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Post by champlain on Dec 11, 2012 13:15:21 GMT -5
In the UK we either stay at home or we book into the local pub, or a hotel to celebrate the coming of the New Year. How do you celebrate New Year in the US?
And how would the Walton family celebrate?
Champlain
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 11, 2012 18:17:49 GMT -5
My husband, kids & I stay at home. We watch a dvd & pop some popcorn. Then we count down to midnight & drink some carbonated sparkling grape juice to toast the New Year. We then go outside & shoot off fireworks & do sparklers. On New Year's Day we go to my Mom's for lunch. We always have hog jowl & blackeyed peas (for good luck through the New Year). I have a few "superstitions" about New Year's Day & my husband loves to make fun of me about them. I got them all from my maternal Grandmother & she believed in them. I make sure that I am not the first one over anyone's threshold for the New Year because I am red-headed, ( If the 1st person over your threshold in the New Year is red-headed you will have bad luck for the whole year). I never wash clothes (you will wash your luck away). I do not sweep (you will sweep someone out of your family....as in die). I make sure I have a few dollars in my pocket or purse (or else you will be broke through the year). Believe me with six kids still at home...New Year's Day is my only "lazy" day. I do not do anything on New Year's unless I just have to (or want to) because you will have to do whatever you did on New Year's Day all through the year ALOT!! I try to just do the things I want to do & make sure I do some things that I enjoy.  |
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Post by goodnight on Dec 11, 2012 18:58:57 GMT -5
Forever Waltons, a relative of mine had the same superstitions. She also said that whatever the weather was the first 12 days of Jan. would determine the weather for the 12 months. So I said, "Does that mean you will get a blizzard in Aug. if you get a blizzard on Jan. 8"?  I always used to watch Dick Clark's New years Rocking Eve, but it's not the same without him. |
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Post by champlain on Dec 12, 2012 13:02:24 GMT -5
I have not heard of those superstitions, now I will be watching out!
Champlain
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 12, 2012 16:44:32 GMT -5
goodnight.....My Grandmother always said that if it rains on the first day of any month, it means that it will rain half of that month.
I also loved watching "Dick Clark's New Years Rocking Eve." I agree it's not the same without him. I hate that people, things & places that I grew up with are all going away.............I understand all too well what Martha Corrine meant by "outliving" all the people you love. I have to make memories for my kids though, so I keep on keeping on!!! (1970's slang! LOL!!)
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Post by champlain on Dec 13, 2012 6:10:27 GMT -5
And I like to save them for my grandson.
Champlain
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Post by grtgzu on Dec 13, 2012 10:01:46 GMT -5
Hey Forever, we eat black-eyed peas and hamhocks for New Years too! this year, I might have to substitute some turkey parts for the hamhocks though....
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 13, 2012 10:34:49 GMT -5
Champlain...your grandson is a cutie!! grtgzu.....My kids hate black-eyed peas but on New Year's Day they will eat 2 to 4 of them for their dear old Mom!! ;D |
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Post by champlain on Dec 13, 2012 12:38:54 GMT -5
Thank you foreverwaltons , his name is Elliot.
I have never tasted blackeyed peas!
Champlain
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Post by carol on Dec 13, 2012 16:25:12 GMT -5
I had a neighbor who ate pickled herring at midnight on New Years. She said it was a tradition in her family for generations.
I can remember banging pots and pans at midnight. We used to watch Guy Lombardo back in the 70's until he died then switched to New Years Rockin Eve. I haven't watched that in years except for the countdown and ball drop. Nowadays we stay home. It's safer than being on the road.
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Post by champlain on Dec 13, 2012 17:00:55 GMT -5
AH! Pickled Herrings! 
Champlain
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Post by carol on Dec 13, 2012 18:26:05 GMT -5
How would the Walton's celebrate New Years? I can see the kids banging pots at midnight and Grandpa sipping some of the recipe.
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Post by ForeverWaltons on Dec 13, 2012 18:32:19 GMT -5
I love seafood but I just don't think I could try pickled herring without something big time offered to me.......like a hundred dollars! ;D Don't want any pickled pig's feet or beef tongue either!!!! I forgot about Guy Lombardo. I'm just like you carol, I used to watch him on New Year's Eve, then when he died I started watching Dick Clark's show. |
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Post by champlain on Dec 14, 2012 3:22:17 GMT -5
foreverwaltons they eat them in Holland, they sell them from kiosks on the street corners, but I could never eat one!
Champlain
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Post by grtgzu on Dec 14, 2012 7:54:34 GMT -5
Guy Lombardo was a staple on New Year's Eve in our house when I was a kid...Then came Dick Clark when I was a teenager...Good times, good times....
Me and Mr. GrtGzu stay home now....I usually go to bed after midnight.....
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