How Do You Make Your New Year's Eve Actually Bearable?

It's the toughest night of the year, so how do you cope?

Unless you're five years old or you're in the front row of a firework ceremony at midnight like this...

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You probably find New Year's Eve pretty damn awful.

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Why? The expectations vs reality, the cost a week after Christmas, the fact that it has to be the best night EVERRR, that Uber is like on 2.8x surcharge all night...

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...And if you stay in your parents are likely to be asleep at 8.30. And the programmes on TV are unbearable.

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That's right. BBC One are showing Mrs Brown's Boys on New Year's Eve.

How do you cope? How do you make New Year's Eve painless and even enjoyable? Is there such a thing?

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