Finally, all the repairs have been completed, your apartment is fully ready to live comfortably in it, it's only necessary to make a ritual of settling, which marks a housewarming. We did not come up with this celebration, and we should not cancel it. In addition, housewarming is another wonderful occasion to meet with your friends and family.
Traditions of housewarming
Like any holiday, housewarming has its own traditions, which will be discussed further. The most famous and common is the tradition of letting a cat into the house first. Firstly, our ancestors identified it with a certain manifestation of evil spirit, so if a cat settles in the house, then no outside influence of evil to the inhabitants of this house is scary. Well, and secondly, its role in this, of course, played a fabulous intuition of cats, because if the cat had a place to taste, then people will live well.
Who from ancient times was considered the patron of comfort and well-being in the house, so it's a house. They say that if the family has good relations with him, then the family is in peace. Therefore, older people recommend that when moving to a new apartment to feed a housekeeper in an old dwelling, and that he went with you to a new place of residence, you just need to take an old broom with him. However, with the arrival of high technologies in our lives, it is likely that taking a brownie with you should be done with a vacuum cleaner.
And, of course, as without a festive table. The meal at the festively laid table will help you establish yourself in a new place and get used to the idea that this is now your house, will appease the brownie (so that he does not think you are stingy and do not want to be wasted on the table), will put coziness in the housing itself. This is what our ancestors thought. The table does not necessarily have to break with all sorts of gastronomic delights, you can get along with a modest lunch for the closest ones, however, an obligatory element on the table should be a loaf of bread, well, or regular bread if you can not find real ritual bread in a modern metropolis.
Remarkable housewarming
Everyone knows that past generations were great lovers of all kinds of admissions and superstitions. So it seemed more interesting to them to live. It was not without housewarming. The whole diversity of such decisions is divided into several symbolic groups:
- signs of animals;
- signs of wealth;
- signs-jokes.
About the admission to a housewarming to let in the first cat in the house has already been mentioned, but this does not end the work of the cat in the new house. They say where the cat settles, there should be a bed. It was believed that the cat on this day chooses the most favorable for the family members of the place, focusing on the energy of these places. Earlier, people before the house for the night locked in the house of the cock, supposedly his morning singing would certainly expel all the evil from the room. Today, this sign for housewarming is used mainly in villages and towns, but some contrive to admit the cock into the house and in the city. To do this, they believe, the first thing you need to do is make a refrigerator, and put the cock in the freezer. Let and does not sing, but "disinfection" of evil spirits will hold.
Bad sign for a housewarming - to give money. In order to attract wealth and prosperity to the new apartment, guests simply need to drop any coin they find in their pockets through the threshold, this kind of money rain will start, and then everything depends on the inhabitants of this house.
How to celebrate a housewarming party?
How to celebrate a housewarming is another important point that you have to decide. A distinctive feature of the housewarming party is that this is the most informal holiday, because the main entertainment at this party is your house. Spend an excursion, tell interesting stories about the repair, if there are such, of course.
How can you celebrate a housewarming without having tidied up in the apartment? That's right, no way. In this regard, your number one task is cleaning . In principle, for a housewarming it is quite enough of a clean house, a laid table, a pleasant company. At will, you can dilute conversations with some contests and entertainment. And most importantly - do not forget to invite your neighbors, friends will break up, and with your neighbors you will still live.