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What is the best holiday of the year?

by YPB Team

One night of costumes is up against a week of presents and a table of leftovers. A day off work counts for something too.

  1. Halloween — ranked #11
    Halloween
    One night of costumes, carved pumpkins and free candy, with no gifts to buy and no dinner to cook.
    1000pts
  2. Christmas — ranked #22
    Christmas
    Trees, lights and a week of enforced family time, the most commercially dominant holiday on earth.
    903pts
  3. Labor Day — ranked #33
    Labor Day
    Summer's last long weekend, spent at a cookout and pretending autumn is not coming.
    597pts
  4. April Fools' Day — ranked #44
    April Fools' Day
    A licence for one day of pranks, and the one holiday that punishes the gullible.
    542pts
  5. Valentine's Day — ranked #55
    Valentine's Day
    Roses, chocolate and restaurant reservations, adored and resented in roughly equal measure.
    478pts
  6. Super Bowl Sunday — ranked #66
    Super Bowl Sunday
    Not a real holiday, yet half a country stops for the game, the ads and a table of dips.
    478pts
  7. Memorial Day — ranked #77
    Memorial Day
    The unofficial start of summer, marked with flags, barbecues and the first open pool.
    478pts
  8. Mother's Day — ranked #88
    Mother's Day
    Brunch, flowers and the busiest restaurant day of the American year.
    404pts
  9. Fourth of July — ranked #99
    Fourth of July
    Grills, parades and fireworks over water, the loudest day on the American calendar.
    404pts
  10. Father's Day — ranked #1010
    Father's Day
    Grilling, golf and a necktie nobody will wear, observed with far less pressure than its counterpart.
    404pts
  11. Thanksgiving — ranked #1111
    Thanksgiving
    A whole day built around one enormous meal and an argument about football.
    319pts
  12. Day of the Dead — ranked #1212
    Day of the Dead
    Marigolds, sugar skulls and altars built so the dead can visit for a night.
    319pts
  13. St. Patrick's Day — ranked #1313
    St. Patrick's Day
    Green everything, parades and a river dyed emerald in the middle of Chicago.
    319pts
  14. Cinco de Mayo — ranked #1414
    Cinco de Mayo
    Mariachi, street food and festivals marking an unlikely Mexican victory at Puebla.
    319pts
  15. Mardi Gras — ranked #1515
    Mardi Gras
    Beads, brass bands and floats rolling through New Orleans before the fasting starts.
    319pts
  16. Lunar New Year — ranked #1616
    Lunar New Year
    Red lanterns, dragon dances and the largest annual human migration on the planet.
    217pts
  17. Easter — ranked #1717
    Easter
    Spring pastels, chocolate eggs and a hunt in the backyard for whatever the adults hid.
    217pts
  18. New Year's Eve — ranked #1818
    New Year's Eve
    Fireworks, countdowns and resolutions that rarely outlive January.
    0pts

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