10. “Happy New Years, Thanks for Your Car!”
NICB (National Insurance Crime Bureau) reports that New Year’s Day is the holiday moreso than any other with the most cases of vehicular theft, can’t imagine why.
9. New Years Resolutions: Invent Fire
Babylonians were the first to make New Year’s Resolutions over 4,000 years ago, it was also a religious practice where they tried to earn the favor of the gods.
8. Burning Mr. Old Year
In South American Countries such as Cuba, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, there is is traditional of creating effigy out of old clothes into the image of an old man, which is referred to as “Mr. Old Year” this effigy is then burned symbolically to destroy the preceding year’s bad memories
7. The Chickens of Belarus
Another New Years Tradition, this one from Belarus; two single women are seated next to each other and a plate of corn is placed in front of them, one each. Then A rooster is brought in and sat between them, and whichever pile is picked first by the chicken first is the woman who will be married first
The 12 Grapes
A well known unique New Years tradition for Spain,
6 Another food-related custom is a bit more nutritious: Celebrants in Spain eat 12 grapes at midnight to ensure a fruitful year ahead, a tradition that began as a solution to a Grape surplus in 1909. (The custom stuck and then spread to Portugal, Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador and Peru.) Each grape corresponds with a single month in the upcoming year: a sour second grape, for example, might foretell a bumpy February. The goal for most grape eaters is to swallow all 12 before the stroke of midnight. 5 n Mexico and South American countries including Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, it’s customary to ring in the New Year by sporting special underpants: red if you’re looking for love and yellow if you’re after money. In the Philippines, people believe that wearing polka dots—on their underwear or elsewhere—ensures a promising year ahead. 4 The original New Year’s Eve Ball weighed 700 pounds and was five feet in diameter. It was made of iron and wood and was decorated with 100 25-watt light bulbs. 3 Most New Year’s traditions are believed to ensure good luck for the coming year. Many parts of the U.S. observe the tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day for good luck. 2 It is often thought that the first visitors you see after ringing in the New Year would bring you good or bad luck, depending on who you keep as friends and enemies. That’s why most people celebrating on New Year’s Eve often do so with friends and family. 1 The top three destinations in the United States to ring in the New Year are Las Vegas, Disney World and New York City
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