What traditions do you practice in your family? Big or small. And what kind of quirky things do you do as well?
In my family, when eating angelfood cake and there's a new person around, it's traditional (and bad manners!) to walk by and smash their piece of cake flat. I don't know why we do this, it's something our parents used to do. The poor new person doesn't know how to react.
We crack Easter eggs on each others heads.
We celebrate our Christmas and open presents on Christmas Eve.
My closest cousin and I grew up together and up until her mother died, we were always given one identical Christmas gift.
When we were kids and someone was snoring, the adults would give us a pickle to put in the snoring person's mouth. Again I have no idea why and I don't remember ever asking. I'm surprised nobody choked.
We still break Thanksgiving wishbones from the year before. The fresh one will be hung on a cupboard knob until the following Thanksgiving. I grew up thinking everyone kept a wishbone in their kitchen.
I keep a horseshoe on the front of the house. It was given to me by my aunt in Oklahoma. It's painted red and I keep it turned sideways because that denotes there's a witch in the house.
That's all I can think of for now. It's kind of tricky because we do these things without realizing they're traditions.
What do you guys do?
