The Case for Skipping New Year's Eve

Classic composer Frank Loesser had it right: the very moment Christmas is over, “what are you doing New Year’s Eve?” is the question on everybody’s lips. Our bold suggestion for an answer? “Nothing.” New Year’s Eve gets our vote for the most overrated holiday of the year.

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Here is what a New Year’s Eve out entails: getting dressed up in your sexiest outfit (which, let’s face it, generally involves showing a little to a lot of leg) and heels, only to freeze and fight the ice as soon as you leave the house. It’s near impossible to get a cab at night’s beginning, so you skitter your way to the subway which is filled with an unappealing mixture of Times Square bound tourists and tipsy twenty-somethings. Once you get off the subway, you pay top dollar to stand around all night, eat mass-produced mediocre food, and mingle with people you don’t know and don’t want to. At the end of the night, it’s impossible to hail a cab, so you stumble back on to the subway, where the tipsy twenty-somethings have transformed into vomiters. No thank you!

This New Year’s Eve, why not keep it mellow and light: ditch the tight dress and heels for sexy, yet cozy, jeans, sweaters, and boots – think apres ski. If you’re coupled up, make a fantastically rich dinner, snuggle up on the couch with a bottle of bubbly, and enjoy a midnight kiss unrestrained by the demands of being polite in public. If you’re single, invite a few friends over for Champagne, cupcakes, and cheer. New Year’s Eve for grown ups? Just think of it as a pre-New Year’s resolution.

Leila Cohan-Miccio

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