Boxing Day

No, no-one says "Happy Boxing Day". There's no greeting to mark the occasion.

Boxing Day is noted for sales in shops, long walks to burn off the Christmas calories, the much debated fox hunting and eating the leftovers from Christmas Day.

It's a bank holiday so all but essential services and shops having sales are closed.

We don't say Happy Boxing Day. We don't say anything.

It's a public holiday. Some people go to the sales; some go to a football match; many go for a walk (I did two hours this morning); some stay home and don't do anything; some answer questions on travel forums.

I realize that this is the day that the servants of the well to do
were given off to celebrate Xmas since they had to work on the
holiday,

hmm maybe, maybe someone just made it up 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼

There is no greeting.

Do you say Happy President’s Day?

It IS a public holiday. Schools will be closed. Some stores start their after Christmas sales on Boxing Day but other stores will be closed. Public transport will be back in operation but schedules modified.

If wanting see particular sites check their websites to see what their Boxing Day hours will be.

No special greeting or rituals, other than eating up the leftovers. It s just a second day of Christmas, time to spend with the people you didn’t manage to see on Christmas day.

My understanding is that donations were boxed up on the day after Christmas, to be given to charities for less-fortunate people.

Football matches were played on Christmas day back in the 50/60s. In Scotland, many people worked half day on Christmas day as recently as the 1960s. Hogmanay was a bigger event.

Yeah there’s no greeting. It’s just a continuation of the Christmas festivities. Any family that come to stay for Christmas will also be around to spend Boxing Day or you may see family that you didn’t see in Christmas Day. The meal is often a high tea type meal of leftover meat sandwiches, sausage rolls, fruit cake etc.

My understanding is that donations were boxed up on the day after Christmas, to be given to charities for less-fortunate people

We now have food banks. Nothing changes.

No greeting. Just a day to spend with family. When I was growing up in England, it was traditional to go and see fox hunting in the local village and walk across the countryside with family. I think some villages still have a traditional Boxing Day Fox Hunting Meet even though public opinion has been divided over the sport since the Hunting Act of 2004. (Which did not ban it completely but put rules in place about using animals to kill foxes).
Nowadays, many of us spend time shopping, eating, or watching English Premier League.

Boxing day was traditionally a day to give a gift in a box to workmen, tradesmen, and people who worked on large estates.

So in the past, it sounds as if it was as much Foxing Day as Boxing Day.

In the Great Southland Boxing Day is a Public Holiday. Is a custom carried over from colonial times, though there is no class distinction as in UK. Just a fun day for everyone. Some combine with Christmas Day and New Year's Day to make up a week’s break. I think similar in NZ.

Is marked by two important events.

Boxing Day Test match commences at 11am in Melbourne at MCG. This year is the Protea’s from South Africa. Attendance 65,000 first day this year, special remembrance for Shane Warne.

In Sydney 1pm is the start of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Spectacular when the 30-meter maxi’s leave the harbour, turn south and set spinnakers and gennakers.

Many others do what they did on Christmas Day. Go to the beach, have fun, and then have BBQ.

In the circumstances may sound a little indelicate, but that’s what happens here.

Regards Ron

Indelicate would be pugilists climbing into a ring and having a 15 Round fight. That would be a totally different Boxing Day.

One other potential take on the term, probably not observed anywhere except by aficionados of the breed, would be if the local animal shelter rounded up their square-faced dogs and had Boxer Day!

An historical oddity is that Boxing Day in Victorian times was the one day of the year when shops tended to be closed rather than it being a big sales day. Mind you back then it was not uncommon for the shop workers to do 84 hour weeks.

Marco, so much for the good old days.

Its big day for sport, perhaps the biggest of the year, particulary for football and horse racing. A lot of football matches will be local derbies and a significant number of clubs in the top five tiers of football will record thier biggest gates of the season. The National League (step 5) had one attendace over 10K and one touching it.

what a horrible post by rogblake100. 3 unconscionable and vile things to propose. We tend to be nicer around this Forum - this isn't reddit.

I kinda think that I liked it best when I believed that it was a day that the servants were given presents and the day off by royals and the wealthy so that they could enjoy a belated Xmas because they had to serve on Xmas Day.