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Bad Luck Swap- Open to Everyone

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Swap Coordinator:wordlesspoetry86 (contact)
Swap categories: Challenges  Miscellaneous  Photography 
Number of people in swap:6
Location:International
Type:None
Last day to signup/drop:January 23, 2009
Date items must be sent by:February 13, 2009
Number of swap partners:3
Description:

In honor of Friday the 13th, you will photograph yourself or another person doing things that cause bad luck (see bottom for a list). You don't have to actually have a person in the photo, it can be inanimate objects that cause bad luck.

You will send 2 photos to 3 partners for a total of 6 photos. You don't have to do 6 different things, though. You can send the same 2 photos to all your partners. For hearts, do something creative with the photos, like make an ATC out of one and a handmade card out of the other.

You can start taking photos as soon as you sign up, but I'm giving you three weeks to take the photos, get them developed, maybe do something creative with them, and get them mailed off via snail mail.

List of things that cause bad luck: - Walking under a ladder - Black cat in your path - Spilling salt - A five leaf clover - Putting a shirt on inside out - Red and white flowers together - Cutting your nails on a Friday - Putting a hat on a bed - A picture falling - Breaking a mirror - Stepping on cracks in the sidewalk - Crossed knives - Seeing an owl in the daylight - Wearing opal unless it's your birthstone - Spilling pepper - Opening an umbrella inside - Breaking a plate if it was uncracked - Mending a garment while wearing it - Spilling ink - Breaking a glass bottle - Passing anyone on a staircase - Leaving new shoes on a table

Feel free to suggest other superstitions in the comments section!

Discussion

mamajoy 01/ 4/2009 #

gifting a purse without a coin in it.

Willow 01/ 4/2009 #

same with giving penny loafers with no penny in them

SkippyMom 01/ 5/2009 #

OMG - I thought only my mother was a loon for the "hat on a bed thing"....ROTFL....thank you for putting that in.

Holy gosh...YOU HAVE NEW SHOES ON THE TABLE TOO! giggle...where did you find this list!

This is great! Nice swap!

wordlesspoetry86 01/ 5/2009 #

I compiled the list last year when I was going to do this on my own, so I'm having trouble remembering the sites on which I found them, but you can find several on the following sites:

http://www.socyberty.com/Folklore/Strange-Superstitions-About-Luck.94521

http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/common.html

http://superstitious-minds.info/Luck-Superstitions.html

littleboo 01/14/2009 #

this swap is so incredibly great... what about singing at the dinner table? or telling a dream on a sunday? or driving by a graveyard at night?

wordlesspoetry86 01/19/2009 #

You can do anything that causes bad luck as long as you tell your partner what you're doing in the photo. Some of them are obvious and well known- like opening an umbrella inside- but others are not well known and we need to know what you're doing!

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