On New Year’s Eve at the stroke of midnight, it’s said you want to kiss the person you want to keep on kissing all year… but in other countries, good luck traditions look a little different.
In Japan – eat Soba noodles… the long noodles signify crossing from one year to the next. Because they’re easy to cut, it means letting go of regrets from the past year before you head into the new year.
In Spain – if you can eat 12 green grapes in the 12 seconds before the new year, you’ll give yourself good luck for all 12 months.
And in Columbia – they put 3 potatoes under their beds, one peeled, one unpeeled, and one half peeled. At midnight, you reach under the bed and pull one potato out… if it’s the peeled one, you may have financial problems in the coming year, if it’s unpeeled, that means abundance and if it’s half-peeled, it’ll be a mix.
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