Valentine’s Day is long gone, and, excluding St. Patrick’s Day, the next big holiday isn’t until Easter, or if you don’t celebrate Easter, then the Fourth of July. So whether you want some fun holidays to celebrate over spring break or you just want to be amused by the random things that have somehow merited a day of their own, here are some of the interesting holidays in March:

March 1:

• National Horse Protection Day
• National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day: Try a new kind of peanut butter or try combining peanut butter with something you’ve never tried, like grapes or maybe oatmeal.
• National Pig Day

March 2:

• National Old Stuff Day

March 3:

• National Tartar Sauce Day
• National Speech and Debate Education Day
• National I Want You to be Happy Day: Make someone happy today. Give out compliments, tell some knock-knock jokes or buy someone a gift for no reason.
  

March 4:

• National Grammar Day
  
• National Pound Cake Day: Make some pound cake or go out and buy some to celebrate this delicious cake first invented in the early 1700s in Great Britain.

March 5:

• National Cheese Doodle Day
  

March 6:

• National Dress Day
  
• National Frozen Food Day: On this holiday, instituted under President Ronald Reagan, head to the grocery store and pick out some of your favorite foods in the frozen aisle.
• National Oreo Cookie Day
• National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day

March 7:

• National Cereal Day

March 8:

• National Proofreading Day: Don’t forget to use correct grammar and spell things correctly on this day. And be sure to do some proofreading of other people’s work while you’re at it.
• National Peanut Cluster Day
  

March 9:

• National Barbie Day
  
• National Crabmeat Day
• National Get Over it Day: Have something weighing on your mind? Use this holiday as a way to “get over it” and forget about whatever is bothering you.
• National Meatball Day

March 10:

• National Mario Day: Play some Mario video games to celebrate this holiday, which was placed on this date for the way it looks abbreviated: Mar. 10.
• National Pack Your Lunch Day
• National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
  

March 11:

• National Johnny Appleseed Day: Celebrate this day by learning more about Johnny Appleseed if you don’t know much about him and maybe eat some apples, too.
• National Promposal Day
• National Oatmeal Nut Waffles Day

March 12:

• National Girl Scout Day
• National Plant a Flower Day: The way to celebrate this holiday, which is supposed to be during the perfect time for planting, is pretty self explanatory: plant a flower, or more if you’re feeling up to it.

March 13:

• National Earmuff Day
• National Good Samaritan Day: Do some random acts of kindness to celebrate this day. Make sure not to ask for anything in return for your good deeds.
• National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
  
• National K9 Veterans Day

March 14:

• National Learn About Butterflies Day
• National Pi Day: Learn about the history of the famed 3.14 on this holiday first celebrated on a large scale in 1988 in San Francisco. Eat some pie or try to memorize some digits of pi.
• National Potato Chip Day

March 15:

• National Everything You Think Is Wrong Day

March 16:

• National Everything You Do Is Right Day
• National Freedom of Information Day: Celebrate the birthday of the shortest president of the United States: James Madison, who was born on this day in 1751.

March 17:

• National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day: If you’re not a big fan of regular St. Patrick’s Day traditions, celebrate Irish culture with traditional a meal of corned beef and cabbage.

March 18:

• National Awkward Moments Day: Look back on the times in your life when you fell flat on your face or maybe just embarrassed yourself in front of your friends and laugh at how silly they were. Remember that we all have our moments.
• National Biodiesel Day
• National Sloppy Joe Day
• National Quilting Day

March 19:

• National Chocolate Caramel Day
• National Let’s Laugh Day: Since laughter is the best medicine, give someone the giggles. Tell some good jokes (or some bad ones) and put a smile on someone’s face.

March 20:

• National Proposal Day
• National Ravioli Day: Make some homemade ravioli or go out to a fancy Italian restaurant. You could also enjoy some of a staple of St. Louis cuisine: toasted ravioli.

March 21:

• National Common Courtesy Day: Hold open a door or two. Let someone go in front of you in line. Lend your neighbor a cup of sugar. Maybe even say “please” and “thank you.”
• National French Bread Day
• National Single Parent Day
  

March 22:

• National Goof Off Day

March 23:

• National Chia Day
• National Chip and Dip Day
• National Puppy Day: If you have a puppy, take this day to appreciate them. If you don’t, head to a local animal shelter and admire the cute little dogs and maybe even adopt one.

March 24:

• National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day

March 25:

• National Medal of Honor Day: Congress awards Medals of Honor on this day every year, a tradition that started in 1863. The first medals were given to a group of volunteers who fought in the Civil War.
  
• National Tolkien Reading Day

March 26:

• Epilepsy Awareness Day: On this holiday also called Purple Day, people can raise awareness for the almost 50 million people in the world with epilepsy by wearing purple.
• National Nougat Day

March 27:

• National Joe Day: Honor some of the special people in your life who are named Joe. Or, if you want to go all out, change your name to Joe for the day.
• National Spanish Paella Day

March 28:

• National Something on a Stick Day: Why is it that food seems to taste better on a stick? Celebrate this holiday by making some s’mores, kabobs or corn dogs, or by dipping bread or meat in fondue.
• National American Diabetes Association Alert Day

March 29:

• National Little Red Wagon Day
• Manatee Appreciation Day: Celebrate these beautiful creatures that are affectionately called sea cows and are supposedly responsible for early myths of mermaids.

March 30:

• National Doctors Day
• National I Am in Control Day: Take this day to work on controlling the things you can control and letting go of the things you cannot. Start a planner. Make to-do lists. Clean off your desk or your backpack and locker. Organize your life.
• National Pencil Day
• National Take a Walk in the Park Day

March 31:

• National Bunsen Burner Day: This is the birthday of the Bunsen burner’s inventor, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, a German chemist. Celebrate the invention that allowed new opportunities to use natural gas in chemistry and plenty of other areas of science and cooking.
• National Crayon Day
  
• National Tater Day

So whatever fun holidays you decide to celebrate, enjoy the multitude of random days created in remembrance or appreciation of some things we take for granted or forget about. Try some new recipes on National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day or maybe plant some flowers on National Plant a Flower Day. And don’t forget to read some “Lord of the Rings,” tell some jokes and proofread some writing.

*Information courtesy of nationaldaycalendar.com

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