What is Boxing Day? The Day After Christmas in the UK Explained
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Everyone knows Christmas, but what about the day after Christmas? In Germany it is the second Christmas day, but in the UK it is called Boxing Day, and for anyone who ever asked, "what is boxing day?" We made this video for you. What is boxing day, and why do we call it boxing day in the UK. And yes, Boxing Day is celebrated in a number of other countries as well.
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In Norway we call the 25th of December First Christmas Day, and the 26th is Second Christmas Day. They are both holidays, and the shops are closed. Traditionally we spend those days with family, and especially for extended families, it's good to have more days to meet each other.
Boxing Day these days in the UK as Christmas day is for family boxing Day is to see friends and get drunk... again.
hahaha
Im in the States and my good friend married a women from London….. My first Boxing day with them started with a glass or two of Port then a hour later had a glass of wine then two hours after that had a couple shots whiskey and finished the day into evening with many beers…It was a fantastic time and buzz and didn’t get sick…Happy Boxing Day…. Goodtimes!!!
Boxing Day is Christmas Day number two for us, with other family members, with another Xmas dinner and more drinking. In London we get a Sunday service for our public transport on Boxing Day 👍🏻
Here in Manchester we just fight. Fight hard.
Christmas day you get hard drunk to help deal with shitty family you don't really like, boxing day you get softly drunk and enjoy the people around you, you do like.
I think for a lot of Brits Boxing Day is Christmas Day The Sequel. It generally means a lot more eating and drinking, spending time with relatives that we didn’t see on Christmas Day itself, like the other set of in-laws, or siblings cousins etc. It’s a day when kids and adults get a chance to enjoy the toys and gifts they received the day before and generally have a good time with a little less structure and pressure that goes with the hype of the day before. Also a good day for family arguments!
We always celebrated boxing day as a day to take your older items that were replaced with new Christmas gifts and donate them to Goodwill or to the daycare (in the case of toys when we were younger). We always ate leftover holiday food and boxed up things to share at work as in the US we all have to go to work the day after Christmas. It is a great time to hand-me-down items and give back to your service providers and the less fortunate.
As a Canadian, for me Boxing Day is perfect because you don't have to argue with your S.O. about who is going to who's family's for Christmas: you spend Xmas with one side of the family, and then you see the other side for Boxing Day. Same big feast, same fun day of gift giving, but it removes all the stress. Makes the holiday last just a little longer.
Christmas is mainly celebrated on Christmas Eve in Sweden. Christmas Day and Boxing Day (or annandag jul (Second Day of Christmas)) are pretty laidback. Shops are closed and people just hang around the house or meet relatives/friends/others they didn't spend any time with on Christmas Eve. The days between Christmas Eve and New Year are referred to as mellandagarna (the in-between days), and the stores tend to have sales
That sounds like a fun tradition! Merry Christmas thanks for sharing ☺
Boxing Day for us has always just been an extension of Christmas - Christmas Day number two, with friends and family you didn't get to see on Christmas Day.
The time between Christmas Day and New Year is still 'Christmas' in the UK - even if you have to go back to work. Lots of people still get the full week off, or book a few days of holiday time, so they can have the full week off.
In Sweden call it Annandag jul and it´s a holiday red day . We celebrate Christmas from the 24th to the 26th of December.
Boxing Day is an extension of Christmas - Christmas is treated as like a 2-day event. Boxing Day is a holiday so people are off work still, it's a big day to go to the pub, see friends/family, give more gifts, etc.
I was always curious as to what Boxing Day actually represented. Thanks for the clarity and enjoy London.
Glad i could help :)
Thanks for the video . Always happy when I see your videos pop up in my feed
Thanks. I've always wanted to this. I enjoy your videos. Beautiful family.
"Well that just sounds Christmas with extra steps." - Rick Sanchez
It's also an "informal" holiday in the States too, since people tend to BOX UP unwanted gifts to return them to the store! This was the day last year I saw Deputy Dhaliwal at Walmart.
Cheers for the info.
I've always wondered.
Traditionally I believe it is St Stephen’s Day. Servants were given the day off to visit their family and they were given small gifts by their employers. At least in Regency and Victorian England.
You used to have to tip the bin man and it used to be quite alot of money or your trash would not be picked up all year round. Things got out of hand so Councils scrapped it.
