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October 18th: National Chocolate Cupcake Day, National No Beard Day, National Get Smart About Credit Day, and Get to Know Your Customers Day.

🍫🍰National Chocolate Cupcake Day! With a dollop of frosting, one sweet serving will satisfy chocolate and dessert lovers! Cupcakes have also been known to be called: Fairy Cakes or Patty Cakes. Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes (one-word). Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when there was a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups” written in American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons. The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook. Cupcakes were originally baked in heavy pottery cups. Today, some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, large teacups, or other small ovenproof pottery-type dishes for baking their cupcakes.

National No Beard Day! The smoother the face, the bigger the celebration! Whether you have had your beard for years or it is relatively new for you, this is the day to shave it off and go smooth. Perhaps your partner doesn’t like your beard, or you just haven’t shaved it off for years. No Beard Day is the day to see what you look like without it. Achieving a close, kissable shave is a lost art that faded with a generation who had the first color televisions installed. Consider investing in the tools your grandfather or possibly your great-grandfather used – either a safety razor or a straight razor will give you the closest shave along with a natural bristled shaving brush and shaving soap. More care and time may be required, but the results are well worth the effort.

National Get Smart About Credit Day! It is a national campaign where volunteer bankers help counsel young people on responsible credit habits. The importance of sound financial management is something that can and should be taught at a young age and learning healthy credit habits while at the same time how to avoid bad credit habits can be one of the most valuable lessons as one grows into adulthood. In 2003, the American Bankers Association (ABA) Education Foundation originated National Get Smart About Credit Day. For more information regarding National Get Smart About Credit Day, see: http://www.aba.com/Engagement/pages/getsmartaboutcredit.aspx.

Get to Know Your Customers Day! This is a day to reach out to your patrons and get to know them better. When businesses get to know your customers, you also get to know more about you need to grow. Remember when Main Street businesses were locally owned and operated? The owners knew you by name and knew your shopping habits. They typically knew what you wanted to buy, and if they didn’t have it, they were willing to get it in for you. With the advent of the Internet and big-box stores, much of the personal attention has gone by the wayside. Get to Know Your Customers Day is a day to turn that around. Make it a point to get to know a little more about your customers and make each of them feel like they are your most important customer of the day.

Doing a happy chocolate🍫 cupcake dance💃. A dozen will be a good start. YUMMY!!! I don't think shaving my beard off will be a problem.😂😂😂 The best lesson to learn about a credit card is don't send more than you have coming in. And always pay them off every month. I don't own a business. So I'll leave that one to those that do.

Sending chocolate cupcake hugs! And some wubba tosses for Bixby and Gilbert. Sorry boys puppies can't have chocolate.