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Participating in Dry January means that no booze at all is to pass your lips for the entire calendar month of January. Here's how it started.

Mike Rampton














(It might have something to do with sick days.)

The day after Thanksgiving, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, has a rather sinister label: Black Friday. How did that happen?

Jake Rossen
Black Friday means shopping deals galore.

It’s the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, but where did this tradition start? And just how big is it?

Ethan Trex