Laundry On New Year's Day.

[gness]

I've been thinking about superstitions. I thought I only had one thing I was superstitious about until I began to train Dave.
He got a clipped ear for putting shoes on the table. The picture of the peacock didn't make it over the doorstep. He put The Child of Prague under the hedge for our wedding day. If he accidentally puts on clothing inside out he has to leave it like that for the day.

I explained the laundry on New Year's Day superstition. He then asked if that included dish washing....a get out of doing the dishes if ever there was one.
He is not taking me seriously enough. :-(

Are you superstitious about anything?

[Redhelen72]

Never do laundry on NYE
Always buy heather when asked by a gypsy
Never new shoes on a table
Silver coin in a new purse
Never buy your own calendars

[gness]

A couple more of mine there, Helen. :-)

[albaqwerty]

I was born on the 13th, am left handed and 666 on my first mobile. Am not superstitious, I play it safe. No brollies up indoors, no shoes on table, salt spilled over left shoulder with the right hand...

[wiltsman]

Pleased to say that I'm not superstitious, touch wood!

[rowanwitch]

Not superstitious, never have been, even dated a bloke who was born on Friday 13th. Miserable git but not especially unlucky, Dave was though, I blame coming from a little Welsh village.

[-SharonA-]

I am doomed as I've done laundry today!!
But I won't walk under a ladder or put shoes on tables or beds.

[Arksided]

I do salute a single magpie as daft as that is... ooh yes and touch wood.

[Prudie]

I've not heard of the laundry one but do all of the other suggestions so far. I won't let knives sit crossed anywhere or scissors sit open. I won't cross others on the stairs either.

[Meaghan27]

Oh dear I've done three loads of washing today. What is going to happen? :-)

[gness]

Brollies and salt too, Alba.
Wiltsman.... :-)
These folk from little villages, Rowan!

You're okay, Sharon. It's New Year's Day, not Eve. I don't mind walking under a ladder but it's very unlucky to open the front door forgetting your husband has propped a ladder against it and is at the top with a pot of paint. :-(
I'd forgotten the magpies, Arky. The daughter made me stop doing it as she was embarrassed to have a mum talking to magpies. Must start again.

[gness]

You're fine today, Meaghan. Just don't do any tomorrow!

No crossed knives here, Prudie or crossing on stairs. Never two spoons in a cup or saucer either....unless you want to marry or have a baby.

[Arksided]

Gness being honest I've never heard of some these... spoons really are you making that up. As for doing Laundry ... well that's just crazy talk.

[gness]

Not making them up, Arky. All are googleable. The only one I ever thought I'd made up was the cracking the gingernut into three pieces on your elbow. The daughter was quite an age when she decided it wasn't true. I have researched it and it is true. Look how many wishes you've missed by never doing that. :-)

[maggiebee]

My mum was the opposite concerning laundry. She said it was unlucky to have dirty clothes in the house on New Year's Day so she always did a wash on NYE.

[gness]

I'll give that one a miss, Maggie or I'll be washing til midnight!

[pastafreak]

Are you sure...absolutely sure...that I can do my laundry tonight??

[rowanwitch]

A gypsy tried to sell me white Heather once, it wasn't heather, it was white everlasting statice. While she was telling me I would have had luck I caught one of her presumably grandkids trying to put his hand in my bag.... She had to spend a fair while dealing with the curse that I threw in their direction I hope.

[Canary42]

Superstitions are almost like phobias - totally irrational but hard to break.

I tend to regard most with disdain, but am always relieved to spot a second magpie, and I also dispose of spilt salt over the left shoulder.

I do have another which may be of my own making since I can find no reference to it, although Googling kick the bucket did reveal some associated superstitions so maybe residual inherited memory brought it to me. If I accidentally kick a bucket while working round the home, I have to go and "reverse" the movement, daft I know but always do it.

[maggiebee]

Absolutely 100% certain pasta, get the machine on.

[JimF]

Utter pish!