May is officially on its last legs and June is rapidly
approaching. Summer is on the cusp with Father’s Day and Graduations igniting
the excitement. Here at Accessory Genie, we want to help you celebrate all the
Fathers and Graduates in your life. Starting Monday June 2nd and
running through Monday January 9th, we are happy to offer FREE
SHIPPING on any order on the site. Use the coupon code ‘DADSGRADS’ at checkout and receive all your presents with ZERO shipping costs!!! Use it to buy Dad a retro
wood speaker like the GOgroove BlueSYNC WUD or our famous In-Car FM
Transmitter, the FlexSMART X2. Buy your new grad a set of GOgroove BlueVIBE DLX
Headphones or the newly released ENHANCE GX-H1 Gaming Headset. Whatever you
choose the shipping is free!
We all know why we celebrate graduations and what a great
achievement and honor it is, but most of us do not know how and where Father’s
Day started. Father’s Day was officially inaugurated in the United States in
the early 20th Century and was seen as a complement to Mother’s Day.
Father’s Day was founded in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910.
Dodd’s father, William Jackson Smart, was a Civil War Veteran and a single
father of 6. Dodd approached her pastor with the idea after listening to a
sermon about Mother’s Day. She originally wanted to celebrate Father’s Day on
her Father’s actual birthday but was unable to rush the process and the party agreed
to make it the third Sunday of June. Dodd had little success with the holiday,
eventually forgetting it completely when she went away to the Art Institute in
Chicago. In the 1930s she returned to Spokane and that is when she began to pick up steam.
With the help of trade groups looking to benefit from the
holiday, Sonora Dodd was able to gain some national traction for promoting the
holiday. Manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and other traditional presents
were crucial in getting Father’s Day the notoriety it has today. At first
Americans resisted the holiday because they felt that people were just trying to
replicate the commercial success of Mother’s Day, but the trade groups would not
give up. By the mid-1980s it was written that, ”Father’s Day has become a
second Christmas for all the men’s gift-oriented industries.”
Now that I have completely bored you with a history lesson,
go out and shop for your Dad or Grad… They deserve it. Remember to use the
coupon code ‘DADSGRADS’ at checkout to receive free shipping on all orders!
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