Hi everyone! I hope that you all had an amazing Christmas, as I did, but that you didn't go to bed feeling quite as unwell as I did - definitely ate too much! Oh well, it's Christmas! Today is my last day of indulgence and then tomorrow I'm going to be up early working away as harsh reality hits me once more.
However today is boxing day, and for the most part, I have really enjoyed myself. My sister and I have sat on the sofa all day watching terrible movies, eating left-over food from yesterday and it has been wonderful! However, there is one thing that I hate about boxing day and (as you may have guessed) that is what I will be talking about now.
It's not the fact that Christmas is over, because although that does make me very sad, I try not to get too down because I have many very exciting things to look forward to (exams whoop.). It's not the taking down of the decorations, because we don't do that until January and it isn't this odd little period between Christmas and New Years Eve.
No, the thing that I hate about boxing day is eBay. That may actually be a bit harsh and specific, but eBay is always the first one that pops into my head when I think about this. What eBay and so many other companies do on boxing day is email you, telling you all about their sales.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love a good sale, I really do, and I am hoping to be doing a nice big haul from a sale at some point. What I hate about these emails are when they talk about not being satisfied with what you get under the tree. That is why eBay is one of the main perpetrators for this in my mind, because in the past I have received emails from them, before noon on Christmas Day, telling me that I can sell the gifts I have just received, if I don't like them.
There's something about these emails and boxing day... I'm being really melodramatic, but I just think that they bring out the worst in us. Christmas is all about giving and family and love and happiness, and it appears that boxing day is simple all about greed and ungratefulness and indulgence.
It's like we're saying that everything we've gotten, all the fun and frolics we've shared the day before just don't matter anymore, and we morph into the creatures, ready to sell every gift that wasn't good enough and sharpening our elbows, ready for the sales.
I know that I am exaggerating just a tad, but this is genuinely how it seems to be, and the direction that we are going in. So I guess that my message to you on this boxing day is to write your thank you notes with genuine thanks, because even if you didn't want an encyclopaedia for Christmas, that's still something that someone has thought about for you, and spent money on for you and wants you to have and enjoy.
See you tomorrow!
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