Christmas or New Year's Eve ?

[Lady Whistledown]

Christmas Eve, by a mile. It's the start of the season effectively, of time off for most people, a good excuse for a few drinks and so on.

NYE is, on the other hand, effectively the end of all that, and a good excuse for pubs & taxi drivers to stick their prices up massively.

This year marks the first time in a decade that I'm not working Christmas Eve or Christmas Day (or Boxing Day). I can't wait to leave work in the afternoon like normal people do, quite possibly with Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas on the car stereo, and head home in the knowledge that I have a couple of days off and can spend the evening in the pub like everyone else does.

Glorious

 

[beakyburn]

There is a live Gary Barlow concert on TV this NYE. It therefore goes without saying this will be the best day not only of the two choices, but of the entire year.

Let me know which channel that is on. So I can choose another one.

 

[Hillian1]

Christmas Eve for me, I have never liked New Years Eve.

 

[JTR938]

Cold meat & Mash plus football

Heaven!!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Christmas Eve by a long, long way. Apart from the fact that Christmas actually means something (to me, at least) it is a time to see friends and family, children and grandchildren and there is goodwill around for the most part.

I always find NYE totally artificial and a non-event, even though we are normally out or with friends.

 

[meeching gull]

Christmas Eve all the way it starts Christmas off for me
and its my birthday

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Celebrating New Years Eve is much more a Scottish thing, first footing and all that.

As much as I dislike NYE we did spend one hogmany in a typical scottish Highlands hotel on the banks of Loch Levan at a place called Ballachulish near Glencoe. It was all logfires, Tartan and bagpipes. The weather was snow blizzards and freezing, it was the best way to do new year.