Year of the Tiger money superstitions

• Celebrated widely across Asia and by people of Asian descent in other parts of the world, the holiday comes with many superstitions around wealth and luck.

Cheat sheet: Don’t clean your home during the first few days of the Lunar New Year — lest you want to sweep luck away. (Hopefully, you swept away bad luck prior to the day.)

• Eating sticky rice (to bond families) or foods wrapped to look like gold sycee (dumplings, for example) are also said to bring good luck.

When in doubt: Wish anyone who celebrates good fortune — or say, “Hope you get rich.”