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Happy weekend, dear friends, and happy brand new year! 🎉 As we put our old acquaintance, 2022, in the rear view mirror (with perhaps some measure of relief), I'd like to ask about your traditions for celebrating the new year holiday, whenever you celebrate it. Any special foods, games, customs, rituals? What will you be doing, if anything special, to mark the transition? [more inside]
posted by taz on Dec 31, 2022 - 87 comments

Hello Mefites, happy 2021! It's a new year and we're all wishing for better days in the new. I've got my coffee underway this morning and it looks like the sun is going to make an appearance. Are you making resolutions, wishes, hopes, mottoes for this year? Are you doing anything good today or this weekend?
posted by LobsterMitten on Jan 1, 2021 - 66 comments

Happy lunar new year 🌙🐀everyone! Be guided by moonbeams and stardust inside to find your fantastic fourth week results of the January readers' choice contest, with final tallies for overall winners coming next week. ✨✨✨ [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 26, 2020 - 4 comments

The penultimate week of your excellent January readers' choice contest has come to an end, so hold on to your fundament for wonderments most luculent and eloquent, because, friends, we have results... [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 19, 2020 - 5 comments

Welcome to your week two results of Mefites' choice awards for best post as voted by members — we have such wonders to show you! Please step behind the velvet curtain to view the goods ... [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 12, 2020 - 4 comments

Thank you most excellent posters and voters for a lovely start to the January Best Post Contest! The first week was a tad short on days but nevertheless full of fantastic posts. Step inside to view Week 1 winners, and remember to keep voting with the Fantastic Flag all month. [more inside]
posted by taz on Jan 5, 2020 - 13 comments

Ahoy, Mefites! As we approach the mystical year of 2020, it would be wise to remember the words of Pythagoras, who once said "There is geometry in the humming of the comments, there is music in the spacing of the posts," and encouraged his acolytes to engage in heroic feats of typing and linking every year — a holiday tradition Metafilter follows to this day! [more inside]
posted by taz on Dec 30, 2019 - 30 comments

Happy New Year! We've swapped months for the annual contest; out with December and in with January. So now it's time for the Mefite's Choice Best Post Contest! As always, Vote by flagging posts with the Fantastic Flag -- all month long, as many as you want. We'll have winners every week. Mefites can offer individual awards in categories of their choosing too. [more inside]
posted by LobsterMitten on Dec 31, 2018 - 44 comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR WHEREVER YOU ARE!!
posted by Going To Maine on Dec 31, 2018 - 63 comments

I just want to thank everybody involved with this marvelous, ridiculous, impertinent website and to extend my fervent wish that (to paraphrase Laurie Anderson) 2018 will be just like 2017—only much, much better.
posted by Johnny Wallflower on Dec 31, 2017 - 84 comments

Happy New Year! [more inside]
posted by h00py on Dec 31, 2014 - 149 comments

This might be the HAPPY NEW YEAR thread... [more inside]
posted by sgt.serenity on Dec 31, 2007 - 70 comments

Happy New Year, MetaFilter. Hope it's a better year for all of us.
posted by timeistight on Dec 31, 2004 - 55 comments