Like every month, December has its share of bizarre, whacky,
unique, and unusual holidays in addition to the legal ones with no mail delivery,
banks closed, etc.. Here are just a few
of these bizarre offerings.
1 Eat A Red Apple Day
2 National Fritters Day—perhaps apple
fritters, a way of using the left over apples from Eat A Red Apply Day?
3 National Roof over Your Head Day
4 Santa's List Day—hopefully you're on
the "Nice" list
5 Bathtub Party Day
Fill the bath tub with warm water, add some bath oil beads,
hop in, and soak—soothing and relaxing! Don't let anything disturb the peace,
quiet, and serenity of your bath. Turn off your cell phone and play your
favorite CDs.
6 Put on your own Shoes Day
7 National Cotton Candy Day
8 National Brownie Day
9 Christmas Card Day
Christmas Card Day honors Sir Henry Cole (1818 -
1874) of England who created the first commercial Christmas Card in 1843. Just
a few decades ago, sending Christmas cards through the mail was a holiday must
and it continues to be very popular. However, in today's society the cost and
time involved to write and send cards has caused many people to stop mailing
them. As a result, free ecards have surged in popularity.
10 Human Rights Day
11 National Noodle Ring Day
12 National Ding-a-Ling Day
National Ding-a-Ling Day—a very special day to "Ring your Bell". On
this day you need to brace yourself for bizarre and crazy behavior from all of the
people you encounter. Even normally refined and quiet people have been known to
go a little crazy on this day. Some people say this is a day for wackos,
lunatics, and others who are off their rocker. Maybe it's simply a day to cut
loose and act a little weird. For the record: Ding-a-Lings and Ding Bats
are not quite the same thing.
13 Ice
Cream Day
14 International Monkey Day
15 National Lemon Cupcake Day
16 National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Its a great day to indulge, binge, pig out, and consume your
favorite food to excess—chocolate. The timing of this day, during the holiday
season, couldn't be better. Today, we get to enjoy our beloved chocolate by
covering something—just about anything—in a generous amount of chocolate. Pour,
spread, or drizzle chocolate over cakes, cupcakes, pies, pancakes or waffles,
nuts, raisins, even ants (yes, some people actually eat chocolate covered
ants!). It's up to you to decide what's too extreme and how much is too much.
Does anyone really need any added incentive to enjoy chocolate?
17 National Maple Syrup Day
18 Bake
Cookies Day
19 Look for an Evergreen Day
20 Go Caroling Day
21 Humbug Day
This is the holiday that allows everyone preparing for
Christmas to vent their frustrations. Venting frustration over the stress of
Christmas is appropriate for this day, but Humbug Day is much more. It
brings out the Scrooge in all of us. Many Scrooges are negative towards
Christmas in general, and can put a real damper on your Christmas spirit. Use Bah Humbug Day to release the stress of
the holiday season, but avoid becoming a real Christmas Scrooge.
21 Look on the Bright Side Day
22 National Date Nut Bread Day
23 Festivus—for the rest of us
Are you feeling a little left out!? Then experience the joy
and the miracle of Festivus. It's non-denominational so everyone can
participate. The Festivus slogan is "A Festivus for the rest of us!"
And, that means you. Festivus came into being as the direct result of a Jerry Seinfeld
television show episode that first aired on December 18, 1997.
24 National Chocolate Day
Hopeful you haven't had your fill of chocolate with National
Chocolate Covered Anything Day on December 16th. Why are there two practically identical
holidays so close together? The reason doesn't matter. What's important is that
a celebration of chocolate exists!
25 Christmas
Day
26 Boxing
Day
27 National
Fruitcake Day
28 Card Playing Day
29 Pepper Pot Day
30 Bacon Day
In addition to December 30th Bacon Day, the Saturday before
Labor Day is International Bacon Day. Bacon Day and International Bacon Day
celebrates crispy strips of salted pork--bacon! This is a day to thoroughly
enjoy bacon at every meal. Snack time, too. It is recommend that you enjoy
bacon today in social gatherings. So, go ahead. Have a bacon party!! It appears
that Bacon Day in December and International Bacon Day evolved separately.
Remember—everything tastes better with bacon!
31 Unlucky Day
Hopefully December 31st is not unlucky for you, although it
will be unlucky for some people. It seems fitting that Unlucky Day is the last
day of the year. You get the chance to get all the bad things out of the way so
next year will be happy, healthy and prosperous.
Have you noticed? As
with the bizarre holidays for each month, there are more holidays dedicated to
food than anything else. For December,
this list shows 15 of the days connected to food. The complete list (multiple holiday
celebrations for a specific date) shows even more food holidays.
Wishing everyone a happy and healthy holiday season. And
Peace On Earth.
