Happy Old New Year: vintage postcards, funny pictures, greetings in prose and poems

Two weeks after the New Year, Russians will once again gather around the festive table to celebrate the old New Year. Traditionally, the holiday is celebrated on the night of January 14. In 2025, this date falls on Tuesday. But you can congratulate friends and loved ones even earlier. "Izvestia" made a selection of vintage postcards and heartfelt congratulations on the coming Old New Year, which can be shared on the eve of the celebration.

Vintage postcards with the coming Old New Year

Despite the fact that the Old New Year is not an official holiday and a day off, it has firmly entered the folk calendar. It is celebrated by more than one generation of citizens of our country. In addition to Russia, the tradition of celebrating the Old New Year exists in the republics of the former Soviet Union, in Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and a number of other countries.

On this day they arrange another New Year's feast in the family circle. Orthodox believers are especially looking forward to it, because for them the New Year falls during the Christmas fasting period. Therefore, they can really celebrate the holiday only in the old New Year, when any viands are allowed on the table. In general, the holiday is perceived as a unique opportunity to extend the New Year celebrations and once again celebrate the New Year well.

Such a chance appeared at the celebrants in the early XX century after the transition to the Gregorian calendar. However, due to the fact that the church still adheres to the Julian calendar, the New Year can be celebrated twice - on the new and old style.

Many people purposely do not remove the tree and leave New Year's decorations until this day to prolong the feeling of magic, and share their mood with loved ones by sending them cards with wishes.

On greeting cards most often there are traditional New Year's themes: tangerines, Christmas toys and clappers, Father Frost and Snow Maiden, animals and birds in the winter forest. Sometimes you can meet pictures with calendar sheets, on which the date of January 14 is printed.

Funny pictures with the coming of the old New Year

On the Internet, you can also find a lot of funny and groovy postcards with the coming old New Year. For example, with a tired Santa Claus and his companions - reindeer, shrivelled snowmen with torn off carrots, fairy-tale characters in snowdrifts or, conversely, cheerfully celebrating the New Year from the last forces.

Some pictures are accompanied by no less amusing inscriptions: "Again Snake crawls to us - it's the old New Year!", "The old New Year is rushing to us, let's continue to have fun", "The last spurt is left - the old New Year!", "Happy retreating holidays", "Here is the end of the holidays, the one who survived - well done!".

You can create such postcards yourself in special applications or download ready-made ones, supplementing them with original text or your own photo after the New Year festivities.

To place pictures in social networks often use the hashtag #OldNewYear. This allows a large number of users to see the image.

Old New Year - 2025: congratulations in prose and short poems

A good addition to the card will be a short congratulations on the celebration. It can also be designed in a humorous form, expressing both sadness and joy in connection with the end of the New Year holidays.

Here are some examples of how to congratulate with the coming old New Year in prose in your own words and in verse:

"Only the guest was escorted away,
On the doorstep again.
After all, this is our custom -
To celebrate the New Year twice!
"May he bring twice as much happiness
He'll bring twice as much happiness
"And don't be stingy with presents
"Good Santa Claus!

"Here comes the old New Year
"To fill life with wonders!
"May the fringe of New Year's Eve
May the miracle of New Year's Eve come to your home again!
And if there's anything you haven't done
To wish for on New Year's Eve
"May today's date
May today's date fulfill all your wishes."

"There's a special holiday in the year
"It's called Old New Year's Eve,
"and the fireworks and the feasts
"It brings a smile to our faces.
I heartily congratulate you,
I wish you to stay cheerful
"And to celebrate your favorite holiday with fortitude, joy and dignity.
I wish you to celebrate your favorite holiday.

"I congratulate you on the coming New Year! This holiday is a wonderful occasion to fill glasses with champagne and celebrate the year 2025 without haste and fuss. Let only tangerines remain on the table from snacks, and the dress "sat down" after olivier, it is not a reason to deny yourself joy. I wish you a cheerful, cheerful mood and a wonderful holiday in the circle of dear people".

"Old New Year is approaching, which means you can once again celebrate the holiday, taking into account past mistakes. Let it be active, positive and better than the one we celebrated two weeks ago. I wish to make a wish in the old way, sincerely believe in a miracle, and leave everything old in the past, taking only the best with us. Happy New Year!"

"The day is approaching when we can welcome the New Year again with joy and a smile! I wish you to step boldly into this festive everyday life, opening a new page of the calendar."

"Happy old New Year! I wish to meet this holiday properly, because it is already rehearsed! Let everything come true that has not yet come true, and in life there will be more fun, good mood, noisy companies and festive dates that you want to celebrate again and again."

Earlier "Izvestia" told how New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day, is celebrated in the world.