To welcome the Goddess, devotees clean their houses, decorate them with finery and lights, and prepare sweet treats and delicacies as offerings.

It is celebrated in the evening with all family members participating in decorating and cleaning home as part of the puja.

During the days leading up to Diwali, people will clean, repair and decorate their homes to make them suitable for welcoming the goddess.

Then, diyas are lit, pujas are offered to Lakshmi, and to one or more additional deities depending on the region of India; typically Ganesha, Saraswati, or Kubera.

[4] Small earthenware lamps filled with oil are lighted and placed in rows by some Hindus along the parapets of temples and houses.

Important relationships and friendships are also recognised during the day, by visiting relatives and friends, exchanging gifts and sweets.

She is also worshipped in the form of banana trees (কলা বউ), designed clay cover of utensils (সরা), accompanied by a small boat containing five drums.

Lakshmi Puja is celebrated as a part of Tihar, a second national festival of Nepal after Dashain and followed by Chhath.

On Lakshmi Puja in Nepal, people buy gold and silver, precious gemstones, new utensils of copper, brass and bronze as a sign of good luck, prosperity, money and wealth.

Nepalese people perform this worship at a place cleansed with holy water, cow dung and red mud; they light the whole house with candles and lamps.

In the beginning of the puja, the houses of devotees are cleaned, and rangoli is drawn at the doorstep to welcome the goddess Lakshmi.

[7] While there is no consensus of the standardised ritual to pray to the goddess, variations of the puja exist across the regions of the Indian subcontinent as well as Southeast Asia.

Handfuls of grains are sprayed in the centre of the cloth and a kalasha made of gold, silver, or copper is placed on top.

Three-quarters of the kalasha is filled with water and betel nut, a flower, a coin, and a few rice grains are added to it.

Specially blended oils made for puja are used with its ingredients varying, depending on the deity it's being offered to.

Her idol is placed in a plate and is bathed with panchamrita (a mixture of milk, curd, ghee or clarified butter, honey, and sugar) and then with water containing a gold ornament or a pearl.

Flowers and garlands, such as lotus, marigold, rose, chrysanthemums and leaves of bael (wood apple tree) are also offered.

Adoration of the goddess is done by offering fruits, coconut, banana, doob-grass, amla, curd, turmeric, flowers, incense etc.