Poll: did you celebrate yesterday

[Saint Monica]

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[tripleshot]

Sweetest Day? No.

[flex]

Alaska Day is only celebrated by state workers. lol

[Saint Monica]

I was referring to sweetest day but wanted to see if people were aware of this weird "holiday"

[tripleshot]

Oct 19, 2014 10:29:09 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Oct 19, 2014 10:26:47 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Sweetest Day? No.

I had to look this up....REGIONAL! lol

Eleven states and parts of two states observe Sweetest Day: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and areas of both New York and Pennsylvania west of the spine of the Appalachian Mountains

Interesting. Saint Monica and I both live in Ohio (right?).

[tigress]

I live in Iowa and am from Wisconsin and have never celebrated this "holiday".

[sarahswim]

No. One of my friends posted something on FB, so when I saw it, I yelled to H, "Happy Sweetest Day, babe!", and he got a panicked look on his face. We can barely get it together for actual holidays...never mind completely fabricated ones.

[Saint Monica]

Oct 19, 2014 10:31:34 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Oct 19, 2014 10:29:09 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

I had to look this up....REGIONAL! lol

Eleven states and parts of two states observe Sweetest Day: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and areas of both New York and Pennsylvania west of the spine of the Appalachian Mountains

Interesting. Saint Monica and I both live in Ohio (right?).

Yes.

[PeonyParty]

I have heard about it once or twice when I lived in Ky. My birthday occasionally falls on it, but I have never celebrated it and still don't really know exactly what it is.

[karmasabiotch]

No. I would have wanted too but I gave up on H being that sort of guy many years ago.

[TrickyBob]

I only ever hear about it from ML. I have yet to meet anyone in person who cares/celebrates/remembers wtf it is, as it should be lol

Signed, PA

[azurely]

Huh, I've never heard of Sweetest Day and I live in one of the states that supposedly celebrates it. Sounds like a hallmark holiday.

[karmasabiotch]

Oct 19, 2014 10:44:37 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Oct 19, 2014 10:37:46 GMT -5 karmasabiotch said:

No. I would have wanted too but I gave up on H being that sort of guy many years ago.

There are way more important qualities in a guy than celebrating Sweetest Day lol

True. I just meant that years ago I would have been upset but now I just let it go.

[Dusky]

Nope. I've heard of Sweetest Day before but we don't celebrate it.

[keyslover]

I celebrate every day   :drink:  L'chaim

[dexteroni]

No. I knew what you were talking about, but we've never observed it. Although if you want to count eating Chinese takeout and pointing out all the Cleveland filming locations in Captain America, which is what we did last night, as celebrating, then I guess we did. lol.

[hisno1girl]

I didn't know it was Sweetest Day until I checked FB.

We didn't celebrate.

[fezzik]

Oct 19, 2014 10:29:09 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Oct 19, 2014 10:26:47 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Sweetest Day? No.

I had to look this up....REGIONAL! lol

Eleven states and parts of two states observe Sweetest Day: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and areas of both New York and Pennsylvania west of the spine of the Appalachian Mountains

I've lived in South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa and have never heard of this. Huh. Interesting.

[ZoeHart]

I always thought this was an Ohio thing. But no, we did not celebrate. I might go shopping for stuff I don't need today and tell DH it's for Sweetest Day to justify it

[10outof9]

Huh. I've lived in Kansas for 10 years and I've never heard of it.

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Oct 19, 2014 10:29:09 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Oct 19, 2014 10:26:47 GMT -5 tripleshot said:

Sweetest Day? No.

I had to look this up....REGIONAL! lol

Eleven states and parts of two states observe Sweetest Day: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and areas of both New York and Pennsylvania west of the spine of the Appalachian Mountains

Lies! I have lived in various parts of Kansas for 33 years and the Nest is the only time I have heard of this nonsense.

[deanlicker78]

I am in Nebraska and have no clue what it is.

[thedutchgirl]

No. I lived in Cleveland for a number of years, so I know about it. But we don't celebrate it. It started in Cleveland.

[CurlyQ284]

I am from Virginia and we just moved to Ohio in the spring. I saw balloons and Googled Sweetest Day to find out what it was then teased DH he has another holiday to drop the ball. We both forgot until now lol

[sillygoosegirl]

A friend's birthday, but not sweetest day.

[flutermed]

Being new to Michigan, this was the first year I have ever heard of it. We didn't celebrate.

[Deleted]

I am confused how this became a Valentine's type thing anyway. Someone posted the origin was helping orphans. Shouldn't it be a day about doing good works? I could get behind that.

[MarmeeNoir]

I live in IN and have only ever heard of this on here.

[sapphireblue]

Diwali?

I didn't but my best friend went to a diwali party.

[sapphireblue]

Ooops, just Googled it. Her party was last night but it looks like Diwali for 2014 is officially 10/23.

ETA: I have NO idea what Sweetest Day is!