Hey Canada!!!
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bowlfullofbliss
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Silly Canooks! Still love our neighbors though, even if they're weird.
playallnite
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Canada's like America-Lite or a good party above a bad apartment,anyways cool country definately an intelligent society, unlike here where the Karadashians are priority one.
xKuroiTaimax
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Huh? Boxing day is the day people box the old shit up and throw/give/sell it away, eat leftovers, nurse hangovers, visit family you didn't get around to seeing on Christas day and for most people boxing day is about
SALES!
It sickens me when people interviewed on TV admit they don't even what they are shopping for. If you need something and have been waiting on the sales to afford something, fair enough. But I freaking hate people buying shit purely for the sake of buying it, because they can.
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SALES!
It sickens me when people interviewed on TV admit they don't even what they are shopping for. If you need something and have been waiting on the sales to afford something, fair enough. But I freaking hate people buying shit purely for the sake of buying it, because they can.
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charface
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Sounds like a good deal. I just noticed I have a new set of glasses in the dishwasher?
Like what the hell do I need more drinking glasses for?
As for material things I run pretty bare. We have a home and all that goes with it but I could fit my prize shit in the back of my car with ease. I used to worry about break ins and shit and I eventually had to say screw this. When you find you are worried to leave the house because someone might steal your shit. You might be a redneck. lol
Prize possessions=guitar and photo albums
Like what the hell do I need more drinking glasses for?
As for material things I run pretty bare. We have a home and all that goes with it but I could fit my prize shit in the back of my car with ease. I used to worry about break ins and shit and I eventually had to say screw this. When you find you are worried to leave the house because someone might steal your shit. You might be a redneck. lol
Prize possessions=guitar and photo albums
bowlfullofbliss
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totally agree! its down right embarassing. one of the only times I hate to admit I'm American.
I dont see boxing week as a big deal, its just stores giving a great sale. generally its an entire week unlike black friday which is one day...*shugs* I personally find its more for like big purchases such as fridges and ovens. in fact in my city everything is closed today we passed some law that everything is closed on boxing day
MojoRison
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Hey
The best clue to Boxing Day's origins can be found in the song "Good King Wenceslas." According to the Christmas carol, Wenceslas, who was Duke of Bohemia in the early 10th century, was surveying his land on St. Stephen's Day — Dec. 26 — when he saw a poor man gathering wood in the middle of a snowstorm. Moved, the King gathered up surplus food and wine and carried them through the blizzard to the peasant's door. The alms-giving tradition has always been closely associated with the Christmas season — hence the canned-food drives and Salvation Army Santas that pepper our neighborhoods during the winter — but King Wenceslas' good deed came the day after Christmas, when the English poor received most of their charity.
But wait: there's another possible story about the holiday's origin. The day after Christmas was also the traditional day on which the aristocracy distributed presents (boxes) to servants and employees — a sort of institutionalized Christmas-bonus party. The servants returned home, opened their boxes and had a second Christmas on what became known as Boxing Day.
Boxing Day has evolved from a charitable day to an extended Christmas afternoon. It's a holiday with presents that have already been opened and a dinner that has been eaten. It's a holiday best spent lounging around in brightly colored sweaters, wondering, lazily and lethargically, what to do next. Come to think of it, it's a wonder Americans haven't adopted it yet.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1868711,00.html#ixzz2GClWtvma
My family just uses the day as recuperation day....drinking way too much, is a family tradition
The best clue to Boxing Day's origins can be found in the song "Good King Wenceslas." According to the Christmas carol, Wenceslas, who was Duke of Bohemia in the early 10th century, was surveying his land on St. Stephen's Day — Dec. 26 — when he saw a poor man gathering wood in the middle of a snowstorm. Moved, the King gathered up surplus food and wine and carried them through the blizzard to the peasant's door. The alms-giving tradition has always been closely associated with the Christmas season — hence the canned-food drives and Salvation Army Santas that pepper our neighborhoods during the winter — but King Wenceslas' good deed came the day after Christmas, when the English poor received most of their charity.
But wait: there's another possible story about the holiday's origin. The day after Christmas was also the traditional day on which the aristocracy distributed presents (boxes) to servants and employees — a sort of institutionalized Christmas-bonus party. The servants returned home, opened their boxes and had a second Christmas on what became known as Boxing Day.
Boxing Day has evolved from a charitable day to an extended Christmas afternoon. It's a holiday with presents that have already been opened and a dinner that has been eaten. It's a holiday best spent lounging around in brightly colored sweaters, wondering, lazily and lethargically, what to do next. Come to think of it, it's a wonder Americans haven't adopted it yet.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1868711,00.html#ixzz2GClWtvma
My family just uses the day as recuperation day....drinking way too much, is a family tradition
MojoRison
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It's cool, it's not the gift but the thought that counts
eye exaggerate
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...weird enough to have all kinds of fun with beaver
Damn!meechz 024
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Actually, boxing day is just a day where you can get deals at stores. Much like black friday.
We also just keep celebrating like it's still Christmas too so it's like an extra christmas day. I was just thinking today actually that Canadians are pretty nice, I was remembering times when my family got helped out many times.
We also just keep celebrating like it's still Christmas too so it's like an extra christmas day. I was just thinking today actually that Canadians are pretty nice, I was remembering times when my family got helped out many times.