Overview
- Guides for New Year’s Eve update classic practices with step‑by‑step timing, including eating 12 grapes at the chimes from Spain’s tradition, walking with an empty suitcase for travel, cooking or carrying lentils for abundance, and pre‑ and post‑midnight sweeping rituals.
- Outlets frame 2026 as a “year one” for new beginnings and share Feng Shui advice focused on decluttering, cleansing and targeted color choices, with some pieces promoting trending add‑ons such as vision boards.
- Color meanings dominate recommendations, with yellow widely used for prosperity, red for love or drive, green for health, blue for stability and white for renewal, while reports trace white outfits to Brazilian Candomblé beach rites honoring Iemanjá and some attribute yellow’s prosperity link to Asia.
- Celebrity versions help popularize variants—lentejas tossed and saved as amulets, underwear worn inside out, written “decrees” to burn or keep—reinforcing how social media spreads and standardizes these rituals across the region.
- Economists describe a seasonal microbusiness around these beliefs, estimating per‑family spending of about 25–50 soles, low entry costs near 200–300 soles and niche growth around 2–3%, as some advisors for 2026 even suggest favoring red over the usual yellow.