Greetings and Happy New Year! People from countries all over the world have peculiar New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day traditions. Some include wearing a particular color of clothes, sharing a kiss at the stoke of midnight and eating collard greens and black-eyed peas.
What is your favorite New Year’s custom AND why?
If you don’t have a New Year’s tradition, which one do you find interesting AND why?
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oyebola o.online:my favourite new year custom is to have a clean and peacefull atmosphere where i can communicate with GOD inoder to receive a specific instruction for the year.happy new year!
ReplyDeleteNatavius F. Online: New Years Day has always been one of my favorite holidays and still reigns number one in my book. Ever since I was a child, I recount every New Years Day my mother and father would prepare a great big banquet of delicious foods. Imagine waking up to the sweet aroma of baked macaroni & cheese, collard greens, cornbread, green beans, honey glazed ham, field peas, mashed potatoes, red velvet cake, and a plethora of other goodies. Once the food has been cooked, we're seated and begin to partake in dinner. After dinner, we, my sister, mother, father, and I, relocate to the living room and breakout a game of Taboo, Scrabble, or Uno, while music plays in the background. Every year I look forward to New Years Day because of these special, endearing customs and traditions I've become accustomed to over the years.
ReplyDeleteJennifer H. Online: New Years Day has been one of my favorite holidays aswell; It is a time that my family gets together and we talk about what we were grateful for in the past year and what we look forward to in the new year. Jam tarts, sausage rolls, and christmas cake are a must, considered that we are all from a british heritage.
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ReplyDeleteOyebola, I find your New Year custom very special. I like that you like to have a serine and relaxed setting because in doing so, you're freeing yourself of the past, and welcoming the future and what's to come. I especially like that you seek God in order to receive direction for the New Year because I too do this either on New Years Eve or New Years Day. Happy New Year, Oyebola!
Takiesha R.Online.My favorite new year custom is the countdown period before the new year starts.This countdown always remind me of a new beginning to what i have not accomplished, to a new beginning to accomplish the unaccomplish.It also remind of how blessed i am too see another year, because not everybody made it to countdown and see the new year.
ReplyDeleteCaleb A-L.Online. The Long and favored tradition of my family has always been to prepare and feast on squash soup.
ReplyDeleteCaleb A-L.Online. In Response to Takiesha R. I completely agree with you, the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one can become your motivation to change oneself, because we only have one life, use it well and use it wisely.
ReplyDeleteI love spending time with my love ones and staying up past 12:00 laughing and haveing fun and maybe the tradion off drinking
ReplyDeleteGreetings! Y'all are off to a great start. THANKS!
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Rebekah T.-online. I love spending time with family and frieds. Having collard greens for money and blacked eyed peas for luck. Who knows if it really does work, but I always eat extra in case.
ReplyDeleteRebekah T.-online. In response to oyebola o. I completely agree with the whole spiritual thing. It is great to know that God always forgives you. It is just neat that you can start fresh every year with a new outlook on life.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Z- Online. Happy New Year, everyone!Even though I don't have a set tradition every year, I do like to ring in the new year with friends and enjoy thinking about my goals for the upcoming year. I like to make a list of the things I would like to accomplish, and check them off throughout the year. Celebration of the new year allows me to leave bad situations in the past, and focus on the good in my life.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Z- Online. In response to Rebekah T. I always forget the tradition of eating collard greens and black eyed peas! Hopefully next year I will remember and then maybe i'll be overloaded with money and luck!
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ReplyDeleteWhile I do enjoy being out with friends at a party with the traditional countdown and champagne corks popping, I've found that lighting fireworks and playing with my kids at the stroke of midnight to be much more meaningful and enjoyable. On New Years Day, it is the traditional meal with football bowl games.
Being with my family is the most important part of any holiday tradition I observe.
James O. online in response to Rebekah T.
ReplyDeleteI've always liked the whole "collards for money, black eyed peas for luck thing" I've also heard that you eat ham so "you'll be livin high on the hog".
Man, sounds good to me! Gotta go now, I'm getting hungry...
Jonathan R. Online
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing to do is just watch whatever college football game is being played. I love sports so it's pretty much what i do every year on new years.
Jonathan R. Online in response to James O.
ReplyDeleteI like that you watch the football bowl games on new years. There's nothing like enjoying a great meal and football.
Shannon H:
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is making black-eyed peas, collard greens and cornbread for dinner on New Years Day. My grandma passed away 2 years ago and she always made this meal. When I make it now, I think of her and the contributions that she made to my life. I also enjoy passing the tradition along to my two children.
Monica G. Online
ReplyDeleteNew Years eve is a very important holiday for us, it means the end and the begining of a small fragment of our lives. How we celebrate?, we have dinner at midnight, we eat 12 grapes as a symbol of prosperity for the next year. After midnight we party until next day.
Monica G. Online in response to Shannon. I really believe in traditions and the importance in passing these traditions through generations. Our traditions really say who we are and where we come from.
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ReplyDeleteThe tradition shared in my family is the good luck dinner , which is black eyed peas representing "pennies" and collard greens representing " dollar bills" . We also have a toast to the new year and share our resolutions and hopes for the future. I feel this tradition is important in getting the right attitude for the new year.
