Happy Boxing Day

[HEyHEY]

Anyone going shopping....I usually don't but I think I need some new shoes..so I'll go.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Good luck with the crowds.

Happy Boxing Day to our Canadian neighbours. ;-)

[HEyHEY]

2. I love how Boxing day has turned from

A day when people boxed up their old shit and gave it to the poor to a day when people go out and buy more shit for themselves.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Hasn't it turned into Boxing Week now?

Every holiday is an excuse to buy crap. Yay for commercialization!

[HEyHEY]

10. Yeah it is actually

Even then the sales are not what they used to be. It was a time where things were half off and stuff...now it's all buy one get 25 per cent of and shit.

[yvr girl]

4. Thanks for using the 'u'

I must find a box somewhere.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I'm learning.

:-)

[HEyHEY]

8. ?

"u"?

[GOPisEvil]

9. Check my spelling of

"neighboUr". :-)

[HEyHEY]

11. Ah! Sweet!

Haha I hadn't noticed!

[stellanoir]

5. don't forget to pay the servants !

always seem very ironic. . .the tradition of paying the servants after the holiday so they couldn't enjoy it for the holiday. Maybe they thought they were saving the servants from squandering it.

Who the heck knows?

[Maple]

7. Same to you HEyHEY

and good luck! Because you'll need it if you plan to brave the stores today!

[JohnnyRingo]

12. I haven't heard "Boxing Day" in a long time....

Explain to me why Canadians call it that....I forget.

[Longgrain]

13. I think it's based on an Old English tradition

When the wealthy land owners would either leave money in their servants poor boxes the day after Christmas, or present them with boxes of food and gifts...I've heard both explanations.