We can all use a little something to celebrate these days, amiright? How ’bout BIDEN HARRIS DAY?!
The boys made me mark the occasion, otherwise known as Inauguration Day, on our new 2021 calendar. And they have been counting down ever since.
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When the actual day arrives, I want to do something BIGLY! (In addition to praying for impeachment and hiding from white supremacists.) So I polled the audience on Facebook for ideas. OVER FOUR HUNDRED PEOPLE RESPONDED.
Which means I’ve got a pretty good list to share with you in case you’re still mulling over just the right thing to do to welcome humanity and dignity (and a dog) back into the White House.
46 ways to celebrate Biden Harris Day
Brought to you by the best of crowdsourcing. (Thanks, ladies!)
1. Host an outdoor, socially-distanced party, complete with live music and adult beverages
2. Eat an orange YOU’RE FIRED! cake
3. Donate $46 to the charity of your choice
4. Dye your hair blue for the day
5. Mimosas!
6. Wear pearls (fake totally counts!) in honor of MADAM VICE PRESIDENT
7. Host a kazoo parade
8. Burn some sage
9. Thank your mailman/lady/person for MAIL-IN BALLOT BRAVERY
10. Watch the inauguration on TV (biggest crowd ever!)
11. FIREWORKS
12. Bust a Donald pinata
13. Decorate the mailbox with red, white, and blue balloons
14. Wear white in recognition of the suffragettes #1920 #2020
15. Corral your kiddos to write a “Welcome Back” letter and mail it to Joe at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500
16. Install blue flood lights on your front porch in memory of the 390,000 coronavirus victims
17. Take the day off from work!
18. Make a bonfire in the middle of the street to burn all the trump trash
19. Prosecco!
20. Fly the American flag
21. Cook everything for FORTY-SIX seconds in the microwave
22. Milkshakes!
23. Enjoy a bottle of Maker’s Mark 46
24. Don a pair of stylish chucks in solidarity with MADAM VICE PRESIDENT
25. Make an inauguration day play list
The Chicks’ Gaslighter | Fiona Apple’s Limp | Bill Withers’ Lovely Day | Broken Bells’ The High Road | Lilly Allen’s Fuck You | Eminem’s Cinderella Man | Prince’s America | Fall Out Boy’s Thnks fr th Mmrs | Aimee Mann’s Today’s the Day | TV on the Radio’s Crying | Foo Fighters’ Miss the Misery | Geto Boys’ Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta | Alanis Morissette’s Narcissus | The Black Keys’ Strange Times | Radiohead’s House of Cards | Sheryl Crow’s I shall Believe | A Tribe Called Quest’s Description of a Fool | Wilson Phillips’ Hold On | The Dead Weather’s I’m Mad | Kelly Clarkson’s Since U Been Gone | The Psychedelic Furs’ President Gas | Middle Class’s Rut New Low | Muse’ Uprising | Foo Fighters’ Learning to Fly | Aimee Mann’s Fall of the World’s Own Optimist | Dr. Dre’s Fuck wit Dre Day (and Everybody’s Celebratin’) | George Michael’s Waiting for that Day | Delta Spirit’s Trashcan | Florence and the Machine’s I’m Not Calling You a Liar Guns n Roses’ Patience | Prince’ Thieves in the Temple | Jimi Hendrix’s The Star Spangled Banner
26. Don Perignon!
27. Donate blood to the American Red Cross
28. Host an inaugural ball in your living room with your live-in BFF
29. Yell and cheer!!
30. Decorate the front yard with campaign signs
31. Parade around the neighborhood banging pots and pans and singing This Land Is Your Land
32. Make 46 origami doves
33. Get your coronavirus vaccine
34. Kiss your loved ones
35. Air high-five the neighbors
36. Read Biden’s inspiring (and heart-wrenching) memoir, Promise Me, Dad
37. Eat 46 hershey’s kisses
38. Fly the Biden flag
39. Welcome Major Biden to the White House by posting a pic of your own rescued pet on Insta #presidentialpooch
40. Congratulate folks in Georgia whose victory on January 6th got kinda, uh, overshadowed
41. Give your kid 46 quarters and take them to Target to spend it on something for a child in need
42. Wear a mask
43. Talk to your children about the importance of science and truth
44. Wear a white pants suit to your zoom meeting
45. Host an intimate Thanksgiving-like feast, complete with a turkey named Donald
46. Finally, breathe
And the most exciting thing is that, to quote one reader, “There are roughly 1500 more Biden days after that!”
Share your own celebratory ideas below or on Facebook at MothersRest.
Flags and dog compliments of my dear high school friend and fellow Student Council President, Kelly Potts