Rochelle G. Online. In response to oyebola o.
ReplyDeleteI agree totally with seeking directions from my Lord.
I spend my new years holiday worshiping my savior, Jesus Christ. Praying out the old year and praying in the new year with GREAT EXPECTATIONS of what is to come.
Christian B. Online
ReplyDeleteTradition at my house is to cook a turkey, dressing, some type of green, cornbread,and a cake or pie. After that is all cooked and ready to eat it's around the time of the count down. We like to cut things as close as we can. Then once the count down is done we usher in the new year with a feast and prayers. We say what we are thankful for and make a list of what we wish to accomplish in the New Year. Then we sleep a good sleep and pray for the best.
Christian B. Online in response to James O.
ReplyDeleteI also think that going out with friends to enjoy these moments would be fun, but being around family is also one of the most important things to keep your traditions alive. We like to just go outside and watch the fireworks light up the sky.
On NYE, we used to make a point of having (or going to) a party, However, since my children have mostly grown up and flew the nest, we're just too old to do much partying... So I guess our tradition is to try our best to stay awake until midnight, kiss eachother, then crawl off to bed. (Romantic, right?) This year, we spent NYE trying to figure our how to operate a XBOX 360. Country folk are dazzled by gadgets...
ReplyDeleteOn NY's Day, we eat peas, greens and ham. (For the usual reasons) I married a yankee boy, so he's quite taken with my quirky southern ways... This year we invited over our neighbors (originally from MI) and thier kids. I had to make spagetti for the kids, since they were having no part of the crazy southern fare we served up. Later we all 'retired to the parlor' and played that new fangled XBOX til 3am in the morning...Good Times.
Donna Holmes
To Jonathan R. - Can I please send my husband over to your house to watch the games next year. He makes a mean chili!!
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Being a Southern girl, of course I grew up with the superstition of having collards and black-eye peas cooking at the stroke of midnight for good luck and prosperity for the upcoming New Year. I don't partake in these superstitions myself, but instead spend my day watching Football with my boys, staying up with them to ring in the New Year with cheers and kisses at MidNight. It is always a special feeling of hope and excitement thinking of what's to come.
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ReplyDeleteFor 15 years my mother has started a tradition for our family and friends to have a big brunch at my house on the first Saturday after Christmas. Within the 15 years, New Year’s Day has fallen on that Saturday three times. It is a joyous feeling to bring in the New Years with your family and closest friends. There is a saying that, “People only shows up at funerals and weddings”, yet, our traditional brunches have allowed us to see people that we have not seen all of that year and allowed us to bond more.
When New Year does not fall on the traditional First Saturday after Christmas, I bring my New Year Day in with my church family. Albeit, most of the times, we get so amp up about praising our lord and savior, we forget New Years have already struck.
Christopher K. Online in response to Takiesha R.
ReplyDeleteI highly agree with you when you say to accomplish the unaccomplish. i feel that far too many people have these new years resolutions but have not yet accomplished last years resolution. I have been working on mine ever since 2006, and every year is the same until it happens.
James Satterfield
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the kiss at midnight. There is nothing more enjoyable then starting to year off with the most important person in my life, my wife
We (my family) spend our new year eve and new year in church. Praying for protection(because we live in a wicked world) and God should direct our steps for the rest of the new year.
ReplyDeleteMelina Garcia- My family's New Year's custom is all about the family coming together to celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of the next. We usually just make a big meal, start a campfire, and then my favorite light fireworks!
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ReplyDeleteIn my family, we have a tradition of staying up until midnight, having some apple juice, and then going promptly to bed. New Years' Day, we used to go over to my uncle's place and watch the Twilight Zone Marathon, or whatever Marathon was on at the time, but this year we couldn't do that for one reason or another.
@Jennifer H.: Jam tarts and sausage rolls, you say? Sounds absolutely wonderful. I wish my parents did that. They're hooked on beans and greens haha.
Julie A. Online My favorite New Year's tradition is somewhat weird, and I haven't done it in awhile. When I was younger, my dad and I would go outside at midnight and shoot the "aliens" with cap guns. We always said we were stopping them from taking over the world. Now that I am older, we changed our tradition to shooting off fireworks. I love both of these traditions because it is a creative and fun way to spend time with my dad.
ReplyDeleteJulie A. Online In response to Leslie Z: I like the idea of making a list for New Year’s resolutions but most years I forget to fulfill the goals I set for myself, and end up disappointed. I like to just have an idea in my head of what I want to accomplish in the year, that way when the year ends I’m not disappointed.
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ReplyDeletemy favorite thing to do during new years is to set off fireworks. I love to making things blow up and im a pyromanic so fire works are aewsome.
Mysti C. Online my favorite thing to do for New Years is to pray. After the countdown and wish the people around me a Happy New Year, I step away from everyone and take a minute and give thanks for making it to a new year. I have to give thanks to all the things that happened in the previous and pray for a much better year for that year.
ReplyDeleteMysti C. Online In response to Wendi E.
ReplyDeleteAll my coworkers ask me was I gonna cook black eyed peas for the New Year and I said I doubt it. I just never felt that attach to that custom of eating black eyed peas for luck for the year. I feel luck is gonna come regardless, when it is your time. I just keep prayer in my front seat and let the new year roll. So spending time with your family is the best luck anyone can get. Now thats worth it.
