Overview
- Regional outlets update step‑by‑step advice on classics such as the 12 grapes, yellow clothing or underwear for prosperity, lentils for abundance, the suitcase walk for travel and color‑coded candles.
- Practical tips include peeling grapes before midnight, placing bills and coins in shoes or pockets, cooking or carrying lentils, sweeping from inside to outside and using canela to purify the home.
- Color guidance for 2026 emphasizes yellow or gold for money, red for love, green for health and white for renewal, with some pieces framing 2026 as a numerology “year one” and adding Feng Shui cues.
- Coverage traces origins such as Spain’s early‑20th‑century 12 grapes and Brazil’s Afro‑descendant Candomblé roots for wearing white, noting social media and celebrities popularize easy‑to‑replicate variants.
- Economists say cábala spending is small but visible, estimating roughly 25–50 soles per family on items like yellow garments, candles, canela and ‘baños de florecimiento,’ buoying short, mostly informal sales.