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18 Actually Funny Caption Ideas For Your Inevitable New Year’s Day Instagram Post

by Kaitlyn Wylde
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While everyone else is busy obsessing over their New Year's resolutions and all of the things they wished they accomplished over the last year, you can be the one to have a bit of fun with it. Let's be real, on New Year's Day, you're likely tired, in bed watching movie marathons, ordering delivery food, and not feeling much like the better person you promised to be the night before. Besides, everyone knows that New Year's resolutions don't need to go in effect until the next week — you know, once the exhaustion fades. So don't be so hard on yourself, have a laugh — you don't have to update your personal operating system just because everyone else is. So instead of a sappy, serious caption on your Instagram, opt for something a bit different. Go for weird or funny New Year's Day caption ideas for Instagram and get all the likes.

While you're at it, you might want to post a picture of what you're actually doing on New Year's Day. Whether you're wincing while chugging a green juice after a long run or peeling hardened Chinese noodles off your sweatpants, open your heart to a honest new year, because there's nothing more #relatable than being yourself. Happy New Year, and happy 'gramming!

“I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.”― Annie Dillard

"My new years resolution for 2010? I will be less laz—..." - Jim Gaffigan

"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to." - P. J. O'Rourke

"New Year's Day... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain

"If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be expected to throw another party." - Dave Barry

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." - Bill Vaughan

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughan

“For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” - Oprah Winfrey

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” - L.M. Montgomery

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." - Oscar Wilde

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." - Anais Nin

"May all of your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions." - Joey Adams

"You know how I always dread the whole year? Well this year, I'm going to take it one day at a time." - Charlie Brown

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one." – Brad Paisley

"Celebrate what you want to see more of." - Tom Peters

"Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever." - Neil Gaiman