Esther B. Online My believe is from my nationality. People from where i came from believe that everything should be right on that first day of the year, if it is good then it is a blessing, but when the year start bad then through out the year is going to be bad. And also they make merry by dancing to a religous music eating a lot of different dish and drinking non alcoholic beverage.
ReplyDeleteRafael- I don't understand why people wait until new years to make a resolutions. What's wrong with the rest of the year?
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ReplyDeleteMy family never held any important new year traditions but then again I dont have much as far as family is concerned. Unfortuantely, new years opens old wounds for me. My mother had a birthday and died during the new year a few years back so it gets kind of sad. Not much fun there. To me its just a new year. But I try to stay perky and I am, however, slightly superstitious so I try to eat something green for wealth and black eyed peas for health. I think it just makes things fun. I also like to welcome the new year with a toast so I drink a few beers watch a good movie and fall asleep happily. :)
Elisha N. online in response to James Satterfield~ That is so sweet. Most men wouldnt admit that and I think its awesome that you have a sweatheart you can share your new years with. I also have a sweat heart. The most beautiful girl in the world. Shes only two but bringing in the new year with such a special little girl makes the new year much brighter.
ReplyDeleteNyrva B. online: In my family's native country, Haiti, a traditional soup called Soup Joumou is cooked on New Years day. Soup Joumou is a historical tribute to Haiti's independence in 1804 where newly freed slaves ate the soup, a meal forbidden to them by their French masters. So, since I was a child we've continued this tradition in the United States and on New Years morning my mother prepares the soup and we come together as a family and enjoy the soup the entire day. That's for breakfast, lunch and dinner! This is my favorite New Years custom because the soup and us coming together as a family represents Haiti's past, struggle for freedom and the on going fight to remain free.
ReplyDeleteNyrva B. online, in response to Natavius F. Online: Wow, that was an extremely vivid description. Made me feel like was there partaking in all the festivities. One can understand why you look forward to the New Years, definitely sounds like great fun!
ReplyDeleteDenice C. online, In our home our New Years tradition is pork, blacked peas, and turnip greens for our lunch. My family has passed down this tradition for years. I had a aunt that had a saying, "Never eat chicken on New Years; you are to eat pork." She would always say a pig would rutt and go forward, and the chicken scratches backwards, which means you will fall backwards during the New Year. Also, if you wash on New Years you would wash a member of the family away. So, I never wash on New Years. However, I enjoy eating with my family, and looking back on the different thing that had happened on the past year.
ReplyDeleteDenice C. in response to Leslie Z; I like to set goals for the following year as well. One of my goal is lossing weight; however, I always go off my diet. So that being said, I think I it is time for me to stop setting my weight goal. I do good for the first month and then I start craving something sweet and it is down hill from there.
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ReplyDeleteI don't have a favorite New Years Eve tradition but here are the ones I find interesting: 1)whatever you are doing at midnight, you will do all year; 2) black eyed peas and greens for money and good luck; 3) the stroke of midnight kiss. I don't think that any of these traditions have any truth to them. I think that it just gives us comfort to have them in the first place. We love to have things that are familiar
Marcus K.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite of course is blackeyed peas
and callord greens, we also have the ham, as well as corn bread and boiled peanuts. when I younger i was curious why we do this on new years and found out that at the end of the war towards reconstruction, all the food was taken or destroyed, except blackeyed peas and callords. because they thought it was just hourse feed. so thats why it represence luck, health and wealth
Deidre C. Online
ReplyDeleteOur New Year's tradition when I was a child consisted of trying to stay up for the countdown and watching it on T.V. (Dick Clark). Then the next day we would all meet at my Grandmother's for a big New Year's Dinner with black-eyed peas, collard greens, hog jowls, etc. Now older and with kids I am trying to contiue the tradition. Only one of my kids was able to stay up to do the countdown this year and we did eat our pennies and greens...
Deidre C. Online in response to Monica G. Online, traditions should be passed down to the next generation. I've noticed in our family that this year my side of the family didn't cook the whole traditional meal. I felt a little "disconnect" this year that we didn't "do" what we usually did...Comparing my 10th New Year's to my daughter's 10th New Year's the difference is that the whole family aunt's, uncle's, cousins, extended family didn't come together for my daughter's New Year's. There seems to be a disconnect or maybe the torch needs to be handed down to myself and my siblings to cook the feast and host the event.
ReplyDeleteMichele G: Originally from Pennsylvania, our tradition is to eat Saurkraut, pork chops and hot dogs. Although, I moved here when I was 10 years old (loooong time ago), I have chosen to keep this tradition and pass it on to my children. Of course, you have the resolutions too. All I can say about that is "I hope your troubles last as long as your New Year Resoloution does." :)
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ReplyDeleteNew Years have never been a big tradition for my family and I but what I don't understand is some of the I guess "Southern" traditions of eating black eyed peas on New Years will bring good luck and wealth in the upcoming year. Being from New York, I had not even heard of this tradition until several years ago, until I was grocery shopping at the end of December and people were loading up their carts with black eyed peas.
