Why is today called Boxing day?

Question

Anybody want a Fight?

Answer 1

Traditionally it was the day that the presents were opened as Christmas Day was a day where nothing was done but sing hymns aboot some wee bawbag whose folks couldn't even spring for a hotel room.

After that the wee jobby got gold, frankincense and myrrh (although he must have been a bit smelly as frankincense and myrrh, are used as scents). Mind you scoring the gold was a plus.

ANYHOO, wasn't until everyones' throats were gagging for a brew on the 26th that all the prezzies got opened up.

So you had a 24 hour delay to open up the socks or dodgy sweater that your maiden aunt (whose name just happens to be Mary, and in her younger days spent loads of time round stables - coincedence I think not) bought for you, cos she is so old now she smells of newspapers.

Answer 2

Boxing Day is a traditional celebration, dating back to the Middle Ages, and consisted of the practice of giving out gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); whence boxing-day." Outside the Commonwealth, the day is still celebrated but just with a different name.

Answer 3

Giving a Christmas-box -> boxing-day.
The celebration dates back to the middle ages consisting of the practice of giving of gifts to serfs (medival workers who had worked for their lords throughout the year).

After all the Christmas parties on 26 December, the lord of the estate would give each family a box full of practical goods (like cloth, grains, and tools).

Christmas days was a holiday for everyone except the servants, boxing day was a holiday for the servants.

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.

Answer 4

Yeah - course!! - but you wouldn't hit a girl - would you? =)


Boxing Day is a traditional celebration, dating back to the Middle Ages, and consisted of the practice of giving out gifts to employees, the poor, or to people in a lower social class. The name has numerous folk etymologies[3]; the Oxford English Dictionary attributes it to the Christmas box; the verb box meaning: "To give a Christmas-box (colloq.); whence boxing-day." Outside the Commonwealth, the day is still celebrated but just with a different name.

The more common stories include:

** It was the day when people would give a present or Christmas box to those who had worked for them throughout the year.

** In England 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 lockbox in which the donations were left.

** Boxing Day was the day when the wren, the king of birds,[4] 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.
United Kingdom
It is tradition in most families to spend the day with other family members as a sort of 'second' Christmas Day, where presents are exchanged, the left-overs of the previous day are eaten or another family meal is prepared in celebration.

Boxing Day in the UK is a day when stores launch one of the year's biggest sales periods. Boxing Day has become so important for retailers that they often extend it into a "Boxing Week".

**Sport
Boxing Day in the UK is traditionally a day for sporting activity, originally fox hunting, but since this is now banned football, horse racing and cricket are played alternatively.

** Events:

English and Scottish football matches
Boxing Day Dip - in certain UK coastal towns (including Hartlepool, Hastings, Sunderland, Whitby, Tenby and most coastal parts of Cornwall), people wade into the sea on boxing day - often in fancy dress, and usually to raise money for a local charity.[citation needed]
Football Matches played in Northern Ireland

** BUT NO BOXING - OH WELL MAYBE ANOTHER DAY =)



HAPPY BOXING DAY!





HAHAHA - MINE IS THE LONGEST!

Answer 5

It is when the churches traditionally gave out all of the donations from the collection box to the poor and needy of the parish.

Answer 6

In times gone past the wealthier families would box up gifts and food to distribute to their servants and the poor (often the same people).

Answer 7

maybe cause they are getting rid of the boxes the gifts came in, they are smashing them up lol i haven't got a clue, but we here in holland call our two days of xmas 1st xmas day and 2nd xmas day and i don't know where the two days came from either, i heard the other day that originally xmas was celebrated for 12 days (guess that's where that song comes from " on the 12th day of xmas my sweetheart gave to me.......")

anyhow, i don't wanna fight, after all, it's still xmas,you should love one another LOL
peace and hairgrease

Answer 8

Aye i.m up for a wee jig if yet fancy it lol. I think it's called boxing day because you feel like you have had your head boxed in when all the hangovers kick in

Answer 9

it came from Santas day after he worked all night.

he brought the raindeers back to Lapland, where Mrs Claus stayed up waiting for him, dressed as a naughty elf...even after working so much, Santa always had enough energy to spent the whole day with his missus, being a bad boy and 'Bare Bum Boxing'

hence boxing day.....

Answer 10

as everyone got pissssed on christmas day they were too fcuked to fight ,so they waited till the 26th ,and boxed whoever shaggdd their wives.