Today is National Day On Writing )
However, today is not the sweetest day ever. No, no…The Sweetest Day ever is on October 17th. I know this may be confusing, but people lets get with it.
In Ohio, since October of 1921 (first year the world series was broadcast) this holiday has been observed, even though many feel it was concocted to help sell twenty thousand pounds of uneaten Halloween candy from the year before. Okay, that is not entirely true, but New York tried to get on board and they of course had to out do everyone else. They attempted to create sweetest week. A week of sweetness, then couples were to just spend the rest of the year fighting about buying the wrong toothpaste and chopping vegetables wrong. Things like that.
Eventually everyone lost focus and this holiday is really just a Great Lakes celebrated holiday, although Wikipedia says in Texas they make loved ones breakfast. Texas Toast anyone?
Here are some facts I couldn’t even make up:
the first Sweetest Day was planned by a committee of 12 confectioners chaired by candymaker C. C. Hartzell. The Sweetest Day in the Year Committee distributed over 20,000 boxes of candy to “newsboys, orphans, old folks, and the poor” in Cleveland, Ohio[3]. The Sweetest Day in the Year Committee was assisted in the distribution of candy by some of the biggest movie stars of the day including Theda Bara and Ann Pennington.
As for myself, I will now celebrate Sweetest Day every year and mainly just because I think Valentines day is overrated and unnecessary, but not Sweetest Day. They celebrate it in Michigan and I love Michigan and that is where I celebrated my first Sweetest Day (this past weekend).
For those of you wondering (I’m guessing no one). American Greetings marketed 178 greeting card designs, Hallmark marketed 151. You win American Greetings, you always do.
This is my date and I on Sweetest Day…
Here is a link to my favorite website for more info
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