Victoria F Allegedly Started Acting Like a Diva After She Was Cast on ‘ The Bachelor ‘Sam BeckerGoogle+ More ArticlesBut what about those days designed specifically for making you spend more money? Here are 15 of those bogus national holidays.
1. Most Americans might not have been familiar with National Splurge Day
4/4.1153 National Splurge Day. And for one reason this is designed: to get you to splurge even if you don’t want to. NPR’s Planet Money team recently created a radio report about the roots and intent of the holiday, and discovered that some crazy PR lady had invented it pretty much. Definitely heavy. And this is how many other inofficial holidays are coming to life. 2.
Small Business Saturday
4/4.1154 Just because a national holiday was made up of industry experts doesn’t automatically mean it is bad. For starters, take on Small Business Saturday. The aim is to bring people into spending money on local small businesses. It is a holiday that was born from American Express ‘ PR team. But the holiday’s aim of infusing some cash into local economies is nothing wrong with that. But the goal is still to get you to spend more money at its heart. It started in 2010 and is celebrated on Saturday after Thanksgiving a time frame that we will reference later on in the list. 3.
Record Store Day
4/4.1155 A day is supposed to get you off a streaming service and it’s not all bad when you are in touch with something physical. | iStock.com/dmilovanovic Another example of an industry day that doesn’t actually mean bad or stupid Record Store Day is intended to get you off iTunes and Spotify and into dusty vinyl or CD bins. This holiday in April has begun in 2007. Now that streaming is the standard product, music stores fight like never before. That doesn’t mean that trying to dig up a few physical copies of your favorite albums can’t be fun. 4.
National Eat Your Beans Day
4/4.1156 Do you love enough beans to mark their vacation? iStock.com We’re going from one type of music to another type of gaseous music. It’s fun to buy vinyl but eating a bowl of beans isn’t always a blast. But they’re cheap nutritious, and they need to be ordered. That’s how we ended up celebrating the National Eat Your Beans Day in early July. Who came up with this holiday is unknown, but you can bet that your beans have their origins in the farming sector. 5.
National 7-Eleven Day
4/4.1158 Maybe, on National Garage Sale Day, you can actually make some money. iStock.com National Garage Sale Day is rooted in entrepreneurship but not inherently in industry or organized business. As you may have guessed this holiday is reserved for garage sales nationwide holding and celebrating. If you’ve got a bunch of junk (or gems whatever) that take up National Garage Sale Day space is the day to get them to the curb and see if you can get rid of them. 7.
National Thrift Shop Day
4/4.1159 At least on National Thrift Shop Day, you’ll be having some bang for your buck. iStock.com A thrift shop is much like a garage sale except that it has been put into a structured enterprise. So if you’re not trying to cruise your neighborhood in search of deals, you may want to head to your nearest thrift shop. And there’s no better time than National Thrift Shop Day to do so. Cruise into Goodwill or any other thrift shop on offers. 8.
Department Store Day
4/4.1160 Department stores need your money and there is now a day dedicated to do so. Scott Olson / Getty Images If thrift shops or garage sales just aren’t going to cut it for you and your shopping needs you should hang onto Department Store Day. As most of us know department stores are in trouble. They close left and right. So the aim of Department Store Day is to bring people in the door and spend money to breathe some much-needed life into these shops. 9.
National Boss Day
4/4.1161 Have you ever missed National Boss Day? | iStock.com/KatarzynaBialasiewicz For Valentine’s Day you will buy your significant other item. And as for Christmas. And its birthday. But for National Boss Day, don’t forget to buy something for your boss too. National Boss Day on Oct. 16 is meant to celebrate the jerk in charge in an odd turn (your boss usually transfers money to you not the other way around) 10.
National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day
4/4.1162 National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day seems very unique. Scott Olson / Getty Images Doesn’t this one seem a little transparent? Could it perhaps be invented by the PR departments at companies that rhyme with “Bepsi” or “Boca-Bola?” The National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day is celebrated to celebrate caffeinated beverages with bubbles, no matter the roots. Celebrate the next one with a red or blue can on November 19-whatever you want. 11.
Regional day of gratitude
But what about those days designed specifically for making you spend more money? Here are 15 of those bogus national holidays.
1. Most Americans might not have been familiar with National Splurge Day
4/4.1153 National Splurge Day. And for one reason this is designed: to get you to splurge even if you don’t want to. NPR’s Planet Money team recently created a radio report about the roots and intent of the holiday, and discovered that some crazy PR lady had invented it pretty much. Definitely heavy. And this is how many other inofficial holidays are coming to life. 2.
Small Business Saturday
4/4.1154 Just because a national holiday was made up of industry experts doesn’t automatically mean it is bad. For starters, take on Small Business Saturday. The aim is to bring people into spending money on local small businesses. It is a holiday that was born from American Express ‘ PR team. But the holiday’s aim of infusing some cash into local economies is nothing wrong with that. But the goal is still to get you to spend more money at its heart. It started in 2010 and is celebrated on Saturday after Thanksgiving a time frame that we will reference later on in the list. 3.
