What to Celebrate January 24 thru 30, 2022
Celebration Ideas for January 24 – 30, 2022
The first month of the new year is drawing to a close. How has it been for you? Good, we hope!
We also hope you’re continuing to find ways to enjoy each and every day, even on days that may throw less than enjoyable things your way.
To that end, we invite you to, once again, take a peek and plan your week. And as ever, remember to …
Enjoy!
Celebrate for the rest of January
January is about being good, doing good, and being prepared. All very good goals any month of the year.
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month: Do you know what to do if your personal safety is threatened? Are you sure? January is the month to be sure. If you’ve never taken a self-defense course, this is the perfect time to do just that.
National Conscience Month: Do you listen to your conscience when making decisions? Learn how to do better at doing just that for this month. Because if your conscience is skeptical about a path, there’s a good chance it’s the wrong one.
National Glaucoma Awareness Month: Learn about glaucoma and why regular eye exams are so important to diagnosing it and treating it before it damages your eyesight.
National Volunteer Blood Donor Month: The supply of donated blood is often low in winter, but this year it’s lower than usual. Help make sure blood will be available when someone needs it: Donate blood this month if you can.
Weekly Celebrations for Jan. 24 to 30
Be brutal with your emails: Deleting and unsubscribing are your friends! While you’re at it, be brutally honest about which websites actually need and/or deserve any information at all about you.
Then join the effort to ensure every child gets the best education possible.
Clean Out Your Inbox Week (January 23 – 29, 2022): End the first month of the new year with a nice, clean inbox. Get busy this week clearing out old emails you don’t need, organizing any you do need to keep (folders people, folders!), and unsubscribing from lists you never read. Now doesn’t that feel good?
National School Choice Week (January 23 – 29, 2022): All children should have access to the educational opportunities that can best help them succeed. Since each child has different needs, parents should be able to decide which school(s) can best meet those needs. Why not learn more about the school choice opportunities in your state for this week?
Data Privacy Week (January 24 – 30, 2022): Learn how to protect your data and privacy online. Data privacy and protection should, ideally, be a team effort between businesses and individuals. Because both have a role to play in making sure private information doesn’t fall into the wrong hands. Learn more during this week.
Celebration Days coming up for Jan. 24 thru Jan. 30
Make life better for a shelter pet (or 2 or 10). Appreciate beer cans and dental drills. Laugh, take a shelfie, and play the kazoo. Do it all while enjoying peanut brittle, peanut butter, and pancakes (blueberry!).
So many ways to create another fun-tastic week! What will yours look like?
January 24
Change a Pet’s Life Day: This day is about giving homeless pets a second chance, and thus changing their lives. Because as much as many shelters do their best to give their residents good lives and show them love, nothing compares to a real home. If you can make that happen for a shelter animal, this is a good day to do it!
Beer Can Appreciation Day: Beer in cans went on sale for the first time on this date in 1935. Two beers by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company made history on that date, followed quickly by Pabst Export. By the end of the year dozens of breweries were selling canned beers. Despite the obvious popularity of cans, bottled beers outsold cans until 1969. If you prefer your beer in cans, you’ll want to celebrate this momentous anniversary. (Part of the problem might have been that pull-tabs didn’t come about until 1963; before that you can to open your cans with a church key)
National Compliment Day: Give compliments! We’ll start: Anyone celebrating Change a Pet’s Life Day is a Rockstar human being! 💗
Belly Laugh Day: For this day we laugh! But not just any laugh. We give a great big belly laugh. And we do it at 1:24 pm local time (your time). Why? Because we can! And because laughter is good for us.
National Peanut Butter Day: Eat peanut butter! Make sandwiches, peanut sauce, peanut butter pancakes, peanut butter cookies, and whatever other peanut buttery things you’d like. Or just eat it with a spoon. 😋 Do you prefer smooth or crunchy?
January 25
National Irish Coffee Day: Add a splash of whiskey, along with some sugar (brown!) and cream to your coffee, sit back, and enjoy.
Plan for Vacation Day: While you’re sipping that Irish Coffee, make plans to get away. To someplace where you can do nothing but sip Irish Coffees, if you’d like. Or anyplace else that strikes your fancy. Hopefully some day soon we will once more be able to go where we please without too much worry (Or at least no more worry than we had pre-pandemic).
A Room of One’s Own Day: We all need a private space, all our own. If you have one, enjoy it! And maybe think of ways to make it even more “you”. If you don’t have one, create one! Even if it’s just a cozy corner of a room, make it your place to destress and feel special.
National Opposite Day: For this day we say the opposite of what we mean and do everything (as much as possible anyway!) backwards. So have dinner for breakfast. Wear your PJs all day & change into clothes for bed. Or wear your clothes inside out. Pretend you’re living in the opposite season & dress for that one. What other opposite things can you think to do?
Macintosh Computer Day: Steve Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world on Jan. 24, 1984 and it went on sale to the general public the next day. If you’re an Apple fan you’ll want to celebrate this anniversary! Because the Mac was the computer that really made computers easy and accessible for the average person.
January 26
Library Shelfie Day: On the 4th Wednesday in January we take shelfies! That is, selfies in front of a library shelf. It can be your personal library or your public library, or any other library you please! (As long as you have legal permission to be there, of course. 🙂) Don’t forget to share your shelfie with the hashtag #LibraryShelfie.
National Spouses Day: Anyone who has a spouse must celebrate their spouses! Which means, of course, that couples will be celebrating each other. And isn’t that better than days that celebrate only one of the spouses?
Dental Drill Appreciation Day: Why on earth would anyone appreciate a dental drill? Because it’s an important tool that helps your dentist take care of your teeth. Which hopefully helps you keep your own teeth, because repaired teeth are much better than the alternatives.
National Green Juice Day: If one of your resolutions this year was to be healthier, add green juices to your diet! And start on Jan. 26, Green Juice Day. And if you’re already drinking green juices, try a new one. Evolution Fresh, founder of the day, offers a variety of green juice blends.
National Peanut Brittle Day: As long as you’re eating (or drinking!) healthy most of the time you deserve the occasional treat too. Why not make that treat some peanut brittle?
January 27
Chocolate Cake Day: Enjoy a big slice of your favorite chocolate cake! If you need an excuse to indulge, consider it a birthday cake for the National Geographic Society. 😁
National Geographic Day: A small group of fans of geography and travel incorporated a small society to further their interests on this day in 1888. Nine months later they began printing a magazine with scholarly articles. Now, 134 years later that society is one of the largest nonprofits in the world with a scientific and educational mission. And the boring, mostly text, magazine has become known for its amazing photos. If you’re a Nat Geo fan, you’ll definitely want to celebrate this day! Maybe by checking out some older issues?
Thomas Crapper Day: Honor the death of the man with the amazingly appropriate name. Thomas Crapper was a plumber who added a bit of ingenuity to the flush toilet and made it a must-have item. While the flush toilet had existed for more than 250 years, he made improvements that led to its popularity. Possibly his most ingenious improvement was the floating ballcock to stop the flow of water once the tank filled up. If you enjoy your indoor toilet, raise a toast to Thomas Crapper!
Holocaust Memorial Day: And on a much more serious note, on this day we make sure we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust. We honor the Jews murdered by the Nazis as well as other victims of Nazi persecution and victims of genocide by others since. We remember on the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi’s largest death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Discover ways to take part here. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will also be having a virtual ceremony which you can watch here.
January 28
National Kazoo Day: Play the kazoo! Or learn to play the kazoo. Did you know only a very few instruments have been invented in America, and the kazoo is one of them?
Fun at Work Day: Can kazoos be fun at work? Absolutely! Since it’s likely very few of your co-workers (or even you?) know how to play it, it can be quite fun to laugh at the cacophony of buzzing you all produce! But if you’d rather enjoy some other type of fun, go for it!
Data Privacy Day: Take some time on this day to learn how to protect your private information online. With all the data breaches we keep hearing about, it may seem pointless for us to even try. But it’s not. There are ways to minimize your risk, even if one account gets compromised.
Thank a Plugin Developer Day: This day was originally created by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg to celebrate 4,000 WP plugins and to thank the developers who created them. These days pretty much any software you use (and it’s probably a lot!) has plugins available. So let’s celebrate the developers who put so much time and effort into helping make all our software work just a little better for us. If you have a favorite developer, give them a shoutout or leave a thank-you on their social media. Send an email, even! If you’re just thankful for plugin developers in general, make a post about it.
National Blueberry Pancake Day: What’s for breakfast? Why, blueberry pancakes, of course! Or be a rebel and have blueberry pancakes for dinner instead. Or even lunch, if you’d like. Blueberry pancakes are amazing any time of day.
January 29
Curmudgeons Day: Are you a curmudgeon? Do you know curmudgeons? Throw a party! But not a lively, fun party of course. No, at this party you all sit around harrumphing and just generally being disagreeable. 😆 Or watch movies featuring curmudgeons. How else might you celebrate?
National Seed Swap Day: Gardeners know it’s never too early to start thinking about gardening. Especially if you’re starting your garden from seed, in which case it’s almost time to get started gardening (indoors for most of us, of course)! And new seeds are always fun, so this day comes just in time.
National Puzzle Day: Do puzzles! Word puzzles (crossword, word searches, etc). Number puzzles (Sudoku, etc). Jigsaw puzzles. Any puzzles at all. They’re fun and may force you to think in new ways (especially if you haven’t done that kind of puzzle before).
National Corn Chip Day: Munch on corn chips while doing your puzzles? But probably not while swapping seeds (don’t want to be mistaking corn chip crumbs for seeds! 😉). And corn chips might also seriously damage your ability to be curmudgeonly, so maybe celebrate Curmudgeons Day first, then move on to the corn chip yumminess.
January 30
National Inane Answering Message Day: Take a listen to your outgoing voicemail message (or your answering machine message if you still have one of those!), and really think about how callers will hear it. Then, if you decide it’s inane, change it! Of course, if you want to be annoying, create an inane outgoing message to irritate all who call (and maybe discourage calls from all but the truly brave).
National Croissant Day: Croissants for breakfast, croissant sandwiches for lunch, and croissants for dinner too. A perfectly flaky, buttery Sunday. Enjoy!