Australia observes Boxing Day too. Also the start of the Boxing Day test match (cricket) at the Melbourne Cricket Game.
It’s also an Australian day
It’s basically our Black Friday, before we got Black Friday sales
Canada has this holiday as well, thats when the good sales start and everyone returns gifts.
Same in Sweden. Sales rush and people return/swap gifts that they didnt need or clothes not fitting.
Why not just give money? Or Gift coupons?
I think it's a great idea. The more holidays, the better! I'm always in need of excuses to have fun or be lazy instead of work.
Great info as per usually and Happy Holidays...young Santa! 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼😂🥰
Thanks! again. love Santa Jr.
Pretty cool, thanks Mark !
In Australia Boxing Day is essentially a day to recover from Christmas. It’s also our big day for retail sales (think Black Friday) plus there are 2 big sports events on, the Boxing Day cricket test and the Sydney to Hobart yacht race
Thanks, great info...🤙🏻
Christmas facts:
UK used to run full bus service and football (soccer) schedule on Christmas Day. The bus service stopped in 1979 and that tradition is now on Boxing Day, but public transport is usually running Sunday hours if at all. "Normal" service isn't resumed until the 27th if Christmas is mid-week. Otherwise, the full week-day service doesn't happen until the Monday.
First love the Christmas hat!
Thank you
For us it's deffo the biggest sale day of the year haha, some places have to give out numbered tickets like in a waiting room just to get into the shop. Do not miss working those at all! Love the channel & Merry Christmas.
And I just watched The History Guy's video on St. James's Street! For an American, today is quite the British day! Time to go watch some Dr. Who Christmas specials!
Our Christmas tradition is deciding what trip to go on as a family. This year will be going to Washington and California for the Spartan races. Hopefully we'll get some scuba diving done too.
Boxing Day for me is a potential family day, people come round, you have food (sandwiches with left over meat from Christmas dinner, all the fun party food) I say potential because a lot of people go back to work on Boxing Day so it's not really anything. I know the last few years I've worked all of Boxing Day (yay retail!) and people come into the shops and tell you how sad it is that you have to be at work, and you just feel like telling them 'if you stopped coming shopping on Boxing Day we wouldn't be open!
Re: Public transport. NO trains on Xmas day or boxing day. Also likely to have major track works over the Xmas/New Year period.
Boa Films Thanks for the info!
Sunday service runs in my area for public transport on Boxing Day. They used to run full bus services on Christmas Day until 1979.
Great video 👍👍👍
Thank you for clearing this up for me. I believe the Commonwealth nations also celebrate Boxing Day to some capacity, so many Americans would see Canada next to Boxing Day on the calendar.
yep
It’s also the day when hunts take place in many towns! Very colourful ,with horses ,hounds ,and people in hunting clothes, mainly red and black.
Down side is that some still hunt foxes but most do sent trails events .
Our boxing day is usually just Christmas 2.0 where we have another Christmas dinner and revel in the holiday!
eat and repeat :)
Boxing day for most people I know is to have another get togther with people close to you, to eat leftovers from christmas day and to start to use the presents you got.
New Zealand does Boxing day too. For those who follow cricket, Australia hosts the Boxing Day Test, starting on the 26th. This year, the first time since 1987, we get to play them.
I thought everywhere had Boxing Day lol
The United states does not celebrate it unfortunately we just go back to work
Everywhere that's good...... sorry USA, come on in, the waters lovely : )
It’s an unofficial holiday in the states where people box up their returns to the store.
In America We Have Kwanzaa
We have Boxing Day here in Australia. There is a major Cricket match called the Boxing Day Test and of course Boxing Day Sales in the large Department stores.
Despite being British, I actually never knew that about Boxing Day - great stuff! Good point about the Christmas/Boxing Day extra days off if they fall on the weekend. Same with New Year's Day.Happy Christmas!
yeah. we found that "days off" thing first hand a few years ago :)
Boxing Day is St Stephens day everywhere else. It’s a public holiday across central and Northern Europe.
Boxing day in Australia is very similar to the UK. The two big sporting events that happened on boxing day and they are, the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. And the start of a test cricket match. We also have the Boxing Day sales at the shops. Also lots of movies come out on boxing day.
