Comments on: Weekend recap: Sweetest Day and hair therapy

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:16:28 +0000

I also got my hair done on Saturday, but i don’t really like the place I go. my boyfriend’s mom is a hair stylist, so she does it for free, but i HATE the way she does it! Unfortunately, I live with her, so i can’t just come home with a new haircut. I can’t wait to move out mostly for this reason :)

side note: we didn’t celebrate sweetest day. it’s pretty pointless.

By: MinD

MinD — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:36:38 +0000

There’s a “Sweetest Day”? Never heard of this in my life… My boyfriend bought me a milkshake that day. I wonder if it counts?

By: Miss Grace

Miss Grace — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:26:46 +0000

I didn’t even know sweetest day existed…

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:38:57 +0000

I’ve heard of Sweetest Day…but only because I see cards for it at the store. I grew up 2.5 hours south of Chicago and it certainly wasn’t anything there.

I just made my first hair appointment in a year! I’m excited. I love my stylist even though I’m irritated that he changed salons and is now even further away from me.

Also, I, too, hate when I want to go shopping but can’t find anything that’s right. So frustrating!

By: Katie K

Katie K — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:25:40 +0000

I was getting confused between “The Sweetest Day” name and the “National Dessert Day” or whatever it was.

Either way, I had an unplanned cupcake for breakfast so I was right on track haha.

By: A Super Girl

A Super Girl — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:50:41 +0000

It is definitely a great lakes/upper midwest thing. I lived in Kansas and never heard of it. I also lived in Northern Virginia and D.C. and never heard of it until I moved to Detroit.

This year, I honestly forgot it existed. Which is probably how it should be :-)

By: mandy

mandy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:58:59 +0000

I think sweetest day is stupid as well. I get tired of all these made up holidays. I want flowers randomly, not because of some holiday when every one else gets flowers. My stylist is my BFF and I LOVE the feeling of freshly cut and colored hair. Which reminds me, my roots are really showing.

By: katelin

katelin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:03:44 +0000

sweetest day is totally a midwest thing, i had never heard of it til i went to school in ohio and even then i never celebrated it, haha. a salon day sounds way better to me anyways.

By: Leahchristine

Leahchristine — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:20:44 +0000

I didn’t even know it was Sweetest Day until the day of. I celebrated it by eating bbq, seeing Where the Wild Things are and having a major meltdown. Sweetest Day can mess you up, even if you have a significant other.

By: phampants

phampants — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:08:03 +0000

Happy Sweetest Day: http://www.tampabay.com/multimedia/archive/00017/cupcake_17916c.jpg

By: SoMi's Nilsa

SoMi's Nilsa — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:25:14 +0000

Sweetest Day never hit my radar until last year. When our rabbi promptly reminded us our wedding would be on Sweetest Day. Ugh. Awful. What a STUPID holiday. You shouldn’t need a holiday to tell those you love how much they mean to you. That goes for Valentine’s Day, too.

BTW, I also went to my salon this weekend. And followed it up with a successfully spontaneous shopping spree.

By: Cass

Cass — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:24:13 +0000

I’ve never heard of this Sweetest Day junk but it sounds like another excuse to buy cards from Hallmark.

By: Kyla Roma

Kyla Roma — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:25 +0000

Sounds like a great day to go to the salon, I’m dying to go (hopefully this week!) and get my shaggy mess reigned in!

By: jenn

jenn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:39:51 +0000

i’m married and my husband and i had no idea it was even sweetest day. its definitely a bs holiday created by some ad wizards. :)

By: alexa - cleveland's a plum

alexa - cleveland's a plum — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:46:44 +0000

is it really a national holiday?!?! lame sauce.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:23:36 +0000

I knew about sweetest day thanks to running into the card stacks at Halmart, but I didn’t celebrate it. I totally would have – if I could get the bf on board for that kind of thing, but no luck.

And your salon sounds amazing. Complimentary wine and scalp massage, I’d be going once a week just for that.

By: for the love of pictures

for the love of pictures — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:55:45 +0000

I was also in the dark about Sweetest Day. There really is a holiday for everything :)

By: thatShortChick

thatShortChick — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:23:09 +0000

I had never heard of ‘sweetest day’ until I saw it being talked about on twitter. I prefer to celebrate “holidays” like National Chocolate Cupcake Day :)

By: Caz

Caz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:50:50 +0000

Wait? Sweetest Day is ACTUALLY a holiday? I thought it was just like ‘national donut day’ or something that wasn’t really acknowleged.

They mentioned it on the radio here in Aus, because they’d declared it Sourest Day here instead. I think people were eating sour candy and the like just as a joke.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:27:24 +0000

As you already know, I enjoy Sweetest Day! It was always a great holiday when I was in college. Boys bought flowers for the girls in the dorms and once we moved out of the dorms, it was always a ‘boys buy’ night at the bars.

At least among my Ohio friends (the birthplace of Sweetest Day) the day was more of a ‘friend’ day than a couple day. No one went on dates or anything like that!

The school also hosted food drives and other fundraisers on Sweetest Day.

All in all, I’m a fan of Sweetest Day. And I think you should give it another chance. Maybe do something nice for someone on Sweetest Day? It would probably be a bit sweeter!