copperbadge:huckleberryb:my kind of man ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) #isn’t this a thing?#my family won’t give
copperbadge: huckleberryb: my kind of man ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) #isn’t this a thing?#my family won’t give wallets or purses without money in them#it’s supposedly a good fortune thing#I dunno where it came from#but even when I was a little kid#my Rainbow Brite wallet or whatever#would have a couple of dollars in it#now I get a check! It’s totally a thing, Mum won’t give purses/wallets/coin-purses without money in them either and she trained me to do the same. My stepdad got me an RFID-proof wallet in a nice case and Mum was like “Sorry we had to open the box, we had to put some money in it” :D This and knives are the two gift-giving things she has superstitions about; you’re not supposed to give knives as a gift so whenever she gives me knives (I talk like she gives me knives ALL THE TIME but it’s not like that, it’s just she has on several occasions given me a new kitchen knife or a pocket knife) I have to give her a penny. Usually I know the knife is coming because I get a penny in with the card to give back to her. Mum says the best knives are stolen. But it’s rude to steal from people if you’re in their home, so both my paring knives and my nice fillet knife were stolen from my grandparents’ kitchens after their deaths. My Aunt (Japanese) says it’s really unlucky to give wallets as gifts if they have no money in them, so there will always be at least a coin- I think the story goes that an empty wallet will attract more emptiness and a wallet with money in it will attract more money.Irish Grandmother insists that knives are what you give to a person that you wish ill towards, and vinegar is a rude personal comment about the receiver’s resemblance to said sour condiment. -- source link