Daily question of the day! 03/11/14

Question of the day



9. ¿What traditions in your family has root? Do you have some? :nod:




Have a nice day

Well, how about me?

During the November month, here in my country celebrate (with deep respect) at the people dead ( I mean the relatives of all familys)

here more information about:

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

So, ... one of the traditions in my family is to gathering the 1 or 2 of november, for eat a dish called PIB,... previous to this, we make a Little ritual with prayers for our relatives who aren´t not here on earth with us....

If you want to learn about the dish PIB, here you can find what we do
http://www.dayofthedead.com/mucbil-chicken-or-pib-recipe-cooked-in-the-womb-of-mother-earth


Well, that´s it, thanks for read!

My roots are Scandinavian but our family doesn't follow any Scandinavian traditions.  

I love the Day of the Dead tradition.  It's a wonderful remembrance of those not still with us.  We celebrate it every year and our house is decorated with Day of the Dead folk art year round.  

We don't really have any family traditions that was passed down.

When my daughters were young I tried to get some started but they ended up not sticking so we just take each day as it comes.

We have a couple that I took from my grandmother. Many of you have probably heard me speak of them.

• On New Year's Eve, I always put an old purse outside. The purse contains $1.00, some change, nothing big. After the stroke of midnight, I go outside and bring the purse back into the house. The first thing you do after the New Year will be what you do all year long. So bringing in a purse of money means that money will always come into our house. I've done that for years and it's something Grandma did before me.
• On New Year's Day, the meal is always pork and sauerkraut, which is probably an old Pennsylvania Dutch tradition. My grandmother had always made it, my mother made it, and so do I.
• Rick and I have a little tradition that we started when we got married. We open one small gift on Christmas Eve and open the rest of them on Christmas morning. Our son and DIL have continued that with their children. We also kiss as the clock is striking 12 on New Year's Eve. We think it's good luck to bring in the New Year with a kiss. Maybe it is; we've been married almost 44 years now. (One of Rick's cousins used to do that with his wife. One year, they didn't kiss; she was busy with one of the kids or something. And later that year, they got divorced. Rick and I always made it a point to kiss after that! 
  
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Silly little traditions, I guess, but we enjoy them. We probably have others, but that's all I can think of right now.

Here in the South on New Year's Day there is a tradition of eating black-eyed peas, turnip greens, and a meat for money luck

Black-eyed peas represent pennies (coins/change)

Turnip greens represents dollar bills

I can't remember what the meat means.

I have eaten this in the past but I'm the only one in my house that eats this, I didn't this year and things seem to be better financially LOL. Maybe I need to stop eating this from now on.

There is another "old wives tale" that is: Do not wash laundry on New Year's Day. If you do it's suppose to mean you will wash a loved one out of your life. Again, I have done this and didn't this year so who knows. I'm not superstitious so these things don't matter to me if I do them or not.