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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Amira Arasteh

The most Year of The Snake year there ever was: Our top 10 shedding moments of 2025

If there was ever a year for leaving things behind, 2025 was it. Not just because it was the year that said “but did you die?” but because, as the Year of the Snake slithers towards its exit, it’s hard not to notice how much collective baggage has been quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) dumped along the way.

While we may not have understood it at the time, this shedding of bad habits, tired opinions, stale careers and questionable relationships was all for a purpose – to set us up for the growth and prosperity of 2026.

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