12.29.2008

Out it all goes


New Yorkers put the tanking economy at the top of their list of things to forget about 2008.





Scores of people headed to Times Square Sunday to feed this year's bad memories through an industrial-sized paper shredder on the second annual "Good Riddance Day."





"I'm shredding my 401(k)," said Barbara Backer, 55, a recently retired professor from Manhattan...

[From '08 goes straight in the shredder]

Also into the shredder: Bank statements, letters from former lovers, and a sock without a mate.



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