Love Christmas, Hate New Year.
I just ignore the build-up. I use my last lieu day of the year to do my Christmas shopping in one go and put the tree up in early December, which is when Christmas officially begins. Meet up with the lads for a few bevvies Christmas Eve daytime, everyone goes home to their families at teatime. Before all the nobheads come out. End up watching Christmas Carol, Its a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Scrooged, Fred Claus, Die Hard, or whatever combination of films is on. Again. Christmas Day is Christmas Day. Boxing day is hair of the dog day and watching the match. With a whole week off work to look forward to. Then it goes downhill until the shite fake optimism of New Years Eve which results in a twat of a hangover and the realisation that you're back to the drudge once you're over it. Then probably nothing to look forward to until a couple of days off at Easter. Humbug.