New Years Eve

All around the world, people like to ring in the New Year in their own unique ways. In America, we have a weird tradition, too. It consists of eating yourself into borderline obesity for two months straight, then vowing to get back to your normal weight before totally forgetting that vow two weeks later. New Year's is fun. We're kicking off 2012 by rounding up ten of the weirdest New Year's traditions from around the globe.

Burning pictures, Ecuador: Burning someone's photo is usually reserved for bad breakups, but in Ecuador, that's how they ring in the New Year. Locals get together with pictures that symbolize something from the past year and burn it. It's a way of saying goodbye to the past.