Bubblegum Day - Weird holidays from around the world

Bubblegum Day – how did it happen

The American Ruth Spiro dedicated the day to honoring the formation of large bubbles of chewing gum. She works as a children's book author and, by her own admission, is a big bubble fan. This is not about an American food festival, but a day with an educational and charitable background.

The inventor's main concern with the holiday was that schools collect donations for a good cause. However, it should be a day when the students should not sell anything.

Rather, it was about being allowed to chew bubblegum and make big bubbles that day at school. Each school was allowed to decide for itself what they wanted to support with the donations. Each student should donate only 50 cents for the permit on the day.

Remarkably, the bubble tag has expanded over time and now includes schools, museums, libraries, retirement homes, military bases and even NASA.

 Before the city of Seattle made another attempt to "clean" the wall in 2018, there was a geocache on this gum wall, right next to Farmers Market. German cacher groups who were on the road with cacher trips also looked for the cache here more than desperately. Sometimes it was hidden in real chewing gum, sometimes in a snail shell that sat on the windowsill. And of course he always hiked, so tips didn't help much. In any case, we always visited the chewing gum wall and were - with all due respect - a little sad about the clean-up operation. The pictures we use to embellish the article were taken last October. See for yourself, nature, oh no, the chewing gum is reclaiming the wall. So far, however, there is no geocache to be found here again. We are very curious to see whether the wall of the bubble has grown a bit again in October of this year.

With this in mind: Have a great Bubble Gum Day everyone. Whether in the USA, in Germany or anywhere else in the world. ????