This is basically cut & pasted straight from wiki
Boxing Day is a bank holiday or a public holiday in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greenland, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and countries in the Commonwealth of Nations with a mainly Christian population. In South Africa this public holiday is now known as the Day of Goodwill.
The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon tradition of giving seasonal gifts to less wealthy people and social inferiors. Until their distribution, these gifts were stored in a "Christmas box," which was opened on December 26, when the contents were distributed. In the United Kingdom, this was later extended to various workpeople such as labourers and servants.

Being agnostic I don't follow the traditions myself.

Boxing Day, as I understand it, was a day for the servants to celebrate Christmas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_day

Merry Xmas to all my fellow TW2K friends.

I agree with Targan. I've never experienced a snowy christmas or even seen snow in my whole life. I should go over somewhere to the northern hemisphere during christmas to see how it is.

The whitest Christmas I've ever seen was in Korea. Three days earlier, our Sergeant Major had us have a giant snowball fight, under the guise of "Fire and Movement Training," as he put it. It was great "training!"

Merry Christmas a day late
 

The Mrs. and I decided to do as little as possible yesterday. We succeeded admirably....

So Merry Christmas to all....and to all a good night. :D