It's Boxing Day, celebrated in many British related areas of the world. What you may ask is Boxing Day? Or you may not care, but I tend to look it up every year because I've heard various explanations. First, just to clear up any misconceptions, it has nothing to do with boxing kangaroos or the sport of boxing. According to Google, what else, Boxing Day is the day after Christmas (we knew that). In days of old, the servants of the wealthy aristocrats had to work on Christmas day to keep their masters happy and well fed. Then, on the day after Christmas, when no one wants to do much of anything anyway, the servants were given boxes of gifts (like used clothes), monetary bonuses, and left over food, and allowed to go home and spend the day with their families. It occurs to me that if those servants were thinking ahead, they made sure there would be plenty of good leftovers to take home. Evidently, according to a BBC news cast I was just watching, these days Boxing Day is celebrated in England by shopping for all those things you wanted and didn't get the day before. We actually have a similar tradition here in the USA. Perhaps we should call it Return & Exchange Day.
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