Hogmanay fumigate the buildings until it causes sneezing and coughing among the inhabitants. Then all the doors and windows are flung open to let in the cold, fresh air of the new year. The woman of the house then administers 'a restorative' from the whisky bottle, and the household sits down to its New Year breakfast. The Hogmanay custom of singing "Auld Lang Syne" has become common in many countries. "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem by Robert Burns, based on traditional and other earlier sources. It is now common to sing this in a circle of linked arms that
One Child (Mariah Carey song) "One Child", "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and "Auld Lang Syne" are "stifling" and makes the album an "endurance test". He continued with "Hence, Auld Lang Syne, One Child and Oh Come All Ye Faithful literally make your skin crawl and howling for the nearest slice of Linkin Park to add some musical grit to your life." "The Village Voice" writer Rich Juzwiak was critical of the song, describing it as a "needless retelling" of the birth of Jesus that does not add anything new or original to the story of his birth. He continued to write that he was