I was just asking what that was yesterday 🤣 thanks 🙏
glad i can help :)
In Australia we also have Boxing Day and our big sporting event is the Boxing Day Test (Cricket) at the MCG
I was taught back in the 1970's that it was the day to box up the decorations and had been so since Victorian times.
thx
An Australian Boxing Day is a public (bank) holiday and usually involves relaxing and eating Christmas leftovers. Perhaps a day at the beach. It's the day that the Sydney to Hobart yacht race begins and the first day of the Boxing Day cricket test match in Melbourne. Both are really big sporting events on our calendar and people travel from all over the country to attend because of the holiday. Today it is also about huge sales too but I personally avoid those like the plague 😄
Interestingly cricket (esp. Australia) is the sport that recognises 'boxing" day lol, but I didn't know "box" here meant gift boxes!
Canada too...my Canadian uncle said it's the day they box up the gifts they don't want and return them to the store! lol
Boxing Day is cold turkey meat and chips!
Czech Republic: Christmas Eve-getting gifts from Baby Jesus after dinner; 25th/1st Christmas Day-family and friends visitation; 26th/2nd Christmas Day-baked goose!!!! 🍗🍗🍗🍗
Boxing Day in my local town in the UK used to have a fox hunt. The well-off, middle to upper classes and simple horse owners (about 50 to 80 of them) all gathered in the centre of town along with loads of hounds. People would come out and watch them from local pubs, etc, while the hunt people, dressed up in posh attire, sipping from their hip flasks, would sound a horn and off they go hunting for the fox. It's supposed to be banned now, but, (a'hem) it still goes on behind the scenes.
We have Boxing Day in Australia too.
😂👍 💯 I thought I boxing day was actual boxing fight day🥊
I thought it had to do with cardboard boxes
Same
Also The shops a lot of them supermarkets so on close early on boxing day so if participating in the sales go early but 10am plus as well as some open latter this is because most stores pay a higher wage time and a half or double pay on Boxing day as it's a public holiday as well
Its St. Stephen's Day in Ireland
Your version lines up with what I was told as a boy, which is, the upper class have the Christmas Day leftovers, placed into boxes and given to the servants as a type of gift.
With regards to public transportation. It’s not quite back to normal. Depending where you live, you may get no service. Some service start later, finish earlier and run a Sunday or reduced service. And be prepared for the dreaded rail replacement bus services!
In the Netherlands we have a second day of Christmas on the 26th
One slight correction. On Boxing Day, there is no MAINLINE train service and limited transport especially outside London
I want Boxing Week to catch on so that limbo between Christmas and New Year gets a simple name.
Also forgot the big ocean yacht race Sydney to Hobart which starts on Boxing Day
Who else is here on boxing day 2020??
This year it is Leicester v Liverpool and the first day of the South Africa v England test cricket match
in love with uk 🇬🇧
We need Boxing Day in America. Or call it something else, but the 26th, need a travel day, a sales day. I know our local pharmacy will be closed on the 25th-26th....
Boxing day is a statutory holiday here in Nova Scotia, meaning that the Boxing Day sales actually start on the 27th.
We’ll be celebrating by watching footy in Bloomington-Normal! Maggie Miley’s!
In Canada too
We have boxing day in Australia as well. Public transport is almost as good as any other day. Boxing day sales are a big thing. Lots of sport to attend and we have the Sydney to Hobart yacht race. It is summer here so beaches are a big draw card.
Heck yeah! Hopefully will celebrate boxing day in australia next year
@@woltersworld It'd be awesome to have you here, there's the Sydney to Hobart yacht race or cricket, and if you get to stay till new years Eve the fireworks in Sydney are AHHMAZING! ☺
@@woltersworld I would be interested to hear your reviews of my city and the Harbour. Take your family on a ferry to Manly beach where you are guaranteed a sea breeze on a hot day. Walk across our famous coat hanger and not climb it. The view is spectacular from the top of the south east Pylon and a fraction of the cost of the bridge climb. I sincerely hope that you can do the trip with your family because I am sure you will all have a great time.
We also have boxing day here in Canada.
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Scandinavia dosen't have Boxing Day!
Xmas Eve is the 24th, with food and presents
25 & 26th are days off, a lot of stores are closed and public transport is on a 'Sunday' schedule
In Brooklyn Boxing Day is when you return the gifts you don’t like in their original boxes to the store.
