Leftover Day
It's time to make another plea to the masses to start to recognize the best holiday of the year. You may not have heard of this holiday yet, but give it time. The holiday I am speaking of is, of course, Leftover Day, officially celebrated the day after Thanksgiving.
Here is how you celebrate Leftover Day: gather friends (family not allowed), eat leftovers, and hang out - perhaps playing games, perhaps watching a video, most definitely talking and most definitely not participating in the shopping deluge at the local mall.
The theory behind Leftover Day is this: The first social event after major family-centric holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) is usually spent rehashing the drama faced on the holiday. Comparing war stories as it were. Why not bring everyone together at once? And why not get it over with right away, so you can get past it and get on with your life.
The first Leftover Day was celebrated in Portland, Oregon in 1998. Kaphine, our future houseboy and I had ended up at Kaphine's mom's house (where she was living at the time) eating pie, playing Monopoly and watching Star Wars. We realized at one point that this was the perfect way to spend the day after Thanksgiving, and gave the holiday it's name shortly after that.
We have yet to get Hallmark on board with a Happy Leftover Day card, but I figure if we can get popular support then Hallmark will see the need and come up with the card on their own.
Here is how you celebrate Leftover Day: gather friends (family not allowed), eat leftovers, and hang out - perhaps playing games, perhaps watching a video, most definitely talking and most definitely not participating in the shopping deluge at the local mall.
The theory behind Leftover Day is this: The first social event after major family-centric holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) is usually spent rehashing the drama faced on the holiday. Comparing war stories as it were. Why not bring everyone together at once? And why not get it over with right away, so you can get past it and get on with your life.
The first Leftover Day was celebrated in Portland, Oregon in 1998. Kaphine, our future houseboy and I had ended up at Kaphine's mom's house (where she was living at the time) eating pie, playing Monopoly and watching Star Wars. We realized at one point that this was the perfect way to spend the day after Thanksgiving, and gave the holiday it's name shortly after that.
We have yet to get Hallmark on board with a Happy Leftover Day card, but I figure if we can get popular support then Hallmark will see the need and come up with the card on their own.
posted by Swankette at 9:46 PM
2 Comments:
We also played with legos!!!! And watched the entire original Star Wars triology!!! And who needs Hallmark? I can make (and have made) my own Leftover Day cards. BTW, save Leftoverday 2005 for my Portland-area Yeah-We're-Married Party.
kaphine
I think the day after Thanksgiving is a perfect day to go bowling, preferably in a large group. :-)
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