Top 11 New Year Good Luck Traditions for 2011. Happy Lucky New Year!
December 30th 2010 02:48
1) Black-eyed Peas
2) Fireworks
3) Eat
4) Waltz
5) Wear White
6) Drink
7) Ice Fishing
8) Party
9) Feast
10) Wear New Clothes
11) Watch the ball drop
How you celebrate the New Year depends on your heritage and your cultural traditions. Some try to scare away last year’s demons , others drink or eat away the old and toast the new. Some kill the Kitchen God–again.
Some do new things for a new year. Wearing new clothes for instance.
People like to gather together and toast to the new beginnings and to declare that the coming year will be great!
If there are a lot of church bells thereabouts people will ring them.
As long as you are coming together with family and friends eating a meal together will be in vogue.
Some welcome the New God and say goodbye to the old one.
Some repent of the foibles of the old year.
Some stay up to see the first sunrise of the new year.
In some places a simple piece of food like a grape is eaten ritualistically.
Some put charms or money in food because apparently it is good luck to break a tooth.
In many cultures people hide, seek, or wear coins or coin-like objects to attract wealth in the new year.
Drinking Champagne is often considered appropriate when the clock strikes 12 on New Year’s Eve.
Dancing the old year away is a common practice.
Some of the Northern European countries spend New Year’s Eve being cold. Very cold.
Drinking toasts to the New Year is almost universal. What you drink isn’t.
Some wear red underwear—-to be lucky at love in the New Year.
Some think about what they want in the New Year and then practice sympathetic magic to get it. Want to travel: pack your bags. Want to get rich: wave about one bill of large denomination.
Giving and getting money goes over well.
Finally you can stay home and avoid the drunks and also avoid those scary Northern Europeans with their icy stares.
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