It's interesting bc Boxing Day sounds a lot like Christmas day here in the afternoon minus the shopping. Usually our family opens gifts with outside family on Christmas Eve where we have our big family Christmas dinner. We go home, set up for Santa, and wake up for Christmas morning where we have cinnamon rolls and bacon. By late morning we are usually pretty much done with the official festivities so we all stay in our pajamas and enjoy a relaxing day together playing with Christmas gifts and eating delicious left overs.
Laurence, you and I are on the same page with Boxing Day. Pie for breakfast, cookies and fruitcake for lunch, wearing my PJ's until 2:00 PM, leftovers for dinner (which always taste better the next day anyway because all of the work is already done), and watching the last of the Christmas movies on the DVR because watching them after the 26th would just seem wrong.
A lot of retail workers don't get Boxing Day off here in Canada. They do get holiday pay though, which if they are fulltime is basically double time and a half, so that's decent.
I always thought Boxing Day was when the English boxed up their Christmas decorations and wraps, and put them away until next Christmas season. I don't remember when or where I got that, but it made sense to me.
I went to my local British-themed pub to watch a Premier League match today. So did a lot of other people-- it was crazy crowded. I don't really observe Boxing Day, but it was a fun time.
From an American standpoint, it's either a celebration of the cardboard recycling business or a celebration of pugilism. Premier League engages in neither (normally), so that's like American football somehow being connected to Thanksgiving.
Thanks! I always wondered why those 2 blokes asked Ebenezer Scrooge the day before Christmas for a donation for the poor. I always though they were a bit late, but now I realize they were going to give it away on Boxing day. Can you please tell me what it means to "rip the granny out of life". I heard it from some copper that used to be an oik. Thanks mate. I've been watching this channel for many many years. Its like 5 bucks a year.
My Dad was a government employee.. and Boxing Day was sort of Daddy's Christmas for him.. he mostly got up, slipped into his recliner, and just goofed off most of the day, and then we went to visit Mom's family...
As you correctly point out, BD is celebrated across the Commonwealth. Also Romania, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands also celebrate 26th as a 'second Christmas Day'.
As an American the first time I heard the term was on the Bob and Doug McKenzie album and their version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and I chuckled because it conjured thoughts of a day in which Muhammad Ali might partake. That I believe was 1982. It's not really a thing here and it's associated with the UK and Commonwealth, though it's a good idea
I thought it was the day everyone boxed up their lights and ornaments and also boxed up all the gifts they wanted to return. Learn something new everyday.
if boxing day is about shopping, then we bust have it, its just named differently..... like Clearance day! where everything in the stores in on clearance! especially christmas items!
We are off work all week and go back after New Years. Most companies in my industry shutdown for the Christmas holiday. I’ve heard several things of what Boxing Day is. My English friend told me Boxing Day was their version of Black Friday and people watch sports. She’s been here in California for 3 years. She’ll be going back home to visit her family in the summer.
On Boxing Day, we relax, wear pj's or a cozy sweat suit, play with new toys, and eat leftovers. It would be nice if it was a national holiday so more people could do it. Boxing day seems like the reward for all the work that went into the christmas season. The best part for sure.
In America we put the gift we don't want or is broken back in the "box" it came out of and take it back to the store. I always think of the Boxer Rebellion in China (1899-1901) when I think of Boxing Day.
We generally don't give gifts to folks that we pay here in the U.S. I guess that may be related to the fact that we pay a gratuity to many people who provide service work, and they don't have to wait for Boxing Day to get it.
Lost in the Pood does not explain it here, but Boxing day is an extra day's holiday. In day gone past, house hold staff used to have to work on Christmas severing Christmas dinner to the gentery, but were always given the 26th off as thier Christmas day. So although the reason has gone, we keep the tradition of the extra day as a holiday. Got to keep your traditions :)
Very interesting. Neat that it's the day after Christmas so if you were there you'd get two days off. I think working people would like the day after to relax. My brother lives in Buffalo and when they have a holiday or the US does they come over to shop. Bet they're at Walmart today.
Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles. LOL That's amazing! :) Thanks as well for the Boxing Day explanation. From an American perspective hearing the term Boxing Day is like seeing the British spelling of "colour" in print (or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles ;)), a slightly exotic gentle reminder of a different culture and traditions. Happy Boxing Day!
You didn't mention that it's not just Premier League football on Boxing Day but every professional and semi-professional football team plays on Boxing Day. There are also many horse race meetings on Boxing Day as well as a full program of Rugby. Trivia question that you may know the answer to; Which English football team has never played a home game and why? Answer Grimsby Town - because they play all their home fixtures in Cleethorpes
They were called Ninja Turtles in England too. It's only recently they've changed it. Remember when they used to play Ben Hur and The Wizard of Oz on Christmas Day? They don't do that anymore, I don't know why, but it's sad.
@@brasschick4214 Link to a Washington Post article dated April 7 1991 about how the BBC changed the name to Hero Turtles - www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1991/04/07/kid-video-games/0436d559-c2d9-4e66-9db4-0ddede435ea1/?noredirect=on&.69076e873fd4
Thank you for your wonderful and informative vlogmas. I did read on Google the version of servants receiving a box and a day off. It was good to hear the other reasons as well. I do wish America celebrated boxing day, buy oh well. There are a lot of foreign holidays that we don't celebrate.
I first heard of Boxing Day from a Beatlemania book. Magical Mystery Tour the film debut on the BBC on Boxing Day 1967. Then I looked it up in the encyclopedia remember them? Boxing Day is like an extra day of Xmas. It's the Simchat Torah of the English speaking world.
Like another poster I remember being taught it was the day to "box up" the decorations. Perhaps this has changed since the 1970's? Here in the US where I live "The Christmas Season" in pratical terms is from just after Thanksgiving until New Years Day. My guess is, this changed meaning of Boxing Day is a way to lenghten the season. Over history Boxing Day has had different ways of observing it. For some time it was reported as "the big sale day" for the UK, in our press.
I think America does have massive sales post-Christmas, its just an unofficial event. I think they just refer to it as just another sale. Then again, USA has the whole month of December on sale lol. As an immigrant, I have never seen so much sales in a short period of time.
flamingpie herman i see. But from what I observed here in the US, your sales run from Thanksgiving week all the way to early January. That’s mindblowing.
I thought it was the day the help got off to celebrate Christmas. Well l guess l wasn't all wrong. I would rather go out shopping. Well eating leftovers is always is done on after any holiday. I hope you had a lovely holiday! 🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇
Instead of Boxing day we have Thanksgiving Fisticuffs Day, when everyone gets drunk and trade punches with seldom seen relatives & friends over religion & politics arguments
Just before the Ninja Turtles came out. There was a Ninja craze in the uk. A lot of kids got hurt pretending to be ninjas. It was reported in the papers and there was a bit of a moral panic. They though the name "Ninja turtles" would make kids think being a ninja was cool, and more people might get hurt.
When i lived in England, no one, not one person, could ever explain why the 26th was called Boxing Day. Doesn't matter. All i know is that i got two days off in a row. Woohoo
I assumed it had to do with breaking down all the boxes from presents etc. when I first heard about it years ago. Then I had to wiki it. I doubt anyone I know in Cali has heard of it even.
America doesn't have the class separation that the commonwealth had so a day where the upper class served gifts and presents to the serving class makes no sense. It's kinda like the one day a year where a servant isn't a servant. That's kind of like we don't celebrate May day, the workers international holiday. We celebrate labor day instead
That explains why we don't have Boxing Day in America.... too many people are in debt or least do not have the money to go shopping after Christmas, so stores would not sell that much on Boxing Day....
