718. To find money and keep it insures good luck through the year. _Talladega, Ala._
719. Put the first piece of money you get in the morning into your stocking, and you will have more to add to it before night. _Alabama._
720. If you find a piece of money the first day of the year, you will have good luck all the rest of the year. _Alabama._
721. If paper money is folded lengthwise first, it will insure the possession of money. If folded the short fold first, money will not remain in the pocket. _Alabama._
722. To make a sale in the first place where an agent calls is good luck. For example, a magnifying-glass worth three dollars was sold for seventy-five cents, in order to stop a run of bad luck by making a sale. _Massachusetts._
723. If your initials spell a word, it means that you will be rich. _Massachusetts and Ohio._
724. If the right hand itches, it is a sign you will receive money; if the left, you will spend money, because _R_ stands for receive, and _L_ for let go. _New York._
725. If the left hand itches and you rub it on wood, you'll receive money before the end of the week.
Rub it on wood To make it good. _Very common in New Brunswick and New England._
726. Itching in the palm of the hand means that it will soon receive money. Clap the closed hand into the pocket. _Mt. Desert, Me._
727. If you place your money according to value, _i.e._, lay it in order, you will be rich. _Bedford, Mass._
728. An old superstition pertaining to clothing is, that before putting on new clothes a sum of money must be placed in the right-hand pocket, which will insure its always being full. If by mistake, however, it be put in the left hand pocket, the wearer will never have a penny so long as the clothes last.
729. There's a "bag of money," or a "pot of gold," at the end of the rainbow. _General among children._
730. If you sew in the twilight, you will never be rich. _Miramichi, N.B._
731. If you mend or sew on a garment while wearing it, you will always be poor. _Bathurst, N.B._
732. Always shut the doors, or you will never own a house. _Salem, Mass._
733. Sparks in the soot on the back wall above a coal fire bring wealth. _Rhode Island._
734. Say "Money" three times at sight of a meteor, and you'll get it, or wish and you'll get it.