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Traditions of the New Year Party & celebrations include the making of New Year's resolutions. That tradition dates back to the early Babylonians. Popular modern new years resolutions might include the promise to lose weight or quit smoking. The early Babylonian's most popular new years resolution was to return borrowed farm equipment. The tradition of using a baby to signify the new year was begun in Greece around 600 BC. It was their tradition at that time to celebrate their god of wine, Dionysus, by parading a baby in a basket, representing the annual rebirth of that god as the spirit of fertility. Early Egyptians also used a baby as a symbol of rebirth. Although the early Christians denounced the practice as pagan, the popularity of the baby as a symbol of rebirth for new years forced the Church to reevaluate its position. The Church finally allowed its members to celebrate the new year with a baby, which was to symbolize the birth of the baby Jesus. The use of an image of a baby with a New Years banner as a symbolic representation of the new year was brought to early America by the Germans. They had used the effigy since the fourteenth century.

Traditionally, it was thought that one could affect the luck they would have throughout the coming new year by what they did or ate on the first day of the new year. For that reason, it has become common for folks to celebrate the first few minutes of a brand new year with a New Years Party in the company of family and friends with personalized New Years Party Invitations. A New Year Party often last into the middle of the night after the ringing in of a new year. It was once believed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would bring either good luck or bad luck the rest of the year. It was particularly lucky if that visitor happened to be a tall dark-haired man.