New Year, New Meme
I still have a few assorted memes and awards to post about, but this latest one is a bit time sensitive as it relates to the New Year’s Holiday. And seeing as how it’s only about 2 weeks into January, I better do this one now before I blink and it’s suddenly June or something.
Anyways, the lovely, talented and tag-happy Tish just tagged me with this meme about New Year’s good luck traditions.
Rule: Copy the person and persons’ names that sent it to you and add your own at the bottom of the list. It really helps to build community.
*My mom used to collect some coins and when the new year comes she put the coins in a bowl and shake it to create sounds. She said its good luck for money throughout the year. And also wearing dotted dresses on new year don’t know why. CC/chalyza/keep
*My old folks always told us to avoid spending money on new years day. They said, once you spend on the first day of the year, you like to spend the rest of the year. Behind d Scenes of ME/ Retchel’s Pure Life/ A little bit of me
*I grew up believing that if you have some money on your pocket (whatever you’re wearing) come New Year’s eve it will ensure steady flow of income throughout the year. The other belief is that the main door of the house should be wide open come New Year’s eve so that good luck will be ushered in. Juliana of MY WORLD and JULIANA’S LAIR.
*I don’t know if what I am about to write is a new year’s tradition or not. In my place, most people will ‘jump’ into the sea or take a shower as soon as the clock strikes to 12 in New Year’s Eve to get rid of all the bad lucks in the previous year. ;D ~ CHOC MINT GIRL~
*Like most other East Tennesseans, I always have a side of blackeyed peas with my dinner on New Year’s Day. – Tish of The Kat House
*To be honest, I never even heard of people having good luck traditions on New Year’s. These all sound pretty neat to me (except for that blackeyed peas thing…). But growing up we definitely had a New Year’s tradition. We’d spend every New Year’s as a family with my mom’s college roommate and her family (she also had 2 kids just about our age). We’d alternate houses each year, and spend the night. The big traditions were always playing board games like Trivial Pursuit (adults and kids together) and then cooking some crazy fun or elaborate dinner (like paella, lobsters, fondue). On New Year’s Day itself, we’d watch some college football and usually drive around to see what stores, if any, were open. Andrew of Everybody Loves Coupons
To continue the New Year’s meme tradition, I’m now tagging the following:
Christy (Do Canadians have crazy traditions?)
Loretta (I can’t even imagine, but I’m sure there’s loads of laughs),
Lis (just to tick her off, plus she’s overseas so she must have crazy traditions) and
Little Dough Girl (who probably doesn’t even do memes, but I don’t care, I’m just glad to have found an old online friend via her blog).
January 16th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
We don’t do any of the good luck stuff, at least not for my family but I sure can talk about some of the good luck traditions the Chinese have for Chinese New Year.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Thanks so much for playing along, Andrew!
Sounds like you had a fun New Year’s when you were growing up!
January 21st, 2008 at 10:41 am
@Lis – I’d love to hear all the good luck traditions the Chinese have!
@Tish – You’re quite welcome, Tish. And yeah, growing up was a lot of fun on New Year’s. Until we hit the mid teenage years and all the kids wanted to do their own things with our own friends…
June 6th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Sounds like great fun at new years!
Can you tell what the word ‘meme’ means, we had this discussion in the family about this word, something being close to ‘cliche’.