I've always kissed and made a lot of noise at midnight. I will not believe in the first footer one because if they have to leave through a different door, they will be jumping off the balcony...not a good way to start off the year
However, the wearing new clothes one I mentioned to jj and he just rolled his eyes. Oh well, it doesn't hurt to try to get a new outfit.
Anyway, in our family we always had ham and cabbage on New Year's Day. My mom would boil coins and put them in the cabbage. Whatever coins we had in the cabbage we put on our plate we got to keep. I think the only reason she did this though is so that I would eat the cabbage so there probably isn't anything superstitious behind this.
