Every year, the first Friday of February is celebrated as National Bubble Gum Day to spread awareness about the charity.

In 2006, author Ruth Spiro came up with the Bubble Gum Day to encourage the idea of charity among children. On this day, kids are allowed to chew gum in school only if they make a donation of 50 cents. The money earned from this is used by the school to support a charity of the institution's choice.

This day is not just limited to schools, even libraries, corporates, and community centers promote this day to make children understand the value of kindness.

Here are few quotes taken from wisesayings.com to commemorate the day -

  • "If you like your sticky sweet, the strains that go by 'Bubblegum' will get your taste buds skanking. Besides the flavor it's also a lot like chewing gum in that you'll often find it covertly stuck undersides of desks and chairs." - Craig Lee
  • "Lizzy has been saving all her bubblegum, today she will give it a go / She's decided that whatever happens, a bubble she will blow." - Kim Green
  • "It wasn't the bubble gum itself that I loved, as much as it was blowing bubbles with bubble gum. I'd throw an entire pack of gum in my mouth and chew away like a baseball player until the wad was soft enough to start blowing bubbles, and then I'd start blowing the biggest bubbles I could make." - Susan Baroncini-Moe
  • "Bubblegum connotes three essential things: flavor, repetition, and cheap entertainment." - Brett Ermilio
  • "Sure, he chewed gum, but not bubble gum; he always found it went sort of dry after about ten minutes of chewing. No, he preferred straight chewing gum, the mintier, the better." -Lauren Child
  • "Nobody should have to endure all she'd had at the hands of her family or be subjected to such manipulations as she'd been the recipient of for the past week, and this vile-looking, disgusting wad of bubblegum symbolically summed up her disgusted ire." - Kathryn L.M. Reynolds
  • "Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it." - Hank Ketcham
  • "Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes." - John Mason Brown
  • "Chewing gum actually lowers your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. But chewing gum doesn't just reduce stress, it also makes you more alert and improves your performance in memory-oriented tasks. It does so by increasing the blood flow to your brain and alerting your senses." -Travis Bradberry
  • "Love is like bubble gum. At first, it tastes better than anything you could ever imagine, but after a while, it starts losing its flavor." -Undecided
  • "Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine." - Tabatha Coffey
  • "Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum." - Mary Schmich
  • "It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum." - Jerry Springer
  • "The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher." - Mason Cooley
  • "TV is chewing gum for the eyes." - Frank Lloyd Wright
  • "For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going." - Brie Larson
Bubble Gum
A woman tries unsuccessfully to blow a winning bubble gum bubble as measured by the "Dubble Bubble" bubble meter during the National Confectioners Association's All Candy Expo June 6, 2000 at Chicago's Navy Pier. (Photo Credit: Getty Images/Tim Boyle/Newsmakers)
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