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New Year's Eve celebrations on Copacabana Beach in Rio. Leo Correa
The Daily PollPoll: When can we stop wishing each other a happy new year?
Is it time to knock the greeting on the head, after a week of awkward encounters?
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 (3438)
Today (1858)
It should have ended on the 1st (1617)
No interest/no opinion (1092)
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