16 tips for New Year’s Eve
You have to take care of the hangover – not fight it!
Happy New Year!
© Yuri_Arcurs / iStockphotos
Too much alcohol is harmful – there is no question about that. But too little, at least for the party. We give 16 tips on how you can let it rip and still not have a guilty conscience.
By Christoph Fröhlich, Katharina Grimm & amp; Carsten Heidböhmer
Be sure to get some fresh air, even if you can hardly walk straight ahead! Always drink a glass of water! And don’t even look at beer, wine or schnapps! The internet is overflowing with well-intentioned, but completely unrealistic advice on how to avoid a headache after the New Year’s party. After all, isn’t the point of a year-end party exactly in this: to let it rip again properly? With more sparkling wine than seltzer? Even. We therefore give 16 (not entirely serious) tips on how you can safely experience a great evening and stay in bed the next day without a guilty conscience – with the certainty that you have at least tried.
Before the party
- You need a good, greasy foundation first. Start the drinking spree with a large glass of peanut oil. Or six spoons of lard. The tastes are different.
- Build ahead: Go for hours before the party to meet your fresh air needs for the next few days. Then on 1.1. stay relaxed.
- And stop worrying before the party. You’ll have that the next morning anyway.
At the party
- Eat a rollmops after each snack to ensure a supply of salt. For a double vodka, take a double pug.
- Throw a magnesium tablet into the sweet sparkling wine. That stuff should help. And besides that, the sugary broth bubbles properly again. After all, the eye also drinks.
- For God’s sake, leave the last one beer stand. That’s mostly bad. It is better to drink several beers before the last.
- Nobody needs pure aspirin. Instead, hide the tablets in your Berliner. This also results in a cheerful search game.
- And if aspirin: then on ice! Cheers!
- Experts advise: Drink clean, clear alcoholic beverages. Well, here comes our suggestion: Gin-Gin on the Sekt-Rocks (It’s New Year’s Eve, right?). To do this, simply mix a third of gin with two thirds of gin and put in this clear and truly pure drink the champagne ice cubes that you prepared the day before. And again: Cheers!
- Brown alcohol, on the other hand, is said to be harmful. It is not yet known whether it helps to add vodka or grain to your brandy. We recommend: Just try it out.
- Drinking water? No way! The stomach volume is so filled with water. You keep running to the bathroom. And less schnapps fits in. It’s frustrating. If water, put more ice cubes in your drink. Period.
After the party
- That a counter beer should help against the hangover is a myth that science has long since unmasked. In contrast, nothing negative is known about the counter-wine.
- Allegedly cold showers should help. However, we recommend: Listen to your body. Does he really need ice-cold water – or would he rather have a warm blanket and a TV?
- Turn on the TV and watch reruns of “Wife Swap”. This gets the body going faster than any walk could. On such days, drunk academics swear by Guido Knopp’s Hitler documentaries. Incidentally, run in the endless loop on ZDF Info.
- In theory, coffee removes fluids from the body. In practice, we can only advise: After getting up, it is best to open a whole jug. Just no tea: it signals to the body that it is sick. A completely wrong signal at this point.
- Get rid of psychological pressures. Who says, please, that you have to hear something about this New Year? When in doubt, you have a day’s rest from annoying resolutions that you have decided in a hail of flames (more sport, no more smoking, more time with the children …).
Ultimate tip
It doesn’t help: If you pour various schnapps, beer, wine, sparkling wine (ice cubes!) And liqueur into yourself all night, you will feel bad in the morning. Really lousy. So everything has to go. Fastest way: the reverse breakfast. There you will also find many old friends of the evening: Rollmöpse, gin-gin, aspirin, foaming in leftover Berlin and a puddle of peanut oil (or lard, depending on your taste). By the way, you will notice whether you have drunk too much when you start walking home on your knees at the latest. With this in mind: a happy new year!