… do the following at midnight:
- wear yellow underwear—you will find love in the new year (in other countries you wear different colors (i.e. red) and inside out and/or backwards—which can’t be comfortable.)
- carry a suitcase around the block—you will travel (here you will look like a fruitcake, but no matter--no public embarrassment--no exotic travel destinations [lady luck is strict that way])
- eat lentils—for good luck
- eat 12 grapes—for good luck
- do something or other with money—for economic prosperity. (I can’t remember what to do with it—you don’t eat it, this I know… you put it in your shoe or under your bed or something—I’ll let you choose.)
Whatever you eat, whatever you wear, may you have a lovely 2009 full of good love, good luck, and good fortune (travel is optional).
*Disclaimer: Most of these traditions do not originate in Chile, and similar versions are practiced in other Spanish-speaking countries.
1 comment:
Oh that was a cool post! I'm going to have to try and do those next year. I think I would have to drag the suitcase around the block in the middle of the night when it is dark.
Could you picture getting stopped by cops or something? Well, officer, I am trying to improve my New Year's travel prospects by taking this suitcase around the block in the middle of the night. Want to see my yellow underwear?
thanks for sharing! I love stuff like this. Better than my dad's thing of eating fish first thing in the new year!
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