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So, Canadians, WTF is Boxing Day all about?

day after christmas.. when every store has a bigass sale.

i guess its like the US's black friday kind of.
 
As you can tell, most canadians have no idea. Just because somewhere has a boxing day sale, doesn't mean that boxing day was created for sales (and it wasn't). I can't remember the background but it did have something to do with boxing things (not people's faces).

Guess I can read the link posted now!
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
As you can tell, most canadians have no idea. Just because somewhere has a boxing day sale, doesn't mean that boxing day was created for sales (and it wasn't). I can't remember the background but it did have something to do with boxing things (not people's faces).

Guess I can read the link posted now!
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i knew it was originally about something else but i have no idea what it is LOL !
 
It was for "Boxing" up the gifts to return to the store. Like that hideous knit sweater your grandmother gets you every year, even though you specifically tell the old bat not to get you anything unless it's Endorsed By You.

And then yeah, as soon as Christmas is over, the demand and prices for all the gifts drop. You know, not that it's a crass commercialized HallmarkDay or anything.

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
It was for "Boxing" up the gifts to return to the store. Like that hideous knit sweater your grandmother gets you every year, even though you specifically tell the old bat not to get you anything unless it's Endorsed By You.

And then yeah, as soon as Christmas is over, the demand and prices for all the gifts drop. You know, not that it's a crass commercialized HallmarkDay or anything.

- M4H
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Here I was gettin ready to go to canada to watch some good boxing matches.

And, did Black Friday get its name because its similar to the riots in L.A.? (People rushing stores and taking any thing they can find).
 
In England a long time ago?
Servants were required to work on Christmas. They were responsible for making the holiday run smoothly for wealthy landowners. They were allowed to take leave on December 26th and visit their families. The employers gave each servant a box containing gifts and bonuses. In addition, around the 800s' churches opened their alms boxes (boxes where people place monetary donations) and distributed the contents to poor.
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-geoff
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
It was for "Boxing" up the gifts to return to the store. Like that hideous knit sweater your grandmother gets you every year, even though you specifically tell the old bat not to get you anything unless it's Endorsed By You.
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You don't seriously believe that, do you?
 
By the way, with regards to the whole Boxing Day shopping thing ... it's pretty much Boxing Week after week after week.

Smart people do crazy discounted shopping after Xmas.
 
Heh, it was funny today. I went down to the local Future Shop (got a gift card) to check out some deals. They had some amazing ones (46" Toshiba HDTV regular $2599, on sale $1699), but they know what they're doing.

All the people rushed in to snatch up the $59 DVD players and $99 HT receivers thinking they were gonna get a new HT setup for under $200. But Future Shop didn't discount their insane cable prices at all, so the cheapest toslink cable they had was $70, and of course the salesmen told them only the $129 component video cables were good enough for their discount DVD player, and then there were even more cables bought on top of those (one lady had 5 packages of them). Heh, so their $200 HT setup needed $350 worth of cables 😛

I'll just hit up a few places tomorrow I think.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Heh, it was funny today. I went down to the local Future Shop (got a gift card) to check out some deals. They had some amazing ones (46" Toshiba HDTV regular $2599, on sale $1699), but they know what they're doing.

All the people rushed in to snatch up the $59 DVD players and $99 HT receivers thinking they were gonna get a new HT setup for under $200. But Future Shop didn't discount their insane cable prices at all, so the cheapest toslink cable they had was $70, and of course the salesmen told them only the $129 component video cables were good enough for their discount DVD player, and then there were even more cables bought on top of those (one lady had 5 packages of them). Heh, so their $200 HT setup needed $350 worth of cables 😛

I'll just hit up a few places tomorrow I think.
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Bah, I got a $29 Nokia cell phone from there and 2 $7 CDs, that seems like a pretty good deal to me 😛 I agree that people get excited when they see a good deal and lose the good deal with stupidities like overpriced cabling for their DVD player.
 
Originally posted by: Fudssa
Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
Smart people do crazy discounted shopping after Xmas.
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You mispelled "Smart". Should be "Retarded".
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Why "retarded?" What's the point of your post?

Do you pay full price for everything you buy? That sound "retarded" to me. Don't bother going to the Hot Deals forum since everyone there is "retarded" or is a "retard" you know. Does that make you a "retard" for going after a hot deal?


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The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. Boxing Day, celebrated on December 26 in England, Wales, parts of Canada, and in some other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, has nothing to do with the boxes from the Christmas packages. Traditionally, on that day the gentry would give presents, generally of money, to servants, tradespeople, and others of humble life. These presents came to be known as Christmas boxes. Boxing Day is a legal bank holiday in Canada and England.
The holiday may date from the Middle Ages, but the exact origin is unknown. It may have begun with the lords and ladies of England, who presented Christmas gifts in boxes to their servants on December 26. Or it may have begun with priests, who opened the church's alms boxes on the day after Christmas and distributed the contents to the poor. Or even in England in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria.

Supposedly poor people carried empty boxes from door to door, and the boxes were soon filled with food, Christmas sweets, and money. Parents gave their children small gifts such as, oranges, handkerchiefs, and socks. People also placed old clothing that they didn't need anymore in boxes, and they were given to those in need
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Origin of Boxing Day
 
Originally posted by: bill_n_opus
By the way, with regards to the whole Boxing Day shopping thing ... it's pretty much Boxing Week after week after week.

Smart people do crazy discounted shopping after Xmas.
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Have you seen the BRICK commercials.. always do Boxing Week Sales.. up through April!
 
the only stuff worth even going out to buy discounted on boxing day is christmas stuff. then you have to wait a whole year and its old by the next christmas!

bah!

i think everything should be closed.

then again, i did make double time and a half today 😀
 
I actually experienced my first Boxing Day shopping day...went to SportCheck and got new ice skates for $179.00 (retail $440). CCM Tacks
 
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