What are your....

[houseelf]

superstitious habits?

I hate to admit it but I'm fairly superstitious...

I read my monthly horoscope
I pray to St. Anthony when I lose things
I wish upon finding pennies and always throw them into fountains


What do you do?

Kelly

heh heh

i read my horoscope too. for sure. i always put on my seatbelt, too, which is a no-brainer, but i was really really bad about it for a while. but everytime i find myself driving without it, even down the street, i allow my imagination to take me briefly to what could happen body-wise in the case of an accident. it's a little ritual to remind me how i value being in one piece, without a broken pelvis or clavicle. let's see... what else. hm. i guess that's all.
i'm so uninteresting.
oh well.

[Auspicious]

I'm definitely not superstitious, but I do say "knock on wood." That's as much out of a genuine belief in not taking things for granted as it is out of a superstitious belief, though, so I'm going to count that one as a half-superstitious habit.

[PrincessFiona]

Julie...me too!

[BonBon]

I worry about everything. I'm convinced that I caused my son's congenital hypothyroidism b/c I didn't worry about the newborn screen tests. Didn't give them a second thought. But, I DID prevent him from having Down's, cystic fibrosis, spina bifida, cleft palate, etc because I worried so much about it!!! Yeah, I know I'm a freak.

[SueC]

I say knock on wood as well.
Also, I make a wish if I look at the clock and it says 4:44, or some other repeating number.
I make a wish whenever I fix my necklace if the clasp has worked its way to the front.
I wish on the first star I see, if I happen to notice.
I say a prayer every time I see an emergency vehicle with its lights or sirens on.

I say a prayer every time I see an emergency vehicle with its lights or sirens on.

I do that too! I'm not generally superstitious though, although I am definitely the world's biggest worrier!

[Sheherezade]

I read my horoscope and marvel when it is correct. I learned how to read palms for fun and then actually got sad when my fate line fortold a ho-hum future. I have convinced my kids that we all have past lives through random comments about what they were in the last life, etc. Pretty sad for a PhD in
neuroscience, huh? Is it circular reasoning to use the fact that I'm a Scorpio to excuse my obsession with the occult?

Angie

Is it circular reasoning to use the fact that I'm a Scorpio to excuse my obsession with the occult?

Angie, that's funny.

I guess I'm not that superstitious or at least I'm not that organized in my superstitions. I just find the occasional random thing to latch on to and obsess about.

[Phoebe]

I say "knock on wood" and I try not to step on a crack to avoid breaking my mother's back. My strides are interesting when I am running on a sidewalk.

Jennifer

I read my horoscope and secretly want to get my fortune told/palms read.

I make a wish when the clock says 11:11 (my dorkiest one I think)

We have a lot of silly superstitions at work (an investment company), e.g. we like to attribute the market going up or down to who's in or out of the office or to what we're wearing. There was actually a day where we decided that if all the women wore skirts, the market would go up.

My mom is Chinese and she's very superstitious: crying on a birthday ruins your whole year, wearing red is good luck (but never wear it when someone dies).... when my uncle died, she wasn't allowed to enter any of her friends' homes because she could carry her family's bad luck to them.

Personally, I am not superstitious. Although, I did have a friend once, when we were playing football and winning that never washed the shirt under his shoulder pads....damn, he smelled.....p-u. There were other things too, socks, jock-straps....all things you hear about in stories, unfotunately some are true and there were many a stinky player before the game even started!

[SueC]

My mother-in-law is the queen of superstition (might be related to culture). We couldn't get married on the 13th, so got married on June 6th instead (which was kind of a pain to get married on THE day of the Iowa Pork convention in Des Moines, IA--there were hardly any reception spots to be found!). Also, apparently it is good luck for rain to happen on the day of something important like birth or getting married. When moving to a new home, the first thing she brings into the house are salt and rice (at least I think it's those two things). It is good luck for a baby to have only one crown in the center of their head (that is that swirl that their hair creates). That's all I remember right now, but she is just full of them!

[DCJenn]

hmmm-

it's bad luck to spill your drink?

no- that's something else.

Jenn

I'm definitely not superstitious, but my hubby will do crazy things like shave all the hair off his head and vow to keep it that way until he passes his boards or decide to not shave during hunting season until he gets his first deer. He's weird.

By the way, what does "DH" stand for when people are referring to their spouses?? I'm too lazy to try and figure it out right now.