Do you have any kind of good-luck traditions on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day?
I had mentioned in another New Year post that DH and I just watch a few movies and I make appetizer-type foods for us to munch on for New Year's Eve.
Right before midnight, I take an old purse outside on the front door step.....the purse contains $1.00. Right after midnight of the new year, I'll go outside and bring the purse back in the house. That way, one of my first things for the New Year is to bring money into our house, which is supposed to ensure that you'll always have money coming into your home. My grandmother did that for decades and I've done it for a long, long time, too.
I've not seen the ball drop since I married DH. As the ball starts to drop and the crowd starts to chant, "Ten, nine, eight...." DH and I will kiss and continue kissing until we hear "Happy New Year!" We like to think it gives our marriage a little bit of good luck throughout the new year. (There might be something to that, too, b/c we'll be married 40 years in 2011.....so for the last 40 years, we've not seen that darn ball drop!)
Our New Year's Day is not complete without our dinner of pork and sauerkraut....I think it's an old German or PA Dutch tradition. My grandmother served it and I have, too. DH isn't a big sauerkraut fan, but he'll eat it then. It's supposed to bring good luck. This year on Saturday, three other couples are coming in for dinner and to play cards. And yes, we're having pork and sauerkraut.
What do you do for good luck for the new year? Anything special?
I had mentioned in another New Year post that DH and I just watch a few movies and I make appetizer-type foods for us to munch on for New Year's Eve.
Right before midnight, I take an old purse outside on the front door step.....the purse contains $1.00. Right after midnight of the new year, I'll go outside and bring the purse back in the house. That way, one of my first things for the New Year is to bring money into our house, which is supposed to ensure that you'll always have money coming into your home. My grandmother did that for decades and I've done it for a long, long time, too.
I've not seen the ball drop since I married DH. As the ball starts to drop and the crowd starts to chant, "Ten, nine, eight...." DH and I will kiss and continue kissing until we hear "Happy New Year!" We like to think it gives our marriage a little bit of good luck throughout the new year. (There might be something to that, too, b/c we'll be married 40 years in 2011.....so for the last 40 years, we've not seen that darn ball drop!)
Our New Year's Day is not complete without our dinner of pork and sauerkraut....I think it's an old German or PA Dutch tradition. My grandmother served it and I have, too. DH isn't a big sauerkraut fan, but he'll eat it then. It's supposed to bring good luck. This year on Saturday, three other couples are coming in for dinner and to play cards. And yes, we're having pork and sauerkraut.
What do you do for good luck for the new year? Anything special?
Yum. Again, since I moved, no real traditions as of yet, just a kind of lazy recovery day. 
