New Year's Day washing superstition - can I fold clean laundry?

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Does the washing prohibition extend to all laundry related activities or just actual washing of clothes? Can I fold and put away clean laundry?

Always washed on NYD. 😆

Same! I'm not superstitious. 😁

Seriously?

I've never heard of this superstition. We've been away for 2 days in a camper van and will be putting a wash in as soon as we get home as usual.

Mine too! I've never heard of this supposed tradition.

I've just asked DH if he'd heard of this and he said his grandma wouldn't do washing on NYD or Sunday. As pp have said probably to give women a day off. My parents weren't superstitious but did First Footing for a bit of fun.

Just shows how quickly made up nonsense can spread on the internet

I'd literally never heard this one until yesterday evening when it cropped up on FB or somewhere.

I have walked under many ladders in my time, and here I still am...

Bloody silly. My washing machine is chuntering away now and I may even iron work clothes later.

Wouldn't it be cheaper for it to start then rather than finish?

I remember reading this exact thread a year ago today, having just put a load in the washer. Pleased to announce that 2024 was a pretty good year for me and my family.

But there is nothing more enjoyable than getting through the laundry mountain that has built up over xmas!

The weather is ghastly this morning, we live in the countryside and the outlook is gloom.

If i do the laundry I can end the day having achieved something before I go back to work.

I was thinking about this earlier when I was in the shower. Is washing yourself/hair etc also considered a big New Year no no?

Ive done the sweeping the dusting the washing emptied the bins scrubbed the bathroom and kitchen.
Tumble dryer is going.
Changed the bedding.
Having a coffee fag break befor i start early spring clean with a black sack and de clutter.
Ive never hurd of people not cleaning up because of new years day what crap is that.

🤣🤣🤣

Some of us are superstitious. Roll with it.

I need to finish emptying the kitchen cabinets for upcoming painting. Am I safe to do that?

Although I think the superstition is total pants, I am in awe of whichever Granny-Weatherwax type matriarch created the nonsense in the first place thus hopefully creating a bonus day off for a great many women through the centuries.

I've folded clean and dry, hung up clean and wet, and got another load on. I'm doomed. DOOMED I tell you!

The Bosch spiritual entity, that's who.

Put it on today and you just know the bugger is going to conk out.

Yeah, I can see how in the old days of hand-washing laundry, scrubbing brushes and mangels etc, it would have been a nice idea to have a day off. But chucking in some lights/darks on a 40C wash cycle... nah.

Funny how even the superstitious people pushing this bs probably still have a shower or wash their hair on 1st Jan. Because that's ok, for... reasons....

I think two separate superstitions have got muddled up personally. The ‘washing a soul away’ is actually for Dec 28th (Innocents’ Day), but the ‘don’t wash on New Year’s Day’ one is part of a more general superstition - that you shouldn’t wash or clean on NYD because else your whole year will be drudgery.

These seem to have got muddled up on Facebook and similar in recent times. I like superstitions, having studied them years ago. So, I abide by both superstitions, but particularly the Innocents’ Day one.

Maybe some of these superstitions should be followed? What about...

'You must drink a bottle of wine clear, to have a good year?'

One can't take the risk, so I'll go along with this one.

The whole thing is nonsense, just do your laundry as usual.

Oh dear I have just finished one load and about to put another in.

Plus i planned to change our bedding and maybe wash that too.

I must say I never do laundry on Chr Eve or Chr Day but that's not superstition, it's bc I hate having washing about the place on airers on Chr Day – I want it all neat and tidy*

*some hopes! but I do my best.

Ok now that sounds more familiar to me. Certainly the don’t be a dredge on New Year’s Day or you will be for the rest of the year. Fairly certain my mum told me that one.

But I am on a mission to declutter and if that involves washing, cleaning & hoovering, so be it.

I won't be adhering to any of that nonsense either, as I'm just back from a 5k run with the dog!