I always wondered what "sherry" is.. it's most likely not spelt anywhere close to that. I am a big fan of the show Frasier and they drank it daily seeming as a treat or an afternoon "cap". Is it a wine? assuming it's not a bubbly, is it a harder liquor?
Until I started working in the US, I did not know it did not exist for everyone that celebrates Christmas. I guess this is what I get for growing up in various British colonies...
I have watched several shows from England and I had heard about Boxing.Day and just thought for some reason it was a big day to have sales on different things. Boy was I wrong. What kind of work do you do. No name of the company don’t want you to get in trouble or anything. Just thought it would be fun to know. Hope you had a nice Christmas. I have a hard time going places so my son’s family brought Christmas dinner up to my house and we had it here.
I had read somewhere that boxing day was when you boxed up your old stuff and gave it to charity. While I will still do that, I will incorporate this version into my Boxing Day schedule, too. #boxingdayintheusa
I thought Boxing Day was the day you took all your Christmas presents, boxed them up, and returned them to the store to get what you really wanted. Made sense to me.
I've seen a lot of US people talk about taking their decorations down the day after Christmas, is this a thing in the US? In the UK it's considered unlucky to take them down before 12th night which is the 5th January, twelve days of Christmas I guess. Although a lot of people don't abide by this tradition now, but definitely most leave them up way after boxing day.
@@vogonsrock Twelfth Night is 6 January, once considered the last day for the Lord of Misrule to reign. The word Merry (in Merry Christmas) meant mischief and taking liberties as much as it did in having fun. The Christians usurped all the Yuletide celebrations, declaring Twelfth Night as the Feast of the Epiphany, in an effort to make it less pagan and raucous.
We were going to get married on Boxing Day...unfortunately we didn't have all the paperwork that Ecuador required and Boxing Day means even less there jajajaja
Boxing Day is so awesome that I have a friend post a haul vlog. I think of it as the UK equivalent of America’s Black Friday. I managed to watch the Queen’s speech. I hope you watched it too!! #goldpiano
Ive always been perplexed about "Boxing Day"(why would someone celebrate that punching sport? ) then I figured ,🤔" well here in America we celebrate football & the world celebrates the Olympics, so maybe England REALLY likes boxing the way Americans like football ( not me- yuk! 😣) , I'm glad to hear it's not about Boxing, but rather gifting ( or Black Friday type shopping)
Not switching roles, but the servants would have their Christmas Ball on Twelve Night on 6th January. The members of the family would also attend. Until then, the staff would have been busy looking after the family and their house guests over the holiday season.
Brits are fortunate to get many holidays off. And guess what, they have shops and restaurants that close on Sunday, to let their people rest! They even have a healthcare system that all working Brits pay for, from their taxes, that is "free" to all citizens! Our country could take a few tips from them!!
@@juliestockmeyer5871 shops under 3000 square foot can open all day Sunday& shops over that side can open for six hours on a Sunday. Most Restaurants open on a Sunday in my experience.
It’s a misunderstanding to think that the British celebrate Boxing Day ( and thus celebrate a day we don’t know the meaning of). Boxing Day traditions are non specific and nothing is celebrated ( in the way that the birth of Christ is celebrated on Christmas Day). It was just common practice for many people to have the day off - it was a poor day for business as people had spent for Christmas and many employees performed badly following a day of Christmas celebrations. It didn’t become a public holiday until 1974. Boxing Day sales didn’t start until the 1990s when U.K. trading laws were changed so they are a relatively recent ‘tradition.’ It’s just the second day of the Christmas holiday that happens to be traditionally called Boxing Day and if we use that term we know which day we mean. If Boxing Day falls on a weekend then the public holiday is taken on the next weekday, so the Boxing Day holiday isn’t strictly the day after Christmas Day although when we say Boxing Day we usually mean 26th December.
