The research team at NetVoucherCodes.co.uk have revealed the interesting and bizarre customs to welcome in the new year. Here are some of the more unusual ways people celebrate in other countries.
1. Italy
Italians believe wearing red underwear on New Years Eve will bring love, luck and prosperity.
2. The Philippines
Superstitious Filipinos will commonly turn on all the lights in the house on New Years Eve, to ward off evil spirits and switch them off after midnight strikes.
3. El Salvador
Many Salvadorans will crack an egg into a glass on the 31st of December and leave it on a windowsill overnight. The shape it has formed by the morning will predict the households fortune.
4. Russia
Revellers celebrate the New Year by writing down a wish on a piece of paper, burning it, throwing the ash into a glass of champagne or wine and drinking it at a minute past midnight.