Quirky family traditions

    Hi everyone, I’m curious: what slightly quirky traditions do you have at home? When I was a kid, someone always had to peel a clementine first at Christmas — apparently it brings luck for the coming year. No idea who made that up, but woe to anyone who forgot 😄

    Maybe you have rules that sound completely odd to outsiders, but in the family they’re just “the way things are done”?

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    In our family, the youngest family member present always had to cut the cake on birthdays—even if they couldn’t even hold a knife yet. The explanation was: “Otherwise, the cake won’t grow properly.” Of course, no one ever questioned it until a two-year-old nephew once sawed right across the cake.

    Even stranger: After every vacation, the car had to be completely emptied at home before anyone was allowed into the house. Apparently, this was so “the trip would be properly concluded.” Do you also have such fixed routines whose origins no one remembers anymore?

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