Wearing red underwear on New Year’s Eve is believed to bring good luck with love in Spain, Mexico, Italy, and other countries. Yellow brings money and happiness, green prosperity, pink friendship, and white hope or peace. Other traditions include regional foods, effigy burning, dish throwing, and alcohol.
For women in Spain, Mexico, Italy and many other countries, wearing red underwear on New Year’s Eve is a way to bring good luck with love in the new year. Yellow underwear is supposed to be good for bringing money and happiness, green is for prosperity, pink is for friendship, and white is for hope or peace. Also, it’s luckier if you get underwear as a gift, but it’s still okay if you buy it for yourself.
Other New Year’s traditions:
There are several regional foods associated with good luck in the New Year: in the southern United States, it’s black-eyed peas and kale; in the Philippines roast pork and circular fruits; in Italy sausage and lentils; and in the Netherlands, oil dumplings and apple fritters.
People in Ecuador often create effigies to represent the old year, which they set on fire at midnight to burn down the old year. Danes traditionally throw crockery and cutlery at each other’s doors; apparently, the person with the most broken dishes in the morning is the most popular. In Japan, people clean and sweep their houses and prepare traditional decorations.
Alcohol also plays a big part in New Year celebrations no matter which country you are in. Although champagne is by and large the most popular New Year’s drink, sekt, which is German sparkling wine, as well as mulled wine, cider and hot chocolate are also popular celebratory drinks.
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