Community surveys: How much money are you spending on fireworks this New Year's Eve 2024? (Page 3)

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Malganes wrote on 31.12.2024 at 00:46: Well, dear Langhans and Stromberg, unfortunately you don't know me well enough, which is why I'm so negative about New Year's Eve. I wanted to leave your posts uncommented at first, but now I wanted to write something about it. I only very rarely reveal things about my private life, which is why you or the community haven't read anything else about me yet, but perhaps I'd like to share a few things here.

Firstly, my health has been very poor for several years now and I'm no longer really fit in life, to put it bluntly. Of course, I'm not going to describe the illness or what it is here. It had something to do with the brain, that much can be said. And perhaps you can now understand why I don't think New Year's Eve, Christmas, Easter etc. are good, to put it mildly. It's all just torture for me.

On the other hand, I have my dog, who gives me a lot of strength and joy, and New Year's Eve is pure hell for him. Days before New Year's Eve, he senses that New Year's Eve is approaching and I have difficulty getting him to go for a walk at all. Then I finally manage to get him to do his business and then all of a sudden some idiot bangs and my dog pulls wildly on the lead and just wants to go home.

I could go on and on, but I've said enough for now.

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Langhans_innen wrote on 30.12.2024 at 22:42:
I don't know whether a good mood or an exuberant atmosphere is necessarily dependent on whether there's hissing and lighting outside I was in Barcelona on New Year's Eve a few years ago...there wasn't even a firecracker to be heard all night. Just nothing. They did a lot with light shows, lasers and glitter...was nice to look at, the atmosphere was good and something completely different. As you'd expect...I asked a colleague from Malaga on my return and he confirmed that the Spanish don't really like fireworks. I didn't know that before either

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Julian wrote on 31.12.2024 at 10:51 am: In Malta there are actually almost no fireworks on New Year's Eve, there is, if I'm not mistaken, an "organized" show by professionally selected pyrotechnicians that only takes place in the capital Valletta, but otherwise you don't see or hear a single firecracker on New Year's Eve. Even in the central areas near the party miles, there is not a single young person throwing a firecracker or something similar around.

I've never seen firecrackers being sold in the supermarkets here either.
I have to admit that I personally love good fireworks, but even as a teenager I was rather annoyed by the fact that on New Year's Eve everyone just throws firecrackers around on the streets without paying attention to anyone, especially in big cities I always had really bad experiences with it.

But when I celebrated New Year's Eve here for the first time, I was a bit surprised and checked several times whether the clock display was running correctly, because it was just unusually quiet after 00:00
Somehow, something was missing.

So for people who want to have absolute peace and quiet on New Year's Day, get on the plane and enjoy it here

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Julian wrote on 31.12.2024 at 10:51 am: In Malta there are actually almost no fireworks on New Year's Eve, there is, if I'm not mistaken, an "organized" show by professionally selected pyrotechnicians that only takes place in the capital Valletta, but otherwise you don't see or hear a single firecracker on New Year's Eve. Even in the central areas near the party miles, there is not a single young person throwing a firecracker or something similar around.

I've never seen firecrackers being sold in the supermarkets here either.
I have to admit that I personally love good fireworks, but even as a teenager I was rather annoyed by the fact that on New Year's Eve everyone just throws firecrackers around on the streets without paying attention to anyone, especially in big cities I always had really bad experiences with it.

But when I celebrated New Year's Eve here for the first time, I was a bit surprised and checked several times whether the clock display was running correctly, because it was just unusually quiet after 00:00
Somehow, something was missing.

So for people who want to have absolute peace and quiet on New Year's Day, get on the plane and enjoy it here

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roccoammo11 wrote on 01/01/2025 07:00:

New Year's Eve 25/26 I have to go to Malta..my dog has been barking for 6 hours and is really hoarse..I really have such an extreme case

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frapi07 wrote on 01/01/2025 10:14:

I saw that you can also go to an airport. So if there's an airport near you, I'd give it a try there too.

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gamble1 wrote on 01/01/2025 11:07:

Yeah, we're going to a hotel at the airport for the day next year too. Supposed to be pretty cool, the whole lobby is supposed to be full of dogs.

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Kapykapy wrote on 31.12.2024 at 23:16: Fireworks are not only bad for dogs, my girlfriend's cat opens the closet and hides there. Also all the birds that sometimes die from them.

I can only say that fireworks are really pointless and for really stupid people.

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Falko wrote on 01.01.2025 at 13:15: I am surprised that there is still no uniform law on New Year's Eve firecrackers in the EU. There are reports about smuggled-in ball bombs that were set off yesterday and are said to have led to many injuries and fires. Among other things, a policeman is likely to lose a leg as a result, someone just said on the news.

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