The Day of Fun... The Day of Fulttos Masti and Shopping.. When I was in school, this was the day when I used to have most fun with my christian friends. A cricket match with the Christian colony was permanent every year. What A FUN? Yummy cakes prepared by Mary auntie... Yummy...Boxing Day dates back to the Roman festival Saturnalia from which the practice of giving gifts to employees originates. In England, it was common practice for the servants to carry boxes to their employers when they arrived for their day's work on the first working 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. It was also seen that because the staff had to work on such an important day as Christmas by serving the master of the house and his family, they were given the following day off. As servants were kept away from their own families to work on a traditional religious holiday and were not able to celebrate Christmas dinner.
In Australia and Canada, Boxing Day is primarily known as a shopping holiday, and a time where stores have sales, often with dramatic price decreases. For many merchants, it has become the day of the year with the greatest revenue. In recent years, this has been expanded to " Boxing Week' . While Boxing Day is actually on 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.
In some areas of Canada, particularly in Atlantic Canada and parts of Northern Ontario, most retailers are prohibited by law from opening on Boxing Day. In these cases, any sales specifically scheduled for December 26 are moved to the 27th.
TAKE A BREAK MAN.... BOX ..BOX ...BOX...
Regards
Chandra
