January Day

Four years ago, my friend Meredith and I decided we needed a holiday in January since there's a holiday in every month from October to April. New Years doesn't count because you spend all of December waiting for that day. January is such a cold and quiet month, it'd help to have something to look forward to--get out of those winter blues. Our solution: January Day.



The rules:

• January Day is a present-exchanging holiday, but the dollar limit is $3. We usually hit up the local Dollar General for cute, cheap gifts.
• January Day is always the third Saturday of January. This way it'll always be on a weekend so you have optimum time to party. 
• Make or order a TON of food. Our first January Day, we made all kinds of fun food. Her mom made us carrot bisque, we made loaded sweet potatoes, and had our (failed but funny) attempt at mini baked Alaskas.
• Do something fun. One year we played Mario & Sonic Olympic games on our Wii for so many hours, we were sore in places we didn't know we could be sore in. 

We hope January Day catches on everywhere. Let me know if you adopt this holiday, I'd love to hear how you celebrated! Happy January Day!