New Year's Superstition
 

I know that we have heard superstitions for the New Year at one time or another. Some of them are funny. I'll start. Feel free to add to the list.

Make sure that you eat collard greens on January 1st and that will insure that you will have money in the new year.

Do not wash clothes on January 1st because you will wash someone out of the family.


I know that there are more but I'll have to call my mother to get the rest of them.

Re: New Year's Superstition
 

I have never heard of eating collard greens. In the South, we eat cabbage and black eyed peas.

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From the North or Mighty Midwest, lol, and it is cabbage and blackeyed peas as well. I never ever eat the B E P. UGH

Ewww. Can we just substitute spinach for collards/cabbage and peanuts for black eyed peas?

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In SC it's greens and hoppin' johns. Or at least in Charleston.

if you eat collards, then you will have money for the new year.
if you eat black eyed peas, that will be good luck.

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Where in the South are you 'cause in Gaw-juh we eat greens, black eyed peas and some type of pork, usually ham hocks in the greans and peas!

My mother in law (who is in Ohio) believes that the first one to visit in the new year should be man.

My mother said no washing on the last day or the first day of the year. She also believed that you should not have dirty clothes in your house on the last day of they year, so the 30th was always spent washing everying in sight.

In DC as far as I know its black eyed peas. Black eyed peas are the worst. My granny usually makes them. I think I'll be eating Chipotle that day.

Yeah I am familiar with the no washing clothes (trust me there are some family members I wouldn't mind washing out) :D Mom won't vaccum on New Years either

(I don't pay much mind to this one)

Definitely gotta have black eyed peas or some type of greens

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My mother believes the same.:o :(

That superstition just rang a bell.

Back in HS, I spent the New Years holiday at my best friend's house and when 12:00AM came the only man that was in the house was her mom's b/f who was sound asleep. Her mom woke him, made him go out the back door and come in through the front door to satisfy the superstition.

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New Orleans....

My family adheres to the black-eyed peas thing but I would just as soon as vomit than to eat them!

My own superstition is that my house (including laundry and dishes) should be clean bringing in the new year. Same thing about new clothing for the first day of school or first day at a new job.

Not that I am not clean any other time but sometimes you have those pesky bathrooms and other miscellaneous chores hanging around.

Oh, well, I better get to cleaning :cool:

Well my Mom, and only her cause I'm not touching them, definitely eats black eyed peas and she also does the funniest thing, I have never seen or heard about anyone else doing. She holds a dollar bill in her hand as she is eating them lol. She says it will bring you money in the new year. Also my friends grandmother told us that if a white man comes to your door on New Years day you should kill him dead (she lives in the south). She said that if he enters the house he will take all your money and luck for the year. She went on to tell us that one new years day a white man had the nerve to come on her front porch. She said that she never knew who he was or what he wanted cause she grabbed her shot gone and shot at him until he was out of her yard. ROTFLMAO

hot dayum @ crimsonARMor's mom!! lololol:eek: :eek: :D :p :p