Holiday Authenticity for Bizarre, Crazy, Silly, Goofy List




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Holiday Authenticity
EXPLANATION
for
Crazy, Unknown, Bizarre, Goofy, Silly, Odd, and Respected and Traditional, Holidays and Observances Listing
2008

Rather than put this on every monthly page, I made a link to this page to save clutter.

All listings on our site are validated through printed ( copyrighted) material only (shown at the bottom of every page) and not from other sites who list holidays.

The links I have on some observances to other sites are explained below.

I will not list an observance I can't prove exists .
I will not fill in a blank day with a fake holiday like some sites.

We don't have observations for every single day of the year!

If you find a site that does, well...
I'd be suspicious of them making stuff up to fill in the blanks.

I do not consider famous people's births/deaths as a holiday or observance--Unless it's been established as holiday (i.e. Washington's Birthday). I made an exception on the military branches and a few other nationally known organizations because I felt they deserved recognition. My choice!

I don't normally list anniversaries of things invented or started either, unless it's an observance.
Nor do I list "on this day 100 yrs. ago" items.
Visit the History Channel for "On This Day" Information.
Want to know if anyone famous was born today? Visit Famous Birthdays!

So what is an official validated holiday other than a legally declared one by the government?
An observance MUST have an official sponsor and be registered. Otherwise, it's just a funny, goofy holiday created by someone for whatever reason. I find sites claiming to validate their sources and yet do not list them so people can check their references. Hmmm?
My sources are listed below and at the bottom of every monthly page.

Remember, the internet is a field for fraud! Just because a site may sound official, doesn't mean it is.
Maybe your family has created a "National Strawberry Shortcake Day" and you all go out and have one?
That's nice. But that doesn't make it an OFFICIAL celebration because it's done in your house and you put it on your personal homepage as such. Do you understand?

Kids, please, don't e-mail if you find a holiday on some other site and it's not here.
I can't validate some of their holidays. I hope they can. You decide for yourself for school work etc.!
I'm doing my best to get visitors to avoid being gullible to "official illusions" and believing because it's on the net.
I'm not calling other sites liars. They could have books I don't. But they should list them on their site for people, who want to check, to go to the library and validate, or buy the books. (I bought mine!)

I make no claims to be the official final authority of non-religious holiday information (for the US) on the net.
I just make a promise to never make anything up and will update when I get the latest data. How's that? ;)
I apologize for all this wordiness, but in the long run it saves me repeating it in emails

Some celebrations are for WEEKENDS ONLY!
I decided they're more noticed if done in the Days area, rather than Weeks.

Some holidays listed as "Monthly Observances" start in one month and go into another to cover their 30 days. For example: An observance begins on May 15 and goes to June 15.
I listed this for May, the starting month. I do not list for both months.

I have included this year holidays declared by the United Nations,
besides those declared by the President, Congress and
sponsored by corporations or private individuals.

By request, I've now included some of the traditional observances that you see on your average calendar, along with the lesser known ones under the Days area.

To me it's over! And, most of you feel the same. This is why I've removed the holiday archives listing of the old observances. Those were hardly visited. It's a waste of space to keep old and undesired information on my site. If other sites want to keep listing a holiday that's a few years old, that's their right.

There is no more, for example: Clown Month, Beauty Pageant Month, Cable TV Month, Junk Food Month, or Pessimistic Day for example. Some observances get reworked from say a daily observance to a weekly one. Others go from a Month to a Day. (These are done by their sponsors).

Question: Does removal of a sponsor and not being published in the 2008 book mean official removal of the celebration?

To me, it sure does! Once they are cancelled, well that's it.
I can't stop others from listing out-dated material. But, I won't list old stuff not supported.
And to repeat, I won't make stuff up either.

My reference book apparently has missed some observances that are valid and that people have been nice enough to write me and let me know about. Because I do not have any information on these holidays in my published source, I put a link to them to prove they are real, valid and who is sponsoring them. This also helps me when it's time to update. I'll see a listing with a link and know it's not in the new book with a current date, so I won't waste my time trying to find it.

Note: In the case of links as validation or information, I might not know the date of next year's events until that website gets updated. I did put in the 2008 date if the website offered it. In other cases, I "assumed" the 2008 date based on the 2007 date. If I am wrong, please let me know.

Why don't I provide links to all the listings? It's too much work to do this.
And, in many cases the websites either will no longer exist or change their URL.
It's simply too hard to baby-sit all the links and make sure they are constantly accurate. I just expect my visitors to do their own search engine checks for further information on a holiday; or, they write me if they can't find anything.

Here are word links back to each of our Current Monthly Listings.
Since we are not sure which month you came from to view this.

January	February	March	April
May	June	July	August
September	October	November	December


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