Celebrating the New Year: Superstitions and family traditions

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Whether you're staying astatine location oregon readying a nighttime out, clip is ticking down to the last minutes of 2024.

People successful the Central Valley are already reasoning astir however they'll walk the crook of the year.

"Gonna observe indoors with my daughter, son-in-law and grandkids," said Herb Pasos.

"I deliberation we'll play immoderate committee games and reminisce astir the year."

For others watching the excitement crossed the globe connected TV is simply a amusive tradition.

"We're gonna ticker the fireworks and the East Coast shot driblet and past astatine 9 o'clock- we're asleep," said Sue and Hadi Hajou.

The mates says erstwhile they met implicit forty years ago, they decided to play into a New Year's Eve superstition successful hopes warding disconnected atrocious luck successful the caller year.

"On New Years astatine midnight, we'd person to devour 1 grape for each dong of the timepiece and the extremity was to decorativeness them each earlier it stopped chiming."

Johanna Knutson says she's getting acceptable to instrumentality portion successful a household contented that's been passed down from generations.

"You commencement with the hambone that came from your Christmas ham. And truthful we ever marque definite we don't propulsion each the nutrient retired of manus bone, you cognize you permission immoderate of it connected truthful there's capable near implicit for the hoppin' John's," Knutson said.

The astir important constituent is cooking achromatic eyed peas due to the fact that Knutson says that signifies bully luck.

Then the achromatic eyed peas and ham is poured implicit rice.

It is simply a repast she's grateful for.

"So adjacent though I don't cognize what's coming, I'm blessed, I person a lot, and truthful the repast means a lot," said Knutson.

Knutson says 2024 has brought connected a batch of trials and tribulations but getting to walk clip with her lad and household portion uncovering gratitude is the champion mode to ringing successful the New Year.

"We conscionable benignant of beryllium and deliberation astir what's bully and what we anticipation to spot is bully successful the caller year," said Knutson.

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