Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day is celebrated on the 29th of May each year, in Europe and the U.S. The day is all about prosperity, good fortune, and having a bit of fun along the way.
This bizarre holiday spans back to the early 1900’s, where families would place a piece of cloth or linen within their larders. The piece of cloth would have typically been torn from something kept in their bedroom, such as a blanket or night gown, before being put in their larder. The families thought good fortune and prosperity would come from this as they believed placing a piece of cloth from their bedroom into the place where their food was kept bought about the possibility of plentiful food and rich fertility to their household. The modern act of putting a pillow on your fridge itself is a throwback to the bedroom-orientated cloth placed in the larder from days of old.
As time moved on and technology advanced, larders became far less common with more people opting for an electrical refrigerator. The widespread introduction of General Electric’s ‘Monitor-Top’ fridge in 1927 started to signal the death of larders. As household refrigerators phased out old-fashioned larders the tradition itself was also phased out. However, the tradition did the opposite, instead of phasing out with the larders, the day evolved into something much more spectacular, this is what brought us Put a Pillow on your Fridge Day!
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