What are your New Year's Day rituals/superstitions?

[MilesColtrane]

I'll admit to a couple of totally nonsensical, irrational things I must do on New Years Day.

Saying "rabbit, rabbit, rabbit" the first thing upon waking.
Don't know where it came from, but at least I'm not alone on this one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit

Also, eating black eyed peas, along with a high fat, high calorie breakfast of scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, and orange juice.

I'm not proud of it, but there it is.

[BarenakedLady]

1. Nothing

I can honestly say I have none.

I did kiss my daughter first thing at midnight though.

[Inchworm]

2. awww

don't make me cwy...

I expect a call from mine any second...

She is all in love and stuffs...

I may not get called! omg...

Asteroids!!

:D

[BarenakedLady]

3. I hope you get called.

If not...

RING RING

Hello?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

:hug:

[Inchworm]

4. shut up

I ain't supposed to laugh and cry at same time :D

omg.. what if they are "busy" ?!?

Giving them 5 minutes :rofl:

Thanks for the call sweetie :D

:*

[Inchworm]

5. She called!

I knew she luffed me!

OK.. back to normal.

Apologies for the hijack :D

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

11. Yay!

I knew she would.

:D

[Inchworm]

15. omg! I'm steeped in rituals!

hehe.

My kiddo rawks :)

:P

[Jamastiene]

6. My aunt and my mother both always said to make sure you do something

you really like at the stroke of midnight, because that is what you'll end up doing all year. For years, I missed the countdown to midnight in a dark room. :evilgrin: Now, I just get loaded and play around on Runescape and DU.

[shugah]

7. black eyed peas, yep

and cabbage. not together, but both must be ingested on new years day.

also must have a new mug that first beverage of the day has to be drunk from.

i don't know why. but every year, i go ahead with these random, bizarre traditions.

i hate black eyed peas. they taste like dirt. every year i try something new to make them palatable. so far, i have not achieved that goal. (20+ years and counting.)

[Jamastiene]

9. Add a teaspoon of sugar.

That always does the trick for my family.

[Lucian]

8. I don't have any.

[unsavedtrash]

10. black eyed peas and greens

cooked with ham or fatback.

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Thank you for mentioning the greens.

I couldn't convince my husband and mother-in-law -- who are from TEXAS, for heaven's sakes -- that collard greens go with the black-eyed peas. I'm a Yankee, and I know that much.

[skygazer]

12. I have none

In fact, I was in bed by 9:30. :blush:


But if it's true that you should do something you really enjoy at midnight, I was doing it. I was sleeping. Ahhhh...... :)

[MorningGlow]

13. Nothing particular, just getting cheesed at my mom

She insists on having my birthday cake on New Year's Day, even though my birthday is the 2nd. I know she's just "getting it out of the way while the relatives are gathered anyway", but I feel like she's indulging her decades-old wish that her kid had been a New Year's baby (if I wasn't always so late to everything).

[MilesColtrane]

16. Happy (early) Birthday!

[MorningGlow]

21. Thank you!

:hi:

[Forkboy]

14. You would think that someone who played goalie for years would be highly superstitious.

But nope, I don't have any, New Year's Day or not. No rituals either, though I'd consider making your breakfast one. :9

[Patiod]

17. Going down to Two Street to see the Mummers come home

We used to have friends who lived at 2nd and Wolfe in the heart of South Philadelphia, and every year they had a party to watch the Mummers come back to their clubhouses (one of the guys who lived there choreographed the dance routines for some of the bands). So we stayed inside drinking beer and eating chili until someone yelled "mummers!" and we would all pour outside to watch to bands.

After the parade, the tradition is that the bands do the "Two Street Parade, where they perform in front of rival clubhouses (one of which was 2 doors down), and in 2-3 cases they would perform right in front of the house at 2nd and Wolfe, since their choreographer lived there.

Very fun, and the advantage over the "real" parade is that even though we didn't get to see the huge, elaborate Captain's Costumes, we were right up close and personal, and we could run inside at get warm between bands.

Captain's costume


"Regular" Mummers' costumes

[Lex]

18. Black-eyed peas and greens, & a New Year's Day hike with friends.

nt

[AbbeyRoad]

19. great northern beans seasoned w/ ham served w/ cornbread

My mother told me you should eat humble on New Years Day so that you can eat rich the rest of the year.

[mitchum]

20. I always say "white rabbit, white rabbit" upon awakening the first day of every month

New Year's Day tradition: going out for Chinese food

[harmonicon]

22. being hung over

I do it every year, almost without fail, since I was about 15.

[bigwillq]

23. Nada

I do nothing special for the New Year.

[grannylib]

24. No superstitions, but some things that have become ritual over

the years...
Gotta have Chinese food; gotta have fortune cookies (I know they're not Chinese, but gotta have 'em anyway); gotta have something with streamers/confetti (this year we got the ones from Pier 1 with metallic streamers/confetti in them, they were SO festive!); gotta put the streamers onto the Christmas tree; and it's imperative to play a game or two as a family/group of friends/whoever happens to be around. This year we played Apples to Apples.

[WinkyDink]

25. Pork and sauerkraut. And a male must be the first to enter the house NYD.

[femmocrat]

26. Same here.

We always have it on New Year's day for "good luck". Old tradition.

[trof]

27. Black-eyed peas. Got to have 'em.

For every pea you eat you'll have one day of good luck in the New year.
Honest.
They're simmering on the stove now.

[soleiri]

29. Grapes

When I was a kid, my dad's family ate grapes at midnight.
I remember getting into a crapload of trouble for eating them early one year.
I have no idea what the significance of grapes at new year is.

[spindrifter]

30. The first visitor to the house must be a male who

steps over the threshhold right foot first.

[tigereye]

31. making gingerbread and a list of all the things I accomplished the previous

year


this year i work up with the flu - and all i did was sleep and eat crackers...

[Callalily]

32. I try to make some type

of good luck food on New Year's Day although I missed last year. Two years ago I made lentils, leeks, and cotechino (Italian) and this year I made black eyed peas.