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So this isn't related to fandom stuff, although maybe you could use it for childhood head cannon stuff. It's just a weirdly fond memory of mine for my childhood and so I grip tightly to them since I barely remember my childhood thanks to ✨trauma✨ but I vividly remember a little thing my mom would do for us for St. Patrick's day. Now my family has a lot of Irish ancestry, so St. Patrick's day is meaningful to me as a lot of Irish culture is. I'm pretty sure this isn't a practice that other's do but yeah.. enough of me prattling, I'll explain the little tradition. The night before St. Patrick's day, my sisters and I would leave out one of our shoes outside our door before we went to bed that night (I always remember leaving out my left shoe) and then the next morning, there would be candies within the shoe. I always loved this but anytime I ever told someone about it that wasn't my family, I would just get weird looks. I think it was simply a little something my mom started to do for her daughters to give us a reason to remember smaller, less celebrated holidays... or maybe it was to give us something happy to do during her and dad's divorce. I remember being pretty bummed about missing that little tradition one year because St Patrick's fell on his weekend, but when we came back, I was overjoyed to see that one of our shoes were out and it was filled with candy. The tradition still continues and I do admit, if I ever have kids of my own someday, I'd love to do this tradition as well.
Also, doing some research about this, apparently leaving shoes outside your bedroom door is a thing for others but it's mainly for like Christmas or in Poland's case, it's a pagan midsummer tradition. You learn something new everyday lol!