Do you have a quaint New Year's Eve or New Year's Day tradition?
When I was growing up, after the Happy New Year’s kiss, my mom & our neighbors took a wooden spoon and hit a cooking pot several times outside the front door. Although no one else I know still does it, I’ve carried on the tradition. Now that my mom’s gone, it is special to me as a way to remember her on the holiday. (I must confess that I stick just my arm, the pot & the spoon out the door, give the pot a few quick raps, and then shut the door right away lest any of the neighbors look to see who the crazy woman is ;)
Also, as a licensed Amateur Radio (“Ham Radio”) operator, the years that I had a working 2 meter radio, I’d join the rest of the Hams in my local Club on the 2 meter repeater with a quick “Happy New Year” call.
Do you have any quaint or unusual New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day holiday traditions you’d like to share?
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Yes,New Year’s Eve,I sing show tunes from the chandelier….New Year’s day,I’m praying for a lighting strike upon my head :)
Used to be black-eyed peas every New Year, a habit I got from my Georgia Baptist father-in-law. I like that tradition, but I haven’t been married to his daughter for a long time.
My birthday is New Yrs day so I usually go out New Yrs eve to celebrate. This year I’m going to watch the ball drop in Lockport with my fiancé and some friends.
I always serve black-eyed peas for good luck.
No, I don’t have any traditions. But now I wish I did. Maybe this is the year to create some.
Well, when I was little we would all stay up until midnight in the family room watching the New Year’s Eve coverage in New York or something.
Now that I’m slightly less innocent, it’s more about partying and getting crunk with my closest friends (this year will be the first with my boyfriend!). :)
Quaint. I don’t know that it’s quaint. But every New Year’s Day I do perform my calendar ritual.
There’s always a wall calendar in the kitchen, the master calendar for family events. (If it ain’t on the calendar, it ain’t happenin’.) On January 1st I transfer recurring events from last year’s calendar to this: birthdays, anniversaries (including anniversaries of family deaths and even of things like when we planted the tree or bought the washer and dryer, with year), and notable occasions.
While I’m doing this, I am also reading through last year’s calendar and reflecting on things that happened—the dates, trips, special purchases, and noteworthy occurrences such as promotions, new jobs (or loss of jobs), and family deaths that made it onto the calendar as notations during the year
Then I add upcoming dates such as season-ticket events, appointments already made, travel dates, and so on.
This transitional ritual helps me do some valuable looking back and looking ahead and also lets me fold up the old year and put it away without too much regret.
personally like to get quaintly drunk, get naked, and run through the woods howling at the moon!
In this case it will be a partially eclipsed Blue Moon.
We used to call Happy new year out the front door at midnight. Often neighbors would join in. Neighborhood has aged now though. Many are gone, others are asleep at 9:00
Oh, I thought of another one. When my kids were little we would all stand on a bed or a chair or a stool, and counting down, we would jump into the New Year so that we were in the air in one year, and would land in the next.
@pdworkin actually, just having fun with the comment! I’m 63, maybe, 40 years ago…might have gotten drunk, etc…those days are long gone!
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