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As 2024 comes to a close, millions of people around the world are setting their resolutions and goals for the new year, but can you control what happens to you in 2025?
Some people believe that what you do well when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve and how you spend the first day of the new year can set the tone for the next 12 months.
Over the years, a number of superstitions have taken over the web and are rumored to bring you good luck and fortune in the new year.
Some of them are simple acts like opening windows at midnight or making loud noises, while others involve eating specific foods.
These are just a few of the ways people are making sure the new year starts off in the best way possible.
Below, FEMAIL rounds up some of the most tried-and-tested traditions, and you never know, they could change your luck in 2025.
Avoid washing clothes and cleaning
Some people believe that what is done well when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve can set the tone for the next 12 months (file image)
Some people believe that avoiding laundry or cleaning on the first day of the new year could forge a prosperous year ahead (file image)
No, this isn’t just an excuse not to clean up after your New Year’s Eve party.
Some people believe that avoiding laundry or cleaning on the first day of the new year could lead to a prosperous year ahead.
According to Chinese superstition, tidying up on January 1 can erase any good fortune for the coming year.
Additionally, some superstitions say that if you do laundry on New Year’s Day, it could mean that someone in your house will die next year, according to Kiro7.
Walking with an empty suitcase
2024 has been a big year for suitcases, thanks to Barron Trump’s viral video, and superstition says that if you’ve got the travel bug, you should carry an empty one on New Year’s Day.
According to CBS News Miami, the Latin American tradition is supposed to attract adventures and trips to new places in the coming year.
Some even go a step further and say that you can manifest exactly what you want from a vacation by packing a suitcase full of those items.
Superstition says that if you have the travel bug, you should carry an empty one on New Year’s Day (file image)
Eat black-eyed peas and lentils.
Eating round foods like black-eyed peas and lentils can help bring you good luck in the new year (file image)
Eating round foods like black-eyed peas and lentils can help bring you good luck in the new year.
According USA today, Round foods look like coins and money.
Black-eyed peas are served as part of a lucky dish in many countries; in the South, they are part of a dish called Hoppin’ John for New Year’s Eve.
And in Italy, lentils are mixed with pork as a lucky dish, as noted by the Mildford Daily News.
Additionally, it has been said that if you eat peas with vegetables and cornbread, you can bring about a financially prosperous new year, as green is meant to bring luck because it is the color of money and cornbread represents gold.
Eat noodles, pork, whole fish and pomegranate seeds.
Noodles are lucky in many Asian cultures as they symbolize long life, especially if you eat them without breaking them.
It’s not just lentils that can help bring good luck for the New Year.
Noodles, pork, whole fish and pomegranate seeds are also said to bring you good luck in the new year, but lobsters are best avoided.
Pigs have always been considered lucky, so a meal with pork can bring prosperity.
“Pigs stick their snouts and roots forward, rather than digging backwards,” Linda Pelaccio, host of A Taste of the Past, previously said. USA today.
“It’s not good to eat lobsters because they walk backwards,” he said.
Noodles are lucky in many Asian cultures, as they symbolize long life, especially if eaten without breaking them.
Eat 12 grapes under a table.
Eating 12 grapes under the table is an ancient Spanish tradition that goes viral on social media every New Year, as it is believed to help you find love.
Eating 12 grapes under the table is an ancient Spanish tradition that goes viral on social media every New Year, as it is believed to help you find love.
Singles are recommended to eat 12 grapes for each of the 12 strikes of the clock at midnight.
The tradition is believed to date back to the early 20th century, when a group of Alicante grape growers attempted to get rid of their surplus.
Another theory states that a group of Madrid residents decided to eat grapes to mock the aristocratic custom of drinking wine on New Year’s Eve.
Some believe the custom actually came from France, but was later popularized in Madrid, while others eat the grapes in an attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Open the doors and windows and make a lot of noise.
Opening the doors and windows at midnight is intended to let in evil spirits and help us enter the new year with a fresh start.
Besides, live pen reported that a lot of noise should be made because it can drive away the evil spirits of the past year.