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01-01-2020, 10:02 AM
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No Laundry Today.
New Years Superstitions
Don't do laundry on New Year's Day or a member of the family will be washed away (die) during the coming year.
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01-01-2020, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by omega50
New Years Superstitions
Don't do laundry on New Year's Day or a member of the family will be washed away (die) during the coming year.
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Can we pick which one??
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01-01-2020, 10:48 AM
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I said this to my wife as she was about to throw some laundry in about 20 minutes ago, she said honey your full of POOP that's just crap, and after 45 years damned if I am stating the year off with a no win 
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01-01-2020, 10:56 AM
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Mrs Caber is superstitious and wanted each of us to be wearing at least something red, even if it was socks or underwear. In hindsight, I think this was the first New Years she forgot to ensure we each had some cash on us. I’ll play along but I lend it no credence.
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01-01-2020, 10:56 AM
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that's all I need another goddamn superstition to worry about, thanks for that 
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I wasn't thinking far enough ahead for an outcome, I was ranting. By definition, a rant doesn't imply much forethought..... 
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01-01-2020, 10:56 AM
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Oops, double tap.
I never heard of the laundry one though. We did laundry before 2 am though as junior got ill on the car ride home from my sisters, he was under the weather half the night (He’s 11 and he’d not even try drinking so that wasn’t it. For some reason he’s heavily anti-alcohol. We barely drink, but it’s odd how against it he is. Perhaps it’s from my wife drilling into him about never drinking and driving when he does get that age; she lost a lifelong friend in university to a drunk driver.
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01-01-2020, 04:01 PM
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I don't believe in superstitions. Paranoia is all it breeds. 
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01-01-2020, 04:44 PM
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I literally just came upstairs from putting in some clothes (not putting in a load, that's my other thread) opened up AOF, and read this. Never heard of this one before. I'm not superstisious, except for walking under a ladder. Don't know why that one sticks with me.
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01-01-2020, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by bloopbloob
I literally just came upstairs from putting in some clothes (not putting in a load, that's my other thread) opened up AOF, and read this. Never heard of this one before. I'm not superstisious, except for walking under a ladder. Don't know why that one sticks with me.
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That ladder superstition at least makes sense, its so the guy on the ladder doesn't drop a hammer or whatnot on you.
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01-01-2020, 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Rancid Crabtree
Can we pick which one??
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Something that came to my mind as well lol.
The boss was actually doing laundry all day. I'm sure if someone here gets done in it will probably be me.
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01-01-2020, 05:28 PM
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Dam. Sorry. I already did my laundry today!
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01-01-2020, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
that's all I need another goddamn superstition to worry about, thanks for that |
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01-01-2020, 05:42 PM
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It occurs to me that this superstition was likely started by a woman that needed a day off from housework while she recovered from a hangover
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01-01-2020, 05:45 PM
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We're doing laundry right now, I just told the wife and now she doesn't want to go fishing on the weekend.
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01-01-2020, 06:48 PM
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Ive never heard of any of these superstitions before....interesting
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