Every New Year's Eve day , for over 20 yrs now , I wake up , get shower/ coffee/ dress my best , and I go to whatever town's I live in bookstore . Last 11 yrs at same Barnes and nobles .
My budget is 1k, and I get everything my heart desires , my new friends to be , I stock for the whole year pretty much . I like to go dress up and like looking my best , i want my new books to like me , and to like my house too . ( I clean the house to death the night before ).
I used to stop at local pub for 7 years and have a nice Campari afterwards , but now this place is gone ?
I bring my treasures home , I seperate them in order I want to read them , and that makes me happy ?

Once a month, on the full moon, friends and acquaintances here on Kauai meet on the beach to watch the moon come up over the ocean, and we eat, drink and talk story till the moon gets high in the sky. I didn't join in this tradition until 2010, though it's a tradition that's been going on for many years.

My girlfriends from High School meet every Thursday at a certain Pub in Edinburgh. When we started going out with boyfriends way back in the 1960’s, we always kept Thursday nights free from dates so we could all go out together one night a week. There were six of us , and In those days we used to each take a turn to choose a venue....there are hundreds of pubs in Edinburgh so we rarely visited the same one twice, however after we all got married it was decided that we should choose a favourite one in a central location and still meet up at 8pm there on Thursdays. Only four of them still live in Edinburgh and they are able to meet every week, one lives in a different part of Scotland and travels most weeks to meet them. I am the only one who now lives outside Scotland and can only join them once or twice a year when I get over from Northern Ireland.....but whenever it is, no matter the weather, summer or winter, I know if I walk into that bar on a Thursday night I will get a great welcome and it’s just like I’ve never been away. This has been our Thursday Girls’ Night Out for 55 years....!

Five of my closest friends and I have a yearly holiday tradition. We buy each other gifts but we can't go higher than $5. We score at places like Goodwill, recycling centers and consignment shops. We find the coolest most unique gifts! There is one that Sandy made all of us last year. She used her own discarded wine bottles and got a year end sales on the Christmas lights. I love my friends!

Good table manners. From my British ancestors.

My aunts were members of the snobby Daughters of the American Revolution, that I refused to join.

My girl group used to get together to smoke vanilla cigarettes, drink cosmos, and laugh at the women who have cosmetic surgery...we have done this since we were freshmen in 1972..only now, we don't smoke, drink or laugh about those women who had surgery...we talk about our own! ha ha

That sounds like a great time! I must be a stick-in-the-mud, I don't have any traditions. ?

That sounds awesome! I have nothing like, maybe I'll start something with gfs