As the 2024 comes to an end, millions across the globe are setting their resolutions and goals for the new year – 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 12 months.
Over the years, a slew of superstitions have taken over the web, and they’re rumored to bring you good luck and fortune in the new year.
Some of them are simple acts like opening windows at midnight or making loud noise, while others involve eating particular foods.
These are just a few of the ways that people make sure their new year gets off to the best start possible.
Below, FEMAIL rounded up some of the most-tried traditions – and you never know, they could change your luck in 2025.
Avoid laundry 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 12 months (stock image)
Some people believe that avoiding laundry or cleaning on the first day of the new year could forge a prosperous year ahead (stock image)
No, this isn’t just an excuse to not clean up after your New Years Eve party.
Some people believe that avoiding laundry or cleaning on the first day of the new year could forge a prosperous year ahead.
According to Chinese superstition, tidying up on January 1 can cleanse away any good fortunes for the upcoming year.
In addition, some superstitions say that if you wash clothes on New Year’s Day, could mean that someone in your household will die in the coming year, as per 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 have the travel bug, you should lug an empty one around on New Year’s day.
According to CBS News Miami, the Latin American tradition is supposed to draw in adventure and traveling to new places in the upcoming year.
Some even take it a step further and say you can manifest exactly you want from a vacation by packing the suitcase full of those items.
Superstition says that if you have the travel bug, you should lug an empty one around on New Year’s day (stock image)
Eat black-eyed peas and lentils
Eating round foods like black-eyed peas and lentils may be able to help with good fortune in the new year (stock image)
Eating round foods like black-eyed peas and lentils may be able to help with good fortune in the new year.
According to USA Today, round foods resemble coins and money.
Black-eyed peas are served as a part of a lucky dish in many countries; in the south, they are part 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.
In addition, it’s been said that if you eat peas with greens and cornbread, it can spark a financially prosperous new year, as green is meant to bring luck because it’s the color of money and while cornbread represents gold.
Eat noodles, pork, whole fish and pomegranate seeds
Noodles are lucky in many Asian cultures as they symbolize a long life – especially if you eat them without breaking them
It’s not just lentils that can help bring in good luck for the New Year.
Noodles, pork, whole fish, and pomegranate seeds are also said to bring good fortune to you in the new year – but it’s best to avoid lobsters.
Pigs have always been considered lucky, so a meal with pork can bring prosperity.
‘Pigs take their snout and root forward, as opposed to digging backward,’ Linda Pelaccio, the host of A Taste of the Past, previously told USA Today.
‘It’s not good to eat lobsters because they walk backward,’ she noted.
Noodles are lucky in many Asian cultures as they symbolize a long life – 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 every New Year on social media, as it’s believed that it can help you find love
Eating 12 grapes under a table is a long-standing Spanish tradition that goes viral every New Year on social media, as it’s believed that it can help you find love.
Singletons are advised to eat 12 grapes for each of the 12 chimes of the clock at midnight.
The tradition is thought to date back to the turn of the 20th century when a group of grape farmers in Alicante tried to get rid of their surplus 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 that the custom actually came from France, but was later popularized in Madrid while others eat 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 meant to let our the bad spirits and help enter the new year with a fresh beginning.
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.
