S\u00e3o Paulo<\/b><\/a> and La Paz:<\/b> People wear brightly colored underpants to ring in the New Year\u2014red if they\u2019re looking for love, and yellow for money.<\/p>\nColombia: <\/b>Residents believe that walking in a circle with a suitcase — either around their home or around the block — will bring travel opportunities in the New Year.<\/p>\n
Brazil<\/b>: Wearing new, white underwear (or dressing entirely in white) while jumping seven waves and\/or placing flowers into the ocean is thought to bring good luck and fortune.<\/p>\n
Chile<\/b>: Eating lentils at midnight ensures a prosperous new year.<\/p>\n
Mexico<\/b>: Hanging a wool toy lamb from the front door brings good fortune.<\/p>\n
Cuba<\/b>: Throwing a bucket of water out of a window or door symbolizes renewal.<\/p>\n
Ecuador<\/b>: Hiding money around the house is thought to bring prosperity.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Do you have your own ritual?\u00a0 Feel free to share your experiences in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Year’s Day is a time when cultures around the world practice a wide variety of time-honored traditions (sometimes strange, but entertaining) to usher in the New Year. The earliest record of a New Year celebration is thought to have occurred around 2000 B.C. in Mesopotamia, and was observed around the time of the vernal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"importance":[],"type-content":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"importance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/importance?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"type-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-content?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}