Being part of the entertainment and/or service industry pretty much guarantees that you’ll never celebrate a New Year’s Eve with the rest of the world.  I’m usually performing and leading the midnight countdown on stage or at someone’s private party….rarely with those who I would choose to be with to bring in the new year.

To combat this, last year a small group of friends gathered at my house a few days after New Year’s eve to celebrate a new holiday that I invented….New Calendar’s Day.

New Calendar’s Day is a day typically two days after New Year’s, on January 3rd (although the date can vary up to a week after New Year’s Eve).   Participants are encouraged to buy a calendar (they always go on sale after the 1st of the year).  Then we bring together the calendars from the previous year and burn them (using a candle purchased from the Yankee Candle Company).  Then new calendars are exchanged as presents and thus the cycle continues.

So if you’re not able to have your own New Year’s Eve celebration…remember you can always celebrate New Calendar’s Day!