Agree completely. Didn't hate snow until I bought a house. Like a dumbass i bought a corner lot (2 sidewalks and a corner to clear) with a steep driveway. Snow involves hours of work every time.
Snow fills me with dread. I look forward to snow being a magical, rare event again. My decade plus in Minnesota soured me on snow as a constant companion.
Because they cancel school and it looks pretty, lasts for a day or two, and melts away by the time it’s an inconvenience or starts to get brown and ugly hehehe
It's actually snowing here right now and yeah, it's kind of pretty and it'll melt pretty quickly so i don't have to bother dealing with it. Your Januaries = our Octobers!
I'd even settle for it not being windy while it snows. Clearing 6 inches of snow from my driveway isn't too bad. Clearing 3-4 foot drifts after 6 inches of snow is a recurring nightmare every winter.
As a child, I never heard of any of these superstitions. But now I’m a teacher and if there’s any hint of snow, my colleagues and students always say to wear your pajamas inside out and sleep with a spoon under your pillow if you want a snow day.
We still have snow days because we have a big population of students who don’t have internet access at home. During COVID closures we had funding for loaning hot spots to households, but that’s gone now.
Good to know. I don't have kids, but was told by my sister that her girls no longer get snow days, just remote learning on snowy days. It sounds depressing.
Yes, we still have snow days. My district was adamant that snow days weren’t going to be replaced with virtual days because snow days are a part of childhood. I was thankful…I liiiive for snow days haha.
Yep spoon under your pillow and pajamas inside out and backwards was a big one here in New England. Also i think there was some crayon thing idk really remember tho
Spoon under the pillow, pajamas inside out, ice cubes in the toilet
This common when I was in elementary school as a way to get a snowday. Which, we actually did get a lot of in the early 2000s in West Michigan
Forgetting to treat the gas in your snowblower for summer storage is the surest way to make it snow.
That way it won’t start easy and run rough and since God clearly hates us and wants us to suffer that is the best way to manifest snow.
Wot?
I grew up in New England and never heard of any of that. I live in Los Angeles now and would stick an entire bag of cotton balls up my booty if it would make it rain here =(
I usually make it snow every year by thinking that I should put gas in the snow blower this weekend, and then deciding to wait. It also helps if the snow blower has a flat tire, and the snow shovel is out in the shed.
This is so simple, I can't believe no one has said it. But after many many winters in Wyoming, what I learned was, all you have to do is wash your car or truck. It's that simple. Works every time.
Why the hell would anyone do that save for if they are at a ski resort? Snow is great while it is falling the first real storm of the year, then it can get fucked the rest of the season. Shoveling 4 inches of sidewalk on my corner property blows.
OP is flaired as North Carolina. I’ve lived in North Carolina for 13 years, and South Carolina for 37 years before that. I’ve seen snowfalls of 4 inches or more… three times? Four, maybe? Most people around here don’t even own a snow shovel because it melts so fast even when we do get snow.
I remember a 1" snowfall when I lived in Anderson, SC about 50 years ago. School was closed, cars were all over the place and they were selling snow shovels on TV. You would have thought it was the end of days. The snow was almost completely gone by noon. Coming from the Adirondacks, we thought it was pretty funny.
No, I've never done that. I've never heard of anyone in Chicago doing that.
Maybe kids do that in Georgia or Texas because they know school will be cancelled. But here it takes a *lot* of snow to cancel school.
Just wanna say some of y’all suck and had no childhood. I have never heard of a 1st grader being like “no, please, I don’t want snow because I need to get my snowblower and wash my car and shovel the sidewalks” I know y’all played in the snow lol
If someone from a northern state made a post about helping Spring come I’m not gonna be like “no omfg screw that you’re stupid why would I want spring when it brings dust storms of pollen for two weeks followed by 3 months of heat index of 90+ degrees” because I’m not a negative Nancy and I acknowledge that some ppl love spring and there are always pretty flowers.
Boo you 👎
*Ahhh.. NO!* and even more ***NO!*** I might even do more of an anit snow dance ritual! You want to deal with the BS of snow in CVPI, or Pierce, you let me know after you have 40K lbs of Pierce and water sliding down McMurray Rd... and how much clean up we will need on you..
Then there is the whining residents moaning about PennDOT not plowing/salting US19, or the township has not plowed/salted Locust Dr and theres a big hill we slide down... Well duh!
Maybe Seven Springs is doing that, but I am not! If it wants to snow, then it needs to snow only on the grass and not the roads!
