18 bizarre holidays to celebrate in November
If you aren't ready to think about or deal with the December holiday season, consider celebrating these November holidays instead.
South Africans don't celebrate Thanksgiving, and sometimes, seeing all the delicious meals and fun family gatherings can give us a little bit of FOMO (fear of missing out) in November.
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If you are looking for an excuse to host a dinner party or want to do a practice run ahead of Christmas, here are some strange and hilarious November holidays you can use.
November 8 - International Tongue Twister Day:- Tongue twisters offer these benefits: strengthen the muscles used for speech, which leads to more precise pronunciation and speech patterns, highlight which sounds are complex for you to say so that you can work on those sounds, and are a great warmup exercise before giving a speech, teaching a class, or doing a presentation.
- Most difficult tongue twister: "The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.”
- According to MIT researchers, another is, “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod."
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November 8 - Abet And Aid Punsters Day:
- Though there is no real proof of when and how Abet and Aid Punsters Day came about, enthusiasts believe that the day might have originated in the 1970s.
- Abet and Aid Punsters Day was created with the simple aim of sharing jokes and laughing together.
- Punsters hope that everyone will join in the celebrations and forget their worries for a day.
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November 13 - World Kindness Day (Pretty self-explanatory.)
November 13 - Sadie Hawkins Day:
- A day for a bit of gender role reversal, where women ask men out on dates or for a dance.
- The tradition stems from a plot line in American cartoonist Al Capp’s (1909-1979) comic strip, 'Li’l Abner'. The story — one reviled by modern feminists — involved a rich man’s daughter named Sadie Hawkins in the fictional town of Dogpatch, Kentucky, who was so ‘homely’ that she was still unmarried at 35. Her worried father then gathered all the bachelors of the town together and set up a sort of race, with the men running ahead of Sadie. The one she finally caught would have to marry her.
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November 14 - Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day:
- LULU Day was created by Stephanie West Allen, giving us a day to take a break from all our stress and troubles, especially when you feel like you're hanging on by a thread towards the end of the year.
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November 15 - Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day:
- A day that encourages you to prepare for the upcoming holidays (and throw out the suspicious container in the back that's been there since last December.)
- Get together a soap and hot water-filled bucket, disinfectant, a sponge, and a garbage bag. Then you will be ready for the day!
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November 15 - National Bundt Day:
- A day to honour the cake with the hole in the middle.
- The holiday was created by renowned bundt pan purveyors Nordic Ware to celebrate their 60th anniversary in 2006.
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November 15 - George Spelvin Day:
- George and Georgina/Georgette Spelvin aren’t real people.
- The names are traditional pseudonyms used in theatre when an actor doesn’t want to be identified, is playing multiple roles, or wants to go uncredited for other reasons.
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November 17 - Homemade Bread Day:
- It's giving 2020 COVID-pandemic vibes when everyone was baking sourdough and banana bread.
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November 17 - National Unfriend Day:
- Jimmy Kimmel is actually responsible for this holiday, which marks an occasion to take a good, hard look at your social media connections and then put a few on the chopping block.
- Time to clean-up and say goodbye to old friends, non-friends, and people you literally don’t remember but who somehow made their way into your social media circle.
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November 18 - Married To A Scorpio Support Day:
- The astrology sign with the worst reputation.
- The fact that this holiday exists does not speak kindly of those born between October 23 and November 21.
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November 19 - World Toilet Day:
- It might sound like the brainchild of a bunch of kids or immature adults.
- It’s an international event dedicated to de-stigmatising toilets and addressing the challenges of global sanitation.
- Created in 2001, the official website notes that billions of people worldwide lack proper access to toilets, while also highlighting that, in addition to being vital to life, toilets can be “fun and sexy."
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November 21 - Alascattalo Day:
- The moose-walrus hybrid is a purely mythical beast, and serves as a sort of unofficial mascot for Alaska.
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November 20 - Name Your PC Day:
- If you spend hours on your PC you might as well name it.
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November 22 - National Start Your Own Country Day:
- A product of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, National Start Your Own Country Day salutes those individuals who believe so strongly in self-determination that they might one day form their own nation-state.
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November 23 - Fibonacci Day:
- One of the most important mathematicians of the Middle Ages, Leonardo Bonacci, later known as Fibonacci, invented a sequence of numbers that appears frequently in nature, physics, and design.
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November 26 - National Flossing Day:
- Make your dentist proud and celebrate National Flossing Day every day.
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November 26 - National Sinkie Day:
- A day for those who eat while standing above their kitchen sink.
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