Happy Boxing Day! Wait...what the hell is that? Explained! (By an American)
So I woke up this morning, the day after Christmas (DEC 26th) to find my twitter feed filled with #BoxingDay hash tags.
So I thought to myself, what is this? I've heard this every year and never bothered to take a look into the holiday.
But today I decided to and here's what I found!
So in my research "Boxing Day" is a holiday in the UK (and Canada) where it was tradition to give a "Christmas Box" to workers that do a service in the community and usually never get thanked for.
Like a Post man or Garbage man or anyone of service that traditionally doesn't make much money.
So in short, today is the day to maybe give a little gift to a hard worker around your town, or even something as simple as a Thank you!
You'd be surprised how grateful a simple "Thank You" will be to people who really need to hear it.
Please leave a comment if this is pretty close the what the actual holiday is, or what it means to you if your in the UK or Canada!
Thank you.
Happy Boxing day bro..i just followed you.!!!
Thanks, much appreciated!
Sounds like it would be something you'd do for Christmas anyway.
I send gifts to my pet sitter and local police officers we pray for as a family.
Very sweet post
Yeah that's probably the traditional meaning of boxing day. It's a lot more like a Canadian "Black Friday" than a charitable day. Big sales and los of shopping. A time best to avoid the stores, in my opinion.
Ah bummer, hoping it was more of a charitable day! Thanks for the comment.
Australia has boxing day as well if i remember right but i thought it was because it is the day we throw out the boxes from the christmas presents
@lpv I thought it was something like that too, makes sense.
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@minnowsupport Thanks, I will look into that.