Amusingly, New Zealand has Christmas day and boxing day, but boxing day is always the 26th. That said, if either falls on a weekend, an extra one (the day after Christmas day/the day after boxing day) is added to make the pay rates vs number of official holidays vs number of weekends line up right. If Christmas is a Saturday, they both fall on the weekend and so we get both extras. This means that, if it occurs in a given year, the "Day after Christmas Day" holiday is always on the 27th, Two days after Christmas, while " The Day After Boxing Day" could be on either the 27th or the 28th, one or two days after boxing day. Which is symultaniously perfectly logical and utterly daft, and thus funny. Well, such was the case last time I recall the calendar lining up to give us all four, anyway.
Boxing day has been a Bank Holiday in England & Wales since 1871. It became a Bank Holiday in Scotland in 1974. I sure I remembered Boxing day sales in the 1980s.
I had the BEST day after Christmas shopping trip today. I've cracked open a bottle of wine now just a tad too early. And I'm excited for the NCAA college football playoff game Saturday. Roll Tide! (Alabama) I believe Micky Flanagan calls it "doing f#%@k all". 😏
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It's interesting bc Boxing Day sounds a lot like Christmas day here in the afternoon minus the shopping. Usually our family opens gifts with outside family on Christmas Eve where we have our big family Christmas dinner. We go home, set up for Santa, and wake up for Christmas morning where we have cinnamon rolls and bacon. By late morning we are usually pretty much done with the official festivities so we all stay in our pajamas and enjoy a relaxing day together playing with Christmas gifts and eating delicious left overs.
Laurence, you and I are on the same page with Boxing Day. Pie for breakfast, cookies and fruitcake for lunch, wearing my PJ's until 2:00 PM, leftovers for dinner (which always taste better the next day anyway because all of the work is already done), and watching the last of the Christmas movies on the DVR because watching them after the 26th would just seem wrong.
Actually Boxing Day is the best day ever if you are a cat . Lots of boxes evwrywhere to hide sleep or play in. Its the holiday for cats Meow !
True, true.
LOL
A lot of retail workers don't get Boxing Day off here in Canada. They do get holiday pay though, which if they are fulltime is basically double time and a half, so that's decent.
Yes, we love you, brother.
I always thought Boxing Day was when the English boxed up their Christmas decorations and wraps, and put them away until next Christmas season. I don't remember when or where I got that, but it made sense to me.
We’ve observed Boxing Day finally by giving our USPS delivery person 2 boxes of treats. Making it a thing in the US.
Used to think Boxing Day referred to boxing up the Xmas decor and getting it put away until next year.
I went to my local British-themed pub to watch a Premier League match today. So did a lot of other people-- it was crazy crowded. I don't really observe Boxing Day, but it was a fun time.
From an American standpoint, it's either a celebration of the cardboard recycling business or a celebration of pugilism. Premier League engages in neither (normally), so that's like American football somehow being connected to Thanksgiving.
Thank you for the explanation - I enjoy hearing about cultural differences and how they're celebrated or observed.
You're welcome. Also, we share the same name.
Thanks!
I always wondered why those 2 blokes asked Ebenezer Scrooge the day before Christmas for a donation for the poor. I always though they were a bit late, but now I realize they were going to give it away on Boxing day. Can you please tell me what it means to "rip the granny out of life". I heard it from some copper that used to be an oik. Thanks mate.
I've been watching this channel for many many years. Its like 5 bucks a year.
My Dad was a government employee.. and Boxing Day was sort of Daddy's Christmas for him.. he mostly got up, slipped into his recliner, and just goofed off most of the day, and then we went to visit Mom's family...
As you correctly point out, BD is celebrated across the Commonwealth. Also Romania, Hungary, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands also celebrate 26th as a 'second Christmas Day'.
In this corner-gifts for the Servants and in the opposite corner the British public. Let the games begin.
Boxing Day. One of my favorite songs.
Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles...? It just don't roll off the tongue.
Thank you, now I know. I maybe watched this as an old video.
