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Maybe this makes me totally lame. But New Year's Eve, that most celebrated of debauched wide-scale revelries, is rarely the most exciting night of my year. There's the fact that after a steady fall-winter diet of Halloween parties, Thanksgiving feasts, holiday shindigs, and Christmas dinners, by the time December 31st rolls around, I'm really kind of partied out -- and it doesn't help a bit that by that point, I've consumed so much buttery-fatty goodness that my butt really isn't happy about being squeezed into that oh-so-chic little black dress. The alternatives to the usual cocktail parties don't seem a whole lot more enticing -- doing the bar rounds, battling the club crowds, trying not to freeze my extremities off during yet another icy-cold First Night spent wandering around Boston. New Year's Eve, in my experience, has always seemed kind of overrated as a party night. Too much emphasis on the big and the glittery (champagne! schmancy clothes!), not enough on the little things that really make for time well spent (good conversation and great friends). So who says you have to do the expected come December 31st? Just say no to the nasty cheap bubbly, avoid the anonymous masses, leave your party dresses in the back of the closet. Celebrate New Year's in the way you really want to do it. Need ideas? Check out these alternatives for how to usher in this New Year… 1 throw
a pajama party
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