Filipino Tradition on New Year's Eve

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A Day in a Life:
FILIPINO TRADITION ON NEW YEAR'S EVE
29 Dec 2016

New Year's Day is fast approaching.

So what we gonna do on the night before New Year's day? For Filipinos, there some tradition we always do as part of our cultural nd supertitious belief. Just like before the clock strikes midnight to herald in the new year, all doors must be left wide open to allow good luck to enter. This includes cupboards, drawers, cabinets… windows!

Some Filipinos try to dress in polka-dots because the roundness signifies prosperity. Pockets are filled with round coins, which are jangled to attract wealth. Coins are also left on top of tables and in drawers.

At the exact moment of midnight, Filipino children jump as high as they can because they believe this will make them taller.

But whatever condition your wallet is in when the New Year arrives, so it will be the rest of the year. Make sure to put in the money your received on Christmas. The same goes for the neatness of your home.

Filipinos spend the last days of the year vigorously cleaning everything, especially of dust. However, on the first day of the new year, you are not supposed to do any cleaning. No cleaning on New Year’s Day itself!

And don’t start the year off by spending money. Frugality on the first day sets the tone for wise money management in the coming year.

So there you go. But for me, whatever these traditions are, it depends on the person who gonna do it and believe for it. For some of us are liberated and conservative in nature.