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Laundry On New Year's Day.
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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?
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?
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She doesn't have a table. Happy New year to you all Xx
00:45 Sun 01st Jan 2023
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.
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.
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. :-)
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.
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.
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.
