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Topic: What are you superstitious about? Posted: 17 December 2010 at 9:54am |
I just realised how crazy I was when I got in the car this morning and turned the radio down because it was too loud. I looked at it to see what level I had turned it down to and it was 13 so I quickly changed it to 12! In my crazy mind I was thinking that having my volume at 13 would cause an accident. What a moron!
What are you superstitious about?
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 10:00am |
I wouldnt think I was a superstitious person BUT....I always throw salt over my left shoulder, wont walk under a ladder, open and umbrella inside AND you should hear me try to work out a wish.....I dont even like wishing for happiness incase I end up happy and someone else suffers etc. I am terrified of breaking a mirror...soooooo I guess not so unsuperstitious after all
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 10:05am |
I think it is bad luck to be supersticious
I spent the first two thirds of my life avoiding ladders, doing the salt thing etc and then i thought about it and realised i had had more than my share of bad luck in my life, so i stopped doing these things, and nothing has got worse. i even put umbrellas up indoors
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 10:17am |
Hehe, Susie.
I don't think I'm supersitious about anything. I can't think of anything, anyway.
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 10:30am |
Im not superstitious about anything. I dont really believe in that.
If i did believe in one thing, i would have to believe in them all.
I have broken alot of mirrors lately so its lucky i dont care lol
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 10:42am |
i dont walk under a ladder. i stand under it and stabalise it.
my neighbours black cat comes inside and gets comfy on our couch -so not worried about black cats.
birds often fly into our house.
i have broken 4 mirrors in my life - they cancel each other out
I wont open an umbrealla in the house. only cos it knocks the mirror off the wall
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 11:22am |
If I say something is going well, and dont want to 'jinx' it, i always knock on wood..
but otherwise I'm not superstitious.. just slightly OCD (my stereo volume always has to be in increments of 5  )
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 11:55am |
more of an OCD than superstition - volume on anything that has a number association has to end in 0, 2, 5, 8 (10, 12, 15, 18, 20 etc)
dont put umbrella's up indoors (not only that, but i dont really see the point considering there is a roof lol)
i do the touch wood thing when i think ive jinxed something
when i 'make a wish' im really meticulous about it (incase i get an a$$hole genie lol)
and 'dont count your chickens before they hatch'. i hate getting ahead of myself, but i always do lol.
ladders, mirors, birds in the house, black cats dont phase me (used to have a black cat lol. and birds for that matter)
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 11:56am |
I always doing silly little things.....just incase
Always knock on wood if I say something is going well.
Touch white when I see a ambulance with its lights on
Always open packets the right way up, ie if you open a bag of chippies with the label upsidedown its bad luck
(not sure where that came from tho)
Lift my feet up when driving over railway tracks (except when Im driving because that too hard)
If im doing some pricing for client quotes and the total has three 6's in it I adjust it slightly so it doesnt
 Im sure there is heaps more I do subconsciously, just cant think of them now
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 12:02pm |
I'd never even heard about the touching white / ambulances thing! Although I do hate seeing them go past. I feel a bit better about it now my cousin works in one, he says that most of the time they're heading out to situations that are scary and need to be dealt with (old people with chest pains, babies with bronchitis etc) but that work out well - I was imagining car crashes every time I saw one
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 12:05pm |
Oh I just remembered another one, I try to say "White Rabbits" on the first day of every month to give me luck for the month. Not sure if it's ever worked!
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 12:37pm |
since i've been pregnant i havent been able to bring myself to visit cemetaries.
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 12:51pm |
I hate things with three 6's!!!
I will touch wood etc, but only out of habit lol
Im a little OCD about things being...even and in place, like when I park my car the tyres have to straight when i hang a towel it has to be even etc. If Im putting something like hashbrowns in the oven there has to be an even number lol
I wont walk under a ladder lol
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 3:15pm |
MyLilSquishy wrote:
more of an OCD than superstition - volume on anything that has a number association has to end in 0, 2, 5, 8 (10, 12, 15, 18, 20 etc) |
Me too! but I don't consider myself particularly superstitious.
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 8:00pm |
I hate it that I look at the clock and it says 911 or 111 I always think its trying to tell me something but then I manage to look at the clock whenever its 911 or 111!
I do the touch wood thing and I tend to not say anything about baby sleeping well or not being sick for ages because it always seems to jinx it!
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Posted: 17 December 2010 at 8:12pm |
This is an interesting thread!
I never allow new shoes on the kitchen table, eg when DH brings home shopping and puts a box of new shoes on the table I go nuts!!!
I always throw spilt salt over my shoulder.
Never walk under ladders.
I always touch wood!
New toilet rolls have to roll out from the wall as opposed to down against the wall (thats probably more OCD though). If I am at someones house and their toilet rol is around the wrong way I change it
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Posted: 18 December 2010 at 7:58am |
What is this throwing salt over the shoulder thing?
I'm not superstitious at all.
Have a few OCD things tho, like saying "no trains" whenever I go over train tracks  not sure where that originated from!
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Posted: 18 December 2010 at 8:43am |
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Posted: 18 December 2010 at 11:27am |
omg I'm with you on the clock thing BeLoved!! Except in my case I keep seeing 12.34... happens just about every day!
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Posted: 18 December 2010 at 11:58am |
Nothing really, but re the volume control, always has to be 5 space intervals, or a even number so 5, 10, 15, 20... or 10, 20, 30... Lol
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