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Topic: New Years Eve

Putting 2025 through the shredder (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Christopher Ames)

Why does it feel like I'm ghosting 2025?

Sabrina Carpenter at the Spotify Best New Artist Event held at Pacific Design Center on February 2, 2023 in West Hollywood, California. (Mark Von Holden/Variety via Getty Images)

Sabrina Carpenter partners with Dunkin'

Andy Cohen attends the 2024 Costume Institute Benefit for "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

Andy Cohen is drinking live on NYE!

Cackling geese (Branta hutchinsii) flying (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Millions of birds impacted by fireworks

White Sangria (Getty Images/BURCU ATALAY TANKUT)

Countdown to 2024 with this sangria

Former U.S. President Donald Trump waves after speaking during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump walks away from Jan. 6 question

Eric W. Dolan - Raw Story

Toasting champagne flutes during a celebration (Getty Images/Klaus Vedfelt)

Why do we drink champagne on NYE?

Ashlie D. Stevens

Andy Cohen during SiriusXM's Holiday Hangout With Amy Sedaris On Andy Cohen's Exclusive SiriusXM Channel, Radio Andy on December 14, 2016 in New York City. (Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

Booze ban moves Andy Cohen to drink more

(Bobbi Lin/Food52)

Turn a solo NYE into a party for one

Abra Bennett - Food52

This image provided by EarthCam shows a New Year's Eve scene in Times Square on Broadway on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015, in New York. (EarthCam via AP) (AP)

Police drone to fly over NYE Times Sq.

Alistair Charlton - GearBrain

Female DeeJay. (Getty Images/istockphoto)

Have a cathartic New Years Eve

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NYE

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-565381p1.html'>Rob Stark</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

The loneliness of New Year's

Workers light the Waterford crystal ball during a test for the New Year's Eve celebration atop One Times Square in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014. The ball, which is 12 feet in diameter and weighs 11,875 pounds, is decorated with 2,688 Waterford crystals and illuminated by 32,256 LED lights. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Now this is chill

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Julianne Moore and Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights" (New Line Cinema)

Non-romantic NYE films

(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-86931p1.html'>Sergey Skleznev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

This year, resolve to indulge

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(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner the Scrooge?

A photo of the author in the clubs.

All my wasted New Year's

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