Happy "Blue Monday is a marketing ploy" Monday (18/365)

[white_hart]

I'm not sure I've actually seen anyone claiming that Blue Monday is actually a thing recently, but every year I see multiple people pointing out how it was made up by a marketing company to persuade people to book holidays. (That may be why I haven't seen anything about it this year. Who's going to risk booking a holiday in a global pandemic when the odds aren't looking good for actually being able to go on it?)

Anyway, all the days blur together these days, and how can you say one is more or less miserable than the rest? (Although I am actually feeling particularly glum today, even by the standards of January in a pandemic.)

As an antidote to the gloom, I give you a stoat on a trampoline.

Comments

[antisoppist]

I have never heard of Blue Monday. And EasyJet keep sending me emails wanting me to book package hotels in Spain no matter what day it is. Sometimes I am tempted to book one just to have something happening to look forward to even if I had to cancel it but also I can't envisage ever going anywhere any more.

[white_hart]

I seem to see discussion of it come up every year!

Apparently people who are high on the vaccine priority list are booking lots of holidays, which I think is very silly of them really. But then again, I'm not sure most of the rest of the world exists any more. I know I know people who claim to be in it, but still.