September 15, 2015

Make a Hat Day
There are so many different kinds of hats! Pick one from these templates and make your own.
Winter is coming, why not hold a hat drive and donate hats for the homeless to your local rescue mission?

Felt Hat Day
Wow. This is a lot of felt hats.

Greenpeace Day
Get involved
‘How to Change the World’ Traces the Birth of Greenpeace

Get Ready Day
Today focus on emergency preparedness. Don't be someone who thinks, "That will never happen to me." Make a plan with your family for fire evacuation, flooding, whatever might be a possibility in your city/state. Create a car kit for the winter. Be informed. Make a plan. Build a kit. Get involved.

International Dot Day

Listen to the book that inspired the day. The Dot by Peter Reynolds

Get Involved!

Make Your Mark...It Matters!
Explore your creative side during Dot Day!

Comments

Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

More bang for your buck

This phrase was used a lot in 1953 but an earlier citation puts it at 1940 in a Metals and Plastics Publications advertisement. Read about it here . The phrase means you get more for your money.

Call it a Day

The literal use of this phrase hails from 1838 when the phrase originally was "call it half a day" to mean leaving work early. (source) The modern use of the phrase is to indicate ending something due to false sense of accomplishment.

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