Jonah P. Online
ReplyDeleteNew Years Day is always a day of food, fun, and drinks at our home. We get up early and usually have a fruit filled breakfast with mamosa's. Then we take down the tree, I know alot of people take thiers down prior to this but we have ALWAYS done it on New Years. Then in the afternoon is ham, potatoes, green beans and what ever else we decide to cook. It is almost like a Thanksgiving feast on New Years. In between there is always alot of naps, being lazy, and watching tv. I love New Years with my family
Jonah P. Online in response to Elizabeth W.
ReplyDeleteBeing from the South I know this tradition very well. We personally do not take part in but there are many friends and family members that do. If I remember correctly is suppose to bring you wealth through out the year. You are suppose to comsume some type of greens (in representation of dollars) and the black eyed peas for change. There are a few other nasty things that can be trown in the "pot" of southern dishes served on New Years as well! It is fun how everyone has thier own thing that they do!
Jonathan Self
ReplyDeleteI was brought up always eating collard greens new years day. Mom always told me by eating the greens, It would help my financially throughout the new year. I'm not a fan of this tradition, yet It is a fun way of bringing in the New Year with my family. Plus collard greens are good for you (^_^)
Ann K.
ReplyDeleteWe do not have any tradition for newyears eve tradition. I do know about the Haitian tradition though. The Haitian people celebrate newyears by cooking a very special soup called the Squash soup. This was drunk by only the french colonist but not the slaves. After Haiti got its independence, the Haitian people were able to drink this soup freely without any fear.
Our big tradition is to have a huge party and make sure we talk to everyone we could not be with due to distance on or right after the stroke of midnight. We also take the time to reflect on what we will do different in the coming year...personal inventories are taken and goals are made! Wendy Rouse
ReplyDeleteWendy R - Online. Our big tradition is to have a huge party and make sure we talk to everyone we could not be with due to distance on or right after the stroke of midnight. We also take the time to reflect on what we will do different in the coming year...personal inventories are taken and goals are made!
ReplyDeleteWendy R - Online in response to Mysti C - I think it's important to ring in the New Years with a little prayer to your higher power! Any help that we can get from our Creator to make the next year better than the previous one certainly cannot hurt. Some people are skittish about publicly throwing their faith "out" there, so I commend you for putting this on the table.
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ReplyDeleteThere are so many customs during New Years Eve. I've heard of not washing clothes because it washes your luck away for the year. Also shooting a gun at the strike of midnight, I dont really understand that tradition. It's very dangerous. I would have to say that my favorite New Years Eve tradition would have to be being at home safely bringing in the new year with the people that i love and care about the most.
James O.-online,in response to Jonathan R.
ReplyDeleteAmen brother.
Rachel C. ONLINE
ReplyDeleteI, personally, do not have a definitive custom/tradition for celebrating the new year. I use to go out (clubs, parties, ect.) on previous new years' eves. I use to love the build-up of some "great and imaginative" joy, something unexpected to come...but, as time rolls on, I realize that the new year is just another year to add onto life' experiences and that its birth alone is not worth celebrating with unruly and drunkard conduct, as once upon a time I did, as well as many still do. Life is too short and precious for allowing celebrations to overshadow each others' safety.
As prudish as I might already come across, and after reviewing/learning of a variety of New Year celebrations from this site:
http://www.novareinna.com/festive/atw.html#21
not one celebration stands out to my liking...oh well.
loan N. Online
ReplyDeleteAt the first day of new year, people in my country like to pring present for familly and friends. They are usually food and wine.
Also, at the fist day of new year, people in my country like to give money to who is younger in the familly.
Lenie D. Online
ReplyDeleteI don't necessarily have a New Year's Day tradition, but on New Year's Eve my family and I typically spend the last 10 minutes of the year with the Lord in Prayer. I have 3 children ages 12, 8 and 2. The 2 year old has not yet complied with what it takes for 10 minutes of praying, but my older children do pretty well with it.
In our prayers, we typically thank God for his past grace and ask for direction in the new year. At the stroke of midnight, we all hug each other and then watch TV for a little bit before going off to bed.
Allison M.
ReplyDeleteI usually just watch fireworks on the beach in Florida on New Year's Eve. I think that is the best. Plus I always say that a new year means fireworks and starting over.
Joy online
ReplyDeleteOn new year's eve,all my family goes to church to usher in the new year,but what intrest me is that the church will be packed with faces that you have never seen on a regular service, because everybody wants to start the year in the Godly way.
Happy new year to everyone.
Lenie D. Online in response to Nyrva B.
ReplyDeleteIt's so funny that you bring up the Soup Joumou tradition, I think I am the only "Haitian-American" on this planet that does not like it. I remember my mom used to make it every year and I would just dread it because I couldn't stand the smell.
Kayla B. Online: I don't have a tradition that I do every year. When i was younger, I would go to friends house and we would stay up until midnight, but now that I am older, I don't even do that! This year my husband and I where out of town hunting and we got home around 10 pm and we were tired so we just went to sleep.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Rachel C.
I COMPLETELY agree. I was the SAME way when I younger. I would go to parties and drink and make those "new year resolutions" that would never stick. But now, I realized, that there is more to life than drinking and going to parties all the time.