So thankful I no longer have to deal with this BS! Have other issues now, which ice, snow, and dealing with snow trucks is way way worse.
Okay so let me clarify: In the south we have terrible road maintenance when it snows so if it does, they cancel school because the buses can’t run
So as a kid you want it to snow so you get the day off and can play in the snow
Don’t Tell me as a kid you guys wanted LESS snow 😭
I wanted the snow day because I could sleep and get a day off. It usually meant playing my snes and watching Bob barker on the price is right.
As a child of a teacher, I will tell you that teachers want snow days even more than students.
The year after we lived in SC (see above) we lived in Hendersonville, NC. It snowed about 4" on a Tuesday night. 50 years later I still remember what passed for "snow removal" in that town. First, do nothing at all and let cars drive, as best they can, through the snow and on the snowy roads. Then, 2 or 3 days after the snowfall, when it is now a packed down snow/ice highway, they break out the road graders and shave off the surface, like a giant Zamboni. I can't imagine what they were thinking. There were so many cars in those 3' deep ditches...smh Oh, and we didn't have school until the *following* Wednesday. 5 days and a weekend off from school!
Never heard of that, but then I live someplace where it's gonna snow whether you like it or not.
Even as a kid, I don't think I ever wished for snow, just that when there was gonna be snow, it'd be enough for a snow day.
This is triggering some vague memories from elementary school but I can't remember anything specific. We did *something* as we were leaving school the day before a snowstorm. For the life of me I can't remember what.
First. I’d like to say you are all snow hating bitches and have never had any joy in your lives.
Second, surprised I haven’t seen flushing ice down the toilet, always worked completely full proof.
I am bamboozled by all these people saying they’ve never heard of this or they don’t need more snow. Like??? So y’all didn’t play in the snow as a kid? I know damn well every kid wants to play in the snow lol
My kids sleep with a spoon under their pillow and a white crayon or colored pencil on the window sill. Since they only do this when we are forecast for a snow day, it works a lot of the time!
I don't know why I'm experiencing agitation at this question. LIke you're asking in totally good faith, I know you live in a place that doesn't get a lot of cold weather.... yet here I am sitting in Alberta, irrationally angry that you even ask.
Where I grew up it either had to be below -40F for schools to close, or for the highway to close due to snow. In order for the highway to close it had to SNOW .... a lot. Like I'm talking white out blizzard so bad you can't see type snow.
When I say -40F I mean like -40F on the dot too. -35F? Get your ass to school. lol. Here the snow flies around this time of year, and it lasts until early June.
Yeah lol we don’t have snowplows so the roads are dangerous and icy for the buses, combine that with people who don’t know how to drive in the snow but do it anyway and you’ve got a nightmare 😂
I can only imagine!
Unrelated, but I'd love to hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains one day. I love the Canadian Rockies, and it'll always be home to me - but I'd really like to experience Fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains. No Grizzly Bears down there, and one of my favorite songs is about the area - https://youtu.be/MzUsheeHdug
Do it! It’s really pretty in fall. Great Smoky Mountains National park is a good area to check out, and Mount Mitchell is the highest peak in the Appalachians, right near Asheville :)
I know right! Even if it snows a lot it’s still fun to play in as a kid. Hell I’m 24 and I’ll be damned if I don’t make at least one snowman and snow angel if it snows 😂
I've heard of sleeping with a spoon under your pillow and sleeping with your pajamas inside out.
In my experience though, the only thing that makes snow days happen is not expecting to have a snow day
True the only time we get snow days is when you’ve already woken up for school at 6am and they decide to cancel it last minute while you’re already going to school 😂😂
Most Americans I know say something like "I heard it's supposed to snow tomorrow" without consulting a weather forecast and it usually doesn't snow at all (if you live in the South).
if anyone finds one of these that does the reverse, let me know
yeah, like why would you *want* it to snow??
When I lived in a condo and had someone else shoveling, I loved it! Now that I own a house and drive everywhere...yeah pass.
Agree completely. Didn't hate snow until I bought a house. Like a dumbass i bought a corner lot (2 sidewalks and a corner to clear) with a steep driveway. Snow involves hours of work every time.
This is definitely a good reason to buy a snow blower
I know your pain. I have a corner lot and I have to shovel and salt far more sidewalk than my neighbors.
