get togetha: knock on wood.
What’s your superstition? We all have that one silly thing or things we believe that’s based on non-empirical evidence called jackcrap. So to start with GT…and I can’t believe I’m admitting this...I don’t buy the people I love shoes. I just don’t. In fact; come to think it… if I’m buying a shoe it’ll always be for moi. I once heard a long time ago from some random stranger…that if you buy people shoes they walk out of your life and…well…it kinda stuck cause I’ve been practicing it ever since. So no. I’ve never bought the hubby a pair of kicks. Never. Call me jilly silly. But I can’t bring myself to do it….So ladies and lurkers…what’s a superstition you can admit to having?
Gabby highjacked here.
Posted by gt on January 21, 2010
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Tonia — January 21, 2010 @ 8:28 am
…hum let me see as crazy as it my sound, if I’m walking with someone and we come to a pole, I don’t like to split the pole. I don’t know why I just don’t we both have to walk on the same side. Oh and I don’t wash clothes on the first day of the year. My Mother says you wash your family out of your life (like they die). There are a few more…not enough space.
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First L8dy — January 21, 2010 @ 9:36 am
When I was little, I actually believed I had to spit on the broom if I or someone else swept my feet…. **snickers**
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enisio — January 21, 2010 @ 9:55 am
When we were little (my siblings and I), we all believed you couldn’t step over another person’s feet otherwise you will stop growing. If you stepped over someone’s feet or legs, you absolutely *had* to go step back and then walk around instead. We all still believe it today!
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ceecee — January 21, 2010 @ 10:16 am
What enisio said and I still avoid stepping over people. I believed it’s cos my kids will turn out like the person you stepped over or vice versa.
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hiphopmuse — January 21, 2010 @ 2:14 pm
Like Tonia, I used to believe that splitting a pole was bad luck..and like First L8dy I used to do the spitting on the broom thing..until my mom caught me and told me to stop spitting on her broom, lol.
I have a superstition about putting my hair in the trash after I cut it…my grandma told me that putting your hair in the trash will make you crazy, so burn it instead. To this day, I still burn the cut off hair.
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Simone — January 21, 2010 @ 3:03 pm
I can be hesitant in speaking about plans I have because I believe that you can speak something into existence. It’s happened to me several times and usually before I was ready for things to happen.
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TJ — January 21, 2010 @ 3:11 pm
I grew up around so many superstitions. I think the only one I have found myself doing (though I don’t really believe in it) is the whole itchy palm thing. If its the right hand its money I think (though some folk believe the left) and you are supposed to rub it a certain way because scratching will rub the money out. LOLOL.
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Kim — January 21, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
As an adult, I’ve managed to stay superstition-free. But as a child my fears were pole-splitting, and stepping on sidewalk cracks. Rumor had it stepping on a crack would break your mother’s back. Didn’t think my mother would appreciate that, lol.
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Harlem Chic — January 22, 2010 @ 3:28 am
As silly as it may seem…I still knock on wood when I say something the same time someone else does..I also don’t split poles..lol…
I also heard Oprah once say that she always puts her bills in order in her wallet to keep abundance flowing…and I trust her advice on that…
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gt — January 22, 2010 @ 2:03 pm
My mother still believes that black cats are bad luck…
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Naseya — January 25, 2010 @ 10:05 am
I try not to get into that kind of stuff but just like all the other comments, I never split the pole or walk over grates/sewers,etc…I always feel like I’ll fall in.. and I hate black cats…cats period skeeve me out (yes sheeve is a word I stole from a chick off Real Housewives of NJ…#dontjudge me LOL
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