New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity?

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MzMia -> New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (12/31/2007 1:35:03 PM)
It is that time again, hours from the New Year!! yeeeeeeeeee hawwwwwwwwwwww Do you have any rituals that you MUST do or have on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! I only have a couple. I MUST have Martini and Rossi Asti Sparkling wine on New Year's Eve. This is something I started when I was turning 21, and I just always drink it. Even though I am a couple of years past turning 21. The BIG one for me and many other people is cooking black eyed peas. I must have my black eyed peas on the 1st day of the New Year! I was out yesterday buying my black eyed pea's and turkey neck bones to cook them in. {Yes I season them with turkey neck bones, and I am a vegetarian}. You MUST eat black eyed peas on New Years Day in order to have good luck in the next year! I am off to start soaking my peas for tomorrow! Do you do anything special to bring your prosperity and good luck in the New Year? [:D]

youngsubgeoff -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (12/31/2007 2:00:43 PM)
yeah, 1 thing I do New years: watch football. thats it.

mnottertail -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (12/31/2007 2:05:25 PM)
I try and sober up, and try not to overdose on alka-seltzer. Protocol and Gamble Dom

BossySSBBW -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 6:24:56 PM)
Ham, cabbage, carrots, black eye peas, rice, and cornbread. Am I from the south or what....roflmfao. You have to have the peas for luck and cabbage for money. The rest is for good health and prosperity for the coming year. And as I took my sick neighbor New Year's food, I found two pennies head up so it must work......lol.

MzMia -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 6:43:35 PM)
I just ate a large bowl of black eyed peas, so I am ready for a year full of luck and dreams coming true. I sure wish I had some homemade cornbread!

Kumasan2 -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 7:04:53 PM)
Some friends of mine who are of Slavic stock wash their hands with coins at the stroke of midnight to bring wealth in the new year. This year I tried it by rubbing two quarters and a nickel in my hands. So far all I've found is $10 in Monopoly money but I have high hopes.

krikket -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 7:11:57 PM)
In my "neck of the woods" we have to eat blackeyed peas with ham hocks (although i gave up the ham at my doc's advice..lol). I've been eating them all week..needing all the luck i can get right now..lol. Happy New Year!!!! jimini

acissej -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 7:47:19 PM)
My husband's Cuban family has a tradition of eating twelve grapes as the clock strikes midnight. You're supposed to eat one grape each time the clock chimes. If I remember to buy grapes, we usually do that. Other than that, all we do is have champagne to toast the New Year.

ChainsandFreedom -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 8:30:09 PM)
We have to eat any type of noodle (long strings=long life), any round fruit (for prosperity, wealth), and beef - no other meat (because beef is heartier= strength). These have to be consumed as the first meal of the new year before we can eat anything else.This ritual comes from my philippine side of the family. -Madame G aka The Better Half

petdave -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 8:31:13 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: BossySSBBW Ham, cabbage, carrots, black eye peas, rice, and cornbread. Am I from the south or what....roflmfao. In this part of the south, the traditional meal is something called "Hoppin' John", black-eyed peas, and okra. My mother-in-law (Italian ancestry, from NYC) says that for good luck, the first person through your front door for the New Year should be a dark-haired man. Personally, i just try not to blow off any fingers playing with fireworks [:)]

KatyLied -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 8:54:12 PM)
Pork and sauerkraut. I think it's a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. Not sure, but it's been going on in my family for years.

FangsNfeet -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 8:57:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia Do you have any rituals that you MUST do or have on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! Do you do anything special to bring your prosperity and good luck in the New Year? [:D] New Years Eve: 1. Drink to these two songs as there's a drinking game with both of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCKQ3ZNkivY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1_M_L_RSI 2. Pop/Watch Fire Works 3. Watch the Ball Drop. 4. Drink, Kiss, and Drink 5. Go to sleep at some point. New Years Day 1. Wake up bright and chipper with a smile on my face [:)] eggs smile. After all they've just been laid. http://www.dreamstime.com/smiling-egg-cartoon-character-image2776082 2. Watch Pardes on TV. Aww over the Rose Parade Floats. 3. Start cooking. Corn Beef, Cabage, Corn Bread, Potatos, and Peas. 4. New Years Day Dinner. 5. Watch a Bowl Game, keep tabs on other games, and enjoy a movie with company.

happypervert -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/1/2008 8:59:49 PM)
watch the college football bowl games drink mass quantities of beer

windchymes -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 5:31:36 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: KatyLied Pork and sauerkraut. I think it's a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. Not sure, but it's been going on in my family for years. Damn, Katy, I think our families are related......along with Grandma's relish tray, we ALWAYS had pork and sauerkraut for New Years Day. That same Grandma always threw a handful of change in through the front door the first time she entered the house in the new year, so we'd have wealth all year long.

adoracat -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 5:44:39 AM)
black eyed peas and cornbread. of course the Damned Yankee and our son will not eat the black eyed peas, so i had them for lunch and dinner and am just very happy in the tummy still. and leftover cornbread for breakfast this am! yay! kitten

thornhappy -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 10:01:43 AM)
* i am so, so doomed as doomed can be * (i hate black eyed peas AND sauerkraut!) * woe is me! * thornhappy

KatyLied -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 10:02:44 AM)
I miss my grandma and relish tray.

SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 10:04:56 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia I just ate a large bowl of black eyed peas, so I am ready for a year full of luck and dreams coming true. I sure wish I had some homemade cornbread! no greens?!?!?!?! egads

NorthernGent -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 10:43:41 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: petdave My mother-in-law (Italian ancestry, from NYC) says that for good luck, the first person through your front door for the New Year should be a dark-haired man. We have a similar tradition in the North East of England on New Years Day - the first person (called the "first foot") through your door after midnight should be a tall, dark-haired man. On New Years Eve, it's customary to go 'round all the homes in the village and have a brandy, whiskey etc with them and toast to "health, prosperity and happiness" for the New Year; also, you take a piece a coal of into each home as a symbol of prosperity - something to do with Methodism, I think. New Years Day is football day here, as is Boxing Day - a long standing tradition - then everyone goes to the village pub and starts the New Year in good old fashion.

Suleiman -> RE: New Year's Eve or Day Rituals for Good Luck or Prosperity? (1/2/2008 2:08:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: MzMia Do you have any rituals that you MUST do or have on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day! ... ... ... You MUST eat black eyed peas on New Years Day in order to have good luck in the next year! I always make a point, when the hour of midnight arrives, to stand in a doorway and pour out a libation to Janus. Usually champagne, but this year it was whiskey. As to black eyed peas, I will simpl say what I said to my grandmother many many moons ago: I'll make due with skill and cunning to get by. I'm not so desperate for luck that I'm willing to eat black eyed peas. While I have had a few runs of hard luck, I think I can honestly say I have not done poorly overall for my refusal. The bad times in my life have made room for new good, just as Janus intended.

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