Don’t Let A Blonde Into Your House & Other New Year’s Superstitions
January 1 is the first day of the year and throughout time people have drawn a connection between what happens on that day and our fate for the rest of the year. If you buy into things such as this here are ways to clean your slate and stack the odds for a successful 2010.
Kissing At Midnight: That New Year’s kiss at midnight isn’t only a chance to get close to the person you’ve had your eye on as of late. We kiss those dearest to us at midnight not only to share a moment of celebration with our favorite people, but also to ensure those affections and ties will continue throughout the next twelve months. To fail to smooch our significant others at the stroke of twelve would be to set the stage for a year of coldness.
Paying Off Bills: The new year should not be started with the household in debt, so checks should be written an mailed off prior to January 1st. Likewise, personal debts should be settled before the New Year arrives.
First Footing: The first person to enter you home after the stroke of midnight will influence the year you’re about to have. Ideally, according to the superstition, it should be a man who is dark-hair, tall, and good-looking, and it would be even better if he came bearing small gifts such as a lump of coal, a silver coin, or a sprig of evergreen. Blonde and redhead first footers bring bad luck, and female first footers should be shooed away before they bring disaster on the household. Aim a gun at them if you have to, but do not let them near your door until a man crosses your threshold!
The first footer (sometimes called the “Lucky Bird”) should knock and be let in rather than unceremoniously use a key, even if he is one of the householders. After greeting those in the hose and dropping off whatever small tokens of luck he has brought with him, he should make his way though the house and leave by a different door than the one through which he entered. No one should leave the premises before the first footer arrives- the first traffic across the threshold must be headed in rather than striking out.
First footers mush not be cross-eyed or have flat feet or eyebrows that meet in the middle.
Nothing prevents the cagey householder from stationing a dark-haired man outside the home just before midnight to ensure the speedy arrival of a suitable first footer as soon as the chimes sound, If one of the partygoers is recruited for this purpose, impress upon him the need to slip out quietly just prior to the witching hour.
Nothing Goes Out: Nothing – absolutely nothing, not even garbage – is to leave the house on the first day of the year. If you have presents to deliver on New Year’s Day, leave them in the car overnight. Don’t so much as shake out a rug or take the empties to the recycle bin.
Some people soften this rule by saying it’s okay to remove things from the home on New Year’s Day provided something else has been brought in first. This is similar to the caution regarding first footers; the year must begin with something’s being added to the home before anything subtracts from it.
One who lives alone might place a luck item or two in a basket that has a string tied to it, and then place the basket just outside the front door before midnight. After midnight, the lone celebrant hauls in his catch, being careful to bring the item across the doorjamb by pulling the string rather than by reaching out to retrieve it and thus breaking the plane of the threshold.
Work: Make sure to do – and be successful at – something related to your work on the first day of the year, even if you don’t go near your place of employment that day. Limit your activity to a token amount, though, because to engage in a serious work project on that day is very unlucky.
Also, do not do the laundry on New Year’s Day, lest a member of the family be “washed away” (read: die) in the upcoming months. The most cautions people won’t even wash dishes.
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