What New Years superstition do you follow?

I follow a personal superstition of not wanting to be awake when the clock ticks over. Even if it means dosing myself heavily with sleep medication like Valium.

There are superstitions about new years? I didn’t even know that!

My superstiton is to not make new years reslolutions…and so far I kept it…I’ve made too many bad ones

It’s a bad, bad sign if you don’t wake up the next day.

Black-eyed peas . . . and I’m good to go for another year!

@CyanoticWasp usually is anytime of the year. But it would be a bummer for all the years to follow. :D

I need to have a tarot read before the year ends…
also, down here we prepare a dummy made of old clothes filled up with newspapers and other stuff, like wood debris and fireworks, it’s called “old year” and we burn it

@flameboi Intresting! (Where is down here?) I never heard of burning a dummy. Is it suppose to represent the shedding of the old?

I wouldn’t be caught dead with any kind of superstition.

@flameboi
The Brits do something like that on the fifth of November.

@Fyrius
Oh! cool! I didn’t know that, maybe we got that from them
you know, we are characterized for not being original, like our president…

@Pandora
Down here is Ecuador, that thing has been around since the 1800’s… yes, it represents the bad things that happened in the year, so you kick the dummy, you shout and course at the dummy and at midnight you set fire on the dummy and jump the flames… you know, really fun stuff…
And like our president I’m talking about Rafael Correa, he does whatever Hugo Chavez already did, like shutting down a tv station that is against his stupid government for instance

@flameboi Gotcha! Sounds like fun. :D

When I lived in the south, everyone ate black eyed peas. Ewwww!!!!

I was invited around to a house party one New Years and just before midnight. I had to go outside with a piece of coal. When they had all celebrated the New year arriving I was told to knock on the door and then be “The tall dark stranger that was the first to enter in the New Year with a gift of coal”!

Nope I didn’t understand it either.

See here

I kiss as many strange women as possible ;-)

@Mat74UK my brother gets to be the one to do this every year!

We used to write down wishes on a small piece of paper, burn it, put the ashes in the champagne and drink that. Of course, without a piece of paper to remind me, I forget what the wish was, so I don’t know if any came true.

@OreetCocker, aren’t they all, when you get right down to it? (No double entendre intended, but damn that would be a good one, wouldn’t it? Or “that would be a good one, when you got down to it” ... which is a double entendre.)

I do the black-eyed peas thing.

I’d love the Scottish one:

“The person most welcome on New Year’s morning was a tall, dark haired man and especially if he bought (sic) a gift as this was considered magical as his handsome features would make the year a pleasant one and his gift of a loaf of bread, or a shovel of coal would ensure that there would be no lack of food or warmth in the household.”

I’ll take the handsome man and the bread. Not so much the coal, as my building uses oil heat.

@gggritso
You drank champagne with ashes in it?
That can’t be tasty.

@Fyrius Well, you don’t get a lot of ashes from a small piece of paper… besides, after a few drinks, anything tastes fine ;)

@aprilsimnel Do you get to keep the handsome man all year? I like this one! Now I also get the lump of coal or the shovel full of coal. Thanks.

We eat black-eyed peas along with cabbage (homemade sauerkraut) to bring good luck and prosperity.

@Pandora – Well, if he presents himself as the gift…!

I follow the Scottish First Footing tradition too, as @aprilsimnel mentioned.

It’s a bad idea to break all of your New Year’s resolutions on the first day. Pace yourself; you have all year.

@CyanoticWasp am loving your logic :-)

Here’s mine:

If January 1, 2010 falls on a Sunday, then all Flutherites will be cured from being superstitious.

If January 1, 2010 falls on a Friday, then some Flutherites will be cured from being superstitious.