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Welcome to a new calendar year!
I know I said I wasn't likely to manage a salon post today, because moving apartments, but then I woke up extra early, so here! Have a post. I'll be packing up my computer mid-morning, and then, y'know, busily pointing movers in the right directions. So I won't be around much today, but I'm sure we can all manage.
Topic of the week
Do you have traditions or superstitions about moving into a new place, or starting a new project, or basically anything new that happens sometimes?
(As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.)
What I've been up to
Packing things. Also moving things and cleaning things. And training a new assistant at work. I am very much looking forward to being in my new place, as unpacking is much more satisfying for me.
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I know I said I wasn't likely to manage a salon post today, because moving apartments, but then I woke up extra early, so here! Have a post. I'll be packing up my computer mid-morning, and then, y'know, busily pointing movers in the right directions. So I won't be around much today, but I'm sure we can all manage.
Topic of the week
Do you have traditions or superstitions about moving into a new place, or starting a new project, or basically anything new that happens sometimes?
(As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.)
What I've been up to
Packing things. Also moving things and cleaning things. And training a new assistant at work. I am very much looking forward to being in my new place, as unpacking is much more satisfying for me.
Useful notes
Consider tracking this post to get notifications of new comments. Select the bell icon (or the words 'track this'). More help over here, and more about notifications in general here.
Comments are welcome whenever you get a chance - even if that's hours or days later. Feel free to jump into whatever sub-threads intrigue you. More discussion is the point of the salon posts!
Got a question you're trying to sort out, or a thing you'd like to discuss? Lots of thoughtful interesting people with a wide range of interests show up here! Feel free to ask about things you're thinking about or trying to solve, as well as other kinds of chat.
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* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to. Keeping conversations SFW is appreciated.
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Moving traditions
Date: 2019-01-04 10:26 am (UTC)I have the tradition of bringing a new broom into the new place (this time I splurged and got a really really lovely broom from
I also believe the first things into the house should be honey, bread, and salt. Honey for sweetness and productivity, bread for sustenance and transformation, and salt for flavour and cleansing. Roughly speaking.
(These are a fairly common folk tradition in different places, though with somewhat different associations.)
Re: Moving traditions
Date: 2019-01-04 02:44 pm (UTC)And wow, those brooms are *lovely*.
Re: Moving traditions
Date: 2019-01-04 04:45 pm (UTC)Re: Moving traditions
Date: 2019-01-04 06:14 pm (UTC)It hasn't always been a bad experience for me, but it has usually been associated with enough bad things in my life that I haven't ever thought to build a tradition to make it a positive thing.
Re: Moving traditions
Date: 2019-01-07 12:23 am (UTC)I like the thing about honey, bread, and salt being the first things in a new home. I might try to wrangle that for whenever we move out of hell this year. (Goal: by end of May.)
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Date: 2019-01-04 01:54 pm (UTC)I had a great Christmas once again with my family. My sister and her husband came down from Wisconsin with the kids and his mom, and my brother was in town from Virginia. Since we are a big family, we just do the Secret Santa thing. I got some nice presents, including stuff for my iPhone and Mac.
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Date: 2019-01-04 02:29 pm (UTC)Another superstition from my maternal grandmother: never start a new project between Christmas and New Year or you'll never complete it. I'm not overly superstitious, but I've never been able to start a new project until New Year's Day. Which is not so easy when I find it difficult to sit and not keep my hands busy. So last week was tough. I usually try and keep a project going long enough to get me through, but this year I miscalculated how long it would take me to finish my cross stitch pattern.
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Date: 2019-01-04 04:50 pm (UTC)It was a new tradition to me. I'm working to incorporate small ritual into my life more. I chose this because I do a lot of work with tea and herbs and this just struck me as making sense. I found it online or in a book somewhere. I don't remember exactly.
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Date: 2019-01-04 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-04 07:23 pm (UTC)Bread and salt, yes. (Which I actually got from Russian folks when I went over to visit when it was still the Soviet Union, which may be why I never integrated the honey.)
When I'm doing the Last Cleaning, I leave the change I find for the next people who move in/the landlord/whomever. (I mean, it's not a lot, but this last time it was 33 cents in 3 dimes and 3 pennies and it was just kind of appropriate.)
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Date: 2019-01-05 01:11 am (UTC)As for starting new projects: I suppose my tradition is having anxiety and feeling overwhelmed. :^)