New Years Day traditions

[TVGuy]

Well, we're old and boring now. It's watching football and asleep well before midnight on NYE.

Black-eyed peas are a must on the first, as well as resolutions. The former a tribute to our Southern roots and humility to welcome in a prosperous and lucky year.

What traditions do you have?

[Richbirdhunter]

Watch the Rose parade eat leftovers take a nap

[Nuts]

Aspirin and a bunch of water

[Jago668]

Black eyed peas for luck, and cabbage for wealth. We always have ham with it as well.

[wheelgun1958]

Picked up some tamales on the way to work this evening.

[John Galt]

Black eyed peas and corn bread

[The Annoyed Man]

Watch the Rose parade eat leftovers take a nap

Yep. And I fulfilled the tradition, and watched the game too. The best part of the game? Every time the aerial camera zoomed out, and I could see my old Pasadena house, just a ten minute walk from the stadium. The sale of that house in 2006 when I moved to Texas, for 3 times what I had paid for it just 7 years earlier, permanently changed the arc of my life for the better. Haven't had a mortgage since.

Yep, I sure like to watch that Rose Bowl game.

[Richbirdhunter]

Watch the Rose parade eat leftovers take a nap

Yep. And I fulfilled the tradition, and watched the game too. The best part of the game? Every time the aerial camera zoomed out, and I could see my old Pasadena house, just a ten minute walk from the stadium. The sale of that house in 2006 when I moved to Texas, for 3 times what I had paid for it just 7 years earlier, permanently changed the arc of my life for the better. Haven't had a mortgage since.

Yep, I sure like to watch that Rose Bowl game.

I'm from Whittier, my best customer Otis elevator had an office in Pasadena. I did very well on my house as well. It's great to be mortgage free but my property taxes are steep.

[carlson1]

Usually we have a watch night service at church. We did not do that this year because our building is still not repaired from the August fire (we don't have the money to up grade the electricity and insurance want cover that).

Always Black eyed peas, Mexican cornbread, fried cabbage (sometimes turnip greens) and ham. My wife never washes any clothes on January 1 because her grandmother told her would bring a bad year.

Straight up and down at midnight we pray out the old year and pray in the New Year. The best part even after 30 years of marriage is the kisses afterwards.

[TXlaw1]

Usually we have a watch night service at church. .... Straight up and down at midnight we pray out the old year and pray in the New Year. The best part even after 30 years of marriage is the kisses afterwards.

We used to do the same and glad you still do. But after 44 years of marriage I got too old to stay up that late. Can't even stay up to watch the end of the second playoff game. Set the DVR and asleep by 10 pm. God bless your year, one day at a time - and thanks to you for all your contributions to this great forum.

[The Annoyed Man]

Watch the Rose parade eat leftovers take a nap

Yep. And I fulfilled the tradition, and watched the game too. The best part of the game? Every time the aerial camera zoomed out, and I could see my old Pasadena house, just a ten minute walk from the stadium. The sale of that house in 2006 when I moved to Texas, for 3 times what I had paid for it just 7 years earlier, permanently changed the arc of my life for the better. Haven't had a mortgage since.

Yep, I sure like to watch that Rose Bowl game.

I'm from Whittier, my best customer Otis elevator had an office in Pasadena. I did very well on my house as well. It's great to be mortgage free but my property taxes are steep.

Whittier! I was southbound on the 605 right at the 10 when the Whittier Narrows earthquake hit, on my way to work in So. El Monte at an industrial supply company I worked at. I drove an old Ford van with a loose steering box, and I didn't even notice the shaking, while drivers in cars with tight steering were pulling over to the side of the road and diving out of their cars. LOL. Took me a minute to figure out what was happening, which I did right as the announcement came over the radio station I was listening to. Got to work and all of our warehouse shelves had tipped over. There were about a million nuts and bolts and pipe fittings and grinding wheels and such strewn all over the warehouse floor.

That's my biggest memory of whittier.

[Oldgringo]

We really have no holiday season traditions except football (GO VOLS!) and I've watched so much football that I'm ready for Synchronized Swimming or something between now and the 11th (ROLL TIDE).

Oh, I don't have a mortgage either, thank goodness.

[Blindref757]

I really miss a New Year's Tradition from my youth.
I grew up out in the Oklahoma panhandle. We started hunting doves in September and continued to hunt all types of game until the end of December. Every New Year's Day, we would have a feast of fried quail, rabbit, pheasant, and dove (complete with black-eyed peas and cabbage). I don't hunt now that I've moved to East Texas. There aren't any pheasants or quail and I don't care to pay someone to hunt on their land. Where I'm from, land owners shared their good fortune with responsible hunters. They might save the first weekend of hunting for friends and family, but after that, getting permission to walk their draw or field was not a big deal. Hunting seems so commercialized now...another rant for another thread on another day I suppose.

[Oldgringo]

I really miss a New Year's Tradition from my youth.
I grew up out in the Oklahoma panhandle. We started hunting doves in September and continued to hunt all types of game until the end of December. Every New Year's Day, we would have a feast of fried quail, rabbit, pheasant, and dove (complete with black-eyed peas and cabbage). I don't hunt now that I've moved to East Texas. There aren't any pheasants or quail and I don't care to pay someone to hunt on their land. Where I'm from, land owners shared their good fortune with responsible hunters. They might save the first weekend of hunting for friends and family, but after that, getting permission to walk their draw or field was not a big deal. Hunting seems so commercialized now...another rant for another thread on another day I suppose.

We never had the big eat but hunting wise that was the way it was in the Tennessee of my youth. When you left, you stopped by the house and thanked the owner and offered him/her some of the game you had shot. It was a kinder, gentler nation back then...{sigh}.

[FCH]

In honor of my father, we "ring" in the new year with an old style farm bell. Then all our couples have their new year's kiss.

The first year we rang the bell (2006-2007), we heard one of our neighbors shout, "Who's ringing the <expletive> bell". Still remember this as it caused me to have the best laugh.