If you didn’t have such a great 2013, today’s the day the take it to the curb.
The seventh annual Good Riddance Day is happening in Times Square today.
It’s a way for New Yorkers to say so long to bad memories from the past year.
You write down what you want to say goodbye to, and then all those good riddance notes are shredded or hit with a mallet.
The shredded paper is then used as confetti.
“It’s cathartic,” said Gary Winkler, vice president of events and programming for the Times Square Alliance. “People take a look at things in their life, whether it was bad health, family members, problems they had with the people in their life, a boss they didn’t enjoy, something like that.”
“It’s about letting go of the negative things from 2013 and from the past,” said Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance. “All these retrospectives looking back over the past year, some, it’s about what were the highlights, but it’s also what were the lowlights, and this is a chance to get rid of those lowlights.”
The event is loosely based on a Latin American tradition where New Year’s Eve revelers stuff dolls with bad memories from the past 12 months and then set them on fire.
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