Boxing Day

well thank you Hal...it was only in the last few years I discovered that the USA doesn't celebrate or in fact most have never heard of it...... so thank you very much!!:D


...and you know what?...I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say ''cheerio'' I think it's a word that's fast dying out...like ''ta-ta''... mostly ''see ya'', or ''laters'' now..
 
Thank you and a happy Boxing Day to all. I believe that the tradition of giving servants, tradesmen etc.. a 'Christmas box' goes back much earlier than 1830. Samuel Pepys mentions this in the late 17th. century.

I haven't heard Cheerio in a long time either. Checkout operators in the stores seem to have acquired the sloppy habit of saying "See ya late ah.
 

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Boxing Day is a national holiday in Australia too. It is a day for eating leftovers or perhaps a second family get together for large families who can't manage to see everyone on 25th.

For some it is a time to veg out watching the Boxing Day Test Match on TV. Then there is the start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race and people flock to the harbour and southern headlands to watch the big yachts go by.

Stupid people queue at the shops to enter the sales scrums.
 
Boxing day in the U.S. is the day we rush off to stores for the after Xmas sales. We do celebrate it in that way.
 
Back in 1966 I worked for an English company here in the US. We had Boxing Day as a day off. After a merger with another English company that ended, but we then had 3 weeks vacation and were permitted to vacation in winter. That led to our first trip to Florida.
 
We celebrate Boxing Day in Canada. It's a paid holiday. Banks are closed. Some stores open. Government services stay closed.

Something to do with royals handing out boxes to their servant staff the day after Christmas. I don't follow it much. When you are retired one day is the same as the next.
 

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