How To Have Lucky 2025

If 2024 hasn't been a particularly good year for you and you are glad to see the back of it, then cast your mind back 12 months and try to remember if you threw bread at your front door or did you eat a lobster last New Years Days or even not put on your yellow knickers? If not, that could be why because there are a list of New Year Traditions to stick to too ensure the New Year will not suck.
When you are getting ready for the night of revelry, give some thought to your underpants, socks or bra as donning red underclothes on December 31 brings success in your love life in the year ahead, go for yellow for financial security and green is for good health.
As midnight approaches you may have the sparklers, the six pack of Beer and Champagne but make sure you have a baguette or a pack of Hovis to beat against the walls and doors of your house to chase away evil spirits that might be lurking ready to ruin the new year.
At the risk of catching your death of cold, consider opening all the doors and windows just before midnight to serve up an eviction notice to any bad juju that might be lingering around and then run around wailing and making a loud noise to usher it out and then wail again once you get your heating bill.
On the stroke of midnight make sure you are stood next to your husband/wife/whoever you fancy because the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve is the perfect excuse to kiss someone which brings good luck although maybe not so much if the husband or wife you are canoodling with isn't your own.
Pile of dirty clothes on the laundry room floor? Leave them there until 2nd January because if you clean clothes on January 1, you’ll be washing away a loved one and will also send a year of good fortune spiraling down the drain.
As well as hunting for a clean t-shirt, don’t get rid of anything on New Years Day, and that's anything including leftover pizza, empty beer tins or that skirt you spilt red wine down so maybe hold off the trip to the bins for a couple of days.
Don’t let a woman be the first to enter your house in the new year so if your Mother in Law, sister or Auntie turns up first make them wait outside in the cold until someone with testicles turns up and then you can let them in, if you want to that is.
One tradition is to do things seven times on New Year’s Day because the number seven has all sorts of luck attached to it so turn the lights on and off seven times, drink 7 cups of tea or...well...use your imagination but don't eat lobster, cows or chicken as they are considered unlucky animals to eat and have no place on your New Years Day menu and if you do scratch around your cupboards and find something to eat, don’t take that last bite as leaving just a bite of food on your plate is meant to guarantee you prosperity in the year ahead.
There you go then, everything you need for a lucky and prosperous 2025.