DEC 14, 25.. FREE SHIPPING DAY.. MONKEY DAY.. CANDLES.. GULLIBLE..
Hello and Thank You NATIONAL TODAY..
The below Holiday is very interesting.
It is number one, first on the list, of today’s NATIONAL TODAY Holidays..
Huh?
FREE SHIPPING DAY..
I have never, ever, heard of such a Holiday.
Onward we go with FREE SHIPPING DAY..
The date of the Free Shipping Day changes each year so be on the lookout in mid-December.
National Free Shipping Day was conceived by internet entrepreneur Luke Knowles.
On December 17, 2008, Knowles kicked off the first ever Free Shipping Day the following morning. The event earned $764 million in online sales and became one of the top 10 highest-earning days in e-commerce during the holiday season that year!
Shipping is big business!
There are at least 20 million shipping containers crisscrossing the world as we speak.
FedEx and UPS combined have a fleet of 1,173 aircraft just under Delta’s 1,280 planes.
The below is of particular interest to me because I have been an Amazon customer for 23 years dating back to February the 26th, 2002!
Today, just now, Sunday the 14th of December 2025, I checked the above out on the Amazon website and did not find it to be accurate.
To read even more about Free Shipping Day click onto the below NATIONAL TODAY website link..
https://nationaltoday.com/free-shipping-day/
Because of the above experience with Amazon, my “Jury is Out” as to whether or not to believe the information about this Holiday is accurate.
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Right after FREE SHIPPING DAY, are the second and third Holidays.
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Does anyone think that any Monkey, anywhere, cares about FREE SHIPPING DAY?
December 14 is Monkey Day!
Monkeys and humans are both primates, sharing common ancestors and DNA. Humans did not evolve from modern monkeys. Instead, both evolved from a distant, extinct primate relative, with humans sharing a closer common ancestor with apes (chimps/bonobos) around 6-8 million years ago. Key similarities include forward-facing eyes, grasping hands, and large brains, while major differences lie in tails (monkeys have them, humans don’t), bipedalism (the ability to walk or move on two legs), and advanced human cognition/language.
As part of the human family tree, we may look just a bit different from our primate pals, but we shouldn’t forget that we share a common ancestor with them in chimpanzees!
There are 262 Monkey species.
Picking dirt and bugs off their fellow monkeys is a form of affection.
Below is the link to Monkey Day should you want to read more.
https://nationaltoday.com/monkey-day/
And now enough of this “Monkey Business” !!
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The third on the top three NATIONAL TODAY Holidays for today is..
Worldwide Candle Lighting Day is celebrated the second Sunday of every December.
Very good NATIONAL TODAY. Today IS indeed the second Sunday of December!
I selected this Holiday because it is the Christmas Holiday Season, and candles are a part of Christmas, and Patti loves candles.
This is NOT the case.
This Holiday is about families grieving the loss of a child.
Believed to be the world’s largest candle lighting ceremony, the day unites those who remember the children who have passed on.
When I learned what it truly is about, I decided to delete it. Then I thought, maybe, just maybe, it might help someone reading these words to deal with such a loss or to pass it along to someone else.
The bottom line is this.. In all of life, only those who have actually experienced any life challenge can fully understand others who also have experienced the same life challenge. All of the many various Recovery Programs operate on this same idea.
There is far too much to this holiday for me into in any great detail.
Below is the link to click onto should you want to read more.
https://nationaltoday.com/worldwide-candle-lighting-day
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GULLIBLE..
To see Chapter Nine of Gullible’s Botswana Journals please click onto the below link..
https://gullible-gulliblestravels.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-2025-botswana-journals-ch-9-double.html
Wowie Gullible. Zounds. Keep ‘Em Coming.
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Cap and Patti
We may.. Then again.. We may not, watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the Los Angeles Chargers at home in Kansas City today. IF we do watch the game, and it is IFFY, it will be the first NFL game we have watched this entire season!
- DEC 13, 25.. ICE CREAM.. COCOA or CHOCOLATE.. CAKE FROSTING..
- DEC 15, 25 (2 / 2).. CAT HERDING.. CUPCAKES.. MORE CUPCAKES..