As an American the first time I heard the term was on the Bob and Doug McKenzie album and their version of the Twelve Days of Christmas, and I chuckled because it conjured thoughts of a day in which Muhammad Ali might partake. That I believe was 1982. It's not really a thing here and it's associated with the UK and Commonwealth, though it's a good idea
Exactly. I spent the day watching the footballand I was grateful as could be to have the day off
Yes, I love you.
I thought it was the day everyone boxed up their lights and ornaments and also boxed up all the gifts they wanted to return. Learn something new everyday.
if boxing day is about shopping, then we bust have it, its just named differently..... like Clearance day! where everything in the stores in on clearance! especially christmas items!
We are off work all week and go back after New Years. Most companies in my industry shutdown for the Christmas holiday. I’ve heard several things of what Boxing Day is. My English friend told me Boxing Day was their version of Black Friday and people watch sports. She’s been here in California for 3 years. She’ll be going back home to visit her family in the summer.
I have never heard of Boxing Day. That is interesting
I worked the day after Christmas and it was a bummer. But the patients come first - broken bones never really take a holiday.......
Thank you for explaining Boxing Day! I was always curious about it.
Hey, that's a Rick Steves book on the nightstand!
The town of Williams Lake, British Columbia observes "Wrestling Day" on January 2nd.
On Boxing Day, we relax, wear pj's or a cozy sweat suit, play with new toys, and eat leftovers. It would be nice if it was a national holiday so more people could do it. Boxing day seems like the reward for all the work that went into the christmas season. The best part for sure.
I wish boxing day was national holiday.
In America we put the gift we don't want or is broken back in the "box" it came out of and take it back to the store. I always think of the Boxer Rebellion in China (1899-1901) when I think of Boxing Day.
We generally don't give gifts to folks that we pay here in the U.S. I guess that may be related to the fact that we pay a gratuity to many people who provide service work, and they don't have to wait for Boxing Day to get it.
Thanks for the video. I always thought it was a day before Christmas where you would box/wrap gifts lol.
Let’s never forget the many prizefighters who sacrificed themselves for this day. They’re the reason for the season.
Lost in the Pood does not explain it here, but Boxing day is an extra day's holiday. In day gone past, house hold staff used to have to work on Christmas severing Christmas dinner to the gentery, but were always given the 26th off as thier Christmas day. So although the reason has gone, we keep the tradition of the extra day as a holiday. Got to keep your traditions :)
Always figured boxing day had a connection with festivus...and the airing of the grievances...😂
Very interesting. Neat that it's the day after Christmas so if you were there you'd get two days off. I think working people would like the day after to relax. My brother lives in Buffalo and when they have a holiday or the US does they come over to shop. Bet they're at Walmart today.
Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles. LOL That's amazing! :) Thanks as well for the Boxing Day explanation. From an American perspective hearing the term Boxing Day is like seeing the British spelling of "colour" in print (or Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles ;)), a slightly exotic gentle reminder of a different culture and traditions. Happy Boxing Day!
Canada enjoys the Jr International ice hockey tournament starting in Boxing day.
You didn't mention that it's not just Premier League football on Boxing Day but every professional and semi-professional football team plays on Boxing Day. There are also many horse race meetings on Boxing Day as well as a full program of Rugby.
Trivia question that you may know the answer to; Which English football team has never played a home game and why?
Answer
Grimsby Town - because they play all their home fixtures in Cleethorpes
They were called Ninja Turtles in England too. It's only recently they've changed it. Remember when they used to play Ben Hur and The Wizard of Oz on Christmas Day? They don't do that anymore, I don't know why, but it's sad.
It's not recently, unless you count 1990 as recently? Back in their first bloom it was most certainly Hero Turtles in the UK.
Another Mandela effect? I remember Ninja Turtles...
