Happy Boxing Day To Our Brits

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Most Americans probably think all the Brits and Canadians are beating the hell out of each other. Tomorrow is Shiner Day?
Instead of helping the poor and less fortunate it has turned into a shopping day! Sounds very American now. Rest easy. Nobody is getting beaten up.

 

[mikethompson]

Nope, no shopping here.

Kids and i went into the crawlspace to find toys they didn't play with and books they don't read. I'm not sure the Salvation Army will take donations now (Ontario is in 'lockdown' until Jan. 28 minimum), but that's where they will go when they do.

We have so much to be grateful for, and its not the deal we can get on a blender that's for sure.

 

[kcghost]

Enjoy the Holiday!!

 

[condorlover1]

Boxing Day! I am sitting in my office doing up my taxes so that I can get them off to the accountants for the 1st of the year. Nothing like a bowl of Irish XX whilst I fathom out whether 2020 was a win or a loss in the income department. So far it's looking like a disaster. Now if they would allow the deduction of pipe tobacco things might be a little better .......

 

[Lawyer66]

I honestly thought that Boxing Day was the holiday of sport boxing. What a day it was when I finally found out?

 

[anotherbob]

Most Americans probably think all the Brits and Canadians are beating the hell out of each other. Tomorrow is Shiner Day?
Instead of helping the poor and less fortunate it has turned into a shopping day! Sounds very American now. Rest easy. Nobody is getting beaten up.

I think you just won the Scrouge award on this site for sharing the saddest Christmas type post. All those visions of British people happily beating up their family now soured by reality thanks a lot. Seriously though I've known that is not what goes on but I can't help but imagine it. Though it was a good thing to find out that crackers aren't as lame as they sounded at first.

 

[anotherbob]

Boxing Day! I am sitting in my office doing up my taxes so that I can get them off to the accountants for the 1st of the year. Nothing like a bowl of Irish XX whilst I fathom out whether 2020 was a win or a loss in the income department. So far it's looking like a disaster. Now if they would allow the deduction of pipe tobacco things might be a little better .......

if you can make it a business expense that might work. Taking tax advice from me is like taking marital advice from a paravirgin.

 

[krizzose]

I think you just won the Scrouge award on this site for sharing the saddest Christmas type post. All those visions of British people happily beating up their family now soured by reality thanks a lot. Seriously though I've known that is not what goes on but I can't help but imagine it. Though it was a good thing to find out that crackers aren't as lame as they sounded at first.

Kinda sounds like the Festivus Airing of the Grievances followed by the Feats of Strength

 

[jpberg]

Most Americans probably think all the Brits and Canadians are beating the hell out of each other. Tomorrow is Shiner Day?
Instead of helping the poor and less fortunate it has turned into a shopping day! Sounds very American now. Rest easy. Nobody is getting beaten up.

Do you ever remember Boxing Day being a day of helping the poor and less fortunate? I don’t.

 

[mikethompson]

Do you ever remember Boxing Day being a day of helping the poor and less fortunate? I don’t.

see my above post.

Everything is commercial and superficial if you let it become that.

 

[mso489]

In a whole different world where I am, boxing day was devoted to disinfecting boxes on the porch, emptying the contents of my wife's online purchases, and recycling the boxes to a cart for pick-up by the city. It was not Boxing Day for me, but it was a boxing day of another kind. It's my fourth career as a warehouseman.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Courtesy of Wiki....

"The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest attestations from Britain in the 1830s, defining it as "the first weekday after Christmas day, observed as a holiday on which postmen, errand boys, and servants of various kinds expect to receive a Christmas box"."

Regards,

Jay.

 

[mikethompson]

Courtesy of Wiki....

"The Oxford English Dictionary gives the earliest attestations from Britain in the 1830s, defining it as "the first weekday after Christmas day, observed as a holiday on which postmen, errand boys, and servants of various kinds expect to receive a Christmas box"."

Regards,

Jay.

From The BBC,

"
The name comes from a time when the rich used to box up gifts to give to the poor.

Boxing Day was traditionally a day off for servants, and the day when they received a special Christmas box from their masters.

The servants would also go home on Boxing Day to give Christmas boxes to their families."

 

[stokesdale]