Now Christmas is out the way everyone is focusing on the next big event, New Year's Eve.
Across the world booze is being bought, delicious feasts prepared and lips puckering ready for that midnight kiss.
But like most big holidays, it's celebrated differently depending where you are with people adding their own little regional spice.
From watching a giant donut slowly dropping to chowing down on some prosperity-bringing beans, the US has its fair share of strange traditions.
The fact people from all over the world have made their home in that massive country only adds to the number of ways it's celebrated.
Here are some of the bizarre ways the New Year is seen in across North America.
The dropping of a massive pickle
There are few more iconic New Year's Eve scenes than the slow lowering of the massive illuminated ball in New York's Times Square.
As the orb of light drops down, the countdown begins until it reaches the bottom at the stroke of midnight.
This tradition has carried on since 1907, only pausing in 1942 and 1943 to aid the war effort.
Not to be outdone, many other US cities have adopted their own version of this tradition.
Instead of the giant orb, there are communities dropping a giant donut, a giant marshmallow baby chick and even a 17-foot potato.
But it is the town of Mount Olive, North Carolina, that has the weirdest. There they celebrate the turn of the year by gathering round a giant glowing pickle as it slowly drops.
This was a tradition started by the Mt. Olive Pickle Company and has been enthusiastically celebrated ever since.
The use of 'time balls' began in the UK with first installed at Greenwich, London, to help the captains of passing ships to calibrate navigational instruments.
Kissing a frozen carp
Anyone visiting Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, for NYE will have the chance to kiss a frozen massive carp.
Thankfully it's not required.
The fish is caught in the Mississippi, named 'Lucky' and then frozen until the end of the year.
Come December 31, its adorned with makeup, given a wreath and lowered, via crane, onto a throne.
Revellers can then kiss the carp which is meant to bring good luck.
Never a group to miss out on a party, the people of Wisconsin have stretched the event to include other carp related festivities such as meeting 'King and Queen Carp'.
Eating lucky beans
Food is a big part of celebrating the New Year.
In many parts of the US a particular dish called 'Hoppin' John' is eaten.
This plate of black-eyed peas, pork and rice is meant to herald good fortune for those who eat it.
Coming wealth is a big theme of it with the collard greens meant to resemble paper money, the cornbread is gold, and the peas themselves - coins.
Some families will also place a penny underneath the dish as they serve to bring extra luck
Muskrat on a zipline
This is just about as mad as it sounds.
In the town of Princess Anne, Delaware, a stuffed muskrat called Marshall P. Muskrat is ziplined into the celebrations to mark the turning of the year.
He also wears a cape and a tophat just to add to the ridiculousness of the whole thing.
The tradition doesn't hark back into the mists of time, rather it is a more modern development. It came from a lack of a better idea on what to do with a donated stuffed muskrat.
Dropping 10,000 beach balls
In the southern parts of the US it can barely feel wintery even in the depths of the season.
So rather than dropping a glowing orb (or pickle for that matter) in a snow covered town square, Panama City, Florida, chose to do something with a bit more of a local flourish.
There they drop an impressive 10,000 inflatable beach balls onto the crowds gathered below.
Just so no one feels they're missing out, a massive 10ft beach ball is illuminated and lowered for the strike of midnight.
Smash a pig with a hammer
Thankfully not as brutal as it sounds.
In the upstate New York town of Saratoga Springs a peppermint pig is brought out during the holiday period. Family members will then take turns using a hammer to break off chunks.
As the piece of sweet is enjoyed, you share a story about the good luck you've had in the previous year while the candied pig will also bring you good fortune for the coming year.