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ReplyDeleteDonna Holmes Online: Hmmm, I will have to google this Soup Joumou. Although Haiti has had a hard history, I am totally enchanted with the people of Haiti and all their traditions. (Thanks to my one of my former classmates.)
ReplyDeleteIt's too funny that Lenie D. can't stand the smell of the soup. I am the same when it comes to our American NYE fare. I find the aroma of greens and pea to be overwhelming when it's cooking, but after 45 years, I've learn not to gag when I cook it!
My favorite tradition is every New Years day, my family and I get together and have a dinner consisting of black eyed peas, collards, and cornbread. This is tradition for us, with the black eyed peas symbolising pennies, and the collards representing dollars (the cornbread we say jokingly is gold). We do this as tradition for luck for the new year to come.
ReplyDeleteI love this time we share simply because it is a great way to spend time with family, and reflect on the years past, and share our goals for the new year. We use it as a bonding experience.
In response to Joy Online:
ReplyDeleteI think going to Church is a wonderful way to start the new year. I personally wish for everyone to desire to try and be more Christ like all year around instead of just around the holidays. The holidays do seem to bring out the best in people alot of the time, which i do appreciate.
Brandon C Online-Lets see, for as long as i can remember my new years eve/day cosisted of sitting in froont of the tv watching the ball drop, or in my case it was the peach drop.In my opinion new years eve is the best time to spend with friends and family. Not only can you set goals for yourself as an individual but also as a family.
ReplyDeleteBrandon C 0nline- in respones to Esther B. Online
ReplyDeleteI could not agree more with the fact of drinking non alchaholic drinks on the break of a new year.
In my opinion alchahol is alright in moderation, But what good is a New Years Resolution if you wake up the next morning and cant remember what it was?
Randi H Online in response to Taitiana W.
ReplyDeleteI also do not have any new years traditions. To be honest I had no idea people did things like this on New years. When I was younger I just stayed up to countdown with my parents and siblings. Now, it's just an excuse to go out and party with friends. Until I moved to the south I have never heard of eating collard greens or black eyed peas for good luck. very interesting, but not something I would participate in.
Kathleen Stone- Online (With a Response to Shawn M):I absolutely love celebrating the New Year every year. I usually spend it with my friends but the past two years I have spent it with my significant other and my parents. I almost always have dinner with my parents and at midnight we have either champagne or wine. Last year I was pregnant with my first daughter so this year was extra special as I was able to ring in the new year with my five month old! I hope to start a family tradition of my own from here on out which includes a healthy meal and either going to watch the Peach Drop or watch on tv. I've never seen the Peach Drop live so I would love to start going, or at least give it a try! I don't necessarily have any resolutions. I just try to be a better person every year and work on bettering myself and my life on a day to day basis. I think they are great to have but for me, it's an every day kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteResponse to Shawn M: I have never heard of eating that on New Years. It's definitely a Southern sounding meal. Perhaps I'll try it out next year and see what my family thinks of it. We usually just have a light meal but the food never really had significant meaning like that. Very cool!
Alisha C. online:
ReplyDeleteI don't have any traditions for New Years, I'm always in a different place with different people. I celebrated this new years by relaxing at home after work and hanging out with my close friends.
Steven S. online: For new years i mostly get together with my friends and enjoy our last memories for the year before we start creating new ones. Its a time for everyone to get together and be glad to have gotten through another year.
ReplyDeleteAND in response to Rachel C. Online: I completely agree, going to parties and such is only fun for so long. Realizing that there is so much to experience in one's life is all you need to keep trucking along the road of life.
Rebecca M. Online:
ReplyDeleteWe have a couple of traditions in my family: on NYE we go to church to usher in the new years with prayers and communion. We want to usher in the New Years with praises to our savior! On new Years Day, we have a meal with the "southern fare" also! Complete with PorkRoadt, collard greens and black eyed peas for "luck and money" Let me not forget the Bannana Pudding which is just for "good eatin'!"All of my aunts and uncles all get together for this meal which is special because this doesnt happen often. It is special time of sharing and laughter and I look forward to it every year!
Rebecca M Online:
ReplyDeleteIn response to Shaun M: I haven't ever heard of the cornbread as gold!! Thats a new one for me to use next year! Sounds like you traditions are a lot like mine and isn't wonderful to be able to spend time with family!
In Response to Alison M: The thought of watching fireworks on the beach in Florida sounds great! Sounds like a tradition I would like to take up sometime! Is the weather nice there at that time of the year, its probably quite a bit warmer than here, right? Sounds like a wonderful tradition to keep up!
Rachel C. in response to: (Kayla B/Steven S.)
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciation for both of your nice responses. I was a little bit leery as to how I'd come across, but, it seems as though I may not be so alone in my thoughts. Thanks again!
Julie S.Online:
ReplyDeleteJulie S. in response to Takesha R. New year's eve always makes me feel blessed also. Being here to see a new year is a gift.I agree with you that the most exciting moment on new years is the final countdown. My children and I always countdown while watchig the peach drop, and we toss our hats and dance.
Julie S. Online
ReplyDeleteNew Year's has become one of my favorite holidays. My kids and I have a traditon of renting Wii games and eating our favorite junk food.The kids call it a junk food party. Our traditional New Year's meal consists of black-eyed peas, collard, rice, porkchops, fried chicken and corn bread. We make a colorful banner and party hats for the count-down to New Year's.
