If you are a regular blog reader (thanks btw), then you might remember my Social Experiment I proposed a while back. If you don't remember it, I'm currently to lazy to restate what it was...but feel free to click here to read the original post.
Here is the update: I failed. Plain and simple, I did a horrible job of executing it. I felt weird, and frankly, I don't leave the house and interact with people often enough to get good "data." However, I think I did learn a few things. First, I felt really awkward saying "Happy New Year" to people in the first 25 days of December. I think this alone says something. It's anecdotal and a super small sample size, but I think it says something for the experiment when I rarely had the "guts" to say Happy New Year. And if saying Happy New Year requires "guts" it is probably is the wrong time to say it.
On to the January side of things: I think starting January 2 is when saying Happy New Year again required "guts." But maybe that is just me. Maybe next year I'll try again and do a better job of gathering more "data."
i think it depends also on how often you see a person. if i haven't seen a person since well before christmas, and then i see them on January 3 or 4, then saying happy new year could still work. if you see them every day though, then a few happy new years spaced out and used sparingly is probably okay. hm. all sorts of interesting cultural delineations we could make, i guess.
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