Record Store Day
4/4.1155 A day is supposed to get you off a streaming service and it’s not all bad when you are in touch with something physical. | iStock.com/dmilovanovic Another example of an industry day that doesn’t actually mean bad or stupid Record Store Day is intended to get you off iTunes and Spotify and into dusty vinyl or CD bins. This holiday in April has begun in 2007. Now that streaming is the standard product, music stores fight like never before. That doesn’t mean that trying to dig up a few physical copies of your favorite albums can’t be fun. 4.
National Eat Your Beans Day
4/4.1156 Do you love enough beans to mark their vacation? iStock.com We’re going from one type of music to another type of gaseous music. It’s fun to buy vinyl but eating a bowl of beans isn’t always a blast. But they’re cheap nutritious, and they need to be ordered. That’s how we ended up celebrating the National Eat Your Beans Day in early July. Who came up with this holiday is unknown, but you can bet that your beans have their origins in the farming sector. 5.
National 7-Eleven Day
4/4.1158 Maybe, on National Garage Sale Day, you can actually make some money. iStock.com National Garage Sale Day is rooted in entrepreneurship but not inherently in industry or organized business. As you may have guessed this holiday is reserved for garage sales nationwide holding and celebrating. If you’ve got a bunch of junk (or gems whatever) that take up National Garage Sale Day space is the day to get them to the curb and see if you can get rid of them. 7.
National Thrift Shop Day
4/4.1159 At least on National Thrift Shop Day, you’ll be having some bang for your buck. iStock.com A thrift shop is much like a garage sale except that it has been put into a structured enterprise. So if you’re not trying to cruise your neighborhood in search of deals, you may want to head to your nearest thrift shop. And there’s no better time than National Thrift Shop Day to do so. Cruise into Goodwill or
any other thrift shop on offers. 8.
Department Store Day
4/4.1160 Department stores need your money and there is now a day dedicated to do so. Scott Olson / Getty Images If thrift shops or garage sales just aren’t going to cut it for you and your shopping needs you should hang onto Department Store Day. As most of us know department stores are in trouble. They close left and right. So the aim of Department Store Day is to bring people in the door and spend money to breathe some much-needed life into these shops. 9.
National Boss Day
4/4.1161 Have you ever missed National Boss Day? | iStock.com/KatarzynaBialasiewicz For Valentine’s Day you will buy your significant other item. And as for Christmas. And its birthday. But for National Boss Day, don’t forget to buy something for your boss too. National Boss Day on Oct. 16 is meant to celebrate the jerk in charge in an odd turn (your boss usually transfers money to you not the other way around) 10.
National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day
4/4.1162 National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day seems very unique. Scott Olson / Getty Images Doesn’t this one seem a little transparent? Could it perhaps be invented by the PR departments at companies that rhyme with “Bepsi” or “Boca-Bola?” The National Carbonated Beverage With Caffeine Day is celebrated to celebrate caffeinated beverages with bubbles, no matter the roots. Celebrate the next one with a red or blue can on November 19-whatever you want. 11.
Regional day of gratitude
4/4.1164 Likely the guy counts down to 420 days. Marc Piscotty / Getty Images Everybody knows what is 420. But few of us really do know what it means. In short it’s essentially a April 20 stoner holiday. Unless you live in a state where marijuana is legal then in preparation you could head out to your nearest dispensary. The story of how this unofficial holiday became a cannabis culture festival is far less fascinating than you would have thought. 13.
Sweetest Day
4/4.1165 Do this on Sweetest Day when you need an excuse to be sweet or buy sweets. iStock.com A national Sweetest Day holiday is celebrated in some parts of the United States mostly in the Midwest and Northeast. It is celebrated in October on the third Saturday, and is not usually all about sweets. Instead it’s all sweetness. If anything, it is kind of like Valentine’s Day. And it’s more or less a ruse to get you to spend money on sweets and knickknacks, like Valentine’s Day too. 14.
Cyber Monday
4/4.1166 A woman makes the most of domestic holiday sales made up. iStock.com / Wavebreakmedia And the two best known shopping holidays are finally here. Next up we’re going to tackle Cyber Monday a new holiday born like Small Business Saturday out of Black Friday. It is essentially an unofficial break for online selling of items. You can get some good deals from all sorts of stores without leaving the house if you’re into it. Marketing teams built it to get you to invest even more in shopping frenzy after Thanksgiving. 15.
Black Friday
4/4.1167 Black Friday people are pouring into a Wal-Mart that is losing every sense of dignity. Carlo Allegri / Getty Images The day after Thanksgiving or Black Friday which has become popular is the day of sales. When you feel up to it you can camp out in front of a store and then run in and fight other shoppers on just about anything for great deals. It’s become a popular holiday. While it is not really a holiday it is certainly listed on the millions of Americans calendar.
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