Kristina R. online
ReplyDeleteEating junk food on New Year's Eve, watching the ball drop, then pigging out on collard greens and black eyed-peas the next day. What could be more tradtional than that? Love it!!
Kendaris H. online
ReplyDeleteI love that New Years brings the entire family together. Family is very important to me and I love to see how people would travel to spend the moment when one year changes to the next. I adore it!
Kendaris H. online in response to Kristina R: I totally agree with you. I love eating junk food on New Year's Eve and watching the ball drop. It is one of the best holiday's ever.
ReplyDeleteKristina L. online in response to Rafael
ReplyDeleteIt's funny that you say that about resolutions. My husband and I said that we weren't making any, so we wouldn't have to fail at anything. Ha! Ha!
My favorite new years tradition is having a new outfit. It is a symbol of a new start of bigger and better things!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a New's years tradition, except to be happy and joyful that I made it to another year. I have stopped making resolutions because they only seem to last a few weeks at the most. However, I do seem to make a fruitful attempt at making a New Year to look at the many opportunities that it presents.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a good resolution to have, something new for the new year. I would say that that would absolutely be a brand new beginning.
ReplyDeleteMoiya H Online: In reponse to James O. online
ReplyDeleteWe could definatly hang out New Year's because you enjoy the same things I do!
In response to oyebola o., I think that is a great way to bring in the new year. A clean and peaceful environment in order to decide what to improve in your life.
ReplyDeleteMoiya H. Online- The New Year's traditions I love most are fireworks, drinking, and the Chick-fa-la Bowl Game in the Dome between the ACC and The SEC. With that and maybe a New Year's kiss it's always an awesome night.
ReplyDeleteMelina G. Online- My family's New Year's custom is all about the family coming together to celebrate the ending of one year and the beginning of the next. We usually just make a big meal, start a campfire, and then my favorite light fireworks! I love this because it gives me and my family an excuse to spend time together.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Raul Cantu- Wow I never thought of getting a new outfit for the New Year. Thats sounds like a great way to embrace the spirit of a new beginning! And it would give me an excuse to go shopping!
To Monica G. I just heard how the 12 grapes tradition started in Spain. Thought that was interesting. There was a huge harvest of grapes in 1909 and to sell more, and avoid waste, the growers came up with the tradition. Is this correct? I also heard before, that in Italy, the tradition is to wear red underwear and people throw unwanted items out of the windows for others to reuse. Anyone else know of strange traditions?
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ReplyDeleteI agree with kristina L online about the new year resolution,i dont keep any,cause i dont want to break any resolution. its better that way.
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ReplyDeleteI truly enjoy New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day because it is a time that I get to spend with the people who matter the most, my family. On New Year’s Day the entire family goes to my grandparent’s house to enjoy a lunch consisting of collards and black-eyed peas. I do not eat the collards because the thought of them grosses me out but I enjoy the family being together and preparing for another year.
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I hope to one day be able to keep the tradition of cooking collards and black-eyed peas going when my grandmother passes away like Shannon has. I believe it is important to have tradition for a family because it keeps everyone together and is a special time.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger I used to love to go out with friends on the town to bring in the new year, but now I enjoy just hanging out at home watching football and eating snacks.
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ReplyDeletebon^ anne, which means happy new year in haiti and on that note i would like to say what my favorite custome is in haiti on new years is the pumpkin soup that my mother would make i grew up on that stuff i should be a giant pumpkin by now anyway i remember waking up on new years day with the smell of pumpkin all troughout the house while my father would prepare breakfast now as far as tradition is if you start the year eating healthy and well you will continue that way the rest of the year.
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ReplyDeleteExcellent post Brandon..I agree and think that's a great tradition.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite tradition would have to be setting off fireworks. Every year my dad drives to chattanooga to go buy fireworks and brings them back here to share with anyone who wants to watch.
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Yes eating junk food is a must, what better time to splurge on some junk food then when your celebrating.
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ReplyDeleteWell for NYE I usually just try to spend some time alone to prepare my thoughts on things I should change for the next year and reflect on the things I've learned throughout the year. Pray or meditate for a few moments and then head to Atlanta and party with friends / celebrate the New Year.
ReplyDeleteIn Response to Kevin_G I totally agree after my eventful night of partying on NYE recently Im expecting my new years celebration to be a lot "more chill" this time around.
My family tradidion has always been to prepare a meal which includes collard greens (money) with fat back (good luck) , black eyed peas (change), chitterlings and some type of roast or steak. After we eat we would pop a bottle of bubbly and hug everyone when the New Year comes! I enjoy this time with my family because we sit around doing nothing and enjoying each other. We laugh and even play family games as we wait for the countdown. It is just a great thing to be around with your family!
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ReplyDeleteI do enjoy shopping and what better way to start the New Year off by having a NEW outfit! That's Great!!!!
I guess you can say me and my family have a new years tradition. We always do the same thing every year. We all sit down at the dinner table and eat a big meal, while shareing what were goin to do different in the up and coming year. We all make new years resoloution right before the ball drops. The only bad thing about makeing them is that no one tends to keep theres. When the ball drops we all scream and shout while drinking sparking juice.
