Planning A Killer New Year's Eve Party!
2025 will be here before you know it, and people will be gathering the festivities at the homes of friends and family.
Here are some tips for planning an amazing celebration for the new year!
Invite People!
Make sure you invite people who are fun. Do not invite curmudgeons or miscreants.
Limit the number of people you invite to comfortably fit in the space. If you invite too many people, someone may get their internal organs crushed!
Snacks!
You need snacks. Some great choices are pigs in a blanket, Chex Mix, and bowls of lard!
Drinks!
New Year’s Eve is synonymous with drinks. Some options include:
Champagne
Cocktails and mixed drinks
Straight moonshine
Malort
And don’t forget non-alcoholic drinks like pineapple juice, luke warm tap water, and Faygo in case any Juggalos show up!
Of course, when you serve alcohol, be responsible! Offer a designated driver, allow intoxicated guests to sleep on your couch or floor, or have drunks imprisoned at once by the gendarmes!
Music Options
A party is not a party without some swingin’ tunes! Here are some options!
Stream music on your favorite service, such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or EmmettOttersJugbandChristmas.com*
Hire a band or the Nelson Riddle Orchaestra
Give everyone a kazoo, and let them have at it!
*Probably not a real site. And if it is, I haven’t actually checked it out. So proceed at your own peril.
The Countdown
Of course, you and your guests will want to watch the countdown to the new year!
There are a lot of options for this:
A network show, like Ryan Seacrest’s New Years Rocking Eve, Steve Guttenberg’s Not Quite So Rocking New Year’s Eve, and Dame Judi Dench’s Quite Proper New Year’s Eve
Have your guests walk down to Times Square at the last minute!
Set up a puppet show for the countdown. Maybe a lion puppet can be emcee or something.
Have Steve Harvey come over and do the countdown
Wrapping it Up!
At 12:01 on the dot you should announce that the party is over. If anyone lingers, you can either politely remind them to leave, or hit stragglers with a trout!
We hope this guide helps you plan an amazing and hopefully trout-free celebration to usher in 2025!
Editor’s Note: This was an experiment. I wrote the piece, but then ran it through Napkin.AI to create the graphics. Impressive? Scary? Questionable? None or all of the above? Beats me, but it was an interesting experience and process.