The end of the year is the right time to make budgets and think about the future. But also to ask ourselves if we are lucky and to win over the sympathies of good luck. You remember the ancient custom of throw old objects out of the window on New Year's Eve? Well, even if the dangerous launch fever from the window has passed, the basic concept remains. That is, for make room for the best events of the coming year we have to eliminate the things we no longer need … even in the kitchen! Where in everyday life we ​​stack objects, foods and small tools with which we will have to reckon sooner or later.

So we start counting up to 10, eliminating these 10 things from the kitchen to make room for the new year's fortune!

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And now that we have made space, all that remains is to prepare ourselves to perform all the superstitious rituals foreseen by tradition. According to a Brazilian custom, the head of the family will have to throw a glass of wine behind you to remove misfortune. In Germany, however, no one goes to sleep on the last day of the year without having left it on the table a plate full of food as a sign of abundance and prosperity. The Greek custom wants every guest to come into the house break a pomegranate: the more beans will fall on the floor, the greater the luck is coming. When it is midnight, the Spaniards eat well twelve grape berries, one for each month on arrival.

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But it did not end here. Luck, in the kitchen, is also attracted with the right foods!
In the gallery below, the lucky foods that must not miss on New Year's Eve:
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