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Cheers! - Chances are, if you have roots in the South, you grew up spending New Year’s Eve cooking greens and black-eyed peas to shore up your bank account in the New Year. But there are tons of other New Year’s traditions. Read on to discover how people around the world will ring in 2015. By Kenrya Rankin Naasel  (Photo: Image Source/Corbis)

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Brazil - If Brazilians want to find love or have better luck next year, they wear red or yellow undies, respectively, as the clock chimes at midnight. They also wear white to scare away bad spirits.  (Photo: Harry Choi/TongRo Images/Corbis)

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Johannesburg, South Africa - In some areas of the city, residents throw old appliances and furniture out of the windows as they literally clean house in preparation of the New Year.  (Photo: annene/Getty Images)

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Romania - Romanian farmers perform a ritual that makes it easier to hear their animals talk. If they are successful in getting a few words out of them, they will be blessed with good luck for the next 365 days.  (Photo: Julia Thorne/Robert Harding World Imagery/Corbis)

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Ireland - Irish women put a sprig of mistletoe under their pillows to encourage better luck with men in the coming year.  (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

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Colombia - Folks here walk around the block at midnight carrying an empty suitcase to welcome a new year full of travel experiences.  (Photo: Tim Pannell/Corbis)

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Denmark - It is customary to leap off a chair at midnight to cast out bad spirits and embrace good luck.  (Photo: W2 Photography/Corbis)

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Russian - Russians write a wish for the New Year, burn it, drop the flaming paper into a glass of Champagne, and drink it down before the first minute of the year has passed by.  (Photo: Andrew Bret Wallis/GettyImages)

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Greece - Here, people hang an onion on their front door on NYE, then tap their children’s heads with it in the morning to wake them. It is thought to be symbolic of rebirth.  (Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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Spain - In Spain and many other Spanish-speaking countries, with each strike of the midnight bell, revelers eat one grape for each month of the coming year. It’s said to bring great luck.  (Photo: REUTERS /WOLFGANG RATTAY /LANDOV)