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Throwback Thursdays…New Year’s Traditions

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Throwback Thursdays…New Year’s Traditions

 

It’s hard to believe that another year is about to pass and once again, we’ll struggle for a few months trying to say and write 2022 instead of 2021. 

 

It’s fun to learn what traditions others have for New Year’s Eve and/or New Year’s Day. 

 

Ours have changed over the years in part because we…my Florida extended family…got older and wiser. In the past, we didn’t go out for dinner until around 9 PM and were there to welcome in the New Year.

This morphed into having an early dinner and coming back to our home for dessert. 

 

Our tradition now is Maine lobster, a salad, and a small appetizer for an early New Year’s Eve Dinner followed by whatever football is on. 

 

Being a good Southern girl, I always have black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day.  Right Rocky??  It is so ingrained in me that once I remember coming home after New Year’s Day dinner with friends and opening a can of black-eyed peas and eating a huge spoonful from it. 

 

 

What about you??? What are your traditions, if any?

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Grant Schneider
Performance Development Strategies - Armonk, NY
Your Coach Helping You Create Successful Outcomes

Hi Kathy - glad you asked.  For many years now we have New Years at our friends in Armonk.  These are the group of people with daughters the same age and we all became close as our daughters were close.  That is where we will be tonight.  Sometimes we go out for dinner and then come back for desert.  Not tonight.  We will just go to their house and leave after midnight.

Dec 30, 2021 07:17 AM
Ron and Alexandra Seigel
Napa Consultants - Carpinteria, CA
Luxury Real Estate Branding, Marketing & Strategy

Kathy,

We usually have some form of crustacean for dinner and Champagne.  And we not stay up.  We used to have dinner with friends in Los Angeles, either at our home or theirs and stay over!  A

Dec 30, 2021 07:38 AM
Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty
Waves Realty - Melbourne, FL
Florida Space Coast Homes

We just do a bunch of small plates, and graze until the ball drops in Times Square!

Dec 30, 2021 07:46 AM
Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

Chef Dolores will definitely be serving some black eyed peas.

Enjoy the holidays.

Dec 30, 2021 08:55 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

The New Year's meal that our family used to eat was a pork tenderloin, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and black eyed peas.  I tried may times to duplicate my dad's recipe for the pork and kraut, but could never get it quite right.  Now, we really don't pay it much attention except for the black eyed peas.  Like you, seems like a must in my world.

Dec 30, 2021 09:26 AM
Rocky Dickerson
Realty One Group - Las Vegas, NV
Superior Service!

I know that my dad used to really love blackeye peas for New Years Day.

Dec 30, 2021 10:16 AM
Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS
Fathom Realty Washington LLC - Tacoma, WA
South Puget Sound Washington Agent/Broker!

Those southern thangs always start the new year off right 🙂  I hope the rest of your Thursday goes great Kathy 🙂

Dec 30, 2021 11:04 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

To the best of my knowledge I've never had black eye peas. Maybe unknowingly in a soup or something.

New Year's Eve has never been much of a social event for me...never quite understood the party till midnight scene with a crowd of people. We enjoy staying home in front of the tv with snacks we enjoy. A kiss at midnight and then call it a night. LOL

I do get emotional as each year passes and the new one begins though.

Dec 30, 2021 12:43 PM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Kathy as tradition has it, black eyed peas bring prosperity for the new year.

As you know my tradition is also lobster for New Years dinner.  Below is last year's feast.  ☺️

Dec 30, 2021 01:37 PM
Will Hamm
Hamm Homes - Aurora, CO
"Where There's a Will, There's a Way!"

Hello Kathy, I like the Maine Lobster tradition and maybe I may start that.  We have Pork and Suarkraut  on New Year eve for good luck for the coming year.

 

Dec 30, 2021 02:43 PM
Ed Silva, 203-206-0754
Mapleridge Realty, CT 203-206-0754 - Waterbury, CT
Central CT Real Estate Broker Serving all equally

We are a bit beyond the time to go out and party hardy, but will go out early and enjoy a nice meal and then come home to wait for the New Year's ball to drop.  The New Year's dinner to appease my very Portuguese parents is a pork roast and all must have a spoon of black eye peas for luck in the new year.

 

Dec 30, 2021 03:46 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Hi Nina Hollander, Broker even if I'm dead tired, I have to see the New Year in. Crazy obsession. 

Wayne Martin I'm with you. We enjoy welcoming in the New Year at home. 

Dec 30, 2021 05:06 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Kat Palmiotti that sounds exciting!!  Outdoors??? With snow??? Candlelight??/ Just perfect. 

Michael Jacobs I'm happy not to go out and have been known to wake up Larry at the stroke of midnight...whereupon he immediately goes back to sleep!

Dec 30, 2021 05:10 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Bob "RealMan" Timm it was a lot easier when I was younger!!!  Now the thought of not eating until 9 pm doesn't do it for me. If I haven't eaten by then I've lost interest in it altogether. 

Brian England if he's a good Southerner, Rocky Dickerson will eat his black-eyed peas. 

Dec 30, 2021 05:12 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Grant Schneider I have to hand it to you if you can do that.  Enjoy!!!! And hope you have a wonderful time. 

Ron and Alexandra Seigel  We enjoy our lobster and salad and maybe a loaf of Larry=baked bread. 

Dec 30, 2021 05:16 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Jeffrey DiMuria 321.223.6253 Waves Realty I love the idea of small plates and I make a great grazer!!!

Roy Kelley And I know it will bring you a great year of good luck!!!

Dec 30, 2021 05:22 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Chris Ann Cleland that's about the same menu we had when we were in FL with our good friends there. My neighbor had a huge party on New Year's Day so he would also use our kitchen to cook the pork and sauerkraut. He had a key so it was not unusual to wake up on New Year's morning to the smell of sauerkraut!!!

Dec 30, 2021 05:24 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Rocky Dickerson if you are a good Southern boy, you will have your black-eyed peas on New Year's Day!!

Paul S. Henderson, REALTOR®, CRS I love learning about different traditions. 

Dec 30, 2021 05:25 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Sharon Tara Even growing up it seems like our family had people over or some kind of gathering. Now, I'm happy to be at home. Larry is of the "couldn't care less camp."

George Souto your lobster could eat our lobster!!! That thing is huge. 


Dec 30, 2021 05:28 PM
Kathy Streib
Cypress, TX
Home Stager/Redesign

Will Hamm we do the pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day!!! And with that we have some kind of apple dessert. 

Ed Silva When we were in Fl and as we all got older, we would go out for an early dinner then dessert at home. I have our pork, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and black-eyed peas ready for New Year's Day. 

Dec 30, 2021 05:44 PM
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