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Eat Black Eyed Peas on New Years Day – it will bring luck and prosperity.
(invite Fergie for even MORE fun)

Fill up your cupboards before midnight to ensure prosperity for the year.
(market early | avoid crowds)

Upset Nothing: Most of all yourself. Traditionally, New Year’s Day sets the tone for the year, so there’s no crying on New Year’s.
(no onion chopping or sad movies)

Breaking something on this superstitious day foretells destruction and bad luck in the new year
(I suggest you use plastic cups and paper plates)

Don’t wash your hair or your clothes on New Years Day because you’ll wash away your good fortune for the year.
(if it’s a bad hair day, wear a hat | if your clothes are dirty, wear a coat)

Eat twelve grapes before midnight and it will bring you good health for the year.
(probably won’t matter if they’re red or green)

Pay your bills and loans before New Year Eve, so you don’t have any debt left for New Year.
(easier said than done, right?)

Babies born on 1st January is said to be the luckiest of all throughout their lives.
(requires planning | you’ll need to conceive in March)

Do not let money, jewelry, precious items or other invaluable things leave your home on New Year Day. Do not pay loans and bills or lend things to anybody, if you do not want to show just-entered fortune the way to leave during the year.
(maybe you should just stay in bed all day to be safe)

Evil One and his attendants and servants hate din and loud noise. So, scare them away by being as loud in New Year celebrations as possible. Church bells are rung at midnight for the purpose too.
(noise-makers will work if you don’t live near a church)

If you have to deliver presents on New Year morning, leave them in the car since New Year’s Eve on December 31st.
(make sure to lock your car doors)

Never leave the home before someone comes in first. First in the house should be ushered in with a warm welcome and should not have flat feet, cross-eyes or eyebrows stretching out to meet in the middle.
(not sure who has flat feet, but none of my friends have unibrows — I don’t think…)

If a man visits a home unannounced on New Year’s, it’s a sign of good luck. A woman arriving unexpectedly however, is a sign that a troubled year lays ahead.
(especially if she’s your frenemy — ugh!)

No one should enter the home from the outside world without bringing in something from outside, to ensure a year of prosperity for the family within.
(according to the previous superstition, I guess it should be a man)

At midnight, all the doors (or windows) of a house must be opened to let the old year escape unimpeded.
(many of us will be glad to say “good riddance” to 2010, right?)

The direction of wind during sunrise on New Year morning prophesies about the coming year. Wind from south foretells fine weather and prosperous times ahead while wind from north foretells bad weather. Wind blowing from east foretells natural calamities and wind from west foretells plenty of milk and fish for all but death of a person of great national importance. No wind means joy and prosperity throughout the year.
(sounds complicated | where can you even buy a compass these days?)

To dance in the open air, especially round a tree, on New Year’s Day ensures luck in love and prosperity and freedom from ill health during the coming twelve months.
(I don’t care how cold it is, I’m finding myself a tree to dance around)

On New Year’s Day if, on rising, a girl should look out of her bedroom window and see a man passing by, she may reckon to be married before the year is finished.
(who uses the word “reckon” and what does it mean exactly?)

You could ensure yourself good fortune by draining the last dregs from a bottle of drink on New Years!
(someone’s gotta do this, might as well be you, right?)

It is believed that kissing at midnight ensures that affections and ties will continue throughout the New Year.
(I might need to work in the ER, after I check McPrivy’s schedule ahaha! )

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