The New Year’s superstitions that promise to give you a prosperous 2025
As 2024 draws to a close, millions around the world are setting their New Year’s resolutions and goals. But can you control what will happen to you in 2025?
Some people believe that what you do right when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve and how you spend the first day of the new year can set the tone for the next twelve months.
Over the years, a whole host of superstitions have taken over the internet, and are rumored to bring you good luck and fortune in the new year.
Some of them are simple actions, such as opening windows at midnight or making loud noises, while others involve eating certain foods.
These are just a few of the ways people are making sure their new year gets off to the best start possible.
Below, FEMAIL has listed some of the most tried and tested traditions – and you never know: they could change your luck in 2025.
Avoid washing and cleaning up
Some people believe that what you do right when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve can set the tone for the next twelve months (stock image)
Some people believe that avoiding laundry or cleaning on the first day of the new year could bring about a prosperous year ahead (stock image)
No, this isn’t just an excuse not to clean up after your New Year’s Eve party.
Some people believe that avoiding washing or cleaning on the first day of the new year could help ensure a prosperous year ahead.
According to Chinese superstition, cleaning up on January 1 can wipe away all the good things for the coming year.
Additionally, some superstitions say that if you wash clothes on New Year’s Day, it could mean that someone in your household will die in the coming year. Kiro7.
Walk around with an empty suitcase
2024 has been a big year for suitcases – thanks to Barron Trump’s viral video – and superstition says that if you’re feeling the travel bug, you should lug around an empty suitcase on New Year’s Day.
According to CBS News Miami, the Latin American tradition is said to attract adventure and travel to new places in the coming year.
Some even go a step further and say that you can radiate exactly what you want from a holiday by packing the suitcase full of those things.
Superstition says that if you have the travel bug, you should carry an empty one on New Year’s Day (stock image)
Eat black-eyed peas and lentils
Eating round foods such as black-eyed peas and lentils may help bring good luck in the new year (stock image)
Eating round foods such as black-eyed peas and lentils may help bring good luck in the new year.
According to USA today, round food resembles coins and money.
Black-eyed peas are served in many countries as part of a lucky dish; in the South they partake in a dish called Hoppin’ John for New Year’s Eve.
And in Italy, lentils are mixed with pork for a lucky dish, as noted by the Mildford daily news.
Furthermore, it is said that eating peas with greens and cornbread can bring about a financially prosperous new year as green is meant to bring good luck as it is the color of money and while cornbread represents gold.
Eat noodles, pork, whole fish and pomegranate seeds
Noodles bring good luck in many Asian cultures because they symbolize longevity, especially if you eat them without breaking them
It’s not just lentils that can bring good luck for the New Year.
Noodles, pork, whole fish and pomegranate seeds are also said to bring you good luck in the New Year, but lobsters are best avoided.
Pigs have always been considered lucky, so a meal with pork can bring good luck.
“Pigs reach their snouts and roots forward, instead of digging backwards,” Linda Pelaccio, host of A Taste of the Past, previously said USA today.
“It’s not good to eat lobsters because they walk backwards,” she noted.
Noodles bring good luck in many Asian cultures because they symbolize longevity, especially if you eat them without breaking them.
Eat 12 grapes under a table
Eating 12 grapes under a table is a long-standing Spanish tradition that goes viral on social media every new year as it is believed it can help you find love
Eating 12 grapes under a table is a long-standing Spanish tradition that goes viral on social media every New Year as it is believed it can help you find love.
Singletons are advised to eat 12 grapes for each of the 12 chimes at midnight.
It is believed that the tradition dates back to the early 20th century, when a group of grape farmers in Alicante tried to get rid of their excess stock.
Another theory states that a group of Madrid residents decided to eat grapes to mock the aristocratic custom of drinking wine on New Year’s Eve.
Some believe the custom actually came from France but was later popularized in Madrid, while others ate the grapes in an attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Open the doors and windows and make a lot of noise
Opening the doors and windows at midnight is intended to give free rein to the evil spirits and enter the new year with a fresh start.
In addition, Penn Live reported that you should make a lot of noise because it can ward off any evil spirits from the past year.