January "Official" Excuses

Good All Month

1

New Year's Day; First Foot Day

• National Careers in Cosmetology Month

• National Eye Health Care Month

• National Fiber Focus Month

• National Hobby Month

• National Soup Month

• Hot Tea Month

• Oatmeal Month

• Prune Breakfast Month

• Diet Month

• National Book Blitz Month

• National Volunteer Blood Donor Month

• National Mentoring Month

2

Run It Up The Flagpole and See If Anyone Salutes Day

3

Festival of Sleep Day

4

Trivia Day; Humiliation Day; National Babylon 5 Day; Pride Day

5

Bird Day

6

Bean Day; Armenian Christmas

7

Old Rock Day; Panama Canal Day

8

National Joy Gem Day; Man Watcher's Day

Play God Day

Peculiar People Day

11

National Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friend Day

12

Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day

13

Make Your Dreams Come True Day; Blame Someone Else Day

14

National Dress Up Your Pet Day

15

Hat Day; St. Paul the Hermit's Day (He had a good idea!)

16

Hot and Spicy Food International Day; National Nothing Day

17

Benjamin Franklin's Birthday: 1706 - Go fly a kite in his honor!

18

Winnie the Pooh Day

19

National Popcorn Day; Spoon Day

20

National Buttercrunch Day; Cheese day; Clear Off Your Desk Day

21

National Hugging Day

22

National Answer Your Cat's Question Day; National Blonde Brownie Day

23

National Handwriting Day; National Pie Day; Measure Your Feet Day

24

Eskimo Pie Patent Day

25

Opposite Day; School Nurse Day

26

Australian Day

27

Punch the Clock Day; Thomas Crapper Day (you should know who he was)

28

National Kazoo Day; Clash Day; Rattlesnake Round-Up Day

29

National Corn Chip Day; Commonsense Day

30

Escape Day

31

National Popcorn Day (again?); Child Labor Day