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New Years Traditions | Pad Patter 12.31.22

dawnmarch said:
OMG, you reminded me that when we would spend New Years Eve with my grandparents, they would always wake us up just prior to midnight to run outside and bang pots and pans. We thought that was the best thing EVER!
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I totally forget about this! Yes...used to do it as child too!

Hmmm...wonder if I could get away with that this year. :giggle I have a feeling there will be guns going off where I live, being quasi rural and all. Heck, if I hear guns I'm bring out the pots and pans! Might need one for my head as armor.
 
We’d stay up eating desert and watch the ball drop, which was an easy thing to do since we lived in California! The big thing was to get up at the break of dawn to watch the pre-parade shows and the Tournament of Roses Parade on New Years Morning. Mom would make a special breakfast and we all would sit around the tv in our jammies and watch it all from start to finish. A few times we went to see the parade, but we learned that although it is amazing to see those floats go by in person, you get a whole better view (and a bathroom down the hall) when you watch from home. I still watch it, but since it starts later here on the east coast I could never get my family interested in watching it. This year it is on the 2nd, and you better believe that I will be watching it! (In case anyone wants to watch it, the best way is to stream via KTLA app or webpage, for they don’t have any commercials during the live show and will play he entire parade, even if it goes long. They’ll also replay it all day long in case you miss it live.)
 
I don't think we do, when we moved here to the states we started hosting for our friends but we got tired of the mess that needed to be cleaned up the next day.
 
We purposely changed our routine this year. Xmas dinner has always been turkey but I've never made another stuffed turkey for new years (until this year). Instead of a ton of appies and junk food, we are having a turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce. We have some chips for snacking on later with our movies and I made rice krispie squares this morning.
 
I'd say the only tradition we have that has continued for a long time is to watch the ball drop and then also my boys LOVE the sparkling grape juice that's in a bottle to look like champagne since they were really little. They still want that every year and my oldest college kid even took some to his friends house last night. :giggle
 
Well ... I have another New Year's tradition, I had forgotten ... cursing my neighbor's for their &#¤¤& fireworks at midnight, that scares my cat.
 
This thread reminded me that we didn’t have our black eyed peas or greens on New Years Day. Now we won’t have any money or luck in 2023, lol.:groan
 
We started a new tradition a few years ago when we invited some nephews over to spend the night. Their parents don't do anything for New Year's so they came over to ring in the new year with us. That became a tradition...now any nieces and nephews who want to come ring in the new year with Aunt Elizabeth and Uncle Shawn join us. They are all middle school/high school age. We even had a few extra kids over. We usually put out appetizers and snacks for the night...play games & do puzzles. It's always a fun and crazy time...and I look forward to my New Year's Day nap. Haha!
 
tanteva said:
Well ... I have another New Year's tradition, I had forgotten ... cursing my neighbor's for their &#¤¤& fireworks at midnight, that scares my cat.
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We used to light off fireworks early on NYE when the kids were young. Keep in mind that in AZ, you can't actually have anything that "shoots" or moves so the fireworks here are all "showers of sparks" and tend not to make a lot of noise. I made hubby get rid of them though when I learned that so many pets are afraid of fireworks. Ours never were but I don't want to be terrorizing my neighbors' pets!
 
Happy New Year everyone!
Do you have any New Years traditions? My dad used to take all of us to the ballet, always was the same Swans lake program, and we loved, but when I married, our tradition has become to watch the New Year's concert from Vienna, so we can enjoy music and ballet, lol. My dream is one day win the lottery of the seats, and have the chance to be in person in the new year's concert. Twice, before pandemic, I tried to get seats, but they are exclusive, people must fill up a form early in February and wait for a month to know if they are the lucky winners or not, the price isn't so much, around 20 or 50 euros, but the big deal is to win the lottery of the seats, lol.
Dear Lisa, have a wonderful and amazing new year!!
 
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kristankremer said:
I'm soaking black-eyed peas (for luck!) right now and I'll cook them up along with some cabbage (for wealth!) and sausage for dinner tomorrow. (...) Happy new year everyone!!
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Happy New Year my dear! my mom used to cook lentils on New Year's Eve and all of us we used to eat them when the bells rang (for wealth), my sister use to run around the bed dressing in red, asking for her twin soul, lol, and I used to run out of the house for travels, and our neighbors use to watch and laugh, of me and my brother competing who ran further and faster would travel much more in the year to come, lol. Nice family memories.
 
Happy New Year Everyone

We don't go out to celebrate New Years anymore, so our tradition has became to cook loads of party food and curl up on sofa and watch movies.
 
We don't really have any traditions but usually for New Years Eve we would have game nights at either our house or a relative/friends house. This year we went to a friends house and instead of playing board games like we usually do we played pool because they got a new pool table and the guys played in their "band" lololol My husband plays guitar and drums and my son plays the same along with a ton of other instruments. The friends we were with, their husbands & son's also play so it was a father/son band night :dancebun
 
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