Snowy Superstitions

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, all right! Last year, school was closed 3 days early due to snow. The year before, snow blanketed the area a week or so before Christmas, before rain came and washed it all away on the afternoon of the 25th. I'm not even going to bring up the snowstorm that hit mid-January of 2010. Meanwhile, this year, it's actually been....warm?!
If there are any fellow Virginia residents or viewers from other snowless states who want to change the dreadful state of seeing grass and not white stuff, keep reading! I've decided to compile a list of snow superstitions. Some have brought snow...some haven't. Some are from friends, some were tested by me, and others are off the internet. Try them all, or just a few, and who knows? Maybe our longing for the white flakes will be fulfilled!

1. Flush ice cubes down the toilet. To avoid clogging, use small ones, or better yet, let them melt before dumping them in.
2. Wear pajamas inside out.
3. Put a spoon under your pillow. Variation: First put the spoon in your freezer.
4. Perform the Ceremonial Snow Dance. First, draw snowflakes in a circle on a piece of paper. Then, lay the paper on the ground and dance around it while making sweeping snowlike motions. It also helps if you mumble a poem or song about snow while doing this. I've tried this all the time-once, it actually snowed! Variation: Jump around outside in your inside out pajamas.
5. Type a poem or story about snow on your computer's word processor. The more you type, the harder it snows! This has worked for me too. Variation: Type "snow" 1,000 times on Microsoft Word. Yes, it HAS to be Word!
6. Freeze a white crayon and put it under your pillow. Variation: Put the white crayon in the window.
7. Light a green candle.
8. Sing "Let It Snow" in the shower.
9. Freeze a penny.
10. Run around the house with white toothpaste on your nose, screaming.
11. Yell "Snow Day!" into your freezer.


If you have any more, post a comment!
Internet sources:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080211141542AAx71H7
http://www.nbc15.com/blogs/amycarlson/35692079.html
http://www.proteacher.net/discussions/showthread.php?t=216761