch of people I’ve never met. And you? Happy New Year, no matter how you mark the night.
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December 31st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
MY WIFE and I are stay-at-homes. We usually get some good Thai food, a nice bottle of wine, and then watch a movie or two. Around midnight, we’ll check out Dick Clark’s ghost
December 31st, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Taking our eight-year-old daughter to the Family Fun activities of First Night Boston, then meeting up with friends for dinner and getting the hell out of the city before the madness begins.
December 31st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Well, you know you’re old when your kid goes to NYE parties and you stay home (which is what has happened the last 2 years). We do have a party we could go to annually but frankly we haven’t gone in years and it is way too much for me.
Have a great New Years!
December 31st, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Thanks, all, for letting us in on your plans. I, for one, am skipping First Night in Boston. Brian, run for your life!!!!!
December 31st, 2009 at 9:05 pm
We stay home, this an not a night when we want to be out at parties or in restaurants. We enjoy quiet, great service and a full menu. As the years go on we want less noise and more time together.
We spent the last few months searching for a great wine to have tonight. Then we collected foods that would go with it. We’re nibbling and sipping.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Our tradition is homemade pizza, cuddling on the couch and watching TV or a movie. Our friends don’t give New Year’s Eve parties and it’s been a lot of years since we ventured into Boston to join the First Night crowds.
December 31st, 2009 at 11:51 pm
At home watching football then a movie. Might make it to midnight but not concerned either way.
January 1st, 2010 at 12:16 am
As I replied to a friend who said, “Oh, we’re planning on staying in, maybe turn the TV on about 10 PM.”
“Yeah, I will too… if I’m still awake.”
I cannot believe I used to crawl in at 5 AM and go to work at 7 AM…
January 1st, 2010 at 1:14 am
Like Suldog, my hubby and I stay home on New Year’s Eve, watch a movie and verify that Dick Clark is still alive. Yep, still there at midnight December 31, looking like he’s had a little (or a lot of) botox. (Sorry, D.C.)
January 1st, 2010 at 1:15 am
Oh I forgot – everyone please have a Happy New Year. We live in Michigan and things haven’t been looking so good here. Hope things here and around the country will start looking up!
January 1st, 2010 at 9:36 am
Our son spent the night at a friend’s house, my husband had a migraine, and I was in bed by 8:30.
We really should have stayed up to usher out this horrid year of 2009, but I really don’t have much hope for 2010 either.
January 1st, 2010 at 11:11 am
Yeah, 2010 is going to be a repeat (and more so) of this year, in terms of the economy.
January 1st, 2010 at 11:21 am
We spent New Years Eve with good friends. We have done so for the past 20 years or so. We have dinner together, catch up because we only see them 2-3 times a year, sometimes we play a game, and always watch the ball drop and ring in the new year with a toast of sparkling grape juice.
Happy New Year to everyone!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:27 am
The ‘quieter’ New Year’s Even celebrations, like Laurie’s and Suldogs, are starting to sound really appealing.
January 1st, 2010 at 1:19 pm
How was your party at the function hall?
I celebrated with my daughter and her family at a nice dinner. After it, the kids lowered a ball wrapped in aluminium foil from the window on the stairs as we counted down to the “New Year.” Then they dropped gold-colored balloons down.
Later, I babysat while my daughter and her husband went to a party.
I wrote a post about the “Top 10 Consumer Books of 2009.” I got quite a few hits and a comment from one of the authors I selected.
Rita blogging at The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide
January 1st, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Rita, hilarious what your kids did with the foil. My function hall party was in Boston’s Chinatown. About 100 people maybe attended. I went with a friend. There was an open bar and all the Chinese food you could eat as well as dancing. Not bad, although not the best NYEve I’ve had, either.
January 1st, 2010 at 2:49 pm
Happy New Decade!!
Todd
Postcards from Hell’s Kitchen blog.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:48 am
Since these baby boomers are parents of small children, we went to bed at 10 oclock. We figured it was already 2010 in England, and called it good.