#boxingday

[mushroomyhouse]

A most magical time of year 📦

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[mykittylittleb]

which one is mine?

[uppercut-athletics]

Boxing speed pads 🔥

[kirbcaptain]

Boxingday chimney attempt

[jooblesbeebles]

❄️It's time for a big sale for the end of the year!❄️

My shop is finally back open, and EVERYTHING is on sale! Come and grab some late gifts, or just a cute little treat for yourself!

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[misskohane]

"Boxing Day / St. Stephen's"

Dec, 2024

[rabbitcruiser]

Boxing Day

The best way to celebrate the day is to take part in festivities in a country where Boxing Day is a bank holiday or public holiday. Watch some soccer, rugby, or cricket games, or go on a traditional fox hunt. If you can’t be in a country where these events are taking place, you could still get together with family and friends and eat leftovers from Christmas, or make some foods traditionally eaten on Boxing Day. You could also go shopping, as this is another important part of the day in many countries.

Boxing Day takes place the day after Christmas and is primarily observed in the United Kingdom, where it started, as well as in countries that were once part of the British crown. There are a few possible theories as to how it got started, but its exact origin is unclear.

One theory says it was inspired by Christmas boxes. In seventeenth-century Great Britain, boxes holding a present or gratuity were given to tradesman and workers in service industries for their previous year’s work. This went back to an even earlier tradition where servants would wait on and serve their rich masters on Christmas Day and would visit and celebrate with their own families on the day after Christmas. Their rich masters would sometimes give them a box with leftover food, a bonus, or another type of gift.

The day may have also stemmed from alms boxes that were put in Anglican churches on Christmas Day or during Advent and opened on the day after Christmas. These boxes collected money for the poor. Similarly, boxes were put outside of churches to collect money on Saint Stephen’s Day, which is held the day after Christmas. The events in the song “Good King Wenceslas” take place on Saint Stephen’s Day. The song recounts a story of King Wenceslas, a Bohemian king of the tenth century, bringing food and wine to a poor man. There is one other possible source for the beginning of the day. Ships once set sail containing a box of money for good luck. If the trip was a success, the box would be given to a priest, and he would open it on Christmas and give its contents to the poor.

Boxing Day has been a bank holiday in England, Wales, North Ireland, and Canada since 1871. It is celebrated in Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, and Nigeria. It is celebrated in Hong Kong, where the United Kingdom held sovereignty until 1997. In Ireland and in parts of Spain, it is known as Saint Stephen’s Day. It is celebrated as Second Christmas Day in some European countries, such as Poland, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands; it is celebrated as such in Scandinavia as well. Boxing Day is generally not celebrated in the United States.

In some countries where it is celebrated as a bank holiday or public holiday, it is observed a day or two after December 26. If December 26 takes place on a Saturday, it may be observed the following Monday. If December 26 is on a Sunday, it may be observed on the following Tuesday. This is not always the case, however, as it is often observed on a Sunday if it falls on a Sunday.

Boxing Day is a day of the gathering of family and friends. Leftovers from Christmas are commonly eaten. Popular foods include baked ham, mince pies, Christmas cakes, and other desserts. In many countries of celebration, it is a shopping day similar to Black Friday. Sales take place and many retailers run them the whole week. Although, in some places, such as in parts of Canada, stores aren’t allowed to be open, in order to give families time to be together instead.

Sports are an important part of Boxing Day. In the United Kingdom, the top football (soccer) leagues of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland play games. Lower leagues play games as well, and rugby leagues also hold matches. In various countries, events of other sports, such as cricket, horse racing, yacht racing, hockey, and boxing are often held to celebrate the day. Fun runs and swims in the cold English Channel take place. Fox hunting meets have been held for hundreds of years. A law passed in 2004, which went into effect the following year, banned the use of dogs to attack animals during hunts. But hunters have still used their dogs to chase artificial scents on the day, and have still gone on hunts where dogs are used to flush out foxes, but not to attack them.

Boxing Day, also known as Saint Stephen’s Day and Second Christmas Day, is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on December 26th.

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[azspot]

You know full well that today is the second day of Christmas, and that there are ten more days to come. In Britain and the Commonwealth countries this is still Boxing Day, a name reflecting the custom of taking around presents and sweets and savories in boxes to persons who might be in need of them. At least, that is the traditional explanation, though some believe the origins go back to the practice of distributing the contents of the alms box to the poor of the parish on the second day of the feast. Whatever the case, it is also the feast of St. Stephen, a day traditionally associated with eleemosynary obligations, at least in ages past. Today, alas, it is observed mostly as a bank holiday, which more and more has come to mean a day of shopping for special deals. You, however, will certainly not give in to these blasphemous practices, I just know it in my heart. You will keep the feast unadulterated and unprofaned. You will wassail and revel, pray and worship, fill boxes with inedible fruitcake for the less fortunate and then force it upon them as your sacred duty and their dismal lot in life. Above all, you will keep your trees alight and spangled till the dark of Twelfth Night. And should any of you think to shirk your duties, remember that Father Christmas is watching you. (That’s an Orwell joke, by the way.)

Blessed Boxing Day

[91827alternateworld]

[magneticovitalblog]

PARA REFLEXIONAR

Este boxeador, que valía cientos de millones cada vez que ganaba una pelea, tenía coches de lujo con su chofer, una bonita mansión, y era invitado a todas las fiestas y eventos. Era toda una celebridad. Siempre había una persona especial que se encargaba de su cuidado, y mucha gente lo alababa cada vez que ganaba una batalla. Sin embargo, esta vez se enfrentó a un rival mejor preparado y perdió. Sus supuestos amigos y seguidores se sintieron defraudados y acabaron dándole la espalda. Recibía cada vez menos llamadas, participaba en menos combates importantes, y pronto fue olvidado por todos. Se sumergió en una depresión, cayó en la trampa del juego y la bebida, arruinándose completamente y acabando en la calle, lleno de tristeza y amargura. Esto es similar a nuestras vidas. Cuando somos exitosos y tenemos beneficios, hay mucha gente que nos quiere y nos apoya. Pero cuando ya no somos útiles, nos abandonan, al igual que a este boxeador. La vida es incierta. Cuando tenemos dinero o éxito, somos felices y nos sentimos halagados. Pero llega un momento en que nos quedamos sin nada y nos deprimimos, entonces somos desechados. Recuerda siempre esto: "No todo el que se ríe contigo es tu amigo". La vida siempre golpea más duro y no todos estamos preparados para levantarnos ante la caída.

Autor original : @magneticovitalblog

[mushroomyhouse]

You mean to tell me every single piece by @citruslucy is on sale until the 2nd of January??? 😮🍋🥰

The entire collection of wonderful works of citruslucy are on sale on her store for boxing day!

🍄 mush.house/citruslucy 🍋

[mykittylittleb]

What are you hiding from me?

[uppercut-athletics]

This thing is hard to hit

[vampirepyramidscheme]

Sidney may have overdone it with the festivities this Xmas. Does he regret it? (Probably not. 😂)

A belated #mememonday post

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Fun fact - my vampires can eat - but it has no nutritional value and it makes them ill - so most avoid it. But Sidney likes the taste of food so sometimes he’ll risk it.

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