It's almost 2018, are you excited? Me, too!
I do celebrate the New Year with a feast but not the Gregorian one. Have you heard of Nisan? It's not the brand of a car - it's the New Year I observe. 15% upvote to anyone who can explain when and what that is. However,
please ONLY EXPLAIN if you're practicing it yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I also bid the last year with a bang and I don't mean fireworks though I watch fireworks from our window with my husband . I grew up with asthma so the smell of it in the air suffocates me but who doesn't like them (again fireworks only I'm no fan of them damn fire crackers) going up the air glowing like fireflies so with closed windows, a glass of champagne and a cherry, we cheers to the freaking New Year . Okay, I admit, my glass is filled with more of .. water as I've already explained that I'm allergic to alcohol.
However, this was not how my whole family greet the New Year back when we were young. I remember that everyone in my family wear anything with polka dots when the 31st of December arrives. I remember my sisters and I wearing "terno" as we call it - a suit like - top and shorts with pockets on both sides with lotz'a polka dots .
An hour before midnight, my mom would give us coins and instruct us to fill our pockets with them. I remember being told that if you shake the coins in your pocket and they make much sound it would attract mow - ney, lotz and lotz'a mow-ney. Of course I did this, too because I was a child and when you're young you just do as the adults do, didn't you, too? Plus, I wanted to have more mow - ney because who doesn't?<!/center>
Most of the time when everyone in my family turn left, I turned right. I guess, my aunt brought me up being expressive and assertive, I was always allowed and made to ask why and why not when I must. There was a time I questioned my parents why I had to do this because I didn't find polka dots chic anymore. You could guess that I was already an adult by then.
Before that though, I remember my sisters and I trying to get the most coins out of my Moms hands to get to attract the most mow ~ney and I remember getting the most of them most of the time but I also remember being the most broke of us three because I was a spendthrift back then.
My younger sister had always had a piggy bank which she diligently collects annually, only to be asked by my folks to just give them to me to bring back home to my grandpas' house. I didn't ask for it... I just stared at it! Don't condemn me, I was a kid so blame my folks. I'm mostly just with my folks either in summer or in December when I was a kid that's why, I guess that's their way of making up for the shortcomings they thought they could make up with.
I also remember spending her annual savings in a day because why not, I got them so easy just by staring at them so maybe the jingling the coins in ya' polka dotted outfit's pockets during New Year's Eve does work but then is that some kind of a selective magic trick of attracting money cause it seemed to have worked with me but not with my younger sister?
I remember that I was always broke cause I'd be damn lucky back then if her annual piggy bank the size of your favorite thin potato crisp container full of 1 peso savings would last me a week. "I had holes in my palms"; I used to tell my aunt when asked how come that piggy bank's lighter than it should be.
I have to admit, I love getting new clothes during the holidays back when I was a kid including polka dotted ones because why not? The more clothes the merrier isn't it? I also have to admit that I liked receiving the coins back then because that means more access to sweets in the mini stores around us or whatever shallows I want to buy back then.
I also have to admit that ... even though we've done it year after year, till I stopped because I was already an adult and you get taught to stand on your grounds, and be firm with your beliefs .. I've never really believed that it works. I've never believed that wearing polka dotted clothes with pockets and filling them with coins nor with bills and making them make noises would attract me more mow-ney. I just don't.
Why not ... uhmm.. I'll keep it simple - aren't we still tagged as a third world country until now? So .. what happened to all those jinglings of coins and polka dot's magic now?
Unfortunately, it's still being done in my country, it's still being passed on to many children and the same reconditioning would still probably go on till who knows when .. even though the parents themselves probably can't prove that such practice could make anyone attract more mow-ney.
I do believe that the polka dotted clothes sell very well in my country during this season and this is probably one reason why such brainwashing is still being practiced till now. If it does work to someone probably to the person who sells them polka dotted outfits. Who knows...
You a Pinoy? Shout out in the comment if you'd dare admit that you did buy a polka dotted outfit for the New Year's Eve and 15% if you spill out why.]()
Even though I don't believe in such practice, I've written it so many times that I live in the principle of "live and let live" so I've never convinced my family to stop doing it but I did try questioning them. Are they still doing this you ask? Probably... that's how deep our culture and traditions are rooted in our heads. It would take a lot of flushing them out of or reconditioning to shake anyone to waking up but ... who are we to judge?
In the first place, you probably find it interesting don't you? What about you? Do you observe such a thing where you came from? Or something similar to this? 15% upvote to anyone who'd share something similar to this in your country and explain why you practice such .
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