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No, it's not really "celebrated" here any more, it was a Victorian tradition and the name has remained as Boxing day, it's also a national holiday but most big stores start their sales on Boxing day (not for me), if it falls on a weekend they make Monday a holiday too.

9 years ago. Rating: 9
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A UK holiday? Today is Boxing Day here, in Canada. There is nothing to celebrate though....everything is closed. Now, tomorrow will be a different story. There will be (major) sales everywhere and the stores will be crazy!!!

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We have boxing day in Aussie,,but it is really just a mark down sales for the shops,,and i aint into that..just a waste of money..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..Yeah i know,,pick the Aussie..however this is in Melbourne,,it is the foreign capital of Aussie...

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I've been in my pajamas all day, and am content.  Boxing Day:

Boxing Day is a holiday traditionally celebrated the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradesmen would receive gifts, known as a "Christmas box", from their masters, employers or customers,^[1] in the United Kingdom, The Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, Bermuda, New Zealand, Kenya, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and other former British colonies. Today, Boxing Day is the bank holiday or public holiday that generally takes place on 26 December.

In South Africa, Boxing Day was renamed Day of Goodwill in 1994. In the liturgical kalendar of Western Christianity, the day is dedicated to St. Stephen, so is known as St. Stephen's Day to Christians (especially Anglicans, Lutherans and Roman Catholics),^[2] and to the population generally in Italy, Ireland, Finland, Alsace and Moselle in France. It is also known as both St. Stephen's Day and the Day of the Wren or Wren Day in Ireland. In some European countries, most notably Germany, Poland, the Netherlands and those in Scandinavia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day

Source: WIKIPEDIA

 

 

9 years ago. Rating: 7
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No, nothing much doing on Boxing day.The big stores have their sales on though.

9 years ago. Rating: 7
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Clu I didn't know what Boxing Day meant before I moved to the UK.  I thought it to be a little sad that the servants had to work on Christmas Day so could spend no time with their families until the day after Christmas-Boxing Day but at least they did get the time off. 

9 years ago. Rating: 6
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Box what? Sounds familiar but not in this part of the world.....

9 years ago. Rating: 5
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It's a tradition in Canada and in some parts of N. Michigan, b/c it is not too far from Canada. I have some cousins that live in N.E. Michigan and they observe boxing day. What it's boiled down to , I've been told, is that they gather up everything they don't want anymore, mainly in the line of clothes and maybe small appliances, and put it in boxes, and give it to the needy thru some organization .

9 years ago. Rating: 5
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