Why you shouldn't do any laundry on New Year's Day

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

We've all heard about it being unlucky to leave your decorations up after the Twelfth Night, but what about laundry. Well it seems there are a number of superstitions around doing your laundry on New Year's Day and none of them are good.

In fact, if such superstitions are to be believed, doing laundry on January 1 will wash away any good luck for the following year.

Some believe a member of the family could be washed away - or die - during the year too. It's not known where the bizarre superstition originates, but many people do seem to observe it.

Some have even been known to avoid washing the dishes for fear of the superstition coming true. One Manchester mum told us she hadn't heard about it until seeing a Facebook post about it - but will obviously be following the advice. "I'd never heard of it but it was on a discussion on a Mrs Hinch page on Facebook," she said. "I'm 100% following it and there will definitely no washing in my house." The New Year's superstitions don't however stop with laundry.