Always loved Christmas, but I used to have force myself to go out on New Year's Eve even when I was when I was in my teens and twenties - going along to my usual pub only to see it packed out with people I'd never see for the rest of the year amid an atmosphere of forced jollity was never for me. Once you had to start getting s ticket for pubs you would be in most weeks, it didn't take long before I knocked the whole thing on the head even when I was still a regular drinker.
Here's something from a completely different viewpoint, but he's not convincing me ;-
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y-maligned-nye