Coins on the windowsill

[Sparklesis]

Has anybody ever heard of a superstition whereby you put a coin on the windowsill on New Year's Eve, and then when you get it in on New Year's Day, it's become lucky?

[KEJ2000]

Yes! This is an American writing, just so you know! The idea is that whatever happens to you on New Year's Day foretells/predicts what will happen to you for the rest of that year. Especially important is the first thing that happens after midnight on Jan. 1. Fortunately, you can influence your own "fate" and bring yourself good luck rather than bad luck. I have heard that you can place a coin outside of your door (not the window) sometime on Dec. 31, then bring it inside after midnight on Jan. 1. Doing that will ensure that you will take in more money throughout the year! However, this superstition gets much more complicated. You should not write any cheques or pay any bills on Jan. 1, or else you might keep losing money throughout the new year. You don't even want to take the garbage out on Jan. 1, or else you might continue to lose items from your home throughout the year. Be sure that things only come into your home on New Year's Day and that nothing exits. I do mean "nothing"! When you go to bring the coin inside, you can't stick your arm out the door to fetch it, because then something would be leaving your home before anything entered it! That would certainly undo the good luck spell, and might even bring bad luck! Instead, what you can do is place the coin inside a bag on Dec. 31, tie a string around the bag, and put the bag outside, trailing the string into your home. After midnight on Jan. 1, use the string to pull the bag with the coin inside, and that way you don't have to have anything exit through the door before something enters it.

[KEJ2000]

(This is Part 2 of my answer, above.) If you want to be more creative, you can bring other items into your home on New Year's Day. If you are hoping to have a baby, for example, you can tie a string around a baby-related item and pull it into your home on Jan. 1. That should bring good luck in terms of a baby arriving in your home sometime in the new year! I remember reading about this superstition in an entertainment-only article in a university newspaper in the Nineties. I might have saved that article, so if I come across it again, I will improve upon what I've written so far. Anyway, I must not be the only other person who has ever heard about it....

[answerbankin]

"When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer, Superstition ain't the way." Stevie Wonder

[KEJ2000]

Guess what? I found an article online which contains all of the information I wrote above and MORE about this superstition!!! It is really quite interesting, and fun to read. http://www.snopes.com/holidays/newyears/newyears.h
tm P.S.-- To "answerbankin": Even rational people can have some harmless fun. Don't be a spoil-sport...!!

[answerbankin]

Hey im just quoting the main man Stevie Wonder. Dont shoot the messenger.