@@brasschick4214 Link to a Washington Post article dated April 7 1991 about how the BBC changed the name to Hero Turtles - www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1991/04/07/kid-video-games/0436d559-c2d9-4e66-9db4-0ddede435ea1/?noredirect=on&.69076e873fd4
I am baffled at why they would change it to hero, what’s wrong with ninja?
Thank you for your wonderful and informative vlogmas. I did read on Google the version of servants receiving a box and a day off. It was good to hear the other reasons as well. I do wish America celebrated boxing day, buy oh well. There are a lot of foreign holidays that we don't celebrate.
In many European states they have the second day of Xmas or St Stephens day. In other words "Boxing day" in essence but it might not be called that.
I first heard of Boxing Day from a Beatlemania book. Magical Mystery Tour the film debut on the BBC on Boxing Day 1967. Then I looked it up in the encyclopedia remember them? Boxing Day is like an extra day of Xmas. It's the Simchat Torah of the English speaking world.
Like another poster I remember being taught it was the day to "box up" the decorations. Perhaps this has changed since the 1970's? Here in the US where I live "The Christmas Season" in pratical terms is from just after Thanksgiving until New Years Day. My guess is, this changed meaning of Boxing Day is a way to lenghten the season. Over history Boxing Day has had different ways of observing it. For some time it was reported as "the big sale day" for the UK, in our press.
Thanks for explaining boxing day! I really do hope you get to go back to England one day :)
We need it! I haven't had a day off! Grrrrrr!!!!! I was napping and didn't buzz in!!!!!
I think America does have massive sales post-Christmas, its just an unofficial event. I think they just refer to it as just another sale. Then again, USA has the whole month of December on sale lol. As an immigrant, I have never seen so much sales in a short period of time.
Years ago the day after Xmas was the biggest sale day...but the last 30 years it's changed to black Friday
flamingpie herman i see. But from what I observed here in the US, your sales run from Thanksgiving week all the way to early January. That’s mindblowing.
I was watching 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' earlier today.
Boxing Day is an official holiday in the state of Massachusetts
College bowl games for the win!
I thought it was the day the help got off to celebrate Christmas. Well l guess l wasn't all wrong. I would rather go out shopping. Well eating leftovers is always is done on after any holiday. I hope you had a lovely holiday! 🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇🤶🎄👼🎅😇
Always figured boxing day was the day everyone went out and finished their differences with fisticuffs
Sounds like it evolved into Festivus.
As a child, I assumed Muhammad Ali was super into this holiday.
Instead of Boxing day we have Thanksgiving Fisticuffs Day,
when everyone gets drunk and trade punches with seldom seen relatives & friends over religion & politics arguments
I used to think it was a celebration of the Allied victory in the Boxer Rebellion.
Boxing Day would be the result of Festivus? Didn't like someone's "airing of the grievances"? Boxing Day is the day you express your disaproval.
"Hero" Turtles!?!? Is Ninja a bad thing in UK? I wonder what drove that decision.
Just before the Ninja Turtles came out. There was a Ninja craze in the uk. A lot of kids got hurt pretending to be ninjas. It was reported in the papers and there was a bit of a moral panic. They though the name "Ninja turtles" would make kids think being a ninja was cool, and more people might get hurt.
When i lived in England, no one, not one person, could ever explain why the 26th was called Boxing Day. Doesn't matter. All i know is that i got two days off in a row. Woohoo
I assumed it had to do with breaking down all the boxes from presents etc. when I first heard about it years ago. Then I had to wiki it. I doubt anyone I know in Cali has heard of it even.
America doesn't have the class separation that the commonwealth had so a day where the upper class served gifts and presents to the serving class makes no sense. It's kinda like the one day a year where a servant isn't a servant. That's kind of like we don't celebrate May day, the workers international holiday. We celebrate labor day instead
Ah yes, the Hero Turtles. I still think TMHT just doesn’t have the same ring to it as TMNT!
Merry Marquess of Queensberry rules .
