I am to celebrate new years eve alone. How can I celebrate solo?

If you don't have a lot of money, you could try masturbating every hour until midnight. Conversely, if you do have a lot of money, you could also try doing that.

Get yourself a good dinner takeaway, favourite drink, choose a movie you would like to watch, and end it with some retro video games of needed.

Drink heavily, masturbate furiously, and fall asleep in a puddle of your own shame by 9pm.

Plot the downfall of the bourgeoisie.

With star trek.

What do you do any other night you're alone? Do that. NYE isn't special.

It's traditional to play lots of video games. Trust me on this one.

Eat a healthy homemade dinner, go to bed early, sleep well, and wake up the next day feeling great and ready to take on the new year.

Bottle of champaign and watch some fireworks

My alone NYE when the wife is working is typically a dinner of hors d'oeuvres type foods, made throughout the night. Cheese and crackers, some summer sausage if I have it, puff pastries with spinach or Buffalo chicken, pigs in a blanket, mozzarella sticks, maybe some samosas, even pizza rolls. For entertainment, a good video game or two and several of the NYE streams on YouTube to make fun of.

Looking forward to seeing how God awful the Planet Fitness show is this year! Dick Clark and Casey Kasem are both rolling in their graves tomorrow night for sure.

Has anyone said masterbate furiously?

Get hammered, play Baldur's Gate 3, pass out at 3am.

LOTR marathon drinking game

Whatever you want! When I have free time alone (a scarce commodity) I like to read, maybe have one drink, listen to music.

If it's not by choice and you don't want to be alone, go out and have coffee or a drink, watch people.

If you are trying to make it meaningful, do a ritual. Like write down what you want to get rid of, what doesn't serve you (anxiety, whatever troubles you) and burn it, let it go. A time that's unusual is a good time to make changes that you want, to interrupt habits.

I will be reading books, watch some netflix (Star Trek voyager and prodigy) then sleep.

Spend it in quiet contemplation of the year behind and the one ahead if you want. Not every holiday needs to be a party.

Dude, just get a bunch of weed and alcohol of your preference and just enjoy... I'd give my right leg if I could spend new year's eve alone... or any other eve for that matter.

This might not be the answer you're looking for but the way I see it, it's just another day, and we generally put far too much pressure on it and on ourselves on it, and that it's perfectly fine to not do anything special.

If for your own reasons you really do want to celebrate anyway, try and make/order your favourite meal, think of a good movie or two that always make you feel nice, and spend your evening enjoying those, but most importantly - don't feel down or bad for being alone, there's nothing wrong with that, and even if it feels like there is, this one night has very little significance in the grand scheme of things.

Do some random acts or act of kindness on that day or night in addition to the things that others said.

Not sure what to recommend. Last year I spent it by listening to taxi drivers wishing happy new year to each other via their radios using SDR. But that was more like just 2 minutes as the new year came. Still, plenty of drunk phone calls around 1am.

Anyway, that's probably not much of a fun activity, and it's not likely you have SDR either.
Probably just watch some movies, order some better (in taste, not quality) food and enjoy those. Maybe go fire some quiet fireworks like fountains, if you fancy those. I say the "quiet" bit as a dog owner.

A few ideas come to mind

• Video games
• Scary movies
• Exercise
• Chores
• Read a book
• Other hobbies

If you have Animal Crossing New Horizons for the Switch, you can celebrate with your animal villagers

Watch your favorite movie or play your favorite game, especially one you haven't seen in a while

A few years ago, I spent New Year’s Eve flying solo. Passed the time with a mix of baking, movies, cooking dinner, a long walk, doodling, and a bunch of Sudoku games. The night was dry, so I stepped out close to midnight, had a sip of whisky under city lights to see the New Year in. Then I popped an edible and fucked off to bed with a Netflix Lullaby. Best of luck too you!

Do whatever is your favourite hobby but crack a few beers if you drink (or whatever else alcoholic or non alcoholic drink you enjoy) while eating some of your favourite snacks and just have some good alone time!

Gaming, knitting, scale models, whatever floats your boat.

What do you normally like to do when you have an evening alone?

1. Get some food and beverages you enjoy.
2. Take a bath and use a bath bomb. (It doesn't matter who you are, baths are awesome)
3. Drink bevvies in the tub. Bonus: walk around your place naked because it just feels good

I've spent holidays alone or travelling in the past. I also enjoy watching streamers on Twitch like Will Neff who do weekly movie nights, watches entertaining YouTube videos like Roll For Sandwich, and shows like Survivor on stream. His discord community hosts a variety of events when he's not streaming. At any given point you can usually catch his community members watching movies together in a voice call or just while chatting. My suggestion would be to find a streamer that you enjoy watching or a community that participates in events together on mediums like discord.

That or just get sucked into a really good show. Whatever works for you

Either A. Take the time to write down your experiences from the past year, hurdles you've encountered, what you've achieved, what you want to accomplish in the coming year, and what you need to do to get there. Really dive into it and try to set the tone for a good start to 2024.

Or B. Get really fucked up on your intoxicant of choice.

For reasons, I'm also. Having some fancy dinner and watching the fireworks. Already made friends with the table next to mine, an older fun couple visiting from Sweden.

I've spend many holidays alone at this point. Even last Christmas.

For New Years I usually try to get to the city, and walk around for a couple of hours enjoying the chaos around. You might bump into some random people, which could lead to who knows what?

I treat it like any other day and ignore all events focused on relationships, but I'm partially disabled and unable to do anything social. Just do whatever you find interesting in life and ignore the "celebration" the memory will fade into the background like all the other days and you won't have depressive repercussions due to self reflection.

Last year I started my adventure into homelab, Linux, open source and it led to other technical hobbies. Started by repurposing an old PC into a server.

This year I think I'm taking up music recording

I fucking love celebrating that day alone. It never made any sense to me celebrating a calendar change and all the build up to nothing actually happening. The first year I spent it alone I had been the sober driver and took a friend home early and happened to still be on the old dirt road heading back to the party when midnight hit and it was so peaceful. So up until I had a family of my own I spent every new years alone on a hike or working on a project alone or with a close friend, woke up feeling better.

There's usually a bunch of new years events like at a bar, concert venue, or restaurant you can go to and just hangout

If you like videos games you could do that

Usually I spend my new year either at stormwind or ogrimmar (wow) ;)

Bejba, that's kajnda krejza (reference to the Polish entry of Eurovision 2023)

Did it more than once and it wasn't bad at all. Get some food you like, some nice movies/games, a stroll around the city to see people going crazy at midnight maybe, maybe a drink at the bar and then to sleep as soon as you're tired without having to stay awake to make other people happy.. I enjoyed it when it happened..

Winter is warm this year, maybe a good way to celebrate is to visit your surroundings a little in reflection.

Make your favorite food for dinner. Snack on your favorite comfort food. Play video games or watch a favorite movie. The key is to pamper yourself.

A lot of champagne I guess

I am taking the metro train to downtown with my bike. I will ride around a little, stay for the fireworks, and then take it back home. Easy enough. You are obviously going through something so don't make being alone on new years eve too significant. Stuff happens, and hopefully you come out of this stronger.

So what are you doing finally?

Get yourself a sixer, kick your feet up and do whatever the fuck you want!

Please know that it is ok to be alone on special days. Don't feel sad. It's just another day.