The origins of the day are uncertain – is it when wealthy gave their servants a box of gifts and a day off to enjoy them after a busy Christmas season? Churches placing boxes outside to collect money for the less fortunate? – but it’s pretty clear that Boxing Day has become one of society’s few purely secular holidays.
Now the fact that it *has* become about unbridled consumerism and capitalism instead is a totally different discussion… 🙁
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