That explains why we don't have Boxing Day in America.... too many people are in debt or least do not have the money to go shopping after Christmas, so stores would not sell that much on Boxing Day....
Also it became a thing in the anglosphere after the American revolution
I always wondered what "sherry" is.. it's most likely not spelt anywhere close to that. I am a big fan of the show Frasier and they drank it daily seeming as a treat or an afternoon "cap". Is it a wine? assuming it's not a bubbly, is it a harder liquor?
0:30 Boxing Day
2:26 Where it is celebrated and how it is celebrated.
3:10 Relaxing, giving up on all responsibilities.
Until I started working in the US, I did not know it did not exist for everyone that celebrates Christmas. I guess this is what I get for growing up in various British colonies...
I have watched several shows from England and I had heard about Boxing.Day and just thought for some reason it was a big day to have sales on different things. Boy was I wrong. What kind of work do you do. No name of the company don’t want you to get in trouble or anything. Just thought it would be fun to know. Hope you had a nice Christmas. I have a hard time going places so my son’s family brought Christmas dinner up to my house and we had it here.
I had read somewhere that boxing day was when you boxed up your old stuff and gave it to charity. While I will still do that, I will incorporate this version into my Boxing Day schedule, too.
#boxingdayintheusa
In Ireland we call it Saint Stephen’s Day. So in this case Happy ME Day to me! 😂
"Boxing Day...then Wrestling Day." - Bob and Doug Mackenzie, 1982.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...a beer in a tree
And then the three mystery days.
Oh by the way that's me on the organ...
Take off!
Koo lookookookookookookoo! Ay. Good day, eh? 😂
I'm off work until January 7th construction industry in the UK.
I thought Boxing Day was the day you took all your Christmas presents, boxed them up, and returned them to the store to get what you really wanted. Made sense to me.
I was thinking the same like if you gift that you don’t want return it simple
I wondered if Boxing Day was perhaps when you got to beat people up who gave you presents that you didn't like..
Boxing Day is Australian Day of Cricket
In the US there's Easter Monday.
I always thought it was when you put your Christmas gifts away and got rid of your boxes.
I've seen a lot of US people talk about taking their decorations down the day after Christmas, is this a thing in the US? In the UK it's considered unlucky to take them down before 12th night which is the 5th January, twelve days of Christmas I guess. Although a lot of people don't abide by this tradition now, but definitely most leave them up way after boxing day.
@@vogonsrock Twelfth Night is 6 January, once considered the last day for the Lord of Misrule to reign. The word Merry (in Merry Christmas) meant mischief and taking liberties as much as it did in having fun. The Christians usurped all the Yuletide celebrations, declaring Twelfth Night as the Feast of the Epiphany, in an effort to make it less pagan and raucous.
@@catherinerobilliard7662 Yes! the history of pagan solstice celebration, and it's appropriation by Christianity is fascinating, :)
Have you experienced Chanukah and/or Kwanzaa either before or after you came to the US?
Informative
Hero turtles. Well... huh.
Good Gravy.... I got the day off...but I'm sick in bed.... What the hell?
We were going to get married on Boxing Day...unfortunately we didn't have all the paperwork that Ecuador required and Boxing Day means even less there jajajaja
Boxing Day = Soccer!
Boxing Day is so awesome that I have a friend post a haul vlog. I think of it as the UK equivalent of America’s Black Friday. I managed to watch the Queen’s speech. I hope you watched it too!! #goldpiano
We have Black Friday as well. We are getting so many sales it's getting ridiculous!
Ive always been perplexed about "Boxing Day"(why would someone celebrate that punching sport? ) then I figured ,🤔" well here in America we celebrate football & the world celebrates the Olympics, so maybe England REALLY likes boxing the way Americans like football ( not me- yuk! 😣) , I'm glad to hear it's not about Boxing, but rather gifting ( or Black Friday type shopping)
So it's Boxes Day? Oh ok. I was hoping it had something to do with boxing.
