Boxing Day is a British public holiday on 26th December, the day directly after Christmas day. And, although there’s a lot of different theories about the origins of Boxing Day, it is generally thought that the day was created for people to ‘box up’ their unwanted gifts and give them to the poor who had nothing. It was also a holiday for the tradesmen who received a ‘boxing,’ or gift, the day after Christmas. Nowadays, many Brits use their day off on Boxing Day to travel and visit their relatives and eating your bodyweight in turkey sandwiches, or hit the sales and pick up a bargain.
