any New Year's superstitions??

The first person to enter your home after the stroke of midnight will influence the year you're about to have. Ideally, he should be dark-haired, tall, and good-looking, and it would be even better if he came bearing certain small gifts such as a lump of coal, a silver coin, a bit of bread, a sprig of evergreen, and some salt. Blonde and redhead first footers bring bad luck, and female first footers should be shooed away before they bring disaster down on the household.

The first footer should knock and be let in rather than unceremoniously use a key, even if he is one of the householders. After greeting those in the house and dropping off whatever small tokens of luck he has brought with him, he should make his way through the house and leave by a different door than the one through which he entered. No one should leave the premises before the first footer arrives.

First footers must not be cross-eyed or have flat feet or eyebrows that meet in the middle. His first step into the house must be with his right foot.

The first-footer must leave by a different door from the one he entered.

Clocks should be wound up immediately the New Year begins in order to endow the house with good fortune, while all daily cleaning and dusting should be completed early in the day of December 31 in order to avoid the danger of sweeping good luck from the house. Nothing — absolutely nothing, not even garbage — is to leave the house on the first day of the year. If you've presents to deliver on New Year's Day, leave them in the car overnight. Don't so much as shake out a rug or take the empties to the recycle bin.

Make sure to do — and be successful at — something related to your work on the first day of the year, even if you don't go near your place of employment that day. Limit your activity to a token amount, though, because to engage in a serious work project on that day is very unlucky.

Also, do not do the laundry on New Year's Day, lest a member of the family be 'washed away' (die) in the upcoming months. The more cautious eschew even washing dishes.

Wear something new on January 1 to increase the likelihood of your receiving more new garments during the year to follow.

Do not pay back loans or lend money or other precious items on New Year's Day. To do so is to guarantee you'll be paying out all year.

Avoid breaking things on that first day lest wreckage be part of your year. Also, avoid crying on the first day of the year lest that activity set the tone for the next twelve months.

Examine the weather in the early hours of New Year's Day. If the wind blows from the south, there will be fine weather and prosperous times in the year ahead. If it comes from the north, it will be a year of bad weather. The wind blowing from the east brings famine and calamities. Strangest of all, if the wind blows from the west, the year will witness plentiful supplies of milk and fish but will also see the death of a very important person. If there's no wind at all, a joyful and prosperous year may be expected by all.

If you eat anything with feathers on New Year's Day your luck will fly away!

Ok, what's the one about wolfing down the 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight? I remember hanging out with Mexican friends and they do this, along with your suitcase outside of your front door (if you wish to travel in the new year). And of course the "gold" in the pocket, with hopes it remaining there all year...

...I only have one superstition, as a dream, I only dream it on New Years Eve. I wake up in a sweat and very nervious... I keep dreaming I'm at a huge party and lots of people are there, laughing, drinking and having fun. I don't know everyone at this party, but they all seem very friendly. Then as the night gets later and closer to Midnight, the room gets a little foggy, (like one of those dry ice machines back from the Disco days if ya'll remember?) slowly, I start to realize that as the bells start ringing that there is no one around but myself and two other figures in the haze. I start to make my way to them and then I understand. The only ones in the room with me are the Baby New Year, and Old Father Time. I freak out as I realize I will be stuck changing Baby New Years diaper, and as if there is a psychic connection when I look into Father Times eyes I think this is the message being communicated, then I clearly see in his eyes, ...the old man is wanting me to change his diaper too...! well, about that time is when I wake up in a sweat, and all bothered...! "Hey man, I ain't changing your diapers or the brats" I say as I become fully awake. When I figured out exactly where I was, I looked over and my wife was wide awake and just lookin at me... (it's the same look my dog gives me when I'm sitting in my chair and I fart and he looks at me as if to say, "Don't look at me man, I ain't changin your diapers" <I just realized, all things in life is circular> what goes around comes around...

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i dont like to think tooo much before i speak ... heehee ... i like to be just as surprised as you are.

Christmas tree is going down and the house is going to be cleaned up. I hope.

Happy new year and everyone is to have a good year.