So now that 2013 is nearly here, I'm getting myself and the kids ready.

Buying each one of us something new and yellow to wear.

Getting the grapes ready...to eat 12 of them at the stroke of midnight.

Do you have any traditions for ringing in the New Year?

to leave my pants on at all times.

XxAxX said:

to leave my pants on at all times.

What fun is THAT?!?!

well, that is just for ringing in the new year. pants can come off once the party is over

I look positively horrific in yellow. That would never work for me.

I definitely am not superstitious, but I always like the saying that however you ring in the new year is how you'll spend the rest of the year. Even if I don't belive it's true at ALL I try to make an effort to keep it in mind.

The year I decided I wasn't up for a big, bowout party surrounded by friends and drunken strangers I stayed home alone and watched a Buffy marathon. Partway through the night I thought "wow, so this will be my year - staying home alone watching tv. how exiting. "

Turns out, that was the year I really got my life together. Lost a bunch of weight, took up running, stopped partying so much and bought a house. So I think I picked up some lessons from a kick-ass chica like Buffy after-all.

Cook up some black eye peas, cole slaw, pig feet and corn bread. For those who can't deal with pig feet, I have raw oysters on the shell. To be washed down with everyones drink of choice.

ZsaZsaJackson said:

It was like TD's. ...but this year I'm going to try 12 grapes!

...make sure they're SEEDLESS!!!!

PurpleJedi said:

Not really outside of the black eyed peas. I do try to fix a "soul food" meal in conjunction with the Kwanzaa tradition, which includes some types of "african" dishes. Some years elaborate, some years very simple, with just the peanut soup and liberian bread and hoppin' john, no okra.

I think the meal is supposed to be hopping john with fish and greens but I don't observe that tradition. I do all the cooking for Thanksgiving and Christmas so for New Years I don't do jack,

I do try to observe the tradition of not having any dirty laundry on Jan. 1st. though.

My Hispanic friends always remind me to eat my 12 grapes too.

For as long as I can remember my family always prays at the stroke of Midnight.

Happy and Blessed New Year everybody!

I subscribe to no real superstitions attached to the observance, but I do enjoy the tradition of ringing in the new year with the most immaculate living space possible -- laundry will be all done, rooms all spotless, unwanted clothes and other belongings given away to charity, etc.

I also get a kick out of playing along with one of my mother's superstitions that annoys my wife: My mother insists it's bad luck if the first person to enter her home in the new year is female. So if my wife and I are the first to visit her, I must enter first.

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morningsong said:

Not really outside of the black eyed peas. I do try to fix a "soul food" meal in conjunction with the Kwanzaa tradition, which includes some types of "african" dishes. Some years elaborate, some years very simple, with just the peanut soup and liberian bread and hoppin' john, no okra.

very cool.

Lammastide said:

I subscribe to no real superstitions attached to the observance, but I do enjoy the tradition of ringing in the new year with the most immaculate living space possible -- laundry will be all done, rooms all spotless, unwanted clothes and other belongings given away to charity, etc.

I also get a kick out of playing along with one of my mother's superstitions that annoys my wife: My mother insists it's bad luck if the first person to enter her home in the new year is female. So if my wife and I are the first to visit her, I must enter first.

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LOL...I forgot about that one. My mom and grandma kept that tradition going.

And my godmother too...she would make one of her sons walk out of the house and back in if necessary...

babynoz said:

Lammastide said:

I subscribe to no real superstitions attached to the observance, but I do enjoy the tradition of ringing in the new year with the most immaculate living space possible -- laundry will be all done, rooms all spotless, unwanted clothes and other belongings given away to charity, etc.

I also get a kick out of playing along with one of my mother's superstitions that annoys my wife: My mother insists it's bad luck if the first person to enter her home in the new year is female. So if my wife and I are the first to visit her, I must enter first.

[Edited 12/28/12 16:00pm]

LOL...I forgot about that one. My mom and grandma kept that tradition going.

And my godmother too...she would make one of her sons walk out of the house and back in if necessary...

I've been made to do that many a time.

Lammastide said:

babynoz said:

LOL...I forgot about that one. My mom and grandma kept that tradition going.

And my godmother too...she would make one of her sons walk out of the house and back in if necessary...

I've been made to do that many a time.

Maybe I should make my son do it too...

i never heard of eating grapes..

it might be a scottish thing, my grandad used to do it, but we open all the windows & doors to let the old year out & the new year in.

I've always heard that whatever you are doing at the strike of midnight, ringing in the new year is how your "new year" will be spent. For instance, if you are out in the company of others at midnight, then you will be around a lot of people during the new year...if you are alone at home, then you will spend the new year alone. I've found that this superstitious has been false though. Therefore, I no longer have any superstitions for the new year. My father would always make black eyed peas and stewed tomatoes every New Year's Day. Since my dad has since passed on, my grandmother makes the dish for me.

I'm not really superstitious because I'm too religious for it : but I do like the black American folkloric tradition of eating fish, greens, and black eyed peas on New Year's Day.

The old folks say it's for good fortune (as the colors of each of the foods represent some form or denomination of US currency), but in my case it's just another reason for me to pig out on some good, old-timey soul food.

Beyond that--- we'll be taking in the rather extravagant fireworks display that takes place in the skies overhanging the entire city at midnight. The city goes completely wild with beautiful rocket designs overhead and the whole thing can last anywhere from a full hour to 90 minutes or more...and it's all done by ordinary citizens with pre-packaged kits you buy from the grocery store--- the night sky is lit up in a blaze of color. Very pretty and it's almost like changing the night into day for an hour, but the city sky ends up smokey as hell until almost 5 in the morning, and the next day the streets look like a cross between end of a war battle (from the debris), and carnival (champagne bottles and party favors lying everywhere).

babynoz said:

I think the meal is supposed to be hopping john with fish and greens but I don't observe that tradition. I do all the cooking for Thanksgiving and Christmas so for New Years I don't do jack,

I do try to observe the tradition of not having any dirty laundry on Jan. 1st. though.

My Hispanic friends always remind me to eat my 12 grapes too.

For as long as I can remember my family always prays at the stroke of Midnight.

Happy and Blessed New Year everybody!

This too!

I've tried to stay away from anything that involves alcohol, clubs, women and so on. Anything that could get me into trouble.

I just think the New Year's celebrations should somehow "symbolize" what the forthcoming 12 months are going to be like. I just think that if I end up having a bad night then that's just a plain bad start. That's quite superstitious on its own right.

I'm free to act like an ass on the following weekend.

I really believe New Years Eve sets the tone for the rest of the year. I didn't come to this conclusion until a couple of days age when I remembered last New Years Eve.

ThisOne said:

Don't ever do house work or something u hate doing because it will mean u will be doing it for the rest of the year Which is why I'm naked in bed on the org

You're posting on the wrong thread.

The photowhore one is here...

http://prince.org/msg/100/391285

PurpleJedi said:

missfee said:

Okay so I saw a big black spider in my kitchen just now that I had to kill. So does that mean anything...being that it's New Year's Day and all?

...that you need to call an exterminator, but he's got to be dressed in yellow...and kill the spider with twelve grapes.

I always have someone to kiss at midnight.

I placed silver coins above all doorways to attract good fortune.

dont know if it works, but if i win the lotto...i will let you know~~