Another Thing That Should Go Away With This Recession

Apparently people still pay hundreds of dollars on December 31st so that they can get drunk enough to forget what they did on New Years. Do people realize how much normal drinking that could be during the rest of the year? Or they could get a vacation, or give it to charity, or hey how about saving it. Perhaps 2009 will be the year that folks remember that saving is actually how people traditionally accumulate money.