New Year superstitions?

Never heard about not washing on NY day before. Surprising as my mother was the most superstitious person I've ever met. Too late for me now did 2 loads yesterday.

i try to get everything done on hogmanay, the one thing i always do is open the window and the door just before midnight to let the old year out and the new year in.

I wasn’t aware of any so have never observed any.

It's a Chinese superstition about not doing the washing on New Year's day, you will wash one of the family away. Also you shouldn't cut anything on New Year's day either, hair, nails etc or you'll cut someone out of the family

My grandmother was a very superstitious Irish woman. You wouldn't believe some of the things we had to do in order to cancel out or ward off bad luck! But I never heard her say a single thing about New Year's Eve/Day. Now if you bang your elbow on something (at any time of year) or pick certain flowers or spill a bit of salt or drop a knife (especially if it has butter on it), I'm your gal.... And if you find a tiny spider, don't forget that you'll be forever wealthy if you make 3 circles with it above your head while it dangles from its thread. I love this mumbo-jumbo, it's better than four comedians rolled together.

Yes lots of it is Chinese in origin. Sweeping under the bed when pregnant can cause miscarriage irrc

In superstition obv not factually

Peacock feathers in the house - No-no for mum. As for not cutting your toenails on a wet monday, in my version that's never cut your toenails on a Sunday!!!
They are rubbish, but that New Years washing one is terrible - very few actually believe it but "washing someone out of the family" is just such a horrible threat that many of us just don't do it anyway.

I have moved a lot of times , both here and abroad. So there are often different superstitions depending where you are. They may not have any scientific background, but mentally, I think the sayings about cleaning things and beginning a new period clean and out of debt as much as you can, have actually got a common sense background. If you can look forward to something new, something you want to happen or not, feeling that you are as ready as possible to cope with whatever comes, is a good idea, and you are mentally adjusting your views. If you have to cope with something new, to have your whole attention on the problem is going to be much better than worrying about other things too. It is like looking out at the weather and choosing the correct clothes to face the snow or rain or whatever. Life will be easier if you have the right things on. Then in a social way, quite a lot of groups I have been involved in or know about, have a habit of sharing the work and helping each other. So simple things, like making beds, are much easier and quicker to do when there are two of you, so taking turns makes the work get done quicker. A sense of society I think is very strong in yorkshire and other areas. So when we moved to a new place, the neighbours knew we were coming but had never met us. My mum and dad arrived with a 2 year old (me) and a baby (my sister) The next door neighbour came out immediately and said to mum that she should take us round to her house and she would look after us , with her own children, while they got on with the unpacking. A lady across the road came to say that she had some beef stew and jacket potatoes for our dinner and they would keep warm well and they could stop whenever they were ready for some food. Imagine how much quicker they could do the work, and concentrate, knowing that we were being looked after and they had some hot food when they were too weary to do any more! But more importantly, what a good way to meet your new neighbours, with kind help being offered to a young couple. Later of course when others moved closely we were the ones giving help. You build good relations this way, and having someone to tell you the best butcher and baker etc, which you could use , until you had time to make up your own mind. Long may that attitude last.

Valdali, yes my mother was superstitious about peacock feathers in the house too. Strange really because the chances of that happening were vanishingly slim. Also lilac in the house, which was more relevant as we had a huge white lilac tree. These weren't specific to new years day though, my mother didn't seem to have any superstitions about that.

No housework, other than essential food preparation on New Year's Day. We spent the afternoon playing snakes and ladders with our grandchildren and their parents.

A Polish thing: whatever you do, whatever happens, on Christmas Eve will continue until next Christmas Eve. Never heard the one about NYDay and washing . I ma not superstitious of course but will never do any washing on that henceforth. Forewarned is forearmed I say.

Nope. No superstitions. Just do whatever needs doing