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ReplyDeleteYour traditions sound alot like what me and my family do. The meal you eat is just like ours and I know you have just as much fun as my family does on your new years.
My New Year’s believe is that, the people you bring New Years in with are the ones you will be with the rest of the year. Also I feel that whatever you are doing is what you will be doing for most of that year. I have believed this every since I was a child. So most of the time I try to do thing that I would like to do all year. This year I, my husband, and my children went to church to bring the New Year in with God. I hope to become closer to God this year and change for the better in my life.
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ReplyDeleteI do the same thing every New Years. I write and list things I would like to accomplish and things I would like to change about me or my life. I like what you said about leaving bad situations in the past and focus on the good in life. My motto is out with the old, in with the new.
The custom of making New Year resolutions is interesting to me. I personally don't make any because I don't know what my year will bring, and I prefer making new goals as life goes on throughout the year.
ReplyDeleteIt interests me, because it is the one time of year a lot of people plan on bettering themselves. They suddenly get this image of who they could be in the new year and they think "I'll go for that." Most people, however, lose sight of their resolution within the first couple months. Yet those same people will make new resolutions the next New Year. It intrigues me that people are so willing to change for a couple weeks or months and then give up, because it becomes too hard.
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ReplyDeleteTo me it's mostly about New Years Eve and the anticipation of it. My birthday is on Dec. 31st so it is as if everyone turns out for the celebration. It is always exciting to decide where and how to celebrate the end of the year. I enjoy music and friends and new acqaintences at a New Years Eve party. I don't really think too much about a better upcoming new year. To me it is an ongoing thing. I am always trying to improve or do better regardless of the time of the year. Largely to me it is about the preparation and anticipation. It is all very exciting and maybe as much fun as the Fourth of July! The entire month of Dec. is a holliday. My earliest memories of Christmas, New Years Eve, and my Birthday elicit exciting feelings. I love loud music and parties with friends and new acquaintences. Every year we usually go to a different club or venue and bring in the new year. I don't really think about preparation for a new year. Self improvement and trying to do better is an ongoing endeavor. I generally sleep in and enjoy the day off. If the weather is good I go for a run or a bike ride and then maybe go to a movie in the evening.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Sandra:
I like your tradition. Writing and visualizing the things that you want to acheive are great strategies for accomplishing goals. This is a good way to keep what is important to us in the fore front of our minds. Prayer is another way for us to prioritize goals and to realize that we are good but that we can also strive to be better.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite New Years custom would be the new years dinner. Black-eyed peas, collards, cornbread, etc. I believe each year we get older, and we start to drift from the closeness of our families. The start of the new year brings new values and there is nothing better than sitting down with your crazy family for a delicious home cooked meal. It is important to eat all of the foods listed for good health, money and luck. Not to mention, spending time with your family talking about resolutions and future plans is a great way to start off a brand new year.
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ReplyDeleteI completely agree! We make resolutions to better ourselves each year. I do it without knowing as well. I find myself improving and learning something new about myself each year, as we all do in life. Putting things in the past and starting back at square one is such a healthy thing and with each new year brings hope and new possibilities that this upcoming year will be far better than the last!
Iesha B.- Online...My favorite new years custom is bringing in the new year in church then the next day the whole family gets together and we eat a big dinner. This dinner includes greens , black eyed peas , and other foods that are symbolic of different things. For example the greens are symbolic of money, which is green , and the black eyed peas are symbolis of pennies. This means that if you eat these foods on new years then you will have money throughout the year.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoy the tradition of the kiss at midnight. It makes the New Year start off right in my eyes. Love and happiness go hand and hand to setting a good mood for the New Year. Even if it is not your significant other, give your best friend a peck on the cheek. When times are hard you always fall back on the people that love you and that's what it signifies. I also love the fireworks!!! It's beautiful and it's something I look forward to for weeks. If you're in a bad mood before the fireworks, they will make you forget about it.
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ReplyDeleteMy tradition for New Year's is just spending time with my family and welcoming in the new year. Each year is different sometimes we play board games others cards and some years we just sit around a fire and talk about our hopes and dreams for the coming new year.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Donna M.I like your views on how to bring in the new year. I was speaking with a friend the other day about not needing to celebrate the new year because no one knows what is in store for any of us good or bad. But I always try to greet the new year with joy and love. I also don't attempt the resolutions any longer they started becoming more of a hassle than something that was suppose to make me feel better.
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ReplyDeleteNew Year's celebrations for me usually include a party the night before. At midnight, I ring in the new year with a glass of champagne and a kiss. The day after I cook collards, which represent money, and black eyed peas, which represent coins. It's usually paired with a pork roast. There's a few traditions around the world that seem different to me. In Sicily, lasagna must be eaten. Any other type of noodle is considered bad luck. Also, in Spain, 12 grapes are eaten, one for every stroke of each hour. New Year's is a great opportunity to reflect on the past year and plan for a clean slate!
Audrey D. ONLINE in response to Karlie:
ReplyDeleteThis was the first year I've heard about the collards and black eyed pea tradition. I've lived in the South for almost 20 years now and this is the first I've heard of it! I understand the significance of the greens and the peas, but what does the cornbread stand for? I left that out of my meal by mistake! Hopefully no bad luck for me this year!
