December 12 Ding-a-Ling Day

Today day is December 12 Ding-a-Ling Day observed every year for Call someone you haven’t heard from in a long time.
This is the very day of the year to get in touch with dear people you did not get in touch with for a long time. If you know someone you feel sorry about having lost the contact to, then Ding-a-Ling Day offers you the perfect opportunity to give him or her a call.

In 1972, Franky Hyle placed a free ad in Chase’s Calendar of Events with his PO Box Number in Melrose Park, IL stating that for $1 you can join the Ding-A-Ling club. The club, with 871 original members, would call friends and relatives they haven’t heard from in a while every year on December 12. In a 1975 Lakeland Ledger article, the idea for the club developed during a discussion among friends about people being friendlier and led to the meaning of the term ding-a-ling. After looking up the word and finding it meant “One who hears bells in his head.
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