I am not a person who believes in superstitions. I don’t rub a lucky coin or toss salt over my shoulder and if I see a black cat I’m more likely to try to pet it than stop it from crossing my path. If superstitions are your thing that’s fine, they just aren’t mine.
Until yesterday.
I saw a TikTok that said there is an old superstition (why are superstitions always old?) that you should not clean laundry on New Years Eve or New Years Day. Now, she broke it down to a slightly different reason for each but, and I’m paraphrasing here, to do so would be removing all the good fortune / luck / vibes from the current year and you want to bring those with you, not wash them away, into the new year.
The opposite could just as easily be a superstition, do allllll the cleaning before New Years otherwise you bring bad luck / fortune / vibes with you from the old year to the new but I don’t like this one as much, so let’s go back to the one that says no laundry.
Do I believe it? Absolutely not. Will I follow it because it gives me a reason to not do that one specific little bit of housework? 100% yes.
Enjoy your New Years Eve and New Years Day and consider yourself officially granted two days off of laundry duty!
The Amazing Shrinking Woman 
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