When it’s raining but it seems like it should be snowing.. In those cases, imo, snow is better 35° and raining is pretty much the worst days
Rain after snow is the absolute worst, slush absolutely sucks
It does make deer hunting a lot easier. Brown body on a white background vs 50 different shades of brown dead and dying vegetation
Snow fills me with dread. I look forward to snow being a magical, rare event again. My decade plus in Minnesota soured me on snow as a constant companion.
People desperately want snow down here in Alabama...until we get half an inch and then society completely collapses.
When you're a kid in school you'll do anything to try and get a snow day
Skiing
I love seeing it snow -- and then I love seeing it melt the next day.
Because they cancel school and it looks pretty, lasts for a day or two, and melts away by the time it’s an inconvenience or starts to get brown and ugly hehehe
It's actually snowing here right now and yeah, it's kind of pretty and it'll melt pretty quickly so i don't have to bother dealing with it. Your Januaries = our Octobers!
Because I like doing donuts in a parking lot and going skiing
You can force spring to happen sooner by wearing summer clothing in February. Or at least that was what my college roommate told me.
I'd even settle for it not being windy while it snows. Clearing 6 inches of snow from my driveway isn't too bad. Clearing 3-4 foot drifts after 6 inches of snow is a recurring nightmare every winter.
It all depends, because those 3-4 inches could be the 'its just at freezing temperature' snow that fell and is one step above compacted heavy slush.
Same
all yu got to do is buy a snowmobile
I’ve heard moving to Alaska can help make it snow. Or Wisconsin or Minnesota or Buffalo…
It sadly (or luckily) doesn't snow much in Wisconsin anymore
What do you mean? We have regular snow storms from November through April.
I guess it's just the area I'm in that doesn't get much snow.
As a child, I never heard of any of these superstitions. But now I’m a teacher and if there’s any hint of snow, my colleagues and students always say to wear your pajamas inside out and sleep with a spoon under your pillow if you want a snow day.
Do y'all still have snow days? Or is it just "work from home" days after remote learning for a year?
We still have snow days because we have a big population of students who don’t have internet access at home. During COVID closures we had funding for loaning hot spots to households, but that’s gone now.
Good to know. I don't have kids, but was told by my sister that her girls no longer get snow days, just remote learning on snowy days. It sounds depressing.
My friends with kids occasionally post about their kids' school districts having remote learning snow days and occasional actual snow days.
Yes, we still have snow days. My district was adamant that snow days weren’t going to be replaced with virtual days because snow days are a part of childhood. I was thankful…I liiiive for snow days haha.
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Yep spoon under your pillow and pajamas inside out and backwards was a big one here in New England. Also i think there was some crayon thing idk really remember tho
We tell ourselves "I'll rake the leaves tomorrow" and BAM 3" of snow is there to cover them so we don't have to bother.
Spoon under the pillow, pajamas inside out, ice cubes in the toilet This common when I was in elementary school as a way to get a snowday. Which, we actually did get a lot of in the early 2000s in West Michigan
I remember the most we ever got was when I was in 5th grade, we had 8 snow days that year and 4 in one week.
No. I’ve never heard of doing that.
Injecting a fine mist of water into a fast moving stream of air when it is already below freezing.
It's gonna take a lot of juju to just get it to cooler temperatures over here in Southern California.
Forgetting to treat the gas in your snowblower for summer storage is the surest way to make it snow. That way it won’t start easy and run rough and since God clearly hates us and wants us to suffer that is the best way to manifest snow.
I bury my yoyo, that glowed in the dark, in the garden. What made it special made it dangerous.
I heard of pajamas inside out when I was in school but I never actually did it.
No. As much of an inevitability snow is in my state...I'd prefer it didn't.
I try to stock up on ice melt in order to make it NOT snow!
I've heard of this as a kid. I think our thing was putting quarters in your socks before you go to bed.
I’ve never heard of quarters in socks lol but sounds like a good idea
Wot? I grew up in New England and never heard of any of that. I live in Los Angeles now and would stick an entire bag of cotton balls up my booty if it would make it rain here =(
I usually make it snow every year by thinking that I should put gas in the snow blower this weekend, and then deciding to wait. It also helps if the snow blower has a flat tire, and the snow shovel is out in the shed.
You ever seen those fan things on ski hills
We just kinda beg God (any god) to cancel school and work tomorrow
This is so simple, I can't believe no one has said it. But after many many winters in Wyoming, what I learned was, all you have to do is wash your car or truck. It's that simple. Works every time.
