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Pack Rat Day

Pack Rat Day is held on May 17. This event in the second decade of the month May is annual.

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Let’s be honest, most of us have been a pack rat at one time or another. Do look around your belongings and be thankful for what you have. The unofficial holiday encourages people to do some late spring cleaning and to make space for newer, more useful things in their lives.

Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts

Biographers Day on May 16;

Love a Tree Day on May 16;

Sea Monkey Day on May 16 (They’re known as Artemia New York Ocean Science and go through anhydrobiosis, or hibernation when they are dried out. Then, with the right mixture of water and nutrients they can spring right back into life);

Wear Purple for Peace Day on May 16;

World Embroidery Day or International Vyshyvanka Day on May 16 (Celebrated on the third Thursday of May. Festival of culture of the East Slavic traditional embroidered shirt. Usually, an embroidered shirt was made from a homemade cloth, which was woven on a loom);