New Year's Superstitions?

Question

New Year's Superstitions/beliefs

Answer 1

1. Clean house on New Year's Eve so you'll have clean house the whole year.
2. Open the front doors and windows at midnight (But lock the back door) so luck stays.
3. Freshly cooked food on the table + 12 different types of round, unblemished fruits ensure abundant food.
4. Noodles for long life.
5. Wearing new polka dot or red clothes/shoes for good luck
6. Jumping at midnight so you'll grow taller
7. Placing notes in your wallets ensures you'll have money the whole year.
8. Luck stays with you when you place old coins in every window sill
9. Fireworks/making noise as much as possible to drive demons away
10. Be nice so you'll be nice (no quarelling either) the whole year
11. Pay all your debts so you won't owe anybody
12. No cooking/household work during New Year or you'll drive luck away
13. No sharps on New Year: it offends luck
14. Do not leave your home on New Year so that somebody will be there the whole year
15. Throw old furniture/clothes/etc. on New Year's Eve

Answer 2

I open the doors and windows a few minutes before midnight. I can't remember if it's to let the bad spirits out or the good spirits in. Just something kind of strange.

Answer 3

Cooking "hoppin' john" -- Black eyed peas w/ salt beef (for success) Cooking corned purple meat w/ cabbage -- (money) banging pots and pans outdoors the front door(i do no longer know approximately evil spirits, in spite of if it confident pisses off the buddies, heh heh!!) kiss the ladies and the toddlers in the lifeless of night, if achievable sweep the porches in the previous night (probably additionally on the subject of evil spirits) -- being careful to no longer sweep airborne dirt and dust or airborne dirt and dust onto all of us's footwear/ft -- undesirable mojo, meant to point they are going to die interior the twelve months drink a shot of scotch interior the front threshold in the lifeless of night -- be confident to pour out a flavor for the lifeless, to boot as those nevertheless interior the previous country (Scotland, eire, England, Wales, etc.) of those all, I cooked the cb and cabbage; kissed my spouse and toddlers, drank the shot interior the edge, etc. My persons are from Scotland, by utilising way of Arkansas and we carry to quite some superstitions...even now that i've got moved up north.

Answer 4

In the midwest, I grew up eating cabbage on New Year's day. (YUCK!) Cabbage is suppose to bring you wealth. My Chinese friends serve celery on Chinese New Year for longivity. In the Netherlands, my distant family fixes 'oil balls' which are like donuts. These are suppose to make your new year a sweet one. Now I live in the South, so I guess I'll be serving cabbage, celery, black eyed peas and donuts!

Answer 5

My grandma is Japanese, and for as long as I can remember we have always cleaned house on New Year's Eve because they believe if you don't have your house clean before the new year, you will live in a dirty house all that year. So, yesterday, I cleaned my house ...

Answer 6

My friend told me this thing, that during the countdown, you should have money(coins) in your hand, and start jumping up and down as high as you can until the countdown ends(or maybe stop a second after or something), and it means however high you jumped the last jump is how tall you'll grow during the next year. Or something...
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Answer 7

My mother won't wash clothes on New Year's Day because she says if you do, you will wash for the dead before the year is out (someone close to you will die).

Answer 8

In the south you are supposed to eat "black eyed peas" on new years day