Day

February 4

3 holidays

A vintage vacuum cleaner in a tidy empty sunlit room

Create a Vacuum Day

Create a Vacuum Day falls on February 4 and can be read two ways, as an excuse to vacuum the house or as a nod to the science of empty space, with no known origin for the day itself.

Heavy pot of thick vegetable soup with a ladle, beside chopped vegetables and a halved lemon

Homemade Soup Day

Homemade Soup Day falls on February 4, and the gap between homemade and tinned comes down almost entirely to what happens in the first five minutes.

Mail satchel and bundle of envelopes on a snowy front step beside a cleared path

Thank a Mailman Day

Thank a Mailman Day falls on February 4, recognizing letter carriers in the least pleasant month to walk a route in most of the country.