We also celebrate Boxing day in Tennessee. it's the day we clear out all the boxes from the aftermath of Christmas and put them in the recycle bin for pick up.
On a December 26 episode of The Late Show With David Letterman, band leader Paul Shaffer (a Canadian) explained that Boxing Day is the day people put their unwanted Christmas gifts in a box to be returned to the store.
Our Christmas tradition is spending way too much on gifts and regretting it a week later.
yep. we have a similar tradition :)
It’s in Canada too... world jrs start.... :)
Boxing Day is celebrated in Canada and is a statutory holiday. Typically stores have their year end sales
Public transport is very limited and in some places non-existent in some places on Boxing Day.
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Boxing day. When I was a youngun' I used to see Boxing day (Canada) printed on some calendars list of holidays. I always wondered why in the world would they have a holiday to celebrate boxing. *Boxing* as in the sport. 😂🤣😂 Forgive me for I was less than 10 years old. 😉
The position in Britain regarding public transport on 26th needs to be clarified. In London, it is (almost) 'back to normal', but in the rest of the country the bus and train services are either poor or non-existent. That is despite the fact that the 26th is the busiest day of the year for shopping, and one of the busiest for sporting events!
Boxing day....as well here in Canada
Canada celebrates Boxing Day as well. it is a federal holiday but is general treated like a Canadian version of Black Friday.
There’s a Welsh Christmas tradition where kids in a village put an apple on a stick, and fill it with toothpicks, then go around the village knocking on doors and singing with the apple in hand, and people would give them money for singing.
There’s also another one where the men of the village would parade around the town with their heads inside a dead horse’s skull singing. They would call the horse’s skull ‘Y Fari Lwyd’ which translates to ‘The Grey Mary’.
Germany: Xmas (Santa) on the evening of the 24th
Holiday: 25th and 26th (Stores are closed)
Kiralee in Germany and Austria, Santa ‘St Nicklaus’ comes on the 5th (or 6th I can’t remember) and put either sweets or twigs in kids’ shoes depending on how clean they are. On the 24th it’s believed that Baby Jesus delivers presents to the kids, not Santa. Merry Christmas
@@gethhin Well I am german so I know about our traditions. I think it would be nice for Wolter to cover this topic
@@gethhin In the more protestant north and east of Germany, the gifts were brought by the "Weihnachtsmann", literally Xmas-man, the role model for Santa Claus. In the more catholic regions, it is the "Christkind", Christchild. This is not "Baby Jesus" but more of an angel. Funfact, the Christkind is believed to be invented by Martin Luther. But both brings the gifts on Christmas Eve in the evening.
On December 6th, it's Nikolaus, St. Nichlas. The children put their ckeaned boors outside their doors and get some choclade, cookies, oranges and sometimes little toys inside the boots. Like your socks on the first Christmas day. Yes, first, we have a second one here in Germany
December 26th is St. Stephen's Day. In Australia some states have forced the large retailers to stagger their post Christmas sales because of poorly behaved bargain seekers injuring people and damaging property.
I think 🤔 that Boxing 🥊 Day is on the 26th of December is to do with a box 📦 or gift 🎁 💝 is a day after Christmas 🎄🤶 🧑🎄 🎅 Day. There are plenty of shops 🏬 have reduced prices are on sale is cheap prices. The banks 🏦 and building societies are closed on all Sundays and public holidays. I spect that in London that there might be buses 🚌 run 🏃 on Boxing 🥊 Day. 👍👍
Australia has it too
I always associated Boxing Day literally w/ boxing! Lol, my bad 🤔
It was also the day that boxes of gifts were brought to church for the poor.
Transport is not back to normal on Boxing Day , few trains few buses
I thought it was the day you boxed up all the leftovers and gave them to relatives, neighbors, friends, etc. Also the day the after-Christmas tool sales go off. _"Roll up a spliff, we're makin' a Home Depot run!"_
All English textbooks mention Boxing day
My birthday is dec 26 on boxing day
To be fair I'm English and didn't know this
I honestly thought Boxing Day happened everywhere not just here(England).
The US needs our own Boxing Day! An extra day off after Christmas without having to take vacation/PTO?
Amen to that!