.”Let this coming year be better than all the  others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time…time.  Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.”

– Ann Landers

 6 Fun Facts About the NYE Ball Drop

7 of the Craziest Predictions for the Future, From the Past

 

Ancient Egyptian culture was closely tied to the Nile River, and it appears their New Year corresponded with its annual flood. According the Roman writer Censorinus, the Egyptian New Year was predicted when Sirius—the brightest star in the night sky—first became visible after a 70-day absence. Better known as a heliacal rising, this phenomenon typically occurred in mid-July just before the annual inundation of the Nile River, which helped ensure that farmlands remained fertile for the coming year. Egyptians celebrated this new beginning with a festival known as Wepet Renpet, which means “opening of the year.” The New Year was seen as a time of rebirth and rejuvenation, and it was honored with feasts and special religious rites.        Ancient Egyptian Wepet Renpet

 

Pickles, Potatoes and a Muskrat?! Top 10 Weirdest New Year’s Eve Celebrations in the U.S.

 

 

Orlando, Florida, plucks honor from Big Apple as best city in America to celebrate New Year’s Eve

 

ORLANDO, Fla. – Can you believe w’re just days away from the new year? The end of 2023 is approaching and it’s time to ring in the new year! Hello, 2024: Celebrate at these New Year’s Eve events in Central Florida

 

Let’s Get CRAZY For New Years!! (MEGA COMPILATION)

 

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8 Creative Ways to Celebrate New Year’s Without Alcohol

 

Gonna stay home–safer, cheaper, less straining the next day—I could go on forever on this.

 

But if you’re doing the big celebration at home how about a disaster theme…..make the house or place you’re doing it look a bit damaged—Put up some signs—there”s actually a Titanic White Line sign...as well as some (fake) Titantic Memorabillia out there….There’s even a movie:  A Night to Remember that you can get to round everything out

Check out this one I found on line—-Host a “Last Night on the Titanic” Dinner Party—for some great ideas or check out some of those movies and then take it from there on your ideas or relax and try the Last Night—-or combine everything.

 

Other ideas that have lots of stuff you can buy either like above or trying out secondhand stores and the like.

 

 

Subjects:  1920’s or make it 1920/30’s Gangsters—You can do it for instance as a Speak Easy and have the  gangsters  —  like Bugsy Siegel and of course Al  Capone- (and their dolls of course)–don’t forget lawmen like Elliot Ness and the likes would work to raid the place and keep law and order….

 

Other ideas a Sherlock Holmes theme—current or past they have both nowadays—-you could have a murder (fake of course)—-or have all the guest come as the great Sherlock (or other famous detectives)–have the murder set up and work it all out and get somebody—- be the murderer.

 

So any of those and hundreds of other idea would be great and make for a nice intro into a more creative New Year.

 

 

“Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution.” – Jay Leno

 

Yabba Dabba Do! A Brief History of “The Flintstones”

 

 

Want a look at 2024 a bit different—-

get a T-Rex Yoga Calendar or a Farm Yoga/or a Lama and finally a Sloth—-

 

Or A Disney Villains

 

Best New Year’s Eve Activities In Massachusetts!

 

 

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The Real Story Behind the “Happy Birthday” Song

In Spain, one New Year’s tradition is to eat 12 grapes, one for every strike of the clock until midnight, to ensure prosperity. If you can finish them in time, you’ll have good luck all through the coming year. The flavour of the grapes -whether sweet or sour – also predicts what the year will bring. The tradition of the las doce uvas de la suerte (the 12 lucky grapes) is said to have originated in 1909 when a Spanish region has an exceptionally good grape harvest.

• Heritage & Culture:10 Unusual New Year’s Eve Traditions From Around The World

 

History of New Year’s Eve

 

 

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117 Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2023

The first New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square was held on December 31, 1904; The New York Times’ owner, Adolph Ochs, decided to celebrate the opening of the newspaper’s new headquarters, One Times Square, with a New Year’s fireworks show on the southern roof of the building to welcome 1905.       Times Square Ball – Wikipedia

 

The History of New Year’s Resolutions

 

 

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Tower Bridge tells people to stay away during London New Year’s Eve fireworks

 

 

13 Tips for Sticking to Your Resolutions

 

 

2024 New Year Resolutions as per your zodiac sign

 “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman