OT: Will the Real Boxing Day please stand up?

[Guest guest]

Gotta correct this one here! Jody used to tell me it was the day

that people box up all their Christmas decorations etc...but that too is

incorrect. Boxing Day is celebrated in New Zealand, Australia, Canada

and Britain (it originated in Britain), yet it seems most people these

days see it as little more than another day off of work LOL. Boxing

Day was the day when people gave to their "inferiors"...it was all about

preserving class lines. Wealthier classes exchanged gifts with their

peers on Christmas Day and gave to their servants or other peasant classes

on Boxing Day. The origin of the exact name "Boxing Day" is unclear...some

explanations suggest it was because the wealthy would box up the leftovers

of their Christmas repast and give them to the poor or their servants.

Another explanation is that years ago in Britain it was customary for servants

to bring a small box to work the day after Christmas and their employers

would deposit coins in them...an early form of the Christmas bonus.

At any rate it has nothing to do with cardboard boxes, boxing decorations

or boxing up the returns for the stores (Which are all common myths)

Dawn wrote:

Lori,

That's what R was told via his Canadian branch of his company....I'm

just

the messenger

D

Re: Boxing Day for Lori/Conor

NO WAY! Are you really serious? Is this for real?

It's about putting out

gift boxes?

Lyssa, is she pulling my leg???

Lori

> Lori,

>

> Boxing Day is a Canadian Holiday held the day after Christmas,

that

> originated back in the old days, when everyone would put out

their gift

> boxes the day after X-mas for the towns and cities to pick it

up.

>

> Any help? LOL!

>

> Dawn