![]() Florists, jewelers, and more take advantage of the hype with sales and specials focused on the fall holiday. It may have started as a holiday revolving around candy, but everyone is in on the action now. With the origin being about giving to those less fortunate, the holiday has become one of showing you care for everyone in your life from kids, to parents, and friends. While we tend to look at Valentine's Day as the holiday for lovers, Sweetest Day is about loving everyone. Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and some parts of Pennsylvania and New York celebrate, but it is catching on in other areas as well. Its popularity is mostly in Ohio, where it began, and through the surrounding Great Lakes region. Outside of the midwest, Sweetest Day is hardly known. ![]() ![]() The goal was to spread joy to those less fortunate. The goal of the committee was to hand out over 20,000 boxes of candy to "newsboys, orphans, old folks, and the poor" in Cleveland. A group of candy makers known as The Sweetest Day in the Year Committee had a sweet plan. ![]() Candy Makers Created Sweetest Day to Help OthersĪlthough the first Sweetest Day originated in October of 1916 as “Candy Day,” a promotion launched by the National Confectioner’s Association, the first sweetest day was held on October 21, 1921. Sweetest Day is never on the same day each year, but it is always the 3rd Saturday of October. Here are 5 facts you may not know about Sweetest Day: Sweetest Day is Always in OctoberĬonsider it a prelude to Halloween.
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