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Food is often central to New Year's customs. In Ireland, they hit the walls and doors of their houses with loaves of bread. They hope this will make good luck enter the house and bad luck leave it. The Spanish and the Mexicans eat twelve grapes in twelve seconds - one for luck in each of the coming months Eating grapes so fast isn't easy, but it's fun and often messy!

Some people destroy things on New Year's Eve because they want to forget the past.

Iin Ecuador and Colombia People make a dummy and fillit with sawdust, newspaper, or old clothes. Ihey dress it, put a mask

on it, and name it after someone famous or a friend or family member. Then they burn it.

And some customs have no reason at all; they just develop over time. On New Year's Eve in Germany, several TV stations show a short black-and-white movie called Dinner for One. It's a comedy in English, starring English actors Nobody knows why they do this, not even the Germans!