Eat your peas!

How many superstitions and strange customs do you observe for the first day of the new year?

I'm cooking a big ole pot of black-eyed peas and hamhock(for good luck) for supper....to be served w/ turnip/mustard greens and corn beard,'cause they taste good with the peas.

I also did all my wash yesterday. My MiL for all intents and purposes,threatened my well being as a new wife if I did any wash on the first day of the new year. After 39 yrs of marriage,I still don't know why it's bad luck to wash on New Years Day. MiL passed several years ago but I'm not taking any chances she'll come back and get me.

Peggy

We had our Black Eyed Peas,ham hock, cabbage and cornbread for lunch just a little while ago. As we are seriously watching what we eat, I decided that it was better for us weight wise to have it early in the day...now I'm headed off to take the Christmas out of the yard and work some of it off!

Well shoot!!! I've been doing laundry all day today! I've never heard this before.

Good thing I made an extra big pot of black-eyed peas! Do you think that will help? LOL

Lore in this area, says your cabbage must be cooked with a silver dime in the pot. This assures wealth for the new year. Anyway, I'm screwed, didn't have any of it. So what do you think my outlook for the new year is?

We had tacos--i guess im living on the edge! ;)

LOL We had tator tot hotdish. I think we've slid over the edge.

Brinda, Notmartha JoanJ, glad to hear that I have company. LOL

Defoecat...we have the same tradition...and since I live alone and didn't want to make the cabbage I will be in the poor house AGAIN this year....LOL
I think this tradition comes from the German side of my family.

I always heard that "what ever you're doing on New Year's Day, you'll be doing all year...so I guess that is why your MIL warned you...you don't want to be washing every day of the year do you?? LOL
Happy New Year.....Jo

Well,darn!If I'd known about the cabbage and the dime thingy,I would have fixed a big ole pot with a couple of rolls of dimes in it.....but I spent the money on more seeds...LOL

I spent the morning in the greenhouse and the afternoon in the yard.

Doing laundry on New Year's Day is suppose to be bad luck. Guess doing laundry every day fpr a year would be bad luck....or you started a laundry service..hee,hee

notmartha,
well I guess your really Not Martha....but that's a "good thing"*BG*

Peggy

Finding an actual silver dime these days could be a trick....don't think there's much silver left in the 'modern' ones.

Hmmm....well, we had McDonald's for dinner yesterday. Does that mean we went over the edge and went splat at the bottom? LOL

i did wash all day and we ate fried eggs, sausage and toast. i guess i can't get any lower to the bottom than that, now can i? LOL ps. o, but i found a dime in the dryer. does that count for anything?

Oh great, I raked leaves on New Year's Day. It was really nice out and I decided to get the leaves together that have slowly been driving me crazy by just laying in the edge of the fence.
We used to eat pickled herring and chili on New Year's Eve. Don't know if that was a tradition or not, but it was in our family.
I can't remember what we had on New Year's to eat, but it wasn't herring or chili.
I probably did a couple loads of wash, but that is nothing new to be doing that all year. I usually do a couple loads a day at least. Don't know how two people can make so much laundry, but we manage somehow. LOL

windy, our family (my dad) always ate pickled herring. he made us kids eat a bite! LOL

So it must have been a tradition from somewhere and not just some family thing. I like the pickled herring now that I am grown. I really don't remember if I liked it then or not. LOL I think I was just glad we could stay up late and watch the New Year celebration onTV. Now I can't stay up that late.LOL

Growing up we always had Blackeye peas,cornbread,collard greens and fried hog jowls.I love that meal still today.