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Jody921		#21	[url]	[-]
Moderator Posts: 180 11/26/09 01:08 AM	Dawn - your mom was pulling your leg! The Day after Christmas Boxing Day is December 26, the day after Christmas, and is celebrated in Great Britain and in most areas settled by the English (the U.S. is the major exception), including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Get the part about the U.S. - we are the exception! You don't need to worry about it! LOL It has to do with sales - not actual boxing your stuff up. I can see why people who put their christmas things up so early - want them down the day after Christmas. We don't start to early and we don't do the take down until New Years Day. Maybe Jac and Carolyn know something different about this - I just remember some of my cousins talking about this day. They are in Canada too. Jody (mom to Taffy, spaniel mix, - diabetic for 6 years - rec'd her wings in December '07 at the age of 13.)
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mommytoNash		#22	[url]	[-]
Moderator Posts: 635 11/27/09 12:52 AM	Oh brother.....I used to know what it meant. Hubby is full blooded Irish, born and raised. Has kids living in England. But, I think Jody is right, it has to do with 'Sales' and the retailers boxing things up. I keep my Christmas stuff up till about the first week in January. First off it takes me over a week to get everything up (big house and a lot of stuff) and I'll be darned if I'm not going to enjoy it. Plus, there is never enough time to entertain everybody by Christmas, and I have family and friends who always want to come to see my decorations (lol). I got voted to have Christmas again this year (actually, it's become it's own tradition in that everyone likes my place for Christmas). So, if all goes well, I'll have everything up by about the 6......which then only leaves 3 weeks till Christmas. Cindy and Nash Nash was born 9/2/1998, and is my sweet 1/2 breed Cocker Spaniel/English Springer Spaniel. He was dx'd with diabetes in November 2007 and is currently on 12units of Novelin N twice a day. Nash went blind approximately 6 months after his dx.
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mzizgayle		#23	[url]	[-]
Posts: 172 11/27/09 08:37 AM Senior Member	We kept the live ones in the container they were in until spring time, kept it out on the patio and they did very well once in the ground. We were in Mass. so the ground was pretty froze at the time My little tree has fiber optic lights, but they are encased in a round bulb like to look like a light. I had a neighbor who had an artificial tree, had it decorated just so, she spent hours to get it just right, no same color decorations next to each other etc (did I say she was strange lol) and when Christmas was over, she slid the tree into her spare bedroom, threw a sheet over it after she placed it in a corner and then the following years all she had to do was bring it out and plug it in ROFL Gayle "Worry is just the interest you pay on trouble that you may never have"
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winsmom		#24	[url]	[-]
Posts: 51 11/28/09 08:31 PM	After years of skipping on a tree all together (mostly work and time issues) my hubby and I decided it was time for a tree again...and it will be a real one. The prices seem pretty good this year "It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...it's the same damn thing over and over" Edna St Vincent Millay Judy, mom to Winnie, Reuben,, Hardy , Jr Jones and Leroy Scoochie ATB
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Brandy mom		#25	[url]	[-]
Administrator Posts: 406 11/28/09 09:39 PM Administrator	So you got me thinking about Boxing day and I had to look it up. Wait until I get a hold of my mom all these years she has been pulling my leg and making me work. But I will admit it is nice to have a clean house on New Years Eve. Here is the link were I found the most inforamation. It sound sad to me and I think I like my mom idea better. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/CUSTOMS/Xmas/boxingday.html Dawn
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mommytoNash		#26	[url]	[-]
Moderator Posts: 643 11/29/09 10:48 PM	Okay, that is kind of what I remember now......But, it was the part about boxing up leftover food for the workers (from Christmas day) and less fortunate people. Of course, we do the Christmas Shoebox at our church for the kids in other countries......but, we do them the first week in November, otherwise they'd never make it to the kids by Christmas. Cindy and Nash Nash was born 9/2/1998, and is my sweet 1/2 breed Cocker Spaniel/English Springer Spaniel. He was dx'd with diabetes in November 2007 and is currently on 12units of Novelin N twice a day. Nash went blind approximately 6 months after his dx.
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angelsissy		#27	[url]	[-]
Moderator Posts: 220 11/30/09 07:53 AM	Cindy - we do the Operation Christmas Child boxes at our church, too. We do them basically all year, so by November we have a lot filled. Our church, St. Mark's Episcopal, is quite small. We only have about 50 active members including kids. And we sent 162 shoeboxes this year! If this sounds like a brag, it is. The lady who is in charge of the boxes is a friend of mine. She is awfully pround of this project. We don't even use real shoe boxes anymore. Doris goes to Flower Factory or somewhere like that and buys those heavy cardboard file boxes that are a little bigger than shoeboxes. They come with all kinds of pretty patterns on them, so the box itself becomes a present, too. Last Edited By: angelsissy 11/30/09 07:55 AM. Edited 1 time.
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mommytoNash		#28	[url]	[-]
Moderator Posts: 649 11/30/09 08:10 AM	Oh my gosh Jerri, that is something to brag about. That takes dedication! We're pretty small, and a very young church (5 years) and we try to increase by 10 boxes every year. But, even so, we're only up to about 50-60. We use the plastic shoe boxes and decorate them with pretty ribbons, etc. That way they have a storage box. I like the pretty boxes you're talking about. Cindy and Nash Nash was born 9/2/1998, and is my sweet 1/2 breed Cocker Spaniel/English Springer Spaniel. He was dx'd with diabetes in November 2007 and is currently on 12units of Novelin N twice a day. Nash went blind approximately 6 months after his dx.
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