The Origin of Father’s Day
Father’s Day is traditionally celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Credit for the first Father’s Day celebration belongs to a Sonora Smart Dodd from Arkansas. She assembled a Father’s Day Celebration in June of 1910. It was originally planned for the 5th, her father’s birthday but organizers weren’t given enough time. They celebrated Father’s Day on June 19 instead for her father William Jackson Smart. He was a single parent who raised six kids in Spokane, Washington. In 1916 Woodrow Wilson visited the celebration and presented it to Congress to make it a national holiday. It was defeated and turned down several more times until 1972 when Richard Nixon signed it into law. A lot of ties, cuff links, suits, slippers, portraits, promises, hats, scarfs, socks and shoes later it is remembered in action usually with touching original script in Personalized Notes, Cards, Agendas, Note Pads, Lists, Tablets and anything else that will carry the message along.
Father’s Day will come sooner than we expect. We generally think warmer thoughts of our father’s as it approaches. Our father’s our are biggest supporters, staunchest critics, the men with all the answers or the people to run to when all else fails. If our father can’t solve our small worldly problems than no one else can. It is for his commitment through thick and thin that we remember them on June 17 , 2012, Father’s Day. Stationery gifts may not be at the top of your list but they surely provide a sincere, original message of acknowledgment, gratitude and a connection that other gifts won’t. We didn’t assemble them ourselves along with a meaningful message. Regardless if you’re giving a more expensive gift like a Cartier or Rolex watch, a vacation, Nordstrom gift certificates, a club membership, concert tickets, Lauren suit, or dinner at their favorite restaurant we have a Personalized Stationery gift that will shine with equal radiance. Review any of our 20 special Stationery Sets. Find an engaging Personal Note or Card to send a few thoughts, thank you or acknowledgment in what ever way you like. We offer 153 personalized Notepads you’ll find one to fit any personality.
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Maxine
My father’s birthday falls just a few days before Father’s Day, so as much as I hate to do it we’ll probably celebrate both at the same time. It seems like cheating, you know? Just like how people with December birthdays often get one gift as a combined birthday/Christmas gift, which is rather unfair to them. However, since it’s a busy weekend for both of us that’s probably what will end up happening anyway.
I’m going to try and make things extra special by writing my dad a nice, long letter with the personalized card I give him for Father’s Day, as well as giving him a separate card for his birthday. Dads are underappreciated sometimes, and I don’t want my own father to feel that way this year.
10 June 2012, 2:45 pmPaulette Leto
So was Father’s Day created as an offshoot of Mother’s Day? Or were the two days unrelated in their founding?
I’ve thought of giving my dad a nice watch for Father’s Day, but he’s very picky about the kind he likes, and he never seems satisfied with one that he gets as a gift. He’s polite enough not to say anything of course, but when you buy one for him and a week later he’s back to wearing his old watch, you get the idea.
So I know I’m giving him a nice personalized card for Father’s Day, and taking him out to dinner somewhere as well, but I’m still in the hunt for a great gift to go along with it. Does anyone have any suggestions?
10 June 2012, 7:07 pmHenry B Springs
Father’s Day is a lot closer than you think. It is that one day out of 364 that we pay homage to dear old dad. We thank them for their time, their concern, care and all of the selfless attempts they’ve made to make our path through life a bit easier. A lot of fathers are always quick to lament that they were harder on us than perhaps they should have been but it was only to prevent us from making mistakes, the same mistakes they would’ve avoided as well. Fathers are often like that, trying to guide us through troubled water or make sure we steer clear of an encounter with a lesson much larger than ourselves that we did not see coming. Then that is a focal point that most parents will rest on time and time again and reasons why we look up to our Fathers because despite the fact we often may disagree they are in your corner, looking over your shoulder watching and ready to do what they can. Many of us will send Personalized Cards and Notes for Father’s Day. Some will thank you for being a father others will thank you for being a friend. Regardless we have 123 Best Selling Cards and Notes to honor your father and it matters not where you begin.
“Honor thy father” is the theme for the day. Most of the time we struggle in our relationship with our dads, even on Father’s Day. We have opened the door to a 123 of our best selling Personalized Cards or Notes to give life to your thoughts, praises, acknowledgments, remembrances and thank yous on June 17, 2012. Try and save a moment just to think and write something original, something heartfelt, something personal, something he’ll surely appreciate. Tell him if he indeed is the most important man in your life and of course tell him the reason why. That is something he’ll wonder about if you don’t. Bordered, Banner, Colonial, Manhattan, Traditional Monogram, Classic Frame and Flourish Notes and Cards are truly unique ways to say I love you, thank you, thank you for all you and this one is just for you, Father’s Day 2012.
“Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
Writer: Anne Geddes
10 June 2012, 8:12 pmAshleigh316
Wow, Father’s Day is already only a week away, and I still haven’t bought his gift yet! I know I can get the perfect personalized card from here and get it quickly, but I still need to do some extra shopping.
Thanks for the reminder, GiftsIn24! It seems like Mother’s Day was only a week or two ago, and yet Father’s Day is right around the corner now. I’d better get on this finding a gift thing.
10 June 2012, 9:09 pmstationeryfan811
Father’s Day wasn’t an official holiday until 1972? That surprises me. Did people celebrate it before then anyway?
Paulette, have you considered including a gift card of some kind in with your personalized card for your father? Some people look at gift cards as not putting much thought into a gift, but if you’re shopping for someone who is especially hard to please, sometimes the best thing you can do is let them choose their own gift. It may lack the personal feeling of a more thoughtful gift, but you are sending a personalized card so that will help to make up for it some.
Of course, taking him somewhere as a gift is also an option, whether it’s going out to a nice dinner or maybe to a sporting event of some kind. My own father is a big White Sox fan so I got him tickets to see them play the Cubs the day after Father’s Day.
11 June 2012, 12:05 amHenry B Springs
I think a lot of people will think back to what they did last Father’s Day and try to come up with something new depending upon the reactions they got last year. If the Personalized Card and the gift of Burberry Touch, Versace Pour Homme, Drakkar Noir or Aqua Di Gio didn’t go over well there is always room for redemption by pairing it with something that is more their speed by doing a little probing. It might not have been the fragrance at all but if they already had the fragrance the welcome addition of the after shave or a complete gift set surely would’ve given any father a reason to roar. Regardless if you can’t find the perfect match in fragrance there are quite a few more options that you can wrap up and send along with a Personalized Note or Card that will surely make your or someone else’s Father’s Day a much more well rounded. Day. Have you considered a membership to golf resort or fitness resort? You could try a dinner at their favorite restaurant or tickets to a concert, sporting event or weekend get away to Las Vegas. If worst comes to worse a nice watch at Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Rolex or Bulova may help him keep track of the time until he gets another Personalized Note or Card along with something special.
Pairing the gift of Personalized Notepads is a great way to make another gift more personal. We offer 151 Personalized Notepads: Agendas, Memos, Squares, Tablets, Slabs, and Squares that dad can take anywhere and everywhere. You figure if they had more time to male comments it would bring thoughts and ideas to life that otherwise wouldn’t have come to mind without the much stimulation . Skyline Desk Slabs, Super Slab White, Billboard Desk Slabs and organize By Week Slabs can assist dads and kids of all ages and generations. Personalized Notepads, lists or Minipads can solve a great many personal problems. Let him see how they fit his schedules. Father’s Day is a great day to give a great Personalized gift of stationery, cards, notes or napkins. Remember how one great personal expression can lead to another and another. Happy Father’s Day 2012.
“It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him”
Writer : Mark Twain
11 June 2012, 10:20 am