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For good luck usually, but some people do it just because they like the western look and feel in their home.

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It is considered good luck, as long as it hung so that it looks like a u, because then it catches the good luck. If it is up-side down, then all the luck falls out.

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The correct position is to have the open part of the U up so that you luck doesn't dump out.

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