Depending on where you end up, celebrating the arrival of 2012 doesn't have to cost a fortune. (Allen Eyestone / Post file photo)

Before you can count backward from 10, New Year’s Eve can add up to one expensive evening. But the turn of the calendar page need not mean a downturn in your bank account.

Here are a handful of options for celebrating this weekend on a Baby New Year budget:

1. CELEBRATE AT CITYPLACE OR ON CLEMATIS

The Raquel Williams Band will perform on the CityPlace plaza from 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, to half past midnight. Want to fuel up beforehand? Several CityPlace restaurants and bars are offering New Year’s Eve dinner specials.

For a more raucous gathering, head for the 500 block of Clematis Street in downtown West Palm Beach, where local bands will begin performing at 8 p.m. Admission is free.

2. RESOLVE TO PLAY A PARTY GAME

Staying home and counting the hours till the ball drops in Times Square? Kill a bit of time with this party game. All you need are pens and paper.

Have each guest write down a couple of New Year’s resolutions – one resolution per slip of paper. Throw all the resolutions in a basket or box, then pull them out one at a time. Read them aloud and have guests guess who set which goal.

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3. WAVE GOODBYE TO 2011 AT THE BEACH

Pick your favorite local beach, and pack a blanket and some sparkling cider (alcoholic beverages are prohibited on Palm Beach County beaches). Lay back on the sand, relax and let the soothing sound of waves help you welcome the new year. Bonus beach treat: Depending on where you go, you’ll be able to see, but not necessarily hear, waterfront fireworks in communities up and down the coastline.

4. TOAST THE OLD YEAR WITH YOUR YOUNG ONES

Downtown at the Gardens will have a Noon Year’s Eve party for children from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 31. Gather in the carousel courtyard for free carousel rides, games, face-painting – and a kid-friendly toast with WRMF-FM 97.9 personalities at noon. (Think of it as celebrating 2012′s arrival with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia – they’re 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.)

The Palm Beach Gardens shopping center also will play host to a Downtown Countdown starting at 9 p.m. Homegrown band Pee Wee Lewis and the Hues will provide the music, while fortune tellers will preview the new year.

5. GET INTO THE ‘ZONE’ – OR THE SHOW OF YOUR CHOICE

SyFy’s annual Twilight Zone marathon is a viewers’ choice affair this year. The countdown of the top 40 vote getters begins at 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 31.

AMC, meanwhile, will air a Walking Dead zombiethon starting at 11 a.m.

And Turner Classic Movies rings in 2012 with Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (the U.S. finds itself on the brink of World War III), Elia Kazan’s Panic in the Streets and 1950′s D.O.A., in which the victim of a slow-acting poison has to find his own killer. Happy New Year?