Overview
- At the first 12 chimes, many eat one grape per chime while setting monthly intentions, with outlets advising grapes be peeled and ready for a safe, smooth ritual.
- To attract money and travel, guides suggest placing bills in shoes and pockets and taking an empty suitcase outside right after the toast, sometimes with cash or a destination list inside.
- Prosperity foods and clean slates feature prominently, from cooking lentils on December 31 to eat at midnight or as the first meal, to burning an Año Viejo effigy to symbolically close cycles.
- Meanings and roots are emphasized: colored underwear signals goals (red for love, yellow for money, white for peace, green for health), grapes are traced to early‑20th‑century Spain, and lentils to Roman ideas of abundance.
- Modern spins surface in celebrity and Feng Shui tips, including Galilea Montijo’s lentil toss, Carlos Rivera’s inside‑out white underwear, Thalía’s written decrees, plus decluttering, vision boards and a touted champagne bath.