Superstition For A Win

I finally decided it's time for me to lose weight. Oh, the horror thinking about when a good day is to begin. My grandmother's voice was bouncing around in my head, "Never start something new on a THURSDAY. It won't be successful." It was a Friday when I decided I should lose weight, but that decision was just the beginning thought. I was not quite ready to actively begin losing weight. Now I was thinking about the best day to start.

If you had a grandmother like mine, then you know there is a superstition for everything. Most times I never paid any attention to any of the superstitions that littered my up bringing, but they do pop up in my memory from time to time.

My grandmother had warnings for everything it seems. I found her superstitions odd and funny. She would warn, "Never sweep a person's feet or they will run away." I would think how that could have anything to do with making a person leave their home. But at one time, this had to be a real concern. I was told if I dropped a fork while eating to expect a male visitor. I dreaded when I dropped a fork or spoon. The list of superstitions about almost anything was unending from my grandmother's lips.

For people trying to make sense of sometimes senseless things, superstition filled the gap of not having ANY control. It allowed for an opportunity to have good luck or avoid bad luck if only in that moment of performing or not performing a task. SUPERSTITION was used as a tool or crutch for surviving life's curveballs. The best superstition were preemptive ones. They were done BEFORE trouble came.

I heard a clever saying in a movie, "Trouble doesn't send a warning." For those who believe superstitions, trouble DOES send a warning.

Back to me trying to find the best day to start my weight loss journey. I really want it to be a success and I'm willing to implement superstition regarding the days of the week. Now you are invited into the world of superstition with me as I try to find the RIGHT/BEST day to start losing weight.

The old people used to have superstition about the days of the week. They said that Tuesday was an unlucky day for a wedding and that Wednesday was a lucky day for one. Saturday is said to be an unlucky day for flitting (leaving). It is said that "Saturday's flit is a short sit". There is a rhyme about the days of the week. This is how it goes: Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for losses, Friday for crosses and Saturday worst day of all. 

Grandma was right! THURSDAY is a bad day to start something new.

Thursday is not all bad though. Superstition states that Thursday is the luckiest day of the week to move into a new home. It brings good luck to move on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Sunday is the best day to move.

Followers of Islam try to avoid beginning any new enterprise on Wednesdays. For reasons long forgotten, Wednesday is seen as a bad day. Even today, many Muslims avoid even getting their hair cut on that day. And such important occasions as weddings are never scheduled for a Wednesday.

A familiar old rhyme preserves the old superstitions concerning the personalities of various children on various birthdays: "Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is sour and sad, Thursday's child is merry and glad, Friday's child is loving and giving, Saturday's child must work for a living, But the child that is born on Sunday is blithe and bonny, good and gay."

Do you know which day of the week you were born? Me neither. I could be walking around sour and sad because I was born on Wednesday and not because I'm a Debby Downer. It seems a lot of people were born on a Saturday. If I had to choose, I would be a Monday child.

Whenever I decide to begin losing weight, I won't begin on a Thursday. There is too much evidence showing THURSDAY is not a lucky day and when it comes to losing weight, I'll take all the help I can get, including superstition regarding the days of the week.

There are so many more superstitions and YOU yourself may be using one just because your sweet elderly grandmother gave you her loving warning for you to do so. From the book "Kentucky Superstitions", by Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas, I stumbled upon a few my granny used to say. Under normal circumstances, I don't pay any attention to superstitions. But desperate times calls for desperate measures.

Cutting Nails.

Monday for health.

Tuesday for wealth.

Wednesday for news.

Thursday for a new pair of shoes.

Friday for sorrow.

Saturday, see your beau tomorrow.

But you had better never been born than have your nails on Sunday shorn. (GRANDMA DEFINITELY WAS AGAINST CUTTING NAILS ON SUNDAY).

To cut the fingernails on Monday means health, on Tuesday wealth, Wednesday a letter. on Thursday something better, on Friday a wife, on Saturday long life, on Sunday means evil, for all of that week you will be ruled by the Devil.

To cut the nails on Monday will bring good luck.

If you cut your fingernails on Monday morning before breakfast, you will receive a present before the week is over.

It brings bad luck to cut the nails on Thursday.

If you cut your toenails on Friday, you will never have toothache..............Western Kentucky

If you cut your nails on Sunday, you will have a plague.

It brings good luck to have the nails pared on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. It brings, bad luck to have the nails pared on other days, especially Sunday.

Sunday

If you trim your nails on Sunday, someone will catch you with your clothes down before the end of the week.........................Mountains

You will have good luck if you are born on Sunday.

A person born on Sunday can talk to animals at midnight of old Christmas...........Mountains

It brings good luck to wear a new dress on Sunday...........................Western Kentucky

It brings bad luck to fish on Sunday.

Sewing

One will have to pick each stitch out with his nose that he sews on Sunday.

If you sew on Sunday, on Judgment Day or in hell you will have to take the stitches out with your nose.

It brings bad luck to use scissors or to sew on Sunday, unless you do not wear a thimble or unless you carry your work to a friend's house. Mountains

If you sew on Sunday, you will die on Monday.

It brings bad luck to iron on Sunday.

It is harmful to darn on Sunday, unless you cross your feet..........................Blue Grass

Journey/Visiting

It brings good luck to start on a journey on Sunday.

As goes Monday, so goes the week.

If you have company on Monday, you will have company every day in the week.

If you go visiting on Monday, you will go every day in the week.

Your whole week will be unlucky if you eat in a strange house on Monday.

If a man comes to your house the first thing on Monday morning, there will be good luck all that week.

If on Monday morning a woman comes to your house before a man, you will have bad luck all that week.

You will not have good luck that week if you start to work on Tuesday.................Mountains

It is unlucky to meet a left-handed person on Tuesday ..............................Mountains

Of course, there are several superstitions from other regions of the world not included because the list would be too extensive. We look to superstitions because we want good luck not bad luck. But we also know we cannot avoid every bad thing life is capable of throwing at us. 

If you have a favorite superstition your family or friends have told you to do or avoid, please share it with me, especially if it will help me on my weight loss journey which I began on a MONDAY.