Unlucky for some, but perhaps not for buyers
I am not superstitious in the slightest, so today’s date of 13 Friday holds no fear for me.
The warnings around black cats, magpies and horseshoes are all hokum to me. Avoiding walking under a ladder is the only pragmatic caveat I would add.
So I was surprised to learn that the superstition of others does have a practical overspill pertinent to buying. This story reports houses with the number 13 are typically worth £4,000 less than identical, neighbouring properties, because of the perceived misfortune they could bring.
This led me to think perhaps there are bargains for buyers in the dark recesses of the superstitious mind. How about travel buyers booking employees in seat 13 for train or plane journeys? Hotel rooms with the number 13 are bound to be cheaper.
Broken mirrors might be cheap too, but as they are broken, so that sort of defeats the purpose.
I have heard it is bad luck to receive a gift from a supplier on a Thursday, but what would I know? I’m not superstitious.
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I live at number 7, and have lived at several properties numbered 7 in my life. I am also very lucky. The question is: am I lucky because I live at number 7; or, is that because I am lucky, I got house number 7?
Different countries have different ideas about ‘lucky’ and ‘unlucky’ numbers.
“4″ is considered unlucky in China, Japan and Korea
“7″ is considered lucky in many cultures but not Chinese
“8″ is considered lucky in China and Japan
“13″ is considered unlucky in Western cultures but not Italy or China.
I’m sure that there are many others, so, if you are trading overseas it may be prudent to pick your dates!
Regarding number ’13′. I used to work in many restaurants and as you probably know every single table there has a number for staff to know what food goes where. And in non of the restaurants where I worked they had a table number ’13′… The next table after table ’12′ was always ’14′.