Since we share our home with one black cat and one tuxedo black cat, there's no room for being superstitious about this color feline! Both of these sweeties adopted us - they were ferals. Our eldest cat, who is orange striped, was also adopted this way.

Anyway...no, I'm not really superstitious although I do my fair share of knocking wood and things like that. More for fun than anything else!

When I was about 10 I was going to a carnival and my Dad gave me some money to play on the wheels - he told me to play #13. Well, I won a doll and also a set of cute ceramic "ladies' head" decorative thimbles (which I still have, pack rat that I am!) , so from that time on I always thought of 13 as my lucky number. I usually play lottery tickets on Friday the 13th, but never got around to it this time.

My mother's version was that if your nose itched, it meant you were going to have argument! If you dropped money, you were going to get money (Money on the floor, money to the door). If you dropped a knife, a woman was going to come see you (Knife, a wife).

My Italian friends have a LOT of superstitions. You can't come in one door and go out another at someone's house - gotta use the same door. And if you sneeze while talking, they always say (THAT'S THE TRUTH!)...in other words, sneezing confirms what you're saying. HA!

Jane, tahnks. I couldn't remember the rest of that one.

JJ, you are a stitch.

klmr, if that isn't kicking superstitions to the curb, I don't know what is.

I am not the least bit superstitious. To me, it negates faith.

I agree Dots, and I think everybody says them just have fun. I know when my grandbeauty sneezes, I always say, "scat cat!" Just to see her giggle.

JJ

My husband didn't know the "Bread & Butter" thing...until I did it. Then he started coming up with his own...his first was "Peanut Butter & Jelly", "Beans & Hamhocks", "Toast & Jelly"...now we looks for things to walk around to see what we're going to come out with.

I guess my only real superstition would fall under the category of "what you ask for". By that I mean when working outside the home some of the people I worked with wanted off and would say their Mother or Father or some other relative in another state had died. That way they could get extra days off with pay, no questions asked. I would NEVER do that, afraid it might cause it to come true....

chatty, that just has to do with being honest. I recall that stuff from when I worled outside the home too. I am so glad I don't ahve to think aobut those types of things any more.