New Year alone: ​​what to do on holidays?

The need to celebrate the New Year in solitude looks unusual and even frightening. It is considered to be a family holiday, and fun in a large company has already become an integral attribute of the celebration. In fact, if you think in advance about how best to meet and spend the coming night, all losses can be minimized, even if there are pluses in this situation. Signs are also not always scary, sometimes New Year’s loneliness on holidays is not so bad, especially if you prepare for the celebration correctly.

There are many New Year signs. If you believe everything, you will have to urgently pay off debts, put coins under the rug at the door, wait for scratching of your left hand, stock up on hearts and cinnamon sticks to lure love. All this looks no less crazy than the belief that spending the New Year in splendid isolation is the lack of a relationship. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world at this time are in the hospital or in the service, flying in an airplane or in traffic jams. Sometimes it’s just impossible to plan where it would be better to meet the holiday.

If you have to spend New Year alone, you should find a positive attitude from the very beginning, weigh all the pros and cons of such a pastime. Among the obvious advantages, several points can be noted.

1. The ability to manage your time. Down with boring speeches and blue lights. You can turn on your favorite series or TV shows, watch the broadcast from Times Square online or go for a walk. No need to spend time on the satisfaction of others' desires, coordinate plans. If you want to sleep, you can just go to bed at any moment.
2. Lack of dress code. It is easy to celebrate the New Year in smart pajamas or lying in the bath in fragrant foam if no one else is at home. Dressing up is also not forbidden, but this is not necessary.
3. Menu to choose from. It is not necessary to eat "Olivier" and "herring under a fur coat", treat yourself to stewed potatoes and drink champagne. You can order pizza and dispense lemonade or arrange a feast with truffles and burgundy.
4. Guaranteed good company. No one will spoil the mood with an inappropriate joke. He will not fall asleep face in a salad bowl, after first breaking through the stretch ceiling with a cork, and then filling the table with fizzy drinks. Alone with yourself is sometimes very good, especially since you can congratulate friends in the morning.
5. Freedom to choose a place for a celebration. MYou can find an interesting program outside your home, go to the main city square, stay in your apartment or be on a train 1000 kilometers from your hometown. There are no restrictions.

The idea to celebrate the New Year at home is not so bad. So, just to celebrate this night alone properly, you have to adhere to certain rules. It is possible to celebrate a holiday perfectly only if you are in a positive mood from the very beginning. Even if this choice is not entirely voluntary, you need to look at the situation with open eyes. Under the ban will be a few nuances.

1. Themes of personal life. Instead of looking back, it's worth looking forward. The absence of an inappropriate person nearby already indicates that the New Year will turn out well.
2. Ideas of festive madness. It is definitely not worth compensating loneliness with feverish shopping. It’s better to start a piggy bank, put all the money not spent on super-sales into it, and treat yourself to a really useful gift for the holiday.
3. Calls to the former. Ex-girlfriends, boys, girls - all those with whom I didn’t even want to say hello yesterday, on the eve of the holidays, acquire an aura of fabulous person-saviors. Do not waste time on this. It is better to take a critical approach to choosing a company than to be close to completely strangers.
4. Excuses. Loneliness in the New Year is a conscious choice of a person who needs an honest relationship with himself. Refusal from noisy companies is simply necessary for any introvert. And even extroverts sometimes want to be alone. No need to make excuses, look for far-fetched reasons.

If you have to celebrate the New Year or Christmas alone, spend all the holidays without the usual surroundings, it is worth setting yourself in a positive mood from the very beginning. On holidays, you can do many things that are not available on weekdays. Among the ideas on how to cheerfully celebrate and spend these days, one can find truly unusual options.

1. Campaign in the club. If you really want to be in a crowd of strangers, drive round dances and clink glasses, you can just buy an invitation to a special program.
2. Immersive events. Full immersion in an unusual environment with the change of eras or plots will completely forget about boredom and loneliness.
3. Visit to your favorite coffee shop. Not a bad decision, allowing you to see the snow outside the window with the aroma of a hot drink.
4. Overseas trip. This will not cause unnecessary questions from relatives and friends. If you want a complete immersion, you can go to a country unpopular among Russian-speaking tourists.
5. Departure to the country. Dress the house with old toys, decorate the spruce in the yard and immerse yourself in a peaceful atmosphere in private with nature. You can arrange a personal salute or enjoy the warmth of the fireplace with a cup of cocoa in your palms.
6. Hotel reservation. You can realize the dream of a luxurious vacation and order food directly in your room, and in the morning go to the spa right in your bathrobe. Such a meeting of the holiday will definitely defeat all negative signs.

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