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[colliegirls]

Already ate our pork and sauerkraut for luck

Herring for good luck ( I am from PA)

A grape at every strike of the clock at midnight

A tall dark hair man has to enter the house by the front door            (good heavens, never a woman!!)

We always had to keep the first money given in our hand

What am I forgetting??!!!

What were/are your superstitions for the new year?

[MaggieMack]

I never heard that there were any superstitions surrounding New Year's! This is a first for me. 

[Hooty]

In the South we eat black eyed peas for good luck!

Never wash clothes on New Year's Day, you'll be washing someone out of your life!

[nana59]

I had a very good friend who ate blackeyed peas every new year's day for good luck...she died at a young age....that was the end of my superstitions.....

[gidgetgh]

We had pork, sauerkraut and black eyed peas today. 

I burned a bayberry candle from start to finish (a bayberry candle burned to the socket brings health to the home and wealth to the pocket).

We also said "rabbit rabbit" when we got up this morning for good luck. I've said it on the first day of every month since 2nd grade. 

[croemer]

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@Hooty wrote:

In the South we eat black eyed peas for good luck!

Never wash clothes on New Year's Day, you'll be washing someone out of your life!

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What??? Rut Roh...I am from the south and am washing clothes today....should I go out in roll in the dirt to counter affect my digression?

[colliegirls]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

We had pork, sauerkraut and black eyed peas today. 

I burned a bayberry candle from start to finish (a bayberry candle burned to the socket brings health to the home and wealth to the pocket).

We also said "rabbit rabbit" when we got up this morning for good luck. I've said it on the first day of every month since 2nd grade. 

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Never heard of saying "rabbit rabbit", do I need to start doing it?!  From where did that originate?

[Marp]

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@Hooty wrote:

In the South we eat black eyed peas for good luck!

Never wash clothes on New Year's Day, you'll be washing someone out of your life!

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Do we get to chose who?

[nana59]

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@gidgetgh wrote:

We had pork, sauerkraut and black eyed peas today. 

I burned a bayberry candle from start to finish (a bayberry candle burned to the socket brings health to the home and wealth to the pocket).

We also said "rabbit rabbit" when we got up this morning for good luck. I've said it on the first day of every month since 2nd grade. 

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Way too much for me to do in one day!!

[gidgetgh]

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@colliegirls wrote:

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@gidgetgh wrote:

We had pork, sauerkraut and black eyed peas today. 

I burned a bayberry candle from start to finish (a bayberry candle burned to the socket brings health to the home and wealth to the pocket).

We also said "rabbit rabbit" when we got up this morning for good luck. I've said it on the first day of every month since 2nd grade. 

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Never heard of saying "rabbit rabbit", do I need to start doing it?!  From where did that originate?

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My 2nd grade teacher taught us to say it. My entire family has been saying it since then. You're supposed to say it first thing on the first of every month and you'll have good luck the rest of the month. Some people say rabbit rabbit rabbit. It's a variant of an old British custom per Google. I know a few years ago I was watching Good Morning America and Robin Roberts said it and I've heard her say it since. I got a kick out of that.