How do you spend Boxing Day?

14-12-2005, 15:38

I adore Christmas Day but I also love Boxing Day for different reasons[xmas1][xmas1]

Christmas Day is busy and full of fun but as I do all the cooking it is also quite hectic and of course there are the in laws[msneek][msneek]Bless them but after a few hours I have had enough[msnscared]

However Boxing day is much more chilled and relaxed, we do nothing except chill out and spend quality time with the children and watch anything good that's on the TV or any new DVD's that we got for Christmas or play any new games - Ah bliss I can't wait[clap][clap]

**mizzy** · 14-12-2005, 16:00

i have a similar situation going on with my outlaws

a few hours is all i can stand they come christmas eve so i get this "joy" out of the way first

on boxing day i try to chill out usually by lying on the sofa like a big overstuffed turkey

i referee the childrens "differences of opinions" while my darling husband makes a big turkey curry which no-one can face because we are all still stuffed from the day before

ahh i cant wait either

Mizzy

**kokomo** · 14-12-2005, 16:28

We will be spending Boxing day with my sister this year, which will be great[msnsmile2]

**Cruella DeVilla** · 14-12-2005, 16:56

I always find Boxing day an anti climax as it is all over for another year

. Think I might have a party, or have some posh nosh somewher, still to decide![xmas2]

**Macka** · 14-12-2005, 17:25

We'll chill out all day, maybe nibble on a turkey sandwich or two, I shall bore the [bad language filtered out] out of everyone with my new iPod Nano and then in the evening, we will all put on our Sunday best and dancin' shoes and go out for some very posh Nosh too.

I shall begin the evening before we leave with a large Bombay Saphire and tonic, with 3 perfectly square ice cubes, chinking seductively against the side of a long, hand cut crystal tumbler, and reflect that now Christmas is over, I can begin to count down the 10 weeks to our 3 weeks in Florida in earnest.

**Paula D-S** · 14-12-2005, 18:09

Paul you tell it real good[msnwink]

Boxing Day is spent visiting all my husbands aunts and uncles who tend to congregate in a different house each year. Then as most of their children are grown up now it's off to the nearest pub to get smashed.

As I won't take my girls anywhere smokey I hate this day as they don't seem to be bothered about smoking in front of them[gun][gun][gun]. I normally let my hubby go the pub with them all then I go off to my parents for tea as I am doing Christmas Dinner for my folks and my sisters with their children.

**becbecs** · 14-12-2005, 18:21

On Boxing Day we head over to the inlaws and go out for a fabulous meal. As well as the kids opening a mountain of presents on Christmas day, Grandma & Grandad bring along a Xmas stocking for each of the children packed will lots more presents. Oh to be a child again

**kaysvacationvilla** · 14-12-2005, 18:39

Boxing Day?

**Tonish** · 14-12-2005, 18:53

It's the day after Christmas Day - also a bank/public holiday in the UK. It's also known as St Stephen's day, but not often referred to as such.

Called Boxing Day, I believe, because it was apparently traditional for the wealthier classes to give gifts or "boxes" to tradesmen who came calling to settle up their accounts. Maybe someone else has another explanation, but that's the one I was taught.

Tonish