Blue Monday is a designation for work-free Monday. Traditionally it was usual in many small and handicraft enterprises to work on Monday only "with half Kraft ". This custom was however back-continued to push in the past years ever.

The designation goes back on a work-conditioned break with the One dyed wool with the a coloring material bluing at air, and left her over Sunday in the Farbbad, in order her then on Monday dries to leave, meanwhile the blue of the Indigofarbstoffs developed.

On Mondays could associate thus "blue to make ", the idle course hang-evenly.

Traditionally the was added for better color development urine, whereby as "handicraft rule "it was considered that the colouring succeeded still better, if the had drunk plentifully alcohol. Volksetymologisch developed from it allegedly the common term "blue to be ", which is however wrong ("blue its "is the Verballhornung of a jiddisch Hebrew expression for "in the nothing its").

In the hairdresser handicraft it is also today still usual to keep the business closed after the work-rich weekend on Monday. Likewise most museums closed on Mondays.

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