Tell a Story Day is an April 27 holiday in the United States. Its original objective is to promote and market brands through storytelling techniques. This holiday has grown to celebrate storytelling of all kinds, most notably to young children. It doesn’t matter if it’s fiction or non-fiction, a tall tale, or folklore. Today is a day to tell ’em all. Stories can be from a book, other written material, or from memory.

Our research discovered two distinct holidays, one in the U.S. The other is in Scotland and the UK. The latter is by far more prominent and organized. These two holidays are exactly six months apart. 

Make Tell a Story Day an important and pleasure-filled experience. To enhance the enjoyment of the story, try setting the atmosphere. If it’s an eerie or spooky story, turn down the lights. Bring decorations and memorabilia that speak to the theme. If it’s about a person, display a picture of the individual.

Are you an honest person? If you ever need to tell a lie or a little fib, today is the day to do so. It’s Tell a Lie Day, an April 4 holiday. But please, do not make a habit of lying. Liars can’t be trusted. And, it only results in giving you a bad reputation. Being caught in a lie can have disastrous results.

We don’t create these days, we only report them. Why someone would create a day to encourage a person to lie is hard to comprehend. Be that as it may, today is the day to tell lies, big and small. If you choose to participate in this day, we suggest you take the opposite approach and never tell a lie. A person who is known never to tell a lie gets a reputation as an honest and truthful person who can be relied upon under any circumstance.

Tomorrow, we can all get back to the virtue of “honesty is the best policy”.

If you find today a bit discomforting, you can look forward to National Honesty Day later in the month.

Important Note: If you choose not to participate in this day, we will look up to you!

Did You Know? Three separate authors wrote a book titled “A Book of Lies”. They are: Aleister Crowley, Brad Meltzer, and James Molony.

Today is Teflon Day, a special day to stick on your calendar, even though little or nothing sticks to Teflon. This April 6 holiday celebrates the accidental invention of this remarkable coating for your pots and pans.

What an amazing discovery. Teflon coated on kitchen pots, pans, cookie sheets, and other cooking objects, saves you countless time in scouring and scrubbing at the kitchen sink.  While it is best known as a nonstick coating for cookware, it has many other uses.

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is widely used as an industrial coating. It also is used in many other common products, including fabric and rug protection, hair styling tools, nail polish, and windshield wiper blades, to name a few.

Some of the best inventions were made by accident. Dr. Roy Plunkett was working in the laboratory trying to create a refrigerant. On April 6, 1938, he accidentally discovered Teflon. Teflon was trademarked in 1945. In 1961, in Kansas City, Missouri professor Marion A. Trozzolo took Teflon from the lab to the kitchen. The first Teflon-coated frying pan was called “The Happy Pan”. Cookware has not been the same since.

Did You Know? Teflon is a good electrical insulator. That’s the reason why Teflon tape exists.

BTW. Have you ever heard someone called the “Teflon Man”? Some people never seem to catch the blame for anything. Problems and blame seem to slide right off of them. We can also use today to recognize these lucky devils. 

Now here is a very lofty and worthwhile cause. National Teach Children to Save Day is an annual event. It is essential that children learn the value of the dollar and how to save before they become adults. This reduces the likelihood that they will fall into debt, especially credit card debt and its high, usurious rates. On this day, bankers across America teach fiscal responsibility to children of all ages. The goal of this K-12 program is to instill in children a lifetime of good financial practices and management of their money. It starts with learning not to spend every penny you get, and to save a few of those pennies for a rainy day, and for the things they want. This financial education will help them as adults, to avoid high credit card debt and even bankruptcy.

Children and teenagers need to learn to be frugal and thrifty. And, when money is tight, they need to know how to become a penny pincher. All too often Don’t leave practical financial management education to bankers and educators. While these professionals are beneficial, kids need your teaching and insight, too. This means practicing what you preach. Kids pick up on the example you set. What you do now, they will do later in life. 

