New Year's Stuporstitions

I'm not a superstitious person. I don't believe in breaking mothers' backs by stepping on cracks, tossing salt over your shoulder, or harm with black felines crossing my path. There are people in my family, (MOM), that are proponents of these kinds of things, and some of them happen to be season specific. Recently, I was told that on New Years' Day that it was MANDATORY that I eat pork for dinner. Pork, as you know, ALWAYS brings good luck, all year, to those that eat it on New Year's Day. But for those poor bastards that eat chicken... well, they'll be "scratching" for money all year long. (Because chickens scratch... you know.) Along with that, I've also heard the following:

-When you leave your house for the first time in a New Year, you have to re-enter the house in a completely different door. This assures that "Good Luck" will be trapped in your home for an entire year! (Because everyone knows that good luck starts to get funky after 365 days, and then needs to be replaced. I replace the good luck at the same time I do the box of Baking Soda in my fridge.)

-On New Year's Day, you can't remove anything from your house, so garbage cannot be taken out. (Not like any sanitation engineers will be working that day!) If anything leaves your house, you will spend the entire year giving instead of getting.

So, I believe its all a bunch of crap. But here are some tried and true REAL SUPERSTITIONS! (Well, from my experience...)

I've found that through some magical power that if I watch all the NCAA Football bowl games on New Year's Day, that I'm much better the next day at work when it comes to discussing those games around the water cooler! It's like the conversations become that much better!

Also, I've found that if you give your wife your credit card and tell her to "go wild", you'll spend the entire New Year making credit card payments. Unbelievable!

Finally, I've found that if I celebrate New Year's Eve by drinking a few bottles of champagne, I'll always spend the first day of the year with a really, really bad headache and little desire to eat. (Weird, isn't it?)

So knock on wood and try those 3 out! I bet the outcomes will only work on New Year's Day! Because that's how these unexplained, non-scientifically based things work!