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[RedRob]

What is Boxing Day? ( And why won't my crummy boss give it to me as a stat. hol.?)

[J.B. Clamence]

Boxing Day is December 26, when people are supposed to box up their ugly Christmas decorations. Unfortunately, they usually get left out well into the new year.

[Emma Clare]

In England a long time ago�

Servants were required to work on Christmas. They were responsible for making the holiday run smoothly for wealthy landowners. They were allowed to take leave on December 26th and visit their families. The employers gave each servant a box containing gifts and bonuses. In addition, around the 800s' churches opened their alms boxes (boxes where people place monetary donations) and distributed the contents to poor.

So no, unless you're a poor servant, or just English, you don't qualify.

[SarcasmKills]

boxing day is a day where stores usually have huge sales on the crap they couldn't convince you to buy before christmas...

malls are packed, roads are jammed, chaos ensues..

I usually try to avoid leaving the house altogether on that day.. its madness...

[Emma Clare]

According to the site that I just got that from, December 26th is also:

Kwanzaa - African American holiday celebrating black heritage
Day of the Wren (Ireland)
National Candy Cane Day

The site is actually pretty neat. Seems just about every day of the year is 'National something or the other day'. Some of these are pretty weird!

Here's December:

1National Pie Day
Eat A Red Apple Day
Snow Day (US)
2 National Fritters Day
Pan American Health Day
3 International Day of Disabled Persons (UN)
National Ice Cream Box Day
4 Day of the Artisans (Mexico)
National Cookie Day
5 Sinterklaas Day
National Sacher Torte Day
6 St. Nicholas Day
7 Bodhi (Buddhist Celebration)
8 Winter Flowers Day
9 National Pastry Day
10 International Human Rights Day
Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit Eskimos)
11 National Noodle Ring Day
Birthday of UNICEF
12 National Ambrosia Day
Poinsettia Day
13 St. Lucia Day
Ice Cream & Violins Day
National Cocoa Day
14 National Bouillabaisse Day
Yuletide Lads, (Iceland)
15 National Lemon Cupcake Day
16 Nine Days of Posada
National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
17 Nine Days of Posada
National Maple Syrup Day
St. Lazarus' Day (patron of housewives, lepers, sextons)
18 Nine Days of Posada
Misa de Aguinaldo
19 Nine Days of Posada
National Oatmeal Muffin Day
20 Nine Days of Posada
Chinese Feast of Winter Solstice
21 Yule/Winter Solstice
Nine Days of Posada
Humbug Day
Pongol of the Cows (Hindu)
22 Nine Days of Posada
National Date-Nut Bread Day
23 Nine Days of Posada
Night of the Radishes (Mexico)
National Pfeffern�sse Day
24 Nine Days of Posada
National Eggnog Day
25 Christmas
26 Boxing Day
Kwanzaa
Day of the Wren (Ireland)
National Candy Cane Day
27 Kwanzaa
National Fruitcake Day
28 Kwanzaa
Cross Day (Ireland)
Inocentes (Mexican April Fool's Day)
29 Kwanzaa
St. Tropez's Day (patron of children; against gout)
30 Kwanzaa
National Bicarbonate of Soda Day
31 Kwanzaa
New Year's Eve
Rizal Day (Philippines)
Hogmanay Day (Scotland)
National Champagne Day

[RedRob]

Well I do feel like a poor servant from old england, so I will take the day off....at home it's more like a friends day, like we hang out with our families in chrissie day, and then bugger off to the beach with our mates and have a relaxing day to counteract the enforced politeness that is Xmas.,

Maybe not a servant.... perhaps an educated slave from Greek times that wealthy folk used to buy to educate their brats.

[camel96]

Why did no one tell me yesterday was nut bread day...?

[Emma Clare]

Go for it!