New Years Traditions

[eddiememphis]

What are yours?

Mom used to make us eat black eyed peas for good luck throughout the upcoming year.

Dad used to change the smoke detector batteries.

I enjoyed the Twilight Zone marathon on Syfy.

[ray1970]

We did the black eyed peas as well for luck. We also had cabbage which I think was for money or prosperity for the new year.

My best New Years were when I was in my twenties. I would always get together with my brothers and a select group of good friends and we would gather at my moms house for the evening. Once you arrived there was no leaving until the next morning. Not because we were all big drinkers but because we loved each other and didn?t want anyone on the roads with the potential for others to be driving around drunk. Good times.

[CS1983]

Ya'll from the south?

[ray1970]

Maybe.

They don?t do black eyed peas, cabbage and corn bread around here?

[00tec]

Wife does the black eyed peas thing occasionally.

Literally, as I type this, she mentioned it.

Yes, we're from TX


I'll change the smoke detector batteries when they chirp, no sooner. About to the point where I rip 'em all out and replace them all with a different brand anyway, mine are too sensitive and go off at random.

[eddiememphis]

About to the point where I rip 'em all out and replace them all with a different brand anyway, mine are too sensitive and go off at random.

Check the date on them. They are only good for ten years.

[00tec]

Check the date on them. They are only good for ten years.

My house was built 4 years (ish) ago.

They seriously go off on a whim. The other night, I was about to start start cooking and they go off (stove not even on). Got a alarm for smoke (not CO).
We can't even make toast without the vent hood on most of the time.

[ray1970]

I'll change the smoke detector batteries when they chirp, no sooner.

So, at 3 a.m. on some random Tuesday we?ll find you swapping batteries?

[00tec]

So, at 3 a.m. on some random Tuesday we?ll find you swapping batteries?

That's why they're on the counter next to the coffee pot. I sleep like shit anyway, may as well have an excuse.

[beast556]

My house was built 4 years (ish) ago.

They seriously go off on a whim. The other night, I was about to start start cooking and they go off (stove not even on). Got a alarm for smoke (not CO).
We can't even make toast without the vent hood on most of the time.

Smoke alarms are cheap and very easy to change out, if they are that much of a pain invest 150$ in a different model. My house is around the same age as yours and definitely don't have the same issue.

Now as for new years traditions, when I was younger and before I had a family my tradition was to smoke as much weed and drink as much alcoholic beverages as I could.