All the hectic rush of Christmas is over, there’s at will grazing on left- over turkey, no need to go out. The Cub and Mrs Piper both snoozing, I’m posting , but will move on to doing some dishes. General relaxation all round.
I like the extra holiday. I’m not so keen on going out to a crowded mall, though. Luckily my wife decided she could look at Boxing Day sales without my accompaniment this year!
Mrs Piper and I did Boxing sales exactly once, in the jam-packed malls of Richmond BC. We concluded that neither of us are Boxing Sales people and have never gone out again.
Today I went to the dollar store, and I did buy a lot of boxes. 
Wooden ones to be painted.
Happy Boxing Day!
It really cut down on the number of e-mails at work today!
(I work for a Canadian company, but live in the USA)
Happy Boxing Day.
-D/a
Hit the Apple store, wasn’t even busy, got a cable and headed back home. Just finished Turkey Dinner 2.0. Snow storm rolled in an hour ago, fires roaring and all is right with the world, it seems to me.
I was out and about in downtown Calgary today, just for a walk, and walked by a two-block-long queue of cars waiting to enter a parking garage whose sign read, “14 spaces free.”
I typically don’t go for the Boxing Day shopping frenzy, but I did put up with the discussion around my sister’s dinner table last night–seems my nephews expected my BIL (their Dad) to be taking them to Future Shop bright and early this morning for this laptop and that video game and a new phone and, and, and…
Boxing Day is my favourite day of the year. No pressure, no expectations. Chill out and read whatever books Santa may have brought. And you couldn’t pay me to go shopping on Boxing Day.
Sounds like Boxing Days is similar to USian day after Thanksgiving, including a shopping frenzy and much leftover food from a big dinner the previous day.
The hangover was helped by a 4-0 at The Villa. SOTV.
Correct.
Boxing day is fantastic; you get to play with your presents, there’s plenty of food (I think I may actually like cold meats and pickles more than a turkey roast), there’s no pressure to go anywhere, do anything, or meet any schedule - it’s all fun and relaxation.
Unless you’re a crazy Canadian shopper out to get bargains. I’m not, but there are too many of them around here. :rolleyes:
I am crazy, just not a crazy Boxing Day shopper. 
I’m so jealous of Boxing Day! There’s nothing worse than having to go back to work the day after Christmas. This year wasn’t horrible for me, but oh, what I wouldn’t have given to have the day off to relax at home and watch my daughter play with her new toys!
Yesh, there was a stampede of bargain hunters here too - eager to get in the sales. They can have it - retail sales are completely ‘meh’ to me - they happen all year round anyway, and the reductions just aren’t all that spectacular.
Christmas Eve is another day I love - I make a point of completing all shopping well beforehand, then I go into town, have a few drinks and wander around watching everyone else blindly panicking as the shops start to close. It’s great.
A few years ago I was wandering in a mall a few days before Christmas, with all my shopping done, and happened to see the Premier of the Province walking about, with that anxious look: “what am I going to get for So-and-So?”
Felt like humming “A few more hours - that’s all you’ve got” from My Fair Lady, but thought better of it and watched him scurry away, affairs of state temporarily pushed aside by the pre-Christmas rush.
It’s the people with lists that make me smile - I happened to notice that they’re usually lists of people, not ideas - a long list of people who need presents, but no ideas of what to get them.
From my window seat in the pub, I often see the same characters flitting past again and again, in different directions, anxiously, repeatedly looking at their lists, but making no progress.
Before anyone chastises me for my cruelty, let me point out that these people would be doing this anyway, regardless whether I find it entertaining to watch.