.- Oh what might they call it?Just the Day After Christmas?- The Day After Christmas, maybe.- Just, they don;t give it a name.Or they don;t celebrate Boxing Day.Not that you wake up going quot;It;s Boxing Day!quot;I remember growing up, I;d always be like,quot;Mum, is Boxing Day the day before Christmasquot;or the day after Christmas?quot;And she;d always be like, no it;s after Christmas.- I love that.But it helps because then like
, the 27th you;d sayis the day after Boxing Day.So, quot;On the day after Boxing Day,quot;I went and did blah blah blah.quot;You wouldn;t say the 27th.- And then you start getting into No Man;s Landwhen you go to the 28th, what;s that?- It;s like the day after the day after Boxing Day. (laughs)- A few days before New Year;s Eve Eve Eve.- Yeah!- It;s New Year;s Eve Eve Eve! (laughs)- But it;s good because Christmas Evecomes before Christmas Day, and Boxing Day you just naturally know that that;s then after.Just in the same way that you;d say Christmas Eveor Christmas Eve Eve.- Yeah I love that.- You could say Boxing Boxing Day
Oh I;m going home on Christmas Eve Eve this year.quot;So yeah I love that. - Yeah I love it.- Okay, so let;s get into Boxing Day.Why is it called Boxing Day?- There;s two different theories.So one of them is that it;s traditionallya time where employers would pack up boxes full of presentsand give them to their employees.- And some say it might be called Boxing Day because you;d pack up like a box,almost a shoe box size of presents,and give them to the poor.- So no one really knows where it comes from,there are lots of different theories about.But that;s traditionally what Boxing Day meant.But nowadays it just means shopping.- Yeah, in fact, the last two years you and I have both done the shoe box for charity,which is where you fill up a box and it gets sent to like a Third World country.And you can put in sort of like, treats;you can put in like toothbrush, stuff like that.- Like little gifts and things.- Little gifts, practical things.- But that;s not on Boxing Day was it
- No, we do that for Christmas Day,but it just made me think of it because it;s a box.- Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.- But yeah nowadays it just means shopping,like the Boxing Day sales start on Boxing Day.And lots of Brits will leave the house on Boxing Day,just to go shopping.- So you;ve had the chaos of Christmas.You;ve done all the cooking, you;ve done everything.Your family;s upside down, you;ve argued,you;ve played board games and then the next dayit;s like, shopping! - Shopping.- Get them sales in and buy people;s,people pretend they;re going to be really preparedand buy everyone;s presents for next year;no one;s done that. - Yeah, but you;re not.- How many people do you speak to that you;re like,quot;Oh have you done all your shopping
And they;re like, yeah I did it a year ago?- Yeah. - No one.- But that;s why I don;t really tendto ask for clothes for Christmas,because they;re just going to be reduced on Boxing Dayand into the January sales.So I;ve gone shopping on Boxing Day before, I think,or the few days in the gooch of--- In the gooch.- Of Christmas to New Year.I buy lots of clothes.- If you;ve got storage space, you canuse that time of year to buy stuff like wrapping paper,Christmas crackers, stuff that you definitely will need--- Cheap for next year. - For next year.Cards, if you;re someone that sends cards,you could buy all your cards really cheaply.- But this Boxing Day sales is kind of likeour equivalent of Black Friday,like people queue on the streets,like Oxford Street in London is rammed.- Yeah, I wouldn;t go anywhere nearOxford Street on Boxing Day.I wouldn;t dream of it.You see people with like, prams,and you;re like, why are you here?- Yeah, they use it as a ramming device.- Yeah, I know, (laughs), horrific!But I don;t think ours are as aggressive as--- No, the Black Friday shoppers.- Black Friday
