For example putting change nickels dimes etc outside on the window seal would bring properity for the year, any others would be great, Happy New Year!
2006-12-31 08:39:35 · 9 answers · asked by revshifu 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I grew up with black eyed peas for New Years Day for good luck. Another tradition is to make sure that a man is the first person to cross your threshold in the new year. A man is good luck, a woman is bad (sexist...I know but that's the tradition).
A friend of mine who happens to be Mexican adds another wrinkle to this tradition. She says that they send the men away (just out of the house) before New Year and give them some money (to be sure that they have some). They're allowed to come back just after midnight. For them, a man still has to be the first visitor (or person over the threshold) but he also has to have some money in his pockets. I like that.
2006-12-31 08:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by mztreasure999 3 · 38⤊ 4⤋
I don't know why, but my mother always fed us corned beef and cabbage on New Year's Day for good luck. Some folks in the South eat black eyed peas for good luck. Sorry I don't know the history behind it. Happy New Year!
2006-12-31 16:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 14⤊ 1⤋
We leave a loaf of bread on the table over night on the 31st. My gramma used to do this to ensure that we would have an abundance of food for the following year.
2006-12-31 17:29:36 · answer #3 · answered by nicole l 2 · 11⤊ 1⤋
my dad is from the south and his family has always done this. on new years day dinner includes pork, mashed potatoes and black eyed peas. it's a tradition passed back at least 12 generations.
2006-12-31 16:58:20 · answer #4 · answered by happyinblue 3 · 18⤊ 0⤋
in my country there`s one that it must be a child the first to step into the house the first of january(brings good luck), but when it`s an old person it brings bad luck.(excluding family members)
2006-12-31 16:48:16 · answer #5 · answered by kvcreom 4 · 10⤊ 2⤋
A couple of foods: Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas and rice--yuck! I hate black-eyed peas. As my mom says, they taste like dirt.)
Also, greens (which I like.) They represent paper money.
2006-12-31 17:03:14 · answer #6 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 10⤊ 2⤋
my mom buys a loaf of bread every dec 31. she leaves it out side. the first dark haired man to visit is supposed to bring it in for luck. why i don't know.
2006-12-31 16:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by pandora123 2 · 13⤊ 3⤋
I started my own tradition ten years ago i buy 50 to 75lbs. of shrimp,steam it,everybody is welcome,there is never any left the next day.
2006-12-31 20:07:25 · answer #8 · answered by kman1830 5 · 19⤊ 6⤋
In our family we have a tradition were we wash our cars on that day. After one year of dirt building up we can hardly recognize which is which.
2006-12-31 16:48:20 · answer #9 · answered by Keith B 4 · 15⤊ 20⤋