Is there a day designated for switching of roles in the wealthy households?
Not switching roles, but the servants would have their Christmas Ball on Twelve Night on 6th January. The members of the family would also attend. Until then, the staff would have been busy looking after the family and their house guests over the holiday season.
boxing day, does anyone remember the rumble in the jungle when ali beat foreman?
That was October 30, 1974. 😐
@lostinthepond Lawrence, Do some or all of your day-job co-workers know of Lost in the Pond ? Just curious :-)
It's to realive post Christmas depression
Boxing Day is my bday
Boxing Day is akin to Americans getting Groundhog Day off
Except who gets groundhog day off?
Brits are fortunate to get many holidays off. And guess what, they have shops and restaurants that close on Sunday, to let their people rest! They even have a healthcare system that all working Brits pay for, from their taxes, that is "free" to all citizens! Our country could take a few tips from them!!
@@herbiehusker1889 that's what I thought. But I'd do groundhog stuff just to get it off.
@@juliestockmeyer5871 shops under 3000 square foot can open all day Sunday& shops over that side can open for six hours on a Sunday.
Most Restaurants open on a Sunday in my experience.
@@juliestockmeyer5871 Telling people what to do is always better than letting them decide. They're too stupid to decide what they want anyway.
What type of day job do you have?
Tell us...without specifics as to where...what is your day job? Could be an interesting video?
Why do you say July the fourth, when it’s actually calls the Fourth of July here in the USA?
It’s a misunderstanding to think that the British celebrate Boxing Day ( and thus celebrate a day we don’t know the meaning of). Boxing Day traditions are non specific and nothing is celebrated ( in the way that the birth of Christ is celebrated on Christmas Day). It was just common practice for many people to have the day off - it was a poor day for business as people had spent for Christmas and many employees performed badly following a day of Christmas celebrations. It didn’t become a public holiday until 1974.
Boxing Day sales didn’t start until the 1990s when U.K. trading laws were changed so they are a relatively recent ‘tradition.’
It’s just the second day of the Christmas holiday that happens to be traditionally called Boxing Day and if we use that term we know which day we mean. If Boxing Day falls on a weekend then the public holiday is taken on the next weekday, so the Boxing Day holiday isn’t strictly the day after Christmas Day although when we say Boxing Day we usually mean 26th December.
Amusingly, New Zealand has Christmas day and boxing day, but boxing day is always the 26th. That said, if either falls on a weekend, an extra one (the day after Christmas day/the day after boxing day) is added to make the pay rates vs number of official holidays vs number of weekends line up right. If Christmas is a Saturday, they both fall on the weekend and so we get both extras. This means that, if it occurs in a given year, the "Day after Christmas Day" holiday is always on the 27th, Two days after Christmas, while " The Day After Boxing Day" could be on either the 27th or the 28th, one or two days after boxing day.
Which is symultaniously perfectly logical and utterly daft, and thus funny.
Well, such was the case last time I recall the calendar lining up to give us all four, anyway.
Boxing day has been a Bank Holiday in England & Wales since 1871. It became a Bank Holiday in Scotland in 1974.
I sure I remembered Boxing day sales in the 1980s.
So, on boxing day I went to the dentist.
Sounds like a lot of shipping
I had the BEST day after Christmas shopping trip today. I've cracked open a bottle of wine now just a tad too early. And I'm excited for the NCAA college football playoff game Saturday. Roll Tide! (Alabama)
I believe Micky Flanagan calls it "doing f#%@k all". 😏
Don't some reserve Boxing day for when you open your Christmas presents? Spending the 25th eating, merry making, and all that?
Cole and Marmalade had a video on today about boxes and cats. Today is Boxing Day for cats right?
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I have never understood this day anyways. I just stay home and eat nuts
I found it
Cyber men deletion is imminent.
Lol
Who is your favorite football club? Hope it isn't Man U. 🤣