OT New year's tradition

massey harris steve · Dec 28, 2008

With the New year approaching, I'm curious of the different things people do for good luck in the New Year? We always had pickled herring. Mom would buy a gallon wooden keg of salt herring, clean them and then pickle them in a sweet pickling. Sort of like the herrings you get in a jar at the store.
Happy New Year to everyone.

John M · Dec 28, 2008

Only thing I do is pull the tractors out and ride them around the feild. Of course I make one round in first, one in second, and so on.....Wife thinks Im just trying to get out of doing anything in the house. We do go around after that and change all of the flowers on my families grave sites. Can spend a good afternoon doing that.

Dave from MN · Dec 28, 2008

Just spend it with family and friends. We have drinks for the adults, but NEVER any excess drinking, I do NOT want my kids around drunks or anywhere it sems that drinking is the reason for the get together.

Kippster · Dec 28, 2008

This might sound funny coming from a "yankee" but we do the pork and saurkraut thing on new years eve and then dinner on new years day is cornbread, blackeyed peas and collard greens. Maybe go out snowmobiling if the weather permits!

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2008

My mother was Irish. So we always had corned beef and cabbage fixed with a silver dollar in it. She'd take it out and keep it in a safe place after dinner was cooked. Tradition says, that way you'd have money all year long. My dad would always mumble something derogatory about the Irish at that point. I'd laugh and mom would give me "THAT LOOK".

For 15 years after I turned 18, I was always at a motorcycle race on New YEars Day. It was near Terra Haute Indiana. It was called the Beer Can Derby.

For the last 15 years or so, the New Years tradition around our place is to be asleep when the drunk next door neighbor started shooting off his shotgun at midnight. Nothing better to start off a year than with a good nights sleep! Yeah I know... A real party animal.

jose bagge · Dec 28, 2008

black eyed peas and collard greens...supposed to keep you in the money all year long. Tastes great too!

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2008

There is nothing I eat special. However, I do get a bottle of wine and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV. If I had the money, I'd like to be there in NYC in person to see it. Might even have some strange girl kiss me when the ball drops.

Goose · Dec 28, 2008

Nothing special lately, but when I was a kid, we always got together with a cousin of my father's and his family and had oyster stew on New Years Eve.

Vito · Dec 28, 2008

Usually eat steak and go to bed early.Can't stop the passage of time!

Vito

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2008

In my younger days I would retract my drinking buddies face from the thunder mug and flush it at midnight..

Often coming home with snow drifts over my head, then waking up the next afternoon (not next morning) noticing I must have crawled home on my hands and knees because the deepest drift was only two foot high ....Glad the good Lord gave me a opertunity to get over that type of life style.

rrlund · Dec 28, 2008

We've always had a family get together new years day and had oyster stew. I don't know this year. Dad's gone,ma's been sick,my younger brother is talking about going back up to the cabin and hasn't said when he'll be back. I'm at that age where everything is changing around me whether I want it to or not.

Bob Kerr · Dec 28, 2008

We used to go camping on new years eve. Nothing more peaceful than the woods in the dead of winter except when the chainsaw is cutting more firewood and midnight hits and all the gun fire/ fireworks starts up and echos off the hills and hollers! One year a friend decided to swim across the lake at midnight since it hadn't froze over yet. boy was he sorry! Froze his butt off all night since the temp dropped that night to around 10 deg. Next morning the lake was froze over. I didn't set up my tent that year, just shoved my sleeping bag inside of it and stayed toasty all night. Now I just grab a good beer and sit by the woodstove and get my mind ready to write 2009 instead of 2008 on my checks. I have a 6 pack of Leinenkugel's all ready to go.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2008

I like fish, only when it doesn't taste like fish. Germans do the dead fish on New Year thing also. Also cabbage or sauerkraut. When I first got over here, I ran across a girl on New Year's eve that invited me to her family get together the next day. Everything was great, good food, Beer, Schnaps, and the best looking potatoe salad I'd ever seen
(important to note is the fact that German Potatoe Salad doesn't look like American potatoe salad) and I love potatoe salad. When I finally got to the masterpiece I put a bunch on my plate and started to enjoy. What I thought was nice chunks of potatoes was different types of dead sea stuff. Didn't know that they noticed that I didn't chew any of it until about 10 years later. Hardest thing I ever did was swallowing that nasty stuff whole.
These days, we usually do our own thing on NY eve and meet up at the one C&W bar in town and hang out with old friends, shoot off a bunch of fireworks in the street at midnight and filter out and home over the next few hours. After 18 years it gets more and more like Ray Steven's old hippy convention. This year, it's a Chinese Buffet for dinner within stumbling distance of the C&W club and there just happens to be an Irish Pub that moved in next door within perfect ducking distance :lol:

:roll:

Dave

Paul from MI · Dec 28, 2008

Usually get a room somewhere with shuttle service to a great restaurant. Eat a late supper, have a few drinks in the bar and go to bed. I don't want to be on the road with a bunch of drunks and I figure that shuttle bus trumps a car if we hit one. Then go home New Years day and have the old German traditional pork and sauerkraut(my own kraut of course) for supper.
Happy New Year!!
Paul

Gun guru · Dec 28, 2008

What I do for luck on the new year is dont go out on the roads and get hit by a drunk driver.

Floyd A tn · Dec 28, 2008

Hog jowl, black eyed peas, boiled cabbage and cornbread..
Been a family tradition for as long as I can remember.

Pair-a-dice farm · Dec 28, 2008

Same here, it's supposed to bring health and prosperity. I ain't ever had much money, but I've always been healthy.

THEkyroastnear · Dec 28, 2008

nothing really special for last 16 years family goes to church on new year eve which breaks up shortly after 12. new year day is pretty much like any other for us no special dishes or anything

LA in Wi. · Dec 29, 2008

Some of you guys mention being in Times Square in NY for dropping of the ball.
Better Deal for you....go to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and watch them drop the frozen carp at the stroke of midnite. Then go have some lutefisk and wash it down with a Leinenkugel.

Kippster · Dec 29, 2008

OOPS!! Forgot to put in ham with the new years day spread. Wife saw my post and gave me all kinds of he!!for not putting that in there. Also I have been instructed to give you all the meanings of the foods in the new years day dinner. Ham is for good health all year, the collards are for having some money (more collards - more money), black eyed peas are for good luck throughout the year, and cornbread is just kinda there. (wife doesn't know what the cornbread is supposed to symbolize. Hope this makes her happy and gets her off my case about it!

rustyj14 · Dec 29, 2008

Wife and i used to go to parties, but as we got older, we stayed home more, or at least went to next door neighbors.
Couple times, went to our Fire company for members New Years Eve. Afte that, we stayed at home. Until new neighbors moved in, so now i go down for their party, stay an hour, then go home. Ruth stays home. She don't walk so good in the dark, and not far enough to drive, and she runs out of oxygen before midnight! (All you smokers take note: If you think carrying that little oxygen bottle around with ya everywhere ya go, with the hoses that trip ya up when ya walk, is fun---think again! It ain't fun, especially when ya have to run the machine all night so ya don't choke from no air! I say this, because i love my wife, even with all of her problems, but it hurts me to see her suffer with it! And, it all could of been avoided!) But, i digress: Ya all have a happy New Year, and party hearty!
Rusty J.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 29, 2008

First dark haired man to cross your threshold gets a dollar. You pay it for good luck or take your chances and tempt fate. Irish custom I believe.

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