National Lazy Day Timeline

The Seventh Day

God rests

After creating everything in six days, even the Creator found time for a lazy day. You should, too.

1819

Irving publishes "Rip Van Winkle"

Washington Irving's character Rip Van Winkle wasn't lazy per se. But he did drink some booze and sleep for 20 years. Homeboy even missed the American Revolution!

1850s

The leisure class is born

Used to be that only the wealthy could afford to do nothing. But in the middle 1800s, working classes began to enjoy a measure of financial security that allowed them to have lazy days.

1990

Linklater releases "Slacker"

Richard Linklater's film follows a bunch of people whom film critic Peter Travers described as "a generation of bristling minds unable to turn their thoughts into action." You know — lazy people.

July 24, 2018

We did nada.

In honor of future National Lazy Days, we wrote this without doing any difficult research. Salute!