The idea for this post comes from a recent blog post from Seth Godin:
It doesn’t have to last all day–it could be for an hour or even a month.
How would you celebrate it? Who else needs to be part of it?
It’s a symbol, a marker, a chance for conversation. It can amplify culture, give you a chance to have a conversation and allow you and the people around you to focus on something for a short while.
And it might catch on. This is the way just about every widespread holiday came to be.
So I tried to come up with some possibilities:
- International Blogger Day – people around the world would be encouraged to read, like, comment, and follow a blog. The suggested starting point would be jborden.com
- World Juggling Day -oops, too late, it already exists
- Guinness Happy Hour – everyone in the world, at 5:00 pm Dublin, Ireland time on March 17, would drink a pint of Guinness. For thinking of such a day, Guinness would offer me a free, lifetime supply of Guinness.
- International Preschool Teacher Day – all preschools around the world would be closed and the teachers would be given the day off. Sales of wine would also increase dramatically among parents of preschoolers on such a day.
- WordPress Stat Day – every WordPress blogger would share an interesting stat from their blog.
- Thank an Accounting Teacher Day – anyone who has ever taken an accounting course would take a moment to thank, in cash, an accounting teacher. For those interested, I will share my Venmo account info.
- Borden Day – any person with the last name of Borden would be given free meals and entertainment throughout the day, up to a limit of $10,000 for the day.
- Trinity Day – a day to celebrate those individuals who blog, juggle, and teach accounting
- Swap Your Home Day – people living in beachfront homes must trade their house for a day with whoever asks first
Of course, the possibilities for a new holiday are limitless.
But before everyone gets carried away, let’s just start with the few listed above and see how it goes…
*image from Bustle.
I love how your list slowly escalated 🙂 For my, Guiness day would work just fine!
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cheers!
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Introverts day. If you are one, you get to be yourself. If you aren’t one, then leave us alone for a day.
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I’d celebrate that day, but no one would know…
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You wouldn’t want any one to know
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of course…
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I think on Borden Day, everyone should watch the movie about Lizzie Borden.
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it’s such an uplifting movie…
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I will take the Beach house day, thanks! 😉
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I thought you would like that one!
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You thought right! 🙂
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Now that I’m retired, I don’t like holidays much. I want the working class to kiss my ass, and keep working. Workers of the world must be productive, 24/7, so they’ll keep making the things I want to buy, with my pension money. No days off.
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I’m with you.
I’ve often thought that on my first day of retirement, I am going to walk around Villanova and silently make fun of all the people who have to work…
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Hee-hee.
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Scrooge!
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Bah!
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we could have a National Scrooge Day!
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Tippy would like that! He could head it up!
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someone has to head it up, why not Tippy…
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Lou Gehrig Day! For any bloggers who have eclipsed that milestone. The mailman has nothing on you.
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what does Karl Malone have to do with this? 🙂
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Borden showing off his sports knowledge. Karl “The Mailman” Malone—one of the great players and nicknames in sports. He was a guy who always brought it. Most people are surprised to learn that he is #2 on the all-time scoring list behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (though LeBron James may pass him this year). He scored more than Jordan, Kobe, and Wilt. (That fact should win you a bar bet.) Despite the unstoppable duo that he and John Stockton were with the Utah Jazz, they never won a championship.
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I knew he was good, but not that good! Someone else showing off his sports chops!
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He also played for Utah….
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he had a great career…
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I’ve seen him in person, at his car dealership. He is very tall.
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I’ve heard of a few football players how have opened car dealerships. I wonder what the appeal is…
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Money?
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of course… 🙂
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Ahem… The ultimate one has been invented: Festivus, for the rest of us 😀
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yes, an all-time classic holiday!
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i’d be the first to embrace ‘barefoot, glitter, flamin’ hot cheetos day, ‘we would celebrate the end of this special day by meeting up in a large tree for a surprise ‘go, dog, go style’ party. or does this holiday already exist?
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I think barefoot and flaimn’ hot cheetos day already exists. the glitter would make it unique…
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Kick it up a notch
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I like the Trinity Day idea. We could gather together all the blogger/juggler/accounting teacher people and the two of you could find something fun to do!
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I must find out who the other person is!
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How about ‘Who came up with this stupid idea for a day’ Day?
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I’d proudly celebrate such a day! 🙂
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Is it my imagination, or are some of these holidays ideas somewhat self-serving.
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I think it’s just your imagination…
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I invented S+4 years ago. The idea is to celebrate solstice on Christmas Day. Sort of an alternative to Christianity. One of the taglines was “taking Christmas back from the Christians”
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and is there an exchange of gifts on S + ?
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We’ll yes. S+4 is treated much like Christmas, but my kids revolted and it died a slow death. I made some window stickers with the S+4 logo and a few cars drove around Gettysburg for a several years.
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I can’t blame you for trying. But that was an uphill battle from the start…
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You triggered a memory: I think Guiness sort of did that. It was a 1 time event. I think they were setting a world record. I remember that you had to register for it. I didn’t participate and can’t find any info.
And, wow/duh… I just put together that the collection of world records is by Guiness!!
Quick google revealed National Beer Day, International Beer Day, and National Beer Lover’s Day… all with different dates.
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this would be called the Guineness Happy Hour, and would just last onehour, at least officially 🙂
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Ahhh… thanks for the info! Do you know the year? I feel it was before I was into dark beer.
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I can’t seem to remember that event…
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I think every current holiday should be banned and they should institute a Happy Grouch Day.
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We could add that to the other Holidays.
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You don’t have to pretend to be positive.
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with Oscar as honorary spokesperson…
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Oooo… I like this list! You should definitely get a lifetime supply of Guiness. And a day off.
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I knew you would like the preschool teacher day!
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Absolutely!
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I’m noticing a theme here, Jim. 😀
I think all the teachers need a day off, but also to have THEIR kids taken care of.
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that would make it a true day off…
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😃 Let me know how those ideas work out….
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will do 🙂
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I feel like there are holidays for everything these days, which kind of dilutes them.
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quite true. maybe we should narrow it down to Christmas, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, and my birthday…
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I’m fine with that. Only I would move Thanksgiving to somewhere in the middle of the year for balance.
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that seems like a reasonable accommodation…
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