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ReplyDeleteNow that I have a family of my own, my favorite New Year’s Eve tradition is dressing up, and going out with my son for a nice dinner. After dinner, we watch the Peach drop on television, and participate in the countdown. I pop a bottle of champagne (a struggle for me every year…trying not to aim the bottle wrong). I pour my son, a glass of sparkling grape juice so he can get bubbles like mine, for effects. We toast “Happy New Year” to each other, with cheers as we welcome in the New Year.
Following our countdown, and toasts, we go outside for fireworks. We light a box of fire sparklers, and we listen to all the other firework reverberation in the neighborhood. Then, we call friends and family members in different time zones to wish them a HAPPY NEW YEAR. We often end up going to bed in the early hours of New Years Day.
This is my favorite custom because I share it with my son. Celebrating a New Year, through the eyes of my child, reminds me of how fortunate I am, to be blessed with him.
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ReplyDeleteI personally don't have any traditions or customs that I follow. If I can I get together with friends and play some friendly LAN matches (Local Area Network) on our computers while gorging on snacks and h'orderves. This can change every year though, perhaps next year we'll rent a cabin in Helen, GA. or go to a park and launch fireworks. I'm always up for things just "happening," it's not always fun having a clear cut plan.
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ReplyDeleteIn Response to T. Moore
That's a good explanation as to why everyone buys collard greens, chittlings, and black eyed peas. I'm a cashier at a local Kroger so seeing just about every customer roll through my line with those contents always made me question the reasoning behind it. So you can trust I'll never forget the PLU code for greens ever, haha.
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I can agree with you on that. Every year is different, so doing something different each New Year's Eve is always exciting and something to look forward to. This inspires me to want to plan a theme for each celebration in hoping that the new year might bring something good until we celebrate again.
Courtney P. My favorite thing about New Years is being able to go out and celebrate with friends and reminising about past events that had happened that year. We celebrate the coming year by hanging out, having dinner, drinking champange, and listening to music while waiting for the ball to drop. As the clock comes close to stricking midnight we all do a toast to starting a new year and ending it with a kiss. The reason why I enjoy my New Years tradition is because I'm around the people that makes up my life and get to see how much we all have grew that year and we all are doing what we love: Eating. Partying. And being with one another.
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ReplyDeleteIn response to Jonah P. I think that it was really interesting hearing about how you and your family bring in the new year. I never heard of someone waiting on new years and taking down their Christmas tree, my family waits till sometime around January to take ours down as well. Also how you say that your family has a big feast, I have never done this even though I've heard of it. I know that my gradnparents do this as their tradition, but I have yet to do it.
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ReplyDeleteMy New Years tradition is that of having a family dinner that consists of my parents, siblings, and my cousins too. We all get together for a huge dinner, and after that we go to downtown Atlanta and go ice skating at Centennial Olympic Park. After we have a nice family get together over ice skating, we usually go to watch the peach drop.
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ReplyDeleteThis time of the year is a festive time for us and our families. It is time for us to be thankful as we celebrate our particular religious beliefs and family traditions. the New Year also provides us a time for a "fresh Start" as we make resolutions and set goals for the next year.
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ReplyDeleteThis time of the year always provides people with a new start. Some people make workout resolutions, others who say i want to spend more time with their kids. My new Years resolution this year was to live life to the fullest and think of others before myself. I also made it a tradtion to kiss a different girl every year.
I am not a person that attach too much in holiday’s traditions, nevertheless my family and I make it a point to hear the mass in the evening before gathering with friends at home for dinner. We also thank God for giving us the blessing and for letting us see another year.
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ReplyDeleteIn Brazil, the Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, the fireworks and rites by the sea reinforce the scenario of the country's most famous New Year's Eve, attracting more than 2 million people to the spectacle of nearly 20 minutes. Ferry on the edge drop tens of tons of fireworks, with symbols of prosperity, love and peace. At home, multiple traditions and sympathies on the night of December 31, with belief of eating pork and not birds, which can bring bad luck because of the back scratching of a chicken, symbolizes a leading to decline in life. A new year regression in the life of an individual that ate the bird. For a better year, at midnight is common for people to jump on one foot (right), pass the turn with money in their pocket, give three hopping with a glass of champagne in hand and throw it back to delete or eliminate the old year bad luck or circumstances; or first greet someone of the opposite sex to bring luck in love. The unlucky in love goes through beliefs as the use of new underwear on the night shift and the symbolism of colors, which besides the traditional white clothes representing peace and light, includes: blue for peace and quiet, yellow for wealth, red for passion, pink for love, green for hope and self-assertion and violet for the balance of emotions.
SP_My New Year traditions par take of bring in the New Year in church with family and friends. Then going out to celebrate what I accomplished last year and will accomplish for the year to come. I also reflect on the major goals I want to accomplish in the New Year, and think about how I can do so.
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I am not a person that attach too much in holiday’s traditions, nevertheless my family and I make it a point to hear the mass in the evening before gathering with friends at home for dinner. We also thank God for giving us the blessing and for letting us see another year.
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