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Old 05-15-2010, 10:14 AM   #15237
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
During the day of Hogmanay the Scottish household would be busy cleaning so that the New Year could be welcomed into a tidy and neat house. It is considered ill luck to welcome in the New Year in a dirty uncleaned house. Fireplaces would be swept out and polished and some people would read the ashes of the very last fire of the year, to see what the New Year would hold. The act of cleaning the entire house was called the redding, ie getting ready for the New Year.

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ha! my Dad always called cleaning up "reddin' up!"!
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