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Make Your Dreams Come True Day

Make Your Dreams Come True Day (January 13): 3 Secrets to Living Your Dream On Make Your Dreams Come True Day (January 13), decide to turn your dreams into reality. Once and for all, muster the courage to pack your bags and travel around Europe or quit your job to start your own business or hit the gym to start shedding those extra pounds! Kill your excuses and start living the life you’ve always wanted to live! Whoever said that “the future belongs to those who truly believe in the beauty of their dreams” sure knew what they were talking …

How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve

  8 Awesome Ideas on How to Celebrate New Year’s Eve Are you looking for awesome ideas on how to celebrate New Year’s Eve? Perhaps you’ve just moved into your dream house and you want nothing more than to spend the first few moments of 2019 with your family or maybe you’re planning to watch the ball drop with thousands of other New Year revelers at an open field. Whichever way you choose, Goodwill Car Donations has come up with a bevy of ideas to help you make the coming New Year’s Eve a night to remember.   Make This …

Happy New Year

  Happy New Year! Here’s How People from Other Countries Celebrate the Global Event in Their Own Unique Ways It’s pretty unbelievable how time goes by so quickly. One minute, we were just enjoying the summer heat, soaking our bodies in the sunshine. The next thing we know, we’re about to close the year as we welcome another 365 days and greet each other a happy New Year. Kind of crazy, don’t you agree? While we Americans ring in the New Year by watching fireworks displays, eating black-eyed peas, and clinking champagne glasses, people from other countries have their own …

International Day for Tolerance

International Day for Tolerance: Respect and Appreciate Diversity What do you think our world would look like if people would become more and more intolerant of each other’s culture, attitude, appearance, religion, and way of thinking? It surely would be chaotic as this would only breed more hatred, bigotry, and conflict. That nightmarish scenario was what prompted the United Nations General Assembly in 1996 to call on member states to observe an International Day for Tolerance on November 16 of each year. The unofficial holiday was thus created to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance. November 16—International Day for …

Use Less Stuff Day

10 Simple Ways to Celebrate November 15—Use Less Stuff Day Use Less Stuff Day is observed annually every Thursday before Thanksgiving Day. This year, it falls on November 15. The main purpose of this unofficial holiday is to have everyone rethink the stuff they use and reduce their consumption of as many resources they could do without as much as possible. Reduce, reuse, and recycle—sounds very familiar, right? Yes, you have heard of these 3R’s all your life. Reducing, reusing, and recycling materials are not only the right thing to do but also the simplest ways to help protect Mother …

Philanthropy Day

Philanthropy Day: 11 Ways To Express Your Love for Humanity The generosity of people is on full display when the nation celebrates Philanthropy Day on November 15. This nonofficial holiday was created in1986 when President Ronald Reagan proclaimed November 15 as National Philanthropy Day, becoming the first world leader to declare such a holiday, which he said is meant to celebrate “the love of humankind.” Since then, cities and towns all over the country have been celebrating the special day by hosting events to acknowledge the exemplary works of donors, volunteers, foundations, leaders, corporations, and others involved in philanthropy. November 15—Philanthropy …

America Recycles Day

Commit to Recycle More Materials on November 15—America Recycles Day November 15—America Recycles Day is an annual celebration that encourages people to practice recycling, spread the word about the benefit of recycling, and purchase recycled products. Recycling brings a lot of benefits to our world. It not only saves space in landfills but also reuses essential resources and saves energy. It likewise prevents the avoidable deaths of many aquatic animals and helps minimize global warming. On November 15—America Recycles Day, take the time to look at what you throw away and be more committed to recycling more materials. You can also …

World Diabetes Day

World Diabetes Day: Know the World’s Most Pervasive and Fastest Growing Disease World Diabetes Day is observed on November 14 every year to raise awareness about a debilitating condition that millions of people around the globe live with every single day. November 14 was picked as World Diabetes Day because it was the birthday of Canadian medical scientist and Nobel laureate Sir Frederick Grant Banting. He’s the man who discovered insulin together with fellow Canadian scientist Charles Herbert Best in 1922. Insulin injections are used to manage diabetes. Diabetes is one of the world’s most common and fastest-growing diseases, affecting people …

World Kindness Day

World Kindness Day: How You Can Spread Goodness and Positivity All Around You November 13—World Kindness Day ought to be a red-letter day in our calendar if only to remind us that the world we live in badly needs acts of kindness amid the continuing waves of hatred and indifference all around us. This annual event observed worldwide is all about being kind and doing acts of kindness. This day was created by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of NGOs dedicated to spreading kindness and happiness all around us. Their mission is to highlight the good deeds being done by …

Veterans Day

  November 11—Veterans Day: How You Can Honor Those Who Served Our Nation In the United States, Veterans Day is celebrated on November 11 of each year. A public holiday, the event marks the anniversary of the signing of the armistice between Germany and the Allied nations on November 11, 1918, that ended World War I. This holiday is also celebrated in honor of all American veterans who fought in various wars worldwide. Veterans Day ought not to be confused with Memorial Day, another legal holiday in the U.S. held on the last Monday of May each year. Both days are …