in great britain dec. 26th is known as?

Question

they exchange gifts

Answer 1

Boxing day

Answer 2

It's boxing day... and if I'm not mistaken it's more than just exchanging gifts. They take the day after christmas and employers take the place of employees ... Like being principal for a day or something when you were a kid. Basically a supervisor would do the clerks job... and vise versa so that people can get the prospective of their employees and their boss... Kinda gives people a better understanding of the stresses their coworkers go through.

Answer 3

It's Boxing Day.

In olden times servants would be given Christmas presents the day after Christmas Day as they would be too busy on that day tending to their masters. Thus they would be give a 'Christmas Box' which is another term for a present.

Also it was meant to be a day when servants, who mainly lived in the place they worked, were allowed the day off to see their mothers and take them a present or 'box' They were also expected to visit their home church and leave an offering in the collecting box.

Answer 4

Boxing Day

Answer 5

boxing day ;

There are disparate theories as to the origins of the term. The more common stories include:

* In feudal times, Christmas was a reason for a gathering of extended families. All the serfs would gather their families in the manor of their lord, which made it easier for the lord of the estate to hand out annual stipends to the serfs. After all the Christmas parties on December 26th, the lord of the estate would give practical goods such as cloth, grains, and tools to the serfs who lived on his land. Each family would get a box full of such goods the day after Christmas. Under this explanation, there was nothing voluntary about this transaction; the lord of the manor was obliged to supply these goods. Because of the boxes being given out, the day was called Boxing Day.

* In Britain many years ago, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the day after Christmas. Their employers would then put coins in the boxes as special end-of-year gifts. This can be compared with the modern day concept of Christmas bonuses. The servants carried boxes for the coins, hence the name Boxing Day.

* In churches, it was traditional to open the church's donation box on Christmas Day, and the money in the donation box was to be distributed to the poorer or lower class citizens on the next day. In this case, the "box" in "Boxing Day" comes from that one gigantic lockbox in which the donations were left.

* In Britain because many servants had to work for their employers on Christmas Day they would instead open their presents (i.e., boxes) the next day, which therefore became known as Boxing Day.

* Boxing Day was the day when the wren, the king of birds, was captured and put in a box and introduced to each household in the village when he would be asked for a successful year and a good harvest. See Frazer's Golden Bough

Answer 6

Boxing Day. Supposedly, in olden days, the masters and servants exchanged roles for one day. A theory is that Boxing Day is called that because it's the day you box up your old things to give to charity since you got new things for Christmas.

Answer 7

Boxing Day, but Elvis Costello wrote a song called Boxing Day, about a couple that beats each other.

Answer 8

Box or boxing day. You returned unwanted Christmas gifts.

Answer 9

Snopes version:
http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/boxing.asp

Answer 10

Boxing day, don`t know why but i like it so i`m not arguing