Let Me Wish You All An Uplifting Boxing Day Right Now

Revealing the lost meaning of today right now

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Well, Boxing Day definitely had nothing at all to do with boxing! Surprisingly enough too, as many of us may think, it has zip to do with trashing the ripped Christmas wrappings and boxes that once hid those kids scooters in either…

1833, four years prior to Charles Dickens and the Pickwick Papers, there remains two theories of its meaning.

Both are connected to charity, when, traditionally, items were distributed to lower classes on the day after Christmas.

• The first was about the alms boxes that were placed in churches during Advent for the collection of parishioners monetary donations, which Clergy members then distributed the contents of the boxes to the poor on this day.

As a child going to church through the period of Advent, I remember these offertory plates (known as Alms) that were circulated around masses, with the idea of these collections being for the benefit of the poor.

• This next one was a time when Lords of the manor and associated aristocrats typically distributed “Christmas boxes” which were often filled with small gifts, money and leftovers from Christmas dinner to their household servants and employees, who were required to work on…