IT HAPPENS EVERY January – you wish your close friends and family a Happy New Year sometime in the dying hours of December, or at some stage on 1 January.

But as you get back into your usual, non-festive routine, you face into encounters with other friends and acquaintances – never quite sure whether to say anything about the new year, or how enthusiastic a greeting to give.

This morning we’re asking: When should we stop wishing each other Happy New Year?

Poll Results:

Sometime between the 1st and yesterday (3763)

Let's give it a few more days (3436)

Today (1858)

It should have ended on the 1st (1617)

No interest/no opinion (1092)

Today
It should have ended on the 1st
Sometime between the 1st and yesterday
Let's give it a few more days
No interest/no opinion

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Poll: When can we stop wishing each other a happy new year?

Poll Results:

Making a difference

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