Over time, historical events happen that require a day designed to represent what had occurred. Some of these holidays created may or may not be because of an event, but just for fun. How did these holidays ever get created?

Some of the crazy holidays that are celebrated throughout the United States are National Bathtub Party Day, National Run it Up a Pole and See if Anyone Salutes Day, National Bubble Bath Day and National Bean Day.

These holidays and many more were created for a variety of different reasons. For example, National Underpants Day was created for Freshpair, an underwear brand, to expand their brand and get their name out there.

Another holiday that exists is Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day. This day had no rhyme or reason to it. It was created because someone was creative and decided to market it, which led to it becoming a national holiday.

After figuring out this information, one man decided to let his creative juices flow. This man, Thomas Roy, is responsible to creating most of the ridiculous holidays out there, copyrighting and inventing over 90 holidays within the last 26 years.

Roy started to create holidays for fun and make people laugh. He never actually planned on having any of them on a calendar and only came up with the idea because he used to flip through Chase’s Calendar of Events and loved reading the different holidays around the world. He noticed that on the back of the calendar one year that there was a form for viewers to submit their own holidays.

The first holiday he created was Northern Hemisphere Hoodie-Hoo Day. This holiday was made to help cure cabin fever. On Feb. 20, everyone in the northern hemisphere is supposed to go out into the streets and shout “hoodie-hoo.”

Shortly after the holiday was submitted and put in the calendar, he got invited to Hoodie-Hoo Day celebrations. Occasionally, corporations pay him to use the holidays he created. A prime example of this was when Entenmann’s Bakery wanted to pay him to use his Eat What You Want Day in one of their ad campaigns.

There are, however, holidays created by other people for a variety of reasons. Elaine Fremont created Bonza Bottler Day because she wanted to have a party every month of the year. This day occurs when the month matches the day, including Jan. 1 and Feb. 2, for example.

The United States isn’t the only country that has created weird national holidays. Japan even created a holiday for when holidays fall with a day in between them; that middle day becomes a de facto holiday, meaning it also becomes a holiday.

More strange holidays have come to be, there is now some kind of holiday every day of the year in the United States.

Some holidays became so popular that companies such as Hallmark have made a card to celebrate them. An example of this would be Star Wars Day in which its growing popularity led to Hallmark creating e-cards to celebrate.
Each day, another holiday comes and goes. Remember that these holidays exist and whenever you wake up, check the calendar and see what crazy tradition you can start from a national holiday.