What day will I wash a life away

[Motherofmonsters]

Hello,

When is the day you're not supposed to do any washing as you'll wash a life away?

Is it this week or have I missed it

Some superstitions have some sort of basis in logic (some food taboos are to do with what is and is not a good idea to eat in hot weather, for instance). Some are, as a PP suggested, basic misogyny and/or about control and obedience. Some are just daft, probably distortions of some incident that happened generations ago and got talked about for a long time.
I mean, taking any of this shit seriously is idiotic (and I include all religious belief, horoscopes, homeopathy in the same category). But indulging someone you like by following their silly ritual can occasionally be a kind thing to do.

New Year’s Day, you should clean deeply on Hogmanay so you start the New a year as you mean to go on with a clean slate.

Do any of these crazy people actually say ‘shit, that person died because I put a wash in on 1st January’?

I have never heard of this either. So if I do laundry on NYD, I might be washing out a murderer or child molester and that would presumably be a good thing...

Do any of these crazy people actually say ‘shit, that person died because I put a wash in on 1st January’?

I'll tell you on Thursday (2nd January).

It's the sort of claptrap my mother comes out with, I asked her if it's random or someone off my list.
I also used to work with a woman who was ridiculous about superstitious nonsense, but also claimed to be an atheist. She was having a fit about me putting some new shoes on my desk one day so I asked her who she thought would make this bad luck happen if there was no 'higher power' and, oddly enough, she couldn't answer me.

Most superstitions have roots leading back to mundane stuff which isn't even relevant today.

I've never heard of this. I actively seek out time to do washing and cleaning on the 1st of Jan because I like to start the year off with a clean slate!

I like to do baking on the 1st too. No reason, it's just something I do.

I thought the shoes on the table related to death too. A corpse brought home for the sitting/wake would be fully dressed in the coffin on the table, including shoes. So if anyone places shoes on a table, they are tempting a death. According to my Granny who was well up on her old tales.

Very Scottish thing to have the house all spick and span for the Hogmanay visitors too so hopefully no need for washing or sweeping on the 1st - but I like to think it's because we are all too hungover after the party of the year to even contemplate any domesticity beyond making bacon sandwiches

particularly curious about the "wash one in, wash one out"

so the story says, you do any laundry on New Year's Day and you are washing one in and one out?

do you know who either of the people are? Presumably the incoming person is someone you don't already know?!

I love this stuff!

What a load of nonsense people believe. However, if THEY want to go through all that superstitious guff, that's up to them. But I most certainly don't accommodate it by applying it to my lifestyle.
My MIL is superstitious, as was my DM - I am not so at all. I refuse to throw salt over my shoulder, salute magpies, sit on the stairs if I have had to come back in because I forgot something, keep a garment on inside out (because if you change it, it changes your luck)...

I always wondered what don't put new shoes on the table ment.
.y granny used to say it.
So basically it means someone will die, is that correct?

When I got married someone told my mum that I must put a silver coin inside my shoe and keep it in their to walk in.
It was bloody painful but my mum insisted that I didn't leave the house without doing it!

Emilybronte it is too so with wearing smart new shoes at funerals (whether the corpse or the mourners specifically were in their best/new clothes I am unsure).
When I lived at home, my mother would not allow new shoes on the table, note umbrellas up in the house. When I got my first home, I put up an umbrella in the hall, and put new shoes on the table - because I could!

A classroom assistant I had thirty odd years ago had a compete meltdown because a bird flew into the room. Apparently it meant someone would die - if they did it wasn't anyone we knew.

I thought the shoes on the table related to death too. A corpse brought home for the sitting/wake would be fully dressed in the coffin on the table, including shoes. So if anyone places shoes on a table, they are tempting a death. According to my Granny who was well up on her old tales

The shoes on the table - (settle down for this is long)

When hanging was the death of choice (and it is a skill not just a random sticking a noose round a neck) there's a weight/drop height ratio to ensure a clean snap not just strangulation.
Any hoo - wood was expensive so the gallows themselves couldn't be hugely tall so they had a trapdoor ,
People off on the finally journey were given a nice new pair of shoes to walk up in ( though if everyone wore the same shoes....? ) they were placed at the edge of the trapdoor .
So when the door springs and you're hanging there , the last thing you see...is the shoes .
That's why it's unlucky !

Autocorrect fouled up what I was trying to say earlier!
*It is to do - not "it is too so"
And *not umbrellas up - not "note umbrellas"

70 that’s interesting, why give them new shoes?

I have searched and can’t see who I’m inviting in if I do laundry. Could be someone horrible!