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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.

With star trek.

Plot the downfall of the bourgeoisie.

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

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

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

Christmas, New Year's Eve, birthdays; you name it buddy. I lie down and try to fall asleep by 7pm.

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?

LOTR marathon drinking game

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

A few ideas come to mind

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

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

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.

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

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?