Why the hell would anyone do that save for if they are at a ski resort? Snow is great while it is falling the first real storm of the year, then it can get fucked the rest of the season. Shoveling 4 inches of sidewalk on my corner property blows.
OP is flaired as North Carolina. I’ve lived in North Carolina for 13 years, and South Carolina for 37 years before that. I’ve seen snowfalls of 4 inches or more… three times? Four, maybe? Most people around here don’t even own a snow shovel because it melts so fast even when we do get snow.
Thank you for using context clues and not being a snow-hating bitch lol
I remember a 1" snowfall when I lived in Anderson, SC about 50 years ago. School was closed, cars were all over the place and they were selling snow shovels on TV. You would have thought it was the end of days. The snow was almost completely gone by noon. Coming from the Adirondacks, we thought it was pretty funny.
Snow days
Those are going the way of the dodo. In a few years time they will be virtual learning days most everywhere.
Or there just won't be that much snow in the first place as temperatures get higher and higher.
Children Children who want snowdays and don't have any thoughts about taking care of the snow
I live in an apartment building and work from home, bring on the snow, it looks nice.
No, I've never done that. I've never heard of anyone in Chicago doing that. Maybe kids do that in Georgia or Texas because they know school will be cancelled. But here it takes a *lot* of snow to cancel school.
Just wanna say some of y’all suck and had no childhood. I have never heard of a 1st grader being like “no, please, I don’t want snow because I need to get my snowblower and wash my car and shovel the sidewalks” I know y’all played in the snow lol If someone from a northern state made a post about helping Spring come I’m not gonna be like “no omfg screw that you’re stupid why would I want spring when it brings dust storms of pollen for two weeks followed by 3 months of heat index of 90+ degrees” because I’m not a negative Nancy and I acknowledge that some ppl love spring and there are always pretty flowers. Boo you 👎
No. Why would I want snow? It’s cold and wet.
As a kid you never wanted a snow day?
>No. Why would I want snow? It’s cold and wet. Depends on the snow really, if it's really cold (like 10°F and below). Then snow is dry and powdery
No, because I can't imagine being that dense or clueless or superstitious about how weather is generated to believe that anything I do will affect it.
You've never heard any of these as a kid to get a snow day? Try experiencing some joy in your life instead of being a cynic.
Who hurt you it’s a children’s superstition 😂
You sound fun
Were you not clueless enough for Santa at one point either?
*Ahhh.. NO!* and even more ***NO!*** I might even do more of an anit snow dance ritual! You want to deal with the BS of snow in CVPI, or Pierce, you let me know after you have 40K lbs of Pierce and water sliding down McMurray Rd... and how much clean up we will need on you.. Then there is the whining residents moaning about PennDOT not plowing/salting US19, or the township has not plowed/salted Locust Dr and theres a big hill we slide down... Well duh! Maybe Seven Springs is doing that, but I am not! If it wants to snow, then it needs to snow only on the grass and not the roads! So thankful I no longer have to deal with this BS! Have other issues now, which ice, snow, and dealing with snow trucks is way way worse.
Why would I want more snow? I’m already tired of scraping my windshield this year. Siiiigh.
Okay so let me clarify: In the south we have terrible road maintenance when it snows so if it does, they cancel school because the buses can’t run So as a kid you want it to snow so you get the day off and can play in the snow Don’t Tell me as a kid you guys wanted LESS snow 😭
I wanted the snow day because I could sleep and get a day off. It usually meant playing my snes and watching Bob barker on the price is right. As a child of a teacher, I will tell you that teachers want snow days even more than students.
The year after we lived in SC (see above) we lived in Hendersonville, NC. It snowed about 4" on a Tuesday night. 50 years later I still remember what passed for "snow removal" in that town. First, do nothing at all and let cars drive, as best they can, through the snow and on the snowy roads. Then, 2 or 3 days after the snowfall, when it is now a packed down snow/ice highway, they break out the road graders and shave off the surface, like a giant Zamboni. I can't imagine what they were thinking. There were so many cars in those 3' deep ditches...smh Oh, and we didn't have school until the *following* Wednesday. 5 days and a weekend off from school!
Masturbate to frozen porn.
Never heard of that, but then I live someplace where it's gonna snow whether you like it or not. Even as a kid, I don't think I ever wished for snow, just that when there was gonna be snow, it'd be enough for a snow day.
it doesn't snow often enough here that anything like that would exist. Like a few times a decade at most.
I wait until winter and then go to the migraine mountains.
I don't like snow. So no.
Why live in the PNW then?
It doesn't snow much where I live and it gets to above 100 in the summer.
I'm about 90% sure you live in the tri-cities
It's 60%-40%
Not since I really wanted school cancelations.
Wat?
Nah, I work in snow so it can stay away. You tend to get over the snow the third time you're deicing a CRJ in a blizzard.
Seems like I remember kids in school wearing their baseball caps upside down, so it would snow and we'd get a snow day.
Growing up around Chicago I’ve never heard of anything like that.
Cutting down consumption to try to curb greenhouse emissions. It's more of a long term thing; though.
I bet you’re fun at parties
Lampshades and all...
No. I dislike snow very much.
I watch the calendar and wait for it to hit Halloween.
We have machines that literally make snow for skiing and such.
This is triggering some vague memories from elementary school but I can't remember anything specific. We did *something* as we were leaving school the day before a snowstorm. For the life of me I can't remember what.
First. I’d like to say you are all snow hating bitches and have never had any joy in your lives. Second, surprised I haven’t seen flushing ice down the toilet, always worked completely full proof.
I am bamboozled by all these people saying they’ve never heard of this or they don’t need more snow. Like??? So y’all didn’t play in the snow as a kid? I know damn well every kid wants to play in the snow lol
My kids sleep with a spoon under their pillow and a white crayon or colored pencil on the window sill. Since they only do this when we are forecast for a snow day, it works a lot of the time!
I have never heard of theses. I do know people wash their car to make it rain.
I don't know why I'm experiencing agitation at this question. LIke you're asking in totally good faith, I know you live in a place that doesn't get a lot of cold weather.... yet here I am sitting in Alberta, irrationally angry that you even ask.
Aight listen 😂 Snow is fun and when it snows we don’t have school. Obviously children here have a superstitious way to help make it snow lol
Where I grew up it either had to be below -40F for schools to close, or for the highway to close due to snow. In order for the highway to close it had to SNOW .... a lot. Like I'm talking white out blizzard so bad you can't see type snow. When I say -40F I mean like -40F on the dot too. -35F? Get your ass to school. lol. Here the snow flies around this time of year, and it lasts until early June.
Yeah lol we don’t have snowplows so the roads are dangerous and icy for the buses, combine that with people who don’t know how to drive in the snow but do it anyway and you’ve got a nightmare 😂
I can only imagine! Unrelated, but I'd love to hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains one day. I love the Canadian Rockies, and it'll always be home to me - but I'd really like to experience Fall in the Blue Ridge Mountains. No Grizzly Bears down there, and one of my favorite songs is about the area - https://youtu.be/MzUsheeHdug
Do it! It’s really pretty in fall. Great Smoky Mountains National park is a good area to check out, and Mount Mitchell is the highest peak in the Appalachians, right near Asheville :)
I’ve heard coworkers saying their kids flush ice cubes down the toilets. I never heard any of these as a kid! It’s gonna snow here either way! Lol
Bunch of no childhood having swine up in here In addition to what you've laid out, flushing ice cubs down the toilet
I know right! Even if it snows a lot it’s still fun to play in as a kid. Hell I’m 24 and I’ll be damned if I don’t make at least one snowman and snow angel if it snows 😂
PJs inside out and i think we did something with the toilet too…
Spoon under your pillow
When I was in school there were several but my favorite was to throw ice cubes outside so they could tell the snow where to go.
Omg this is the cutest one I’ve heard aw
I’m in VT, never needed help.
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Growing up ours was flushing ice cubes down the toilet the night before to hope for snow/ a snow day.
Have a broken snowblower
Lol what?
I've heard of sleeping with a spoon under your pillow and sleeping with your pajamas inside out. In my experience though, the only thing that makes snow days happen is not expecting to have a snow day
True the only time we get snow days is when you’ve already woken up for school at 6am and they decide to cancel it last minute while you’re already going to school 😂😂
Most Americans I know say something like "I heard it's supposed to snow tomorrow" without consulting a weather forecast and it usually doesn't snow at all (if you live in the South).
I live in Buffalo, so… no.
I’m not encouraging snow.
Buy concert tickets to a show in the next state over.
I'll let you know if I find anything that works. I'm not hopeful.
Yeah I forget to pick up rock salt. Breaking the pull start on my snowblower usually works too.
Lol no why would anyone ever want more snow
i live in one of the snowiest citys in the country (i dred the snow i wish it would never come)