Sweetest Day is this month, and the holiday is touted as a way to share romantic deeds, expressions, acts of charity or kindness.
This Saturday is Sweetest Day, the annual holiday with Midwestern origins in which you can do acts of service, or give cards, chocolate, candy, flowers and other gifts to those people who are special to you.
When is Sweetest Day 2022?
The annual holiday is celebrated on the third Saturday in October, touted as a way to share romantic deeds, expressions, acts of charity and kindness.
This year, it’s on Oct. 15.
How did Sweetest Day get started?
According to National Today, Sweetest Day was first celebrated in Cleveland in 1922, when multiple candy companies distributed more than 20,000 boxes of candy to the city’s vulnerable, including “newsboys, orphans, old folks and the poor.”
Source: When is Sweetest Day in 2022? What to know about the holiday with Ohio roots