Today is not a time to be risk averse. Rather, it is a day for risk-takers to “go for it”.  To many people, there’s a certain thrill and excitement to face danger or to put it all on the line. If you are a gambler, you will just love this day. Today is Take a Chance Day. This April 23 holiday sounds pretty risky (but fun) to me……..

Life is filled with risks. To get what you want, sometimes you have to take a chance. And, today is created to do just that. Today is the day to take a chance on virtually any object or goal. Will it be love? will it be luck? Or, will it be lollipops? There is no room for procrastination today. So, we hope you fully participate in this day, and that you attain everything you seek. So go ahead and take a chance. As they say: “Nothing ventured, nothing gained”.

Note: If you are going to “take a chance” at winning the lottery, and have never played the lottery before, we suggest you only buy one ticket. After all, everyone is going to take a chance today, so the odds are really low.

In case you haven’t guessed, today is Take a Wild Guess Day. This April 15 holiday is all about trusting your gut and your instinct. Today, factual or empirical data are useless and unnecessary, before opening your mouth. Does the thought of taking a wild guess without any information to back you up, take you out of your comfort zone? …..Good, very good.

Taking a wild guess is like taking a stab in the dark. Often you don’t have any information or facts, but you feel compelled to take a wild guess at a perplexing question or issue. If you are expected to know the answer, taking a wild guess is at the risk of embarrassment and ridicule, if you guess wrong.

The lucky ones among us, are those that have a good intuition, a feeling, or a kind of sixth sense. Many of us don’t possess these traits. You could say providing the correct response is pure luck. Perhaps, perhaps not.

Take a Wild Guess Day encourages us to throw away the inhibitions that are holding us back. Throw caution to the wind, step out of your comfort zone, and take a chance that you’ll know the right answer or thing to say.

When it comes to guessing, perhaps Mae West said it best: “Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.”

On this day, you are encouraged to take a guess, at every opportunity you get. 

National Sibling Day, an April 10 holiday, is a day to appreciate and cherish your brothers and sisters. This includes stepsiblings and adopted siblings as well. Siblings are truly a special blessing that we probably all too often take for granted. They are often our best friends and supporters throughout life.

Another reason to celebrate is that not everyone is lucky enough to have siblings. Their lives are significantly different growing up than living and sharing childhood with a brother or sister.

Do you like shrimp? Do you like garlic? Then, you’re gonna love National Shrimp Scampi Day. Culinary holidays are always fun and pleasing. They are the kind of days we mark on our calendar with eager anticipation. On this April 29 holiday, we eat and enjoy a great appetizer, meal, or snack. 

Shrimp scampi is simple and easy to make. And, it ohh so tasty! Just cook the shrimp along with butter or olive oil, chopped garlic, and parmesan cheese in a skillet. Add your personal touch to the basic ingredients. You can also add other ingredients like parsley, lemon, breadcrumbs, basil, salt, and pepper.

Did You Know? The shrimp scampi recipe originated in Italy (No surprise).  It was brought to the United States by soldiers returning from WWII.

National Scrabble Day celebrates the popular board game. It’s been popular around the world ever since. People young and old enjoy this game. What better time to play it, than on this April 13 holiday!?

Scrabble was created in 1938 by Alfred Mosher Butts. It is sold by Hasbro, Inc.

It’s very easy to celebrate Scrabble Day. Just get out your old board game, dust it off, and play a few rounds with family or friends.  

The versatile and invaluable safety pin was patented on April 10, 1849. Patent #6,281. On Safety Pin Day, an April 10 holiday, we celebrate this invention and its inventor.

The year was 1849. Inventor Walter Hunt was in debt. He owed $15 to a friend. Hunt decided the way to get out of debt, was to invent something that he could sell. What was that great idea, that profitable invention? It was the safety pin. He wisely applied for and received a patent for this invention. The safety pin is much safer than a straight pin and quickly became popular. He sold them for a profit. Later, he sold the patent and received $400 for it. He paid his friend back and pocketed the remaining $385, which was a handsome amount at the time.  

Note: A similar invention was made in England. It was called the “English Pin”.