National That Sucks Day – Apr. 15, 2027

Expected National That Sucks Day Deals

While we wait for official 2027 promotions to drop, history shows that brands often tap into the collective need for comfort and distraction. Look for deals on comfort food from chains like Domino’s or Papa John’s, streaming service discounts from Netflix or Hulu, or sales on self-care items from retailers like Target or Walmart. Local coffee shops might offer ‘bad day’ discounts, and bookstores could highlight titles on resilience or humor. We will update this page with confirmed live deals as April 15 approaches.

History of National That Sucks Day

National That Sucks Day is an unofficial American holiday that is more of a vindictive dedication to unpleasant events or occurrences. The holiday was created by an American named Bruce Novotny, who also runs a website called “thatsucks.net.” The holiday’s main idea is to highlight that though perpetual optimism is excellent, it is often unrealistic in a world with so much going on. Not everything can work in everyone’s favor. That Sucks Day is the holiday dedicated to remembering those things that aren’t particularly going in one’s favor.

The organization sponsoring That Sucks Day, That Sucks LLC, has spent all of its existence (and all of the holiday’s existence) exemplifying everything wrong with the world. Moreover, it recognizes individuals throughout (recent) human history who have played prominent roles in events and occurrences that sucked worldwide. These historical characters include the seer Nostradamus, whose main gig was predicting unpleasant events and when they would happen. And even though his predictions have been found to have never come true, the fact that he made people dreadful of a supposed upcoming unfavorable event made him suck. Speaking of suckage (literally), we must also mention the American inventor Daniel Hess, credited with the invention of the vacuum cleaner, who invented the manual vacuum cleaner in the mid-19th century. While creating the vacuum cleaner isn’t mainly an unpleasant or unfortunate event because it is beneficial in maintaining the home, we can agree that vacuum cleaners suck.

The date on which That Sucks Day falls coincides with unfortunate events of relatively global magnitude. These events include the sinking of the once-thought-to-be-indestructible Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. April 15 is also an important date in American history as it is the day President Abraham Lincoln died.

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