Out with the Old, in with the New!

MONDAY, 12/28:

THE BAD MEMORIES WERE DESTROYED –

EVERYTHING FROM PINK SLIPS

TO PHOTOS OF OLD LOVERS –

IN THE HEART OF TIMES SQUARE

a $250 Grand Prize was awarded for the Most Creative Entry!

The first 100 participants received a Special Gift!

The co-organizers of New Year’s Eve in Times Square (Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment) invited the public to say goodbye, once and for all, to those bad memories of 2009 at the Third Annual GOOD RIDDANCE DAY.  On Monday, December 28, 2009 from 12pm - 1pm, a dumpster,shredder and sledge hammer were stationed on the Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets to discard any distasteful, embarrassing and downright depressing memories from 2009.

It's time to line to up to say goodbye to everything from disappointing report cards to CDs with a song you never wanted to hear again to fattening foods you've sworn to renounce – anything with a bad memory from the previous year. A dumpster will be available for those un-shreddable items, and a sledgehammer will be on-hand to pulverize all those bad memories away.

Participants were also invited to write their bad memories on stationery available on-site and watch as those awful recollections got sliced into shreds. A Grand Prize of $250 was awarded to the Most Creative entry.

Good Riddance Day Online!

Couldn't make it to Times Square on December 28th to join us in person for Good Riddance Day? Feel free to submit your Good Riddance entries online right here!

Memories from Good Riddance Day 2009

Alissa Yakelevits claimed the $250 Grand Prize for the Most Creative entry for saying "good riddance" to her camp leader who appeared on America's Most Wanted.

Chloe Anello said "good riddance" to "her SSAT book".	The Kreidler Family "good riddance" to "bad stuff in general".

Ben Winnick said "good riddance" to the New York Giants' football season.	Johnpaul Chulliyil said "good riddance" to "laziness".

Joelle Lumbroso from France said "good riddance" to "cellulite".

Thanks to the 100+ New Yorkers and visitors from around the world who joined us in mashing a year’s worth of bad hairstyles, loathed music, fashion disasters and ill-fated romances into an unrecognizable pulp of bad karma and negative vibes – which will then be carted off, never to be seen again.